It had been about a month and a half since I'd finished a game, but I'm happy to say I finally finished Mercenaries 2. When I say "I", I really mean "we" because Vix played through the whole game with me, and frankly, I don't think I would have made it by myself. Like I, and probably others, have said before the game is extremely glitchy. Not only that, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have made it through some of the missions by myself.

After we finished the game, we leveled the PMC. Amazingly enough, Fiona was only upset about her car being destroyed, Ewan still could do pick ups in his heli (and landed on the rubble, lol) and everyone's ghost still talked to us. It didn't solve the incessant reminder problem... "If you're ever feeling a little bit lost, come talk to me in the PMC and I may be able to offer a few suggestions" bit, because you know... I always felt lost when I was destroying targets and HVTs. The ending was a huge disappointment; it lasted about 2 minutes, not that the game had that great of a story anyway. I was more amused by the characters adjusting the slides during cutscenes than what they were saying half of the time. If I didn't play this cooperatively, I would have given this a 5.0 just like GameSpot, but co-op was its one redeeming quality, therefore I'm giving it a 7.0.

I've been playing Tales of Vesperia for the past week, and I'm really enjoying it. For the most part the voice acting is enjoyable and the skits and cut scenes are interesting and often amusing. I'm only partway into chapter 2, but I like everything I've played so far. It has inspired me to pick up Symphonia at some point, and maybe Tales of Phantasia.

I purchased a few games over the past few weeks... Psychonauts (PS2), Dark Cloud (PS2), Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox), and Castle Crashers (X360). I did buy Dark Cloud again because I found a copy of the original game and took the greatest hits back. :P Castle Crashers is the only one I've played so far so I could play it with my nephew. I didn't realize the game was so gross. I laughed so many times at the animals and boss fights. Yay for crude humor!