So I made my first Amazon purchase today...
By Daroki 16 Comments
I loved the Enslaved demo, and when I found out that it was on sale for $25 on Amazon, I had to jump at it. I know that it's not going to carry that level of awesome throughout the entire game, but the demo had me sold, just not at $60. I didn't even realize that Amazon dropped it down to $40 until I saw the gold box deal today, but at $25 rather than the $60 that I thought was being charged for it, I had to do it. The biggest issue was that I didn't know that I had an Amazon account, which I probably made hoping that the Persona 4 Social Link Expansion pack would be back in stock, so it's been nearly two years since I tried to buy anything from Amazon, and unfortunately it didn't have what I wanted (at a reasonable price, secondary resellers were GOUGING for that) by the time I had the money to buy it. Enslaved at $25 is too good though, and I'm happy that sometime two weeks from now, I'll have the game to play around with, just in time for Thanksgiving break from work.
I'm also looking to replace my laptop during Black Friday. It's beaten to hell and needs to be replaced, and I'm hoping for somewhere around $250 to $400 I can get a replacement that's far more capable than this beat up machine is proving to be recently. The computer was bought back in 2002, so it's long overdue for a replacement.
It was also Playstation Network day today, and I hate it when this happens. I wanted to pick up Crescent Pale Mist because it looks great and I liked the Gundemonium Collection I picked up earlier from Rockin' Android. Of course I had a, "well, while I'm here and making a purchase" moment and picked up the Item and Class World Attack modes and Survival modes for Disgaea 3. I'm in the mid 2000's now with a bunch of my characters and starting to grind gear while searching for the last regular item world pirates (I need Sports and Red) so I'm pushing the rank 39 stuff up to outfit my party for a hellish dive into the Land of Carnage where hopefully I can get my thief up to a high enough level to start stealing the level 40 gear that I need for my characters and to start reverse pirating some more advanced specialists.
Back to Crescent Pale Mist, the game's second level opens things up a ton and it looks like there's going to be lots of secret passages and crazy stuff going on in that game. I'm looking forward to getting some time to really explore what's going on as the combat is crazy and fast, and the switching into a bullet hell for boss battles looks like it's going to break up any potential for it to become stale. I'm intrigued in exploring the game more and it looks like it's going to be a nice diversion from some of the heavier games that I've been playing lately (which was what Gundemonium was used to break up before as well). Cheers to Rockin' Android for that.
Speaking of "heavier" games, I've been going on a trophy run for Heavy Rain in the downtime of Disgaea grinding. I'm down to two left but one is going to force a near complete playthrough in order to commit the perfect crime, and use that as a springboard to pick up the all endings trophy to finish the game. It'll go next to Demon's Souls as games that I've beaten thoroughly and don't need to go back to, but I feel is essential enough that I don't want to trade them in. I'll store them instead in case I have someone who has a PS3 that I know who wants to experience something awesome.
And with that... back to more grind sessions in the Netherworld.