Find out what else we think about games in general (and a bit about E3 specifically, but we promise it’s not too much), and be prepared for the return of PERSONA!  Yes, it’s that time again- that magical time of year when a young woman’s fancy turns to thoughts of shooting yourself in the head with an Evoker to unleash the mystical powers therein.  Odds are good that this will be a theme… again.

Fair warning: we do throw in some spoilery stuff about L.A. Noire in this episode, and I know a lot of people haven’t actually finished yet, so I actually bothered to get the timestamps from Elaine if you would like to skip story discussions!  Skip from 2:30 to 9:35 if you’re so inclined.  You’re welcome.

Link247:

L.A. Noire

Dirt 3

Persona 3 Portable

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Sly 2: Band of Thieves

Skies of Arcadia: Legends

Final Fantasy III

Costume Quest

PS Vita priced at $250 for WiFi, $300 for 3G

Halo: Anniversary and Halo 4 coming to a console near you

Luigi’s Mansion 2 3DS looks fucking awesome

Arrests made in Spain for Sony hacks

Silent Hill Collection, PS3 exclusive this fall

Rayman: Origins also looks awesome

PS Vita’s FAQ says they are considering options for UMD upgrades

Cloud saves will link PS3 and Vita

PSP remastered games will be coming to the PS3

We don’t actually decide that on this episode, but we do talk about a lot of games.  And, you know, other stuff.  Like girth!  It’s what you might call a running theme.

If these ideas are intriguing to you, you should listen.  If not…. well, you should listen anyway.  Trust me on this one.  99% of ninjas in the murder of ninjas agree.

Murder!  I like that.

A murder of links:

Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness

Dissidia Final Fantasy Duodecim

Final Fantasy II

Skies of Arcadia: Legends

Mortal Kombat

LA Noire

Outland

Dishwasher: Vampire Smile

Mortal Kombat online pass requirement waived on PS3

DLC coming for LA Noire

Speaking of LA Noire, it may be overheating systems

Newest update for 360 includes PayPal connectivity

Buy a Windows 7 PC, get a free 360

Portal 2 soundtrack is free, and you should get up on that

Persona 2: Innocent Sin is coming to North America

Masters of Horror: Pro-Life

CONTACT!  We craves it, precious.  Plz to be sending us emails: podcast@someothercastle.com!

Linkstache!

Portal 2

Okamiden

Skies of Arcadia: Legends

Mortal Kombat

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile

Pokemon Black

PSN is having problems; perhaps you have heard

Wii’s successor confirmed to be playable at E3

3DS undersells according to Nintendo’s projections

DS Lite no longer in production

Hulu Plus now available for Live members; free trial

Alice: Madness returns will come with download of original Alice

Portal 2 on sale this weekend at GameStop and KMart

The Last Guardian and Ico/Shadow of the Colossus Collection both delayed indefinitely

PSP Go no longer in production in Japan

Portal 2 DLC available this summer

We want to do an all-listener mail episode next time, so please please please help us by sending it to podcast@someothercastle.com.  Please?

Amongst the abandoned, empty ruins of podcast-land, a new entity raises its head!  It’s a podcast!  We made it for you.  Don’t you feel special?  You should.

Listen while we regale you with our adventures of weeks past, and enjoy!

Linktasia!

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Bulletstorm

Pokemon Black and White

Street Fighter IV 3D

Pilotwings 3D

Final Fantasy I

Torchlight

Skies of Arcadia: Legends

Sly Collection

Jack Tretton is a dick

Zelda releases June 19th

Starfox 64 3D releases in Japan July 17th

DoA Dimensions releases May 24th

Game Informer says new Nintendo console will be announced at E3

Persona 4 anime announced on day that events of Persona 4 began

Be in a video for Catherine if you answer invasive questions about marriage

Marble Blast Ultra de-listed from XBLA

March NPD numbers

GIVE US LISTENER MAIL!  ……please?  podcast@someothercastle.com, yo!

With that particular free-time-sucker taken care of, I actually made leaps and bounds of progress in other games this time around.  Who knew you could actually get things done when you’re not obsessively playing 70-hour JRPGs?  I certainly didn’t.

My first order of post-P3P play was getting back into Metroid Prime 2, a game that I had ostensibly been playing this entire time, but that in reality, I hadn’t touched since getting my ass back into Tartarus.  Going back to a game like this after a break tends to be a bit difficult for me; not only do I have to remember where I was and what I was doing, I also have to make sure that I don’t mess up the (to me, at least) freakishly complicated control scheme and end up shooting myself in the foot (so to speak).  I was, after all, coming from a game where pressing X was about the most complicated thing you ever had to do, so this was a bit of a leap.  Thankfully, the strategy guide that I kept glued to my lap throughout the course of the game made the whole navigation thing much easier, so all I really had to acclimate to was the controls, and after an embarrassing twenty minutes or so, that wasn’t so bad either.  I mentioned, when I was playing this before, that I didn’t particularly care for the whole light world/dark world mechanic, and while I never really got to like it, it does become less of an annoyance as the game goes on and you obtain more options that allow you to disregard the more annoying bits (like health-sapping).  If I hadn’t had the strategy guide for this game, I honestly think I would have lost patience with the portal-hopping that becomes more and more important and less and less intuitive as you get closer to the end; I’m sure Metroid purists would tell me that that’s just part of the exploration phase, but I’m just too impatient.  I don’t want to throw a controller, I just want to get the damn visor.  So I guess I’m a cheater.  Meh.

The next game I started after Metroid came to a close was Dead Space (yes, the original).  I picked up the collector’s edition of Dead Space 2 shortly after it came out, largely because I simply got hooked by the hype train (predictably), but I never actually finished the first game; in fact, I didn’t put much time into it at all.  So, in order to abide by my own rules, I started up a save from scratch and started scouring the Ishimura.  I love survival horror games when they’re done well, and Dead Space certainly is; however, I am also a giant baby when I play them.  I scream and drop controllers a lot, because I am extremely easily startled, and Dead Space does a lot of startling.  I got progressively more and more paranoid as I played, both in the game and out of it; while Isaac spent a lot of time shooting dead bodies before they could get up and staring unblinkingly at vents, I had a positively horrifying trip to my dark, cold storage unit where a falling box nearly gave me a heart attack.  It didn’t help that the lights in the hall were flickering, either.

Even though I don’t really “do” shooters, I’ve had one thing mercilessly programmed into me by both those I have played and by years of zombie movies: you gotta shoot ‘em in the head.  Unfortunately, abiding by that maxim in Dead Space will get you very dead very fast, and as bad as I am at shooting things in the head, limbs are worse.  Don’t get me wrong; I really like the mechanic, but it’s definitely more difficult to line up a shot that will take off a leg when it’s flailing around and (usually) running directly at you.  The sights on the plasma cutter helped with this, which is probably why I exclusively ended up using that and the Ripper in my travels.  With inventory management being a bit of an issue, I found that deciding on a minimal number of weapons and sticking with those eliminated the need to have a bunch of ammo for different things taking up space.  That, and I just like to cut things up with giant flying saw blades.

I think my favorite thing about Dead Space, though, is the fact that it takes pity on the directionally-challenged, like me, and actually implements a navigation system that WORKS.  Rather than simply putting a blip on your radar and expecting you to figure out what exactly is going on, you can, at any time, call up a beam of light that will run directly towards your next objective.  It even adjusts itself as you follow along, so it’s not leading you directly into walls or anything like that.  I really appreciated this; it might have felt too linear to some, but I get lost really easily, and this felt like an unobtrusive way to get that under control.

I believe I’m going to play Dead Space: Extraction for the Wii before I get into Dead Space 2, but before I do that, I decided I need a break, so I started up Trinity Universe for the PS3, a game about which I actually knew precious little, save that it’s a JRPG that has bright, flashy Japanese artwork on the box.  That’s usually enough for me.  Now… knowing my predilection towards Persona and others of that ilk, you should take me very seriously when I say that, as of now, I think I am prepared to name this the most Japanese game I have ever played.  I know, right?  Watch this trailer and tell me I’m wrong.  As far as I can tell, my current mission is to knock floating objects out of orbit by traversing the dungeons inside them and destroying their gravity cores; if I don’t, the protagonist (the Demon Dog/God King) has to be turned into a gem in order to protect the town.  There is a second storyline featuring a Valkyrie who has some as-of-now nebulous connection to my current character, but I don’t really know what her deal is yet.  The gameplay is pretty standard JRPG fare; it’s turn-based, with some additions such as the ability to execute attack chains and special moves depending on how you set up your basic attacks.  Dungeons are, for the most part, short and sweet, which I like; you do end up going back to the same places time after time, but the areas are small enough that it doesn’t feel tedious.  There are a bunch of features that I haven’t messed with yet (and may not at all), such as a monster colosseum and a crafting system that I’ve only given cursory attention to; really, there’s an almost overwhelming amount of stuff here, and my biggest problem with this game so far has been that I’m not really sure how to tell what’s important or significant and what’s not.  It’s definitely…. interesting, though.  If you play with the sound off.  Otherwise it’s a little annoying.

In progress: Trinity Universe (PS3); Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (DS)

Completed: Persona 3 Portable (PSP); Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Wii); Dead Space (360)

New: Dead Space 2 (360); Lord of Arcana (PSP); Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes (DS)

*sniff*

Even with the obsessive love of all things Atlus that I have been carefully cultivating over the last several years, I really didn’t think that I was going to get quite as into Persona 3 Portable as I have.  I was, of course, deluding myself, but most people have been kind enough to not point that out to me.  Anyway, aside from maybe an hour or two of playtime split between Metroid Prime 2 and Golden Sun, it’s literally all I’ve played since the last time I updated this column.  I haven’t even touched WoW, which should tell you a bit about how devoted I’ve been.  Now, after sinking 80-90 hours into the PS2 version of Persona 3 (120-ish if you include the FES content in that total), you might wonder why I have taken it upon myself to rack up another playthrough of that length, particularly when I have so many other worthy titles currently collecting dust on my shelves.  All I can tell you is that P3P is NOT the same game as P3.  It’s better.  A lot better.  Well, maybe that’s not ALL I can tell you…

1. The female main character is more than just a skin. Putting a female main character option in P3P seemed like a pretty cool idea, and it was one of the reasons (read as: justifications) I was really interested in giving the reboot a shot even though I had already sunk so much time into the console version.  All too often, though, this option is little more than a cosmetic change.  The graphics are different, and maybe you’ll get a few altered dialogue options, but things basically follow the same path.  In P3P, however, huge chunks of the game change depending on whether you choose the female or the male main character; this is most notable in the social links.  You would expect the obvious change to be that the romance options are different, and this is certainly the case, but that’s not where it ends; some social links are changed, some are absent, and some are completely new.  My current favorite is the Strength link, which was the sports team manager in P3, and is now Koromaru (quite possibly my favorite team member, because HE DOESN’T TALK).

2. You can use fast travel. Remember how you used to have to haul ass all the way across town every time you wanted to go from place to place?  Remember how it was a lot easier to just hit the damn square button in P4?  Well, now you can do that here as well.  This is balanced a bit by the fact that you don’t actually walk around in any given location (aside, of course, from the dungeons themselves); rather, people and things of interest have icons on them that you must click on to interact.  Sometimes this is nice, because you can kind of take in everything at once and see, for instance, if there are any social link folks in the area who might be down for some hanging out, but it admittedly takes a bit away from the overall experience (they also took away the animated cutscenes).  Given the size of the game, I suppose there had to be a few cutbacks, so while this is a bit of a downer, I’m okay with it overall.

3. You can control your party directly. This is the biggie.  Anyone who has spent a large amount of time playing Persona 3 has had at least one moment when he or she has screamed outright at a party member who has done something mind-blowingly stupid, because you do not directly tell them what to do, only what general battle tactics to use.  This was the biggest improvement P4 made over P3; the ability to give direct commands took away the need to sit, fingers crossed, through a major battle, hoping that Mitsuru would remember that people need to be HEALED a bit more than enemies need to be CHARMED.  Not that that ever happened to me, you understand.  Anyway, P3P takes a cue from P4 and adds this option to your tactics.  I think this change alone would have been enough to get me to play again, honestly.  You can also equip your party members without actually having to talk to them, which is not only handy when shopping for stuff, but also a lot less annoying.  Dear Yukari: just take the goddamn bow and SHUT UP.  And heal me.  Bitch.

4. Dungeons are a lot more streamlined. I often feel that the fighting part of Persona games is just something I have to do in order to have more time to social link.  It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just that social links tend to be more addictive.  It’s like pausing your game of Sims to go play Pokemon for an hour or so; they’re both great, it’s just a major gear-switch.  That’s why I’m really pleased by the way the dungeons have been made more convenient for serial social-linkers like myself in P3P.  I recall, in P3, that I would dungeon-crawl in smaller chunks than I do in P3P; a set amount of floors in Tartarus open up at a time, but long before you could hit that wall on your first foray into newly-available territory in P3, you were basically forced to stop, because you would run out of precious SP, or your party members would become fatigued and whiny.  In P3P, though, my play style has changed drastically; although Fuuka and your party members will still bitch about being exhausted, they never seem to actually get the “Tired” status that affects their combat, and the SP problem is solved by allowing you to pay for healing at the save point in the lobby (not as expensive as Fox, but also…. no Fox, which is very very sad).  The removal of these limitations usually means that when a new block of floors opens up in Tartarus, I go straight through in one visit, warping out periodically to save and heal.  I usually return once or twice to rescue the people who somehow get lost there (another new feature contrived, I expect, to keep you coming back to the dungeon now that your actual progress is faster) or to fulfill Theo’s requests (Theo is Margaret’s brother; apparently you can choose either of them, so obviously I went with the dude).  This way, I probably spend about the same amount of time in Tartarus as I did before, but it’s all condensed into much fewer visits, leaving me more nights to stat-boost or social link.  I’m a fan.

5. You can personalize your Personas. Yes, you will still spend a large amount of time re-rolling your fusions to get the skills you want.  However, you now have the added benefit of skill cards, which can be given to you by other characters as rewards, purchased from the antique store, or even gained from your existing Personas when they reach a given level.  This means that, with some limitations, you can give your Personas pretty much any ability you want, as long as you have the card to do so.  I’m sure this could be used/exploited way more than I have done, but I’m actually perfectly content with the benefit I’ve discovered, which is giving Invigorate 3 to pretty much every Persona I can (and then making sure it’s passed on via fusion).  I never run out of SP, and it’s awesome.

I guess this sort of turned into a Five Things, didn’t it?  SNEAK ATTACK!  Well, since it’s the only thing I’ve played, I feel like it’s justified, but I…. okay, I was going to say that I promise I’ll talk about other things next time, but I probably can’t do that.  I promise I’ll try?  That sounds good.

In progress: Persona 3 Portable (PSP), and technically Metroid Prime 2 (Wii) and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (DS), I GUESS.

Completed: none

New: Kingdom Hearts: ReCoded (DS)

I don’t do well writing straight-up reviews, not because I necessarily have trouble with the form or the content, but more because I just don’t play things in a timely fashion 99% of the time.  Could I post a review of Metroid Prime?  Sure, but who would really care?  I mean…. Elaine might, but only so she could monitor me for any negative terminology and soundly beat me if any showed up.  (I….kid?  I think?)  However, since I do have a project–a resolution, if you will–in progress, I’m resurrecting the ol’ journal-style update system so that I have something pushing me along besides my list and you have something to read and scoff at when I start lagging behind… or just get stuck on Persona forever, which is what pretty much happened this week.  Surprise!

I’ve actually already completed two games this year, putting me pretty much on track for my “game-a-week” goal…which is good, because I’m pretty sure the ones I’m playing now are going to take a while to complete, so I’m going to get a bit behind already.  Oh well.  I started playing Little Big Planet on New Year’s Day, because I figured that since the second one is due out this month, I should probably get on the bus and at least give it a go.  What I found is that LBP is a completionist’s dream…and nightmare.  Each pre-loaded level comes packed with a ton of stuff to gather: new fabrics, costumes, props, and scenery abound.  You can use these assets to customize your Sackcreature as you like (in my case, with pigtails, a halo, fairy wings, and nasty sharp pointy teeth), and also to trick out your “pod,” which is where you go when you’re not out traversing the galaxy.  These things, however, comprise only a tiny, tiny part of what makes LBP special; the pre-loaded levels are absolutely insignificant compared to the number of user-created ones you can obtain from PSN.  I didn’t even touch this feature, because I suspected that if I did, I wouldn’t stop.  I’d keep roaming forever, becoming furious when I encountered levels that lacked quality, but allowing that fury to fuel my ever-intensifying search for the diamonds glittering among the coal.  It’s extremely cool that this kind of play exists, and it’ll be interesting to see how LBP2 refines it, but honestly…it’s just not *for* me.  So, I played the pre-mades and moved on.  On its own merits, this is a fun (if not particularly challenging) little platformer; it’s not put together as well as some, perhaps, but its other features are its true focus anyway, so I can forgive a few quirks.

If you follow me on Twitter (and if not, WHY NOT?), you may remember the sad tale of my silver Ratchet and Clank-era PSP, which died a tragic death a short while ago after three lovely years.  I replaced it with the new God of War-bundled 3000 model, which, aside from being pretty damn sexy, also comes with God of War: Ghost of Sparta, a game that I would have purchased anyway, given my enjoyment of the PSP’s first installment, Chains of Olympus.  Having recently played God of War 3, I wanted to go through this as well while it was fresh in my mind, and you know what?  Ghost of Sparta is better.  GoW3 is, no doubt, an amazing game, and gorgeous to boot, but where it would sometimes frustrate me and feel like it was running itself in circles, Ghost of Sparta…. didn’t.  I don’t think this was a function of difficulty, but rather of how the games differ in their setup.  GoW3 felt like I just got stuck a lot, and I don’t mean stuck as in “I don’t know what to do,” but rather stuck as in you spend a whole lot of time mucking around the same area before you can move on to somewhere else.  Ghost of Sparta felt like I was moving through my environment and making progress, whereas GoW3 felt like I was being shuttled between set pieces.  Beautiful, meticulously-constructed set pieces, mind you, but set pieces nonetheless.  My only real complaint with Ghost of Sparta was that the magic felt clunky and tacked-on; this wasn’t a major thing for me, given that I really only used it when they made me, but there you go.  Otherwise, I was very impressed, and glad this was the game I used to break in my new system.

I never made it through the first two Metroid Prime games when they were released on the GameCube; this wasn’t necessarily because I didn’t want to, but more because I tried and just never got the hang of what seemed to me to be a completely impenetrable control scheme.  Two things changed between then and now: one, I’ve been playing a lot more shooters recently and have gotten more practice handling button configurations beyond the “just press X” style that a confirmed JRPGer is most comfortable with, and two, the Metroid Prime Trilogy was released on the Wii, with re-vamped controls that seemed to make a bit more sense to me.  I did play Prime 3 when it first came out, and I had markedly less trouble with the controls than I seemed to remember from my first round of Prime excursions, so I wanted to give the other two a shot before I dove into Other M.  As of now, I’ve finished Prime and am working my way through Prime 2.  There’s still a lot to keep track of, control-wise, so there is a bit of a learning curve, particularly if, as I am, you’re a bit slow on the shooty-shooty front.  However, sticking it out this time is proving to be pretty rewarding; I’m not so sure I like Prime 2 as much as I liked the first, but this is largely because of the whole “light world/dark world” thing that’s central to the storyline.  Basically, you (as Samus) are tasked with returning power to the light side of a planet by traveling to its dark counterpart and stealing it back.  The trouble is that when you’re on the dark side, energy is constantly leached from you if you stand in the toxic atmosphere for too long.  For a game that prides itself on puzzle-solving and such, having to constantly worry about whether you’re standing in a light bubble that’s consistent or one that’s going to collapse if you pause for too long just seems like a gimmicky hassle.  I recently gained the Dark Suit, which slows down the rate at which the atmosphere will damage you, so I’m hoping this makes things less annoying.  Avoidance of hazards is one thing, but there’s no way you CAN avoid the dark miasma all the time; sometimes you just have to grin and get slowly digested alive by it, which is why, I think, I have a problem.  Otherwise, the basic structure matches up with that of the first Prime, so aside from pushing through the “dark world” sections, I’m enjoying myself so far.

I never played the original Golden Sun games for the GBA, I think because I had it in my mind that they were SRPGs…. and you know how I feel about those.  (Hint: Not good.)  I might have to track them down, though (I mean, if I ever get a GBA again…), because I’m really loving the new one, Dark Dawn, so far.  It almost plays like a cross between Final Fantasy and Pokemon; you’re on a quest to save the world, blah blah, blah… but on the way, you collect these awesome little critters called Djinni that you can equip to your party members, allowing them to perform special attacks in battle and then summon even bigger monsters who will crush your opponents with even bigger special attacks.  Oh, and you also have magic powers of your own.  You know, just as an aside.  I’m about two hours into the game at this point, so, you know… still kind of in tutorial mode.  I suspect I will have more to say about this next time.

I am also playing Persona 3 Portable.  I don’t think I can talk about that yet.

In progress: Metroid Prime 2 (Wii); Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (DS); Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable (PSP)

Completed: Little Big Planet (PS3); God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP)

New: Lost In Shadow (Wii)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Arc Rise Fantasia

Alice in Wonderland

Splinter Cell: Conviction

Naughty Bear

Dead Rising: Case Zero

Metroid: Other M

Crackdown 2

Persona 3 Portable

XBox Live gets a price hike…. as if you didn’t already know

inFamous 2 will have a playable demo at PAX

Devil May Cry 5 might be in development; will be “more western”

Super Mario All Stars coming to the Wii, Japan exclusive for now

GTA Chinatown Wars coming to the iPad

Starcraft sells 3 million copies in 1 month

Pachter predicts Live will get $100 “Platinum service”

Puzzle Quest 2 coming to PSP

Wii vibrator attachments…yep, they really exist (IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: How the hell did we miss that these things work over Skype?  WHAT??!?)

Lost in Shadow donating 10 cents for every “like” they get on their Facebook page

Blizzard demands, among other things, James Cameron to direct a Starcraft movie

DSi and DSi XL prices dropping by $20 each; Lite staying the same

Atlus to be merged with parent company Index Holdings; should still be releasing games under Atlus name

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep will not be coming to the PSP Go

MC Chris donating all proceeds from items sold on his eBay page to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

New 360 controller being released with “transforming” D-pad

Now, pay attention, because this part’s important!  We may be a little inconsistent over the next few weeks as we get back into the swing of getting the show nice and regular again, but as I believe I said…. WE’RE BACK!  We’re starting afresh with listener mail because we had soooooo much backed up, so if you have something you’ve sent–or heck, something new!–send it our way again, and we PROMISE we will read it on the next show as a thank you for sticking with us.  Peace out until next time!

Linktasia!

Persona 4

Bayonetta

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes

Persona 3 Portable releasing 7/6 in US; we prepare our poopsocks

Bioware says Mass Effect trilogy will not spell end of franchise

Splinter Cell: Conviction delayed until next fiscal year (April) “for more polish”

Majesco reports 6.6 million dollar loss for 2009; plans two Cooking Mama extensions for 2010

December NPDs

Netflix coming to Wii this year; Reggie says Wii users don’t care about HD streaming

NPD says only 10% of games are purchased digitally

Rockstar spouse alleges long hours, bad work environment

Bioware says Mass Effect 2 Day 1 DLC will be free

Crackdown 2 demo before launch

Listener mail makes us smile big happy smiles!  Send us more at podcast@someothercastle.com and an angel will get its wings, or something.

Link the halls with boughs of holly…. (in no particular order and probably missing a few… gimme a break, I was drinking…)

Street Fighter 4

inFamous

Borderlands

Halo 3: ODST

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Forza 3

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Assassin’s Creed 2

Uncharted 2

Left 4 Dead 2

Dragon Age: Origins

Persona PSP

Persona 3

Persona 4

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Pokemon Platinum

Resident Evil 5

Wii Sports Resort

Chronicles of Riddick

DJ Hero

Rock Band: Beatles

Brutal Legend

Scribblenauts

Ghostbusters

Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story

Shadow Complex

Star Ocean: The Last Hope

Punch-Out!

Katamari Forever

Gyromancer

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Saw

UFC 2009

Torchlight

Wet

Tony Hawk: Ride

NHL 10

PixelJunk Shooter

Trash Panic

Noby Noby Boy

Flower

Trine

Mega Man 9

Guitar Hero 5

Guitar Hero: Van Halen

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