Hello readers, if there are any... Lemme further explain my situation as far as gaming goes. I own a PSP-2000, A PS3-slim and a first generation white Nintendo Wii. Now, I'm poor so i can't afford many games. Thankfully, science lets me get psp and wii games for free. I still have to buy ps3 games. Dont judge me. So! i started playing Phantasy Star Portable 2. Im both impressed and dissapointed. In the past, I played Phantasy star online for GC and i must admit, PSP2 is a WELL accepted update. I like the shiny-ish new graphics, the smoother gameplay and the storyline much more than its predecessor. One thing that made my nose bleed was the fact that the main character, Emilia, Looks VERY similar to Flandre Scarlet from the Touhou series. And that's another welcome upgrade: colorful characters. PSO characters were flat and uninteresting. PSP2 characters have personality and emotions! In PSO, the timing to press the attack buttons made me just a little sad. It took too long between presses to combo a 3-hit combo. It didn't even work if i numb-thumbed the attack button. PSP2 sped this up SIGNIFICANTLY! It actually lets me button mash in tense situations. And the chain system reminds me deary of my beloved FF XIII combat. I love real-time combat but i also love the ATB\chain system from FFXIII, so PSP2's combat is perfect. And the design of your character! beautiful! Simplistic builds but they actually look COOL! PSO's character design was dull. With minimal selection of customization, i ended up hating my character's appearance. PSP2 lets you pick your clothing colors as well as style! more than one universal costume was welcome in my palms. Animations! This is my meat, being an animator. PSO animations made me CRY! The walk\run cycle was not in time with the speed your character moved, as well, it was just poorly constructed! The herky-jerky movement made some actions seem like dropped frames. PSP2 was better but not perfect. Admittedly, PSP2 has WAY better timing/realism behind movement and actions. Although, Some of the actions- like dancing, taunts etc.- Show visible calculation errors in the bone structures, particularly in the feet. Getting technical here, Your character's bone structure in PSO works a little better than PSP2. Sure, the animations of PSO were bad but they had more potential than PSP2. PSO uses a bone system that is bound to the character mesh and moved using rotational method. PSP2 uses an Inverse Kinematic joint system. IK bones require "goals" to move around. This works for basic movements like walking, picking something up, or waving. PSP2 was able to pull off complex animations (slashes, special moves) very nicely but i felt saddened when i saw JFS (Jiggy foot syndrome) when my character started dancing. Anyway, thats enough about my PSP2 commencement. Ive also started Assassin's Creed Bloodlines... again PSP. This is the first Creed game ive played and honestly, i dont know what everybody's excited about. It's too slow a game. You have to walk everywhere or the guards get mad at you. Im not gonna rant about this game that much cuz i'm hardly analyzing this game at all. Graphically, Bloodlines is the ugliest game i've played in a long time. There are holes in the maps that are very visible from high points. The characters are HORRIDLY ugly. Im done here. I can honestly say, I do not know what is going on as far as plot and characters go in this game. These missions i get sent on seem to go nowhere and I cant connect to any of the characters at all. Animations, however, is amazing. You can interact with damn near anything in the world, using it as footstools to the rooftops. And that makes me happy. I do like the combat, to an extent. Coming up behind someone and silencing them quickly is entertaining. However, I really HATE sword to sword combat. It can be summed up as such: Clang, clang, kill. As usual, I'm continuing my endeavors on P3P. I had to start all over recently due to a save file issue. When i was transferring all my files onto my comp and then back onto the memory card, the saves for p3p got corrupted (Somehow, every other save file survived). But this time, i'm gonna be ready for nyx properly. wish me luck people! ANYWAY! im done now