Hello, fellow Gamespotters, I am back from my week-long haul at my grandmother's house to mind her while my relatives went on holiday and I stated that I will take Kingdom Hearts 2 and some games in my backlog to play and try to finish but in the end, taking the other games was a complete waste of time because quite frankly, I didn't play anything other than Kingdom Hearts 2 until last Wednesday evening where I played the newest addition to my games collection but more on that later.

The reason I kept playing Kingdom Hearts 2 is because I wanted to do everything in the game excluding the gummi routes missions because even though they were better than the last game, no point to them and you didn't need to do them in order to get the secret ending.  That means everything that needed to be done in order to complete the stuff in Jiminy's Journal including the mission requirements, synthesis notes (tedious as hell) and of course, fighting Sephiroth.

Well, last Tuesday, I managed to just do that by completing the toughest challenge in the game and whoever says otherwise is totally wrong.  I am talking about the 50-round, Hades Paradox Tournament Cup or whatever, which from match 11, have different rules applied to it every 10 rounds.  I was at level 99 at the time and was the only thing I needed to do in order to complete Jiminy's Journal and lo and behold, I did it on my very first go, even though in the later rounds from 41 onwards, it got really hard since some of the enemies really packed a wallop and had to keep healing and gliding away from them so I won't get killed.

I did, then went to finish the game by defeating Xenmas etc and got the secret ending, which was quite interesting to me whether it is actually a prequel or a sequel etc.

I must say that if you plan to do everything there is to do in Jiminy's Journal, then be warned because the worst part on it is the synthesis notes by completeing the recipes and getting 30 x shards, 25 x stones and 20 x gems is really tedious and will take you a while.  Sorry for the rant about the game but I wanted to let you know.  I will never do all the Jiminy requirements again, I can tell you that.

So anyway, look for a video blog later on today detailing more about my week with KH 2 and also I got a new game, which like Kingdom Hearts 2, took over 6 months to get here and that is Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence with the 3 discs.  Played some of it and like it better now because of the user control camera because quite frankly, the normal camera sucks and makes it harder to see where enemies are at.

So, I am back and happy also.  Also, please let me know have I missed anything big in terms of gaming news or big reviews because this has been the first time I have been on since Wednesday week ago and thus far, Clover Studios is dead is all I know of meaning I STILL hope Okami is coming out over here or else I will be one p***ed off person! Until later, ROCK ON!