So haven't had too much time for gaming with this moving into my new place and all that.  Sadly have to go back to a regular SD TV until i can afford to get one of m own instead of using my roommates. And also I'll have to save up for a new Xbox 360 as well which sucks, I would get one now but moving cleaned me the fuck out.  Oh well i should have a new Xbox 360 by the end of December and a new HDTV by the end of February at the latest.  In the meantime I have had a chance to get some gaming in and I've been using it to play Resonance of Fate. As the title says it is a Japanese Ass JRPG and it is quick to let you know this right off the bat. I've got about 8 hours logged into the game (technically 12 but we'll get into the discrepancy later) and I think i'm starting to get the hang of the battle system...sort of.  The game doesn't really hit you over the head with story so far, so I have a very very very very basic idea of what is going and that is about it.  The battle system is mad complicated and even after taking the optional tutorial I still have a lot to learn about how it works.  The game really has a trial and error quality to it and is very unforgiving of mistakes.  You die in battle you can either retry for a small sum, get your hero points back and retry for a large sum, load up a save, or just straight up quite the game. I've encountered a few spots with boss like enemies that are super powerful and won't let me run, so after banging my head against them for an hour I've found myself having to start over from a save that sometimes was several hours ago.  It definitely subscribes to the the old style of saving early and often.  There is a lot more I could say but honestly I'm not that fair in so i think i'll reserve judgement until I get further.  I will say that after a few hours i've actually found myself enjoy the challenge of the gameplay, I do want to know what the fuck is going on, and getting clothes to dress my characters up in is oddly compelling to the point where i'm disappointed if all i get as treasure are battle items which is kinda sad. Hopefully next week i'll have more concrete things to say, so far for $25 though I'm finding not regretting the purchase and warming up to the game.