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Games Beaten

For the first time this year, I didn't finish any games over the course of the month. That's a bummer but my wife and I did have a baby (#2), and he and his brother have kept us very busy. I'm starting to develop too many loose ends in gaming again, so hopefully I can tie most of them up in the next few weeks.

Games Bought

First of all I forgot to put Disney Infinity (Wii U) on last month's recap. My wife found it at a consignment sale for $12 (retails for over $60 on Amazon). I finally found a complete copy of Operation Darkness, an early and underrated strategy game for the 360. It's set in an alternate universe WWII where Hitler has vampire powers or something. I'm really looking forward to playing it...eventually. I happened across Midway Arcade Treasures (PS2) at Goodwill and picked it up mainly for Gauntlet, but then later in the month I bought Gauntlet IV (Genesis), so there will be no shortage of top-down arcade action in our house! We also snagged Costume Quest 2 (Wii U) for Halloween. Rounding out this section is Tales of Graces f and Tales of Xilia, both for the PS3. My wife has been wanting to try these games for the longest time and the Namco sale on PSN was too good a deal to pass up (we got both in a bundle for $15).

There was some good stuff in the PS+ games this month too, like Dust: An Elysian Tale (PS4) and the two D&D Capcom beat-'em-ups, Tower of Doom and Shadow Over Mystara (PS3). Also got Rainbow Moon (PS3/Vita), which I'm very hesitant to try after hearing how long it took Mothman to get through, and Spelunky (PS4/PS4/Vita), which everyone seems to love in one of those masochistic kind of ways. Oh, and Pix the Cat (PS3/Vita), whatever the heck that is 

Now Playing

This has become an unfortunately long list. I had hoped to have Mass Effect 3 (360) done a long time ago but I played it only once all month. It's just been too difficult to sit undisturbed for any significant length of time. I'd also hoped to finish up Darkstalkers: The Chaos Tower (PSP) because it's a great game for October but I didn't play that at all  I did play some of Kirby's Dream Land 2 (Wii [GB]) because my two-year-old loves watching Kirby but I haven't finished it yet, and I started Costume Quest (Mac) while my wife played its sequel on Wii U but there wasn't enough time left in the month to get all the way through (I'm about halfway). The only game I kept up with at all was Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP) but that's because I play with some people online, so it kind of forced me to play lol. I'm hoping November will be better. December will be crazy at work, so I gotta play while I can! But first...I have to go change a poopy diaper.