I finished the Story mode of LEGO Star Wars a couple of days ago and then I briefly tried the Freeplay mode in hopes it would be more fun. Unfortunately, the answer is not really. So very, very disappointed. But the bad news for me is good news for Shawn. Since his PSP broke, he'll be borrowing mine as I don't have any other PSP games to play right now. Not that I don't have anything else to play...

My new DS came in this week (yay!) so after I gave up on LEGO Star Wars I cracked open Ninjatown. I was afraid it would be like Viva Pinata, since the review comments were roughly the same: it's a difficult strategy game, but its cutesieness may be too much for older gamers and the gameplay may be too difficult for younger gamers. It is annoyingly cute, but the gameplay doesn't annoy me like Viva Pinata did. It reminds me alot of Warcraft or Age of Empires, two genres I absolutely love. Instead of fighting with warriors right out of Dungeons and Dragons, you dispatch an army of ninjas to fight the hordes of demons invading Ninjatown.

Like Warcraft, you have to develop a strategy in where you place your different kinds of ninjas. It all started out simple enough. Now that I'm on the third level, I have a variety of ninjas at my disposal as well as some secret ninja arts of my own (think of god powers, for those who have played Age of Mythology), and it's gotten very complicated. Oh how it is making me miss Age of Mythology. I may try to find those discs and install it on my computer.

Between this and Disgaea 3 though, I'm overloaded on strategy. I'm jonesing for some serious RPG play. I can't decide if I should focus on FF7 or start Lost Odyssey, a game I have been frothing at the mouth for since the commercials last February.