I've been playing quite a bit of The World Ends with You since the final credits rolled in Crisis Core. I was completing one day every night, and then I racked up some serious hours on the road trip to and from Houston. I really am addicted to this game. As soon as Gabe goes down for even twenty minutes, I have my DS flipped open and the stylus ready to erase some Noise. I honestly don't know how my touchscreen isn't scratched all to hell. At the first black noise fight... I was scribbling away as fast as I could.

I am kind of blowing through it instead of giving it undevoted time for every aspect of the game. I'll erase as many Noise as I feel like it at the time, and I'll give every Pig Noise a try. But if I have to level up a pin I never ever use just to grease a pig, forget it. I have too many other games en queue to do nothing but level up every pin I discover. I also haven't mastered fighting with both screens, but I haven't really forced myself to learn either. My partners seem to do just fine on auto-pilot, so who am I to mess up their rhythm and work twice as hard?

As for the pins, I'm really partial to the slashing pins and the pins that shoot fire. I'm sure if I mastered some of the other pins I'd find a good use for those, but I'm sticking with what I'm most comfortable with.

I must say that it's just a bit obvious that this game was created for girls. I don't keep up with fashion trends in the  real world, so it's hard to make me interested in them in a virtual one. However, I do always check and see if my brands are ranked at the bottom before picking fights with Noise. I think this game is trying to make me dress better...

Haven't touched KH2 in weeks. At this point, I'm not sure if I'll finish it this year at all. If it doesn't happen before Christmas, it definitely won't happen before New Year's.