Hey sup people? I'll talk about the new games I got during the holidays, that includes the two games I got for Christmas. I wanted to put videos up as well, but ran into a problem: GameSpot apprently does not want us to post embed YouTube videos as it never worked when I tried doing it. You hear this? It sucks doesn't it? Yes, it does. If anyone knows how to do it other than posting a simple link on which people have to click, let me know, but for now I just put the names of the games as a link to their trailers or videos on YouTube, if you want to see the video simply click on it. Sorry as some of them trailers are in japanese lol. Anyway.. You ready? Here we go! Oh and just for it to look cleaner, I've actually listed them in alphabetical order. How sweet is that?

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS)
I'm totally hooked to this game so far. While the game plays basically the same as the other titles in the series (excluding the goold ol' formula of the very first Castlevania games), it feels quite different. You go through the game as two characters and you can change between the two whenever you want. I personally prefer the girl, but mostly because the guy annoys me and because it isn't everyday that a girl gets the spotlight as a main character in Castlevania. I like the way the "master" of the castle drains his power through different paintings, in which you enter and fight a boss in each of the paintings to weaken his power. It makes the whole thing feel different and unique and brings a lot of different ares and atmospheres to the game. Oh and for the video of this game, I had to put the trailer simply because I love using Charlotte as my main character and apparently people on YouTube hate her or something because they are ALWAYS using the guy, which is an annoying dude and anyway the girl could kick his ass anytime.

Jeanne D'arc (PSP)
This is all about the story of Jeanne D'Arc, as most of us will know what story that is, but in a world of fantasy with magic and such. Pretty cool game so far, which is a strategy game, much like Final Fantasy Tactics, Disgaea, Shining Force, etc. But with a better story, excluding FFT of this remark, that game was cool (Disgaea sucked, who the hell likes playing a strategy rpg that's about kids going to school is beyond me). What like a lot of it so far is that the parts with story aren't actually long, so unlike in FFT where you would spend 30 minutes watching text scroll on the screen while you actually have no idea what is happening, you do know what is happening and you always feel as if you were in the action. Of course, this may change further down the line, but that's how it is right now.

Lumines Supernova (PS3)
Lumines! Damn do I love Lumines. Ever since I got my PSP along with Lumines back then, Tetris ceased to exist in my mind as the best falling blocks puzzle. Supernova is the same as every other Lumines games, where you have to make squares and what not depending on the mode. Even a handful of the game is recycled from previous titles that appeared before, but it doesn't stop me from loving every single second of this game. The video is kinda cheap, butit seems like nobody with a capture card felt like making a gameplay video showing several different skins in the game and several other modes in one video. They felt like they had to seperate skin by skin and mode by mode. If you want to see more of it, you'll have to check em out yourself. Oh and, the guy doesn't even seem to know what he's doing half of the time lol.

PowerUp Forever (PS3)
In PowerUp Forever, you do as it says: You power up forever.. until you die that is. Pretty cool shooter that consist of destroying bacterias or something that looks like bacterias. You just roam around in there and shoot at everything until the guardian of the system is alerted, which then comes for you and you need to destroy him. After that, what happens? You power up and become bigger, making the bacterias smaller, but watch out, cause at the beginning you see these big rock like things that aren't moving. As you grow bigger, you realize that these were merely other bacterias that were too big for you to even notice they are moving. Repeat the process until you die. Of course, the game gets harder and harder and bacterias start shooting back at ya. I played once so far and I couldn't make it past the second level lol.

R-Types (PS1)
PS1 game that is downloadable for either PSP or PS3 (as with every PS1 titles on PSN). An old shooter game which is totally.. challenging to the least. R-Types actually is two games in one: R-Type and R-Type II. Both being as challenging as the other. In both games I have yet to beat the first level lol. As a lot of you knows, 'm a big fan of challenging, arcade like shooters, so I just couldn't resist and had to buy this one.The video is of R-Type II, so if you want to see more you'll easily find more of them videos in the related section on YouTube.

Alright, so that's all my new games. Eventually I'll get more, I definitely need to get my hands on some other titles out there.