Axe Grinder

Video Game Update

I beat Castlevania : Portrait of Ruin with about 87% complete (I didn't do all the quests) . Great game, would highly recommend.

I've achieved 5 stars on all the songs on Easy Mode and all but 1 song in Medium mode on Guitar Hero II. I thought Medium mode would be as far as I could get but I finally beat a song I'd been stuck on in hard mode (by beat I just mean I finished the song... haven't even begun worrying about 5 stars on hard mode). Anyway, after that I've been able to progress through 3 or 4 more groupings of songs in hard mode. This game has been alot more fun that I thought it would be. I had expectations of it being a novelty kind of fun that would wear off quickly, but it's maintained. Heather has started playing too... she's no Clapton yet, but she's getting there. Once she's got her chops up we can play do-op style and she can be the Malcolm Young to my Angus Young.

Today I started Final Fantasy III for DS. This is the first Final Fantasy game I've played... it would be like if a gamer had never played a Mario Bros. game. There have been a bunch of Final Fantasy titles dating all the way back to the original Nintendo with versions on lots of other gaming consoles and systems. So far it seems good, but it's a bit slow. While walking around through the first cave I'd get attacked and battles go into a different mode then when the battle ends there's a little delay while it shows you what you earned from the battle. Maybe it feels so slow because I just finished Castlevania, who knows.