Magnus

That's always a plus!

It has both the English and Japanese soundtracks, unlike the American version.

Well, you haven't played any of the real Paper Mario games, so you don't know what you're talking about. Didn't they say it'll be out this holiday season? So even if they did announce a release date, the game would still be months away.

"And my answer for ze question number deux: to fix ze problemz wiz ziz tax code, we only have to luk at paragraph cinq, sectionne troise, where ze intricaciez of ze taxes iz explained..." "Hoochie mama!" "Excuse moi? Did you say something?" "No, carry on."

Happy birthday, Sam. I hope you're spending the day with your girlfr- Erm... This is awkward.

Well, they did do a fantastic job with the dub...

Yeah, that narrows it down.

I guess the lesson here is to actually support niche titles when they're released. :p Not that that made a difference with Valkyria Chronicles. Thanks for nothing, Sega.

Well, at least Jimbob made it to London. He's going to be so disappointed when no one else shows up.

But the meet would be a perfect place to sort things out, Daft! You put that many brilliant minds together and they're bound to come up with some great ideas.

The PlayStation 3 isn't region-locked, so it's not like you can't just import the Collector's Edition. Slightly more expensive than buying a PAL copy would be, but maybe those interviews and other special features are worth it.

The best part is the face on the case.

Aww. There, there, Pancake. I like sugar. I take my sugar without tea, though.

Are you just going to make a claim like that and not back it up in any way?

An even better way to see all endings is to turn off auto-save after you've talked to you-know-who and just load the auto-save after you've seen each ending. Because it turns out you can't skip cutscenes or any of the dialogue near the end.

Fair warning: if the summaries on Wikipedia are anything to go by, the books are complete trash after the first one.

It took me a while to realize that Shin'en wasn't a game I'd never heard of. And if we're going to add the asterisk of "well, he didn't say which current titles Wii games would look better than," then yes, I suppose it'd be really easy to make them look better than, say, Angry Birds. But that's a really boring way to look at it.

Well, there's plenty of gameplay (though the characters do spend a lot of time talking at times), but it is very traditional. Battles take place on a grid, but they still essentially play out like they would in any other JRPG. There are different elements that are strong against different enemies, and you can create and place gems to give party members the magics you want, with some characters being better-suited for many weaker magics and others for a few stronger ones. I thought the gameplay was pretty good for what it was, but if you're not interested in the story and dislike the standard JRPG formula, there's not much there.

Trails in the Sky is very good once it gets going, but it takes about half the game before the story starts to get interesting. Very well-written (and well-translated), though. Still no word on the sequel.

I agree that it's sad news that they're going to drag it out for another two years. :p Dexter peaked with season 4 and I really didn't like season 6 much. For some reason I thought season 7 would be the last and I was hoping they'd be able to go out with a bang, but I don't have high hopes if they're going to have to drag it out for twice as many episodes. Well, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

I already own Persona 3 Portable on a disc and I've already played Persona 3: FES on the PlayStation 2. Do I still have to buy it?

Maybe she'll return as a clone.

Camilla Luddington has been confirmed as the new voice of Lara Croft. You may remember her as one of the many women who have been naked on Californication.

Well, you have my sympathy.

That was pretty awesome.