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Started off with Metal Slug 2 on Monday. This one has an Egyptian theme. It's also about twice as long as the first one. It's full of fun stuff like getting turned into a mummy in the early stages. You fly a plane, drive a tank and the screens scroll up sometimes; lots of little improvements and the same great music and graphics. It also has the same great difficulty. This one has continues but they are not infinite. At some point you get a game over screen (I never counted the deaths), but the game does save your progress but only up to the beginning of the chapter you are on when you died. So if you have a tough time with the level end boss, you may find yourself repeating the whole level several times. This is what happened to me in chapter 5 (I think there's 8 chapters). I just wasn't up for any more today. I tried using the classic controller, it's suported, but I went back to the Wiimote for somet reason I forget why right now. My mind is completely blotted out with the next game I played all the rest of the day. 

Disney Infinity 3.0 on Xbox 360. I finally got a second copy for cheap and Mark and I dug in. I gave him several of my figures 'cause I have a bunch already I've been saving. He played Ahsoka and I played Darth Maul. I played every last tutorial mission in the Toy Box Hub. This took quite a while. They've made lots of little changes to the formula. There's no random grid for buying toys, you just buy them. The sidekick system used in the extra missions on Power Discs for D.I. 2.0 is much deeper and supported throughout the Toy Box. It reminded me of Ni No Kuni because you can feed them food for enhancing their skills. You can also grow your own food in a farm area like a Harvest Moon game. I couldn't figure out how to get my sidekicks to work on growing food while I was away though. I probably have more to learn. There's also an arcade where you can access the multiplayer levels, and a movie theater where the user created content can be played. 2.0 had you acess all this through menus. It's nice to have virtual places to go. I'm still having trouble with some of the flying missions and vehicle tricks missions. I just need more practice with these vehicles. There is also a puzzle area where you have to direct a marble through courses you have to finish building. And, of course, lots of platforming stuff. 

After doing nearly everything in the Toy Box Hub and trying a multiplayer match and a user created level, I started the first playset, Twilight of the Republic, a Clone Wars story. But I couldn't start it with my now level 14 Darth Maul.The game wouldn't let me. I had to use one of the characters made for it until I found the coin that let me play other figures. So I used Anakin and found the Darth Maul coin pretty quickly and switched. This game has very good melee fighting. Even with my beefed up Darth, I was having to really stratetize with foes that block a lot. There are more skill trees in this compared to 2.0, or maybe just different. Everything was on one screen in 2.0, but here there are 4 or 5 pages. The levels have lots of side missions, collectibles and special challenges after you beat the story mission. I'm sure I'll be running through the game multiple times to find all those Mynocks and kill 'em. I got only a handful of missions done in the playset before time ran out. I'll be playing this next weekend before Valkyria Chronicle Remastered comes out on the 17th. I'm not obsessively sticking to a game if something new comes along. It'll just have to wait. 

And that be it. Pixl-bye.