PixlBit

$20 on Xbox digital is a bit steep for Lego Batman. I'd like to own it though. 

I do actually grind in some games but DQ really tries my patience with their just-one-more-boss storylines. 

Typing of the Dead was fun. 

I saved it for later on my external drive. I'm trying to play what's most recent first. 

Both were on Xbox/PS2/Gamecube. The XIII remaster is on all current systems. 

The closest I've played to this is the math sections of Brain Training on DS. It was fun for like 5 minutes but the math problems were too basic.

I really think there is still room for improvement in edutainment. I had a lot of fun with Mavis Beacon's typing tutorial program and I learned how to touch type too. Most of the educational games are for little kids and the adults have to do it the boring, tedious way.  

I might get Fenyx on sale as well. 

Same with me, I read the first four books and stopped. I watched all but the very last movie. My neice and nephew were crazy Harry Potter fans and went to that Universal Studios part of Disney Land. They also went to Harry Potter summer camps. 

I'll probably get that collection that covers all the movies. That's going to take me some time to get through. 

Yeah, I found several locations with metal slimes and even king metal slimes. They give crazy XP. Also those hands which come out of the swamp outside Gondolia. They're like metal hands or something, I forget what they're called now. 

But I am dead set against grinding or farming anything. My friend did that a lot and I have no patience for it. I actually avoid any random encounters I can avoid. I hadn't had a serious problem with being underleveled until that part of the game. 

As for pep powers. I was given some pep pops by the game a while back but I've used them all on side quests. It's really difficult to get the characters you need pepped pepped up at the right time. Those pep pops are key until you unlock a skill in the skill tree that can pep you up at will. My friend found a place that sells them but they're like 200k gold, which is absurd. 

 I used to play anything that had cell-shaded graphics. There's this racing game Auto Modelista and I just saw a remastered version of XIII today.