I've had a small window of opportunity over the weekend to complete another mission on Valkyria Chronicles. This was quite a nailbiter that went right down to the last move on the twentieth turn before I captured the enemy base. I unfortunately lost Aika during the battle, the wonderful young lady added to the game by Sega as a tribute to one of the great games of all time: Skies of Arcadia. I thought about restarting the mission in order to complete it without this particular fatality, however given what happened during the following cut scenes (I won't spoil it) I decided to continue the game as is. I'm enjoying the game, it's long and challenging with an interesting story - this is classic Dreamcast era Sega at its best. Welcome back Sega.

On the DS I am working through Super Robot Taisan OG: Endless Frontier. This is one of the most bizarre but fun games that I've played, and coming on the heels of The World Ends With You... that's saying A LOT. I'm also enjoying the, uhhh, "graphics".

For Fathers' Day my eldest son Evan gave me inFAMOUS for the PS3. Given the "backlog" which is collected here on the "Now Playing List" that stands at 24 games... I haven't opened it up yet. I've promised myself that I'm not going to open another game until I complete Valkyria Chronicles at the very least. I WILL get to this backlog, I WILL! Damn, just realized that Devil Survivor was shipped to me today too... that's 25 games on the backlog. No more.

I'm an addict.