I don't think I'll keep up readers over at a blog where I get paid to keep readers if I yammer about what games I'm playing right now. When I say yammer, I mean discuss everything that happened while playing the night before. More suitable for a journal than a somewhat professional blog.

So let the yammering commence.

Lost Odyssey is continuing to be the best game I have ever played. It's the FIRST game I have ever played where Shawn is glued to the couch watching. He gets bored during the battle scenes at times, but he is enjoying the storyline and the memories I unlock (when you unlock a memory, it is presented in a short story format, and I would kill to write anything as well as these are written). My favorite character is of course the spaz, Jansen. He's a magic user and he dies a lot because he's useful (although last night was the first time I fought a boss and he didn't die) meaning that he gets targeted a lot by boss attacks. I assume it's because he is so useful. As of now I'm not sure if he is good or evil, but I hope he's a good guy and stays with my party because he is a riot. My favorite line of his so far was when Kaim's grandson gets possessed by an evil spirit, and he acts well, possessed, and Jansen's response is, "Wow. Puberty is weird." He's my comic relief, and I'll be so sad if he leaves or if I have to fight him. I like making fun of Kaim's midriff armor, but it doesn't compare to Jansen's commentary.

Final Fantasy 7 is also proving to have some laugh at loud moments. I was afraid it would be more serious than Crisis Core since it's about Cloud's revenge, AVALANCHE's fight with Shinra, Aerith's beef with Shinra, and Sephiroth on a crazed rampage (I liked him so much better when he was sane), but it's made me laugh as much as Zack did in Crisis Core. The first time was early on in the game when Aerith talked Cloud into cross-dressing, which landed Cloud in a bordello pimp's bedroom. The second most memorable moment was Cloud's infiltration into the Shinra army at Junon Harbor. I could not get Cloud to sneak into the parade right (the lack of analog stick is killing me in this game at times) and when I did, I messed up on his presenting of arms during the march. My TV ratings were awful, and the TV producers' commentary and gift of a grenade because I bombed the show had me in stitches. Just as I finished laughing at that, Cloud had to learn the call signs (about face, turn left, etc) and then he was asked to show the army a new trick. When he twirled his rifle like he does at the end of battle, and the Victory Fanfare played, I snickered, but then the infantrymen all said, "Ooooooh!" and clapped. I lost it. If I'm going to donate 60+ hours of my life to something, it had better make me laugh. I am so happy that this game has some lightness to its serious overtones.

I wonder what zany thing Cloud will have to do next.