W00t I'm a Metal Slime!  I will cherish this moment forever :)  Can I just stay as a Metal Slime?  Maybe if I ever reach level 100 I can just pick my own rank.

I have a number of topics to speak of.  First off I'm completely overwhelmed by the number of awesome DS titles coming out for the fall and holidays.  I'm going to go broke!  I'll have nothing but little DS shaped christmas presents under the tree. 

Has asnyone else noticed how much these video game CEO and COO's are like Politicians?  When media sites like Gamespot and IGN ask them questions, they do a really good job trying to answer the question without actually saying anything.  I thought of this by looking at the recent headline featuring Kaz Hirai talking about the PS3 and the PSP.  He didn't actually tell us anything we didn't already know!  It seemed like such a waste of GS's time since all he did was drone on about how "Sony is commited to providing entertainment through the PlayStation 3 and the Play Station Portable... blah blah blah blah."  I just want to know when the PSOne emulator is coming out and hope that Dragon Quest IV may be some where in the priority.  The game selection for the PSP has been so mediocre that really I only have the hardware features to look forward to anymore.

Another guy who is a serious offender of talking about nothing is Reggie Fils-Aime.  It's even worse with him because he looks like a used car salesman.  Granted I would rather have him up there promoting Nintendo than Hiroshi Yamauchi or whatever his name is;  I heard he had a real attitude problem and pissed off lots of third parties.  Nintendo is still cleaning up that mess he made.  But seriously Reggie, can you be a little more genuine when you babble about nothing?

I have to come clean with something that's been on my mind as a gamer; I retract my statement about Nabuo Uematsu as a composer.  I have been pretty public (maybe not so much here but on other sites) about how much of a hack I have thought he was.  I've felt he peaked around FFVI and VII and everything he's written since has been garbage.  Then I got a chance to listen to the music for the Super Smash Brothers Brawl trailer and the music for Blue Dragon, both for which he is composing the music.  I was pleasantly surprised by the colors and style.  It didn't sound "like him," but sounded fresh.  I have then come to the conclusion that Uematsu just needs to get away from the Final Fantasy series.  He's tired and it shows in the ideas in the late FF games.  Getting him to expand his repetoire and write music for other franchises is probably the best thing to happen to him as a composer.  So I'm sorry I called him a hack.  He's just tired and I guess I would be too if I were writing music for the same franchise for almost 20 years too.

Finally I'm finishing up Xenosaga 2 and kicking off a Dragon Quest marathon.  I've just about finished DQ3 and will be continuing from there to the other members of the Roto Trilogy and moving on.  All of this will lead up to my birthday and beginning Dragon Quest VIII.  I'm a little nervous on playing DQ VII since I clocked in almost 200 hours last time I played it.  But we'll see.