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So school has been getting pretty hectic with work. It’s piling up pretty fast, but I’m doing my best to make time to play some games.

Are you serious…?

I’ve recently picked up beatmania IIDX again since the newest style, EMPRESS, has just been released. This is an incredibly solid title and is the best style to date, hands down, no questions about it. With 200 songs spanning over two disks, it’s really hard to go wrong with this version. It’s also the last version to be put on PS2, which is why so many songs have been included with it. The main EMPRESS disk has every song new to that style along with about 28 revivals from previous iterations. Some of the old charts got some touch ups as well as black anothers added to them.  There are a lot of black another charts on this game. At least 40. The only downside, in my opinion, is the customization is really lacking here. The frames are basically all the same and just have recolors of the first unlockable frame. There is a lot of menu music, however, which is nice to an extent.  I mean there’s like every single menu song from all the old styles except the extra stage ones.  It’s a really great game. I like it a lot.

Besides IIDX, I’ve also been playing more ODST. I’m getting a little frustrated with it due to me sucking incredibly hard at finding bullets around the map. I also can’t seem to find the health packs in time so that I don’t die incredibly fast. This usually results in hardcore rape by enemies. I’ve some how made it to the end of the game and am really looking forward to beating it just to say I have. The game isn’t bad at all, but the campaign could have been longer and the game’s price should probably be $40 new. You get a lot for what you pay for (Firefight mode, all Halo 3 multiplayer maps, and a whole ‘nother campaign) but Firefight has no matchmaking. Why? What’s the point of that? Not all my friends have this game and I really don’t care for playing split screen very much… I don’t get it.

As far as the Pokethon goes, I’m in a bit of a rut. I’m at Victory Road on Sapphire and I do not feel like battling every damn trainer I run into. I just want to fight the Elite Four, man. I’ll eventually pick up Pokemon Pinball: R&S eventually and catch the rest of the Pokemon that’s left. I think there’s about 100 left to catch. After those two I’ll pick up Pokemon Stadium and beat all the cups and 1st place every mini-game. That’s all I have lined up for the Pokethon so far, but I’m looking forward to moving on with it.

For Halloween, though I will be doing my first playthrough of the Resident Evil remake for GameCube. I’ll most likely start late Oct. 30th and pick it up again midday the 31st. Hope all goes according to plan.

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