I have officially registered for Extra-Life on team Trion and I am 40% to my personal goal! Here is the link to my fundraising page that will allow you to make donations, read about the cause and view my itinerary for the event (which I will update as I go along). All donations on my fundraising page go to the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital. The event starts Saturday, October 25th. If anyone has additional suggestions on what games I should play for the event, you can leave them here, or in a message when donating which can be made visible to me or everyone who visits my page. :)

http://www.extra-life.org/participant/Shanarah

I have started playing Evil Within, but am only playing chapter 3 at the moment, as I was working on art for my extra-life page (still not sure if I'm finished with it). So far it feels like a combination of mostly Siren: Blood Curse (stealth, limited weapons/ammo and atmosphere), Silent Hill (atmosphere and enemies) and Resident Evil 4/5 (environment, traps). There's even a little Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (drug side effects, flash forward/back?, lack of weapons). I do call BS on Shinji Mikami claiming he'd never play RE5 as a number of it's improvements over RE4 are present in this game. It's okay so far, but some of the elements of RE4 that I hated are here, and I'm not sure yet if its enough for me to say forget it and quit or to stick with it until the end. We shall see.

I am also reading Dragon Age: Asunder right now to catch up on story before Inquisition. It has me really hyped again, as I really did like the setting and the twists on classic fantasy roles and races. I really hope Inquisition is going to be as good as Origins and Awakening, gameplay, story and character wise. I've been trying to avoid most information on it so I can be pleasantly surprised by returning characters/stories. I do recall that they've brought back choosing your race which was probably the first thing that bothered me about DA2, and they claimed it will be more strategy, like the original, than hack and slash, like 2.

On that note, here is one of my Dragon Age renders, which I am now using as my banner. Sarovanya (Dalish Elf origin) hunting some Darkspawn with Alistair and Garm (Dog).