I'm officially playing too many games at once. The holidays...


In Chrono Trigger, I finished the cave in the prehistoric area and recovered the gate key. It wasn't challenging to get through, but the regular encounters in the cave took more work to defeat than most other enemies so far. The boss seemed tough at first, somewhat like the Masamune boss, but he turned out to be even easier. He's the one where you have to use lightning to lower his defensive power. After that was done, I went to 1000 AD and had Melchior repair the Masamune, then I went back to 600 AD and had Frog join the party. I made sure to take him back to the End of Time to learn magic, then I saved outside the cave to the castle of Magus.

In Jak and Daxter, I finished the first level, which is bascially training. Since I've played this kind of game before, I found it extremely basic. But some parts of it were probably necessary, assuming you don't read the manual. I got the next mission, something about unblocking some vents, then I saved and stopped playing. There are some possibly interesting things like getting a charge of some sort from collecting Blue Eco, but whether it gets implemented well later on, I don't know.

In DBZ Budokai, I finished the basic story mode and beat Cell, but haven't totally completed the mode. You have to go back and play through parts of the story that weren't shown the first time through the game. Some of them might have to be unlocked, but I'm not sure. And by working on these new parts of the story mode, you unlock new skills and things for other parts of the game. There's really a lot of bonus stuff here and plenty of reasons to keep playing.

"I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment in my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment." - Raistlin