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I love this game. One of my favorites on the Genesis.

I smiled when I saw the title of this blog. I'm just going to pretend I didn't read that last paragraph.

It's mostly an action adventure game. There's some light RPG elements too, collecting orbs from beating enemies gives you experience for levels (mainly increases health/damage/defense) while money can be spent on new attacks and abilities. There's also a few puzzles which are pretty simple and Swap Force adds some light platforming. Structure gives you a hub world with a few, but not too many things to do where you pick your missions, which have a lot of hidden paths to collect stuff.

You do have to put some kind of investment in to get the most out of it though. Play with what the game gives you and it's alright. Snag a Skylander of each element with a bit of variety between playstyles (especially if they're all Swap ones, they have their own special bonus mini levels depending on their bottom halves) and it's able to stay fresh for a while.

I'll Twitch a regular level sometime this weekend if you want a better idea of what it is. 

I'm hoping for good things from Deep Down too, but the free to play model is what really worries me. I'm not against F2P as a whole, it works brilliantly in DOTA 2, but Capcom is king of bad microtransactions, them using that model just reeks of trouble. Right now my main game I'm waiting on for PS4 is Destiny, know it's coming to current gen too, but too many of the people I play with online are getting it for PS4 and co-op will be half the fun of it.

It is contagious. Probably wouldn't have one if any of my friends didn't get one.

Well, for me personally. Those are all day one buys. South Park because combining that with Obsidian is the kind of awesome combination we need, but do not deserve. MGS because MGS, even when it's below par like 2 or 4 it's still worth playing for the discussions. And Titanfall because it looks ridiculously fun and any MP game changes after a few months.

I think they made the right move putting it where it is, putting the Vita's on the back leads to a lot of accidental uses of the thing. The XMB was fine the way it was organized, but god damn it was way too slow. Compare it to how quick my 360 is, and it was really noticeable.

I'm sure it will get games. I got one early mostly for game nights since so many of my friends were getting one.

There's six now, the numbered ones are all in the trilogy for PS3, though one of them's a PS2 HD rerelease. Then there's Liberation for PSP, Mercenaries for Vita, and Shadow Fall for PS4. I've played 2, Liberation, and Shadow Fall. Hated 2's campaign, thought Liberation had nice ideas (a top down shooter rather than an FPS), but the one weapon limit killed it for me, and Shadow Fall is above average campaign. The series is more MP over SP from what I've seen, but I've heard from a lot of people 1 had a pretty good campaign.

PSN isn't really a mess, I only had issues with party chat and Killzone once and that had to do with my friend's poor internet connection. First night I was playing Killzone lag free in a party of three.