A mere hour off of the given mark, I have landed on Gran Pulse, where I now get side missions and the ability to run around and look for things. The story has really come together, and I look forward to seeing what is next for me. I've only gotten about half of the "secret achivements", so I would say I'm about half way done with the game. I'll post more about that as I get to it.
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I saw the DSiXL on Xplay and wasn't impressed much at all by it. The point of a portable unit is to be portable, and making it bigger doesn't seem to really do that. I understand the concept that they have that they want to make it a social experience on the go, but if I'm going to be with other people, I'm either going to have a TV and console near by, or we're going to be doing something else like eating dinner, or bowling, or whatever other things people with free time go to do with other people with free time. My point is that I've owned just about every GameBoy since the original brick, and the last two haven't joined my collection because they didn't improve on what the system did somehow. The next Gameboy to own is going to be their 3d offering that they will be hopefully announcing at E3.
On the other hand, maybe Sony will finally scrap their PSP and put out a new system with two nubs to play games with. You get that and a better way to handle games (PSP Go's market system was a great idea, it just needs a NEW system to be coupled with!) that could actually give Nintendo a run for their money.
