My adventures with Assassin's Creed II have finally come to an end. This weekend, after largely giving up on one of the feathers for the In Memory of Petruccio achievement, I took a shot at it again and got it. The most difficult feather for me turned out to be the one on the very top of the Duomo in Florence, which I had neglected to get during the playthrough when I exited the window of the assassin's tomb. Assassin's Creed II is so beautifully realistic that the heights had a real effect on me, and by the time I crawled out of that window the first time I simply wanted to get back down on terra firma.

I tried to redo the level through the DNA, but once I crawled out the window, it transported me back to the present day. And then I tried to scale the side of the dome, but it seemed like I was just out of reach. Apparently this has caused some problems for some other players as well, so I'll put what I did here in the hopes that some Internet search will pick it up: keep looking. The developers obviously intended to trick you here, as there are a couple of sides with handholds that lead nowhere. If you're like me, you'll likely get stuck on one side thinking that there's no reason why they would have made those handholds if there weren't a way to climb up to the top with them. On one side, though, you'll find some scaffolding at the top that you can easily climb.

So that makes my second platinum, and now I'm ready to start playing the first Assassin's Creed. I genuinely hope I won't be disappointed.

Also, I finished Borderlands. Much to my surprise, I genuinely loved this game, and I made my first PSN friends ever after a couple of random co-op sessions. (By this I mean people who added me as a friend after playing with me.) I enjoyed playing Borderlands both in co-op mode and in single player, and I'm looking forward to some of the downloadable content. I don't think a Borderlands platinum is out of the question, but I honestly hate that you have to buy all of the downloadable content in order to get it.

That said, the final boss was a joke. I literally just sat there in one place and emptied about five clips into it. Even if the boss had to be a pushover for some reason, they could have at least made the cinematic at the end a little more drawn out. Oh, and I promptly vendored the crappy green gun that dropped after the credits.