Yeah, it has.

It's actually in my notes: Serperior, Ampharos, Lucario, Arcanine, Krookodile, and Swanna. No idea if I'm going to keep this team or change it. I'm not really doing much in Black 2 atm. Mostly just Dream World and Join Avenue.

I'm getting Tales of the Abyss for my birthday/christmas, the former is this Saturday and that's pretty much it. Not a new game, but I missed out on it and I really want to try the Tales of games and my mom was nice enough to give me some money ahead of time for those two occasions (since they are pretty close to one another). People seem to be enjoying Sticker Star and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is out soon-ish I believe? Also, not soon for Europe, but Fire Emblem Awakening is out next year! I can't wait. I'm already saving up my money for it. I'm a big FE fan.

I would be more envious if I could read Japanese, but since I can't, I'm not too angry. I can be patient. My backlog is enough to keep me company.

Thank you.

lol. My storage unit is filled up with university notes, drawings, a few random university books, and just some stuff I stuffed in there because I didn't have anywhere else to put it. I probably should be doing a cleaning of it soon to see if I can get rid of some stuff. I probably won't be able to throw my uni notes away though. So much time and effort went into them. I'd feel like I was throwing hours of my life away.

Yup, if I do give it a separate entry, it will be as part of a compilation. The other option is to not give it any entry and just count it as another mode when playing Ocarina of Time. I'm still not sure which way I'm going to list it. Which way do you think makes more sense?

Yup~ It's nice. I like the violet hue, but I do think it is a bit too busy. I would personally have just kept Layton, Luke, Phoenix, Maya, and the witch girl behind them on the box. But I tend to like simpler box arts. It's still very pretty though. I hope they keep the box art the same when the game comes over. (I have no doubt it will if Ace Attorney 5 and the newest Layton game are both getting a release outside of Japan).

Yeah, I'm getting Black 2. It shipped a few days ago. I'm importing the NA version though cause my 3DS is NA region and I want to get Pokemon Radar. Should be here sometime next week (or if I'm unlucky, the week after that). How about you?

lol. I'm not the shopaholic though. I'm perfectly fine not buying things right now. But my parents knew someone who was and what I'm saying is that they would store stuff they had bought in boxes (because they were running out of room). It was pretty bad. So I feel if I started doing the same thing, I would definitely make my parents worry (even though I know I don't have the problem).

True. I guess I'll be ing both. Now I just have to decide if Master Quest should get a separate entry...

I did see the news but I haven't read it yet. Still just knowing they are coming to the west makes me really happy too.

Thanks.

Agreed!

Yeah, you're right about that, but I eat garlic. It's good~ You just need to burn it a bit and eat it with bread. So yummy.

Well um, actually [Link] We know someone who has trouble with buying, so I think if I started doing behaviours that were similar, I'd really worry my parents. So it's not really an option for me, storing stuff in boxes I mean. Yeah, sorry for taking this down a serious path, but I couldn't really explain to you why it was a problem in my case otherwise.

I'm not sure. I'm still debating whether I need to do everything in both the regular OoT and Master Quest; or if just doing everything in Master Quest (collectibles) is enough for I don't think I'm going to replay OoT so soon after finishing it once. And I still need to find a better place for the tv too... Right now it's on top of my bookshelf and it's kind of high and hard to play.

Will do~ (Just have to finish off some games first ) I still have Shake It/Shake Dimension and Master of Disguise too! And I plan on getting all the Mario Land/Wario Land games too~ (Well the ones I don't have so ML1-3 + WL 2).

Ok, I guess that makes sense, but Mario is fat too and he's not that much better looking than Wario. He's definitely more family friendly since he's not an amoral greedy antihero who farts. (Garlic eating is fine since garlic is very healthy for you~ )

I've got one big trunk already. Although I mostly have all my old notebooks from highschool and university in it. Mostly university. I threw out most of my highschool stuff. I can't bring myself to throw out my university notebooks because I spent so much time making those note. I've also got a few textbooks in there from uni as well and a bunch of loose pieces of paper with my drawings and a few miscellaneous things too. I think if I started getting boxes and packing stuff in them my parents would think I've got problems with being addicted to buying stuff...

Thanks. I couldn't resist since it was being offered as a gold member reward for NA Club Nintendo (which is much better than the calendars for previous years ) and I'm totally a Zelda convert now. Still need to finish up with Ocarina of Time 3D. Fire Emblem is totally distracting me from the rest of my games though. So no idea when I'll be starting Majora's Mask.

lol. That's exactly what I thought! It would make a pretty good Wario game too. And 3DS already has a Mario game so... Maybe it's because the Wario games don't sell so well? I heard the Wii game (Shake It/Shake Dimension) didn't do so well. I don't think the DS game did that well either. I have no idea why the Wario titles don't do as well given that Wario is part of the Mario universe and comes up in all the mini-game and sports spin-offs. Anyway, I hope we do get a Wario Land 5 some day. I really liked Wario Land 3.

I've given up on collecting One Piece. I considered doing it once, but the sheer amount of volumes scares me. Not just money-wise, but space-wise. I have no idea where I'd fit all of them. I've been running out of book space for a while now too.

No problem. Tell me what you think.

Hm, I wouldn't worry too much about Layton vs. Ace Attorney and AA5 not showing up at E3. E3 rarely teases unfinished games unless they are the big AAA titles (so Mario, Uncharted, Zelda, Gears of War, etc). Layton vs. AA isn't released in Japan yet and AA5 just had a little teaser with very little details not that long ago so it must be really early in development.

Didn't you watch the European Nintendo Directs? It was confirmed for European release 2 months before it was confirmed for North American release. In fact, this caused a lot of people (from North America) to start freaking out because of what happened to Last Story and Pandora's Tower. Every single FE related article I went to had a bunch of North American commenters getting angry or getting worried that they would never see the game. Some even joked around that NoA and NoE had switched places because now Europe was getting all the games and even LEs from Nintendo. That said, looks like both Europe and North America are getting it around the same time since I do believe NoE confirmed it for a 2013 release as well.

haha, yeah I hope they are over as well. NSMB wasn't bad but I worry about NSMB2.

I have no idea if it is even halfway done. The mangaka has introduced a lot of interesting twists and who knows when those will fully be laid out for the reader. There are so many secrets and subplots that still need to be tied up. It's rather hard to say whether the manga really is half done or not. At the very least, it has no sight in end at the moment. But it's a good thing. Unlike most manga, One Piece keeps getting better and better instead of worse. So I say, I'm on for the ride if it continues to be this good~

As for other manga, hmm. Let's see shounen/seinen-wise:
-Shin Angyo Onshi is one I am reading right now and it's quite good. It takes a while to start to get interesting, but it does. I'm almost done with it.
-Claymore is another on-going series I am really enjoying. There are some nice twists and ideas. Also I liked Yagi's other manga as well, Angel Densetsu, so that is also recommended.
-20th Century Boys. It's a really good thriller and really anything by Urasawa is suppose to be gold. So far I've only finished this one, but Monster sounds really good too.
-Akira is a good shounen/seinen classic. I thought it was a pretty good sci-fi manga. (And I want to buy the books now that they are being reprinted again )

Shoujo/Josei-wise:
-Skip Beat is my newest obsession. It's so addicting and it so painful to wait for the next chapter to come out.
-Basara is my favourite manga of all time. The art is kind of different but the story more than makes up for it. In fact, I tend to like anything by Tamara, so her other works are also recommended: Chicago, 7SEEDS, etc.
-Gokusen is probably not for everyone since it's very slice-of-life and the romance is really slow, not to mention very unconventional (older women, younger guy), but I simply loved it because the main female character was so much fun~ It's also like the josei version of GTO as the main character is a teacher who has a shady background and looks out for her students. (The difference is that she pretends to be an airhead ).
-Boys Over Flowers/Hana Yori Dango. I like the female character and the love triangle has been pretty good so far. I also like Kamio's other manga, Cat Street. It's also shorter and a bit less focused on romance.

Hope that helps~

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I guess that makes iOS look like the new home for AA then. But they could always release it on the eshop as well. Since the previous AA games were on the DS and the future games look to be for 3DS (or at least the Layton vs. AA game is), releasing AAI2 on eshop would make sense for the fans that got into the game via the DS games. I'd prefer it as a physical copy too. I don't really like digital distribution, but if it's a choice between no game or digital-only, I'll take the digital-only game.

Outside of Paper Mario: Sticker Star and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, not much. I was happy about the confirmation that FE Awakening is getting a NA release. I'm a big fan of the series and was sad that New Mystery of the Emblem never made it over. Beyond and Last of Us look interesting too.