PixlBit

Excellent review, sir. You sound like a professional 

Having not played the game, the most intriguing thing to me is the title. A machine for pigs? What the heck does that mean? Like the first game (which I have but have not played), I hope this one makes its way into a Humble Bundle because there's no way I'd pass that bundle up. And if there's one thing I love in games, it's well written lore (Metroid Prime and Mass Effect come to mind).

I love the sound of all this. This and Pikmin 3 are must get Wii U games right now. I just wish that, ya know, I had the money to get them right now. Super Mario 3D World comes out in a week and a half and that will be a must get too, I'm sure.

I haven't listened to the BA yet. Haven't had a big enough chunk of time but I'm very interested to hear what they have to say. Angelo and I are often on the same wavelength, it seems, when it comes to what we like and dislike but I definitely don't read into things the way he does.

Well there's this stuff called money, which is quite elusive right now, so I won't be getting a newfangled PS4 yet 

I think if El Shaddai had been any longer, it would have worn out its welcome. I thought it was about the right length, even though it seemed to end abruptly but that was because I wasn't sure what exactly was going on in the story lol.

I have that problem with my 360. I've got two dinky hard drives but they fill up so fast, but a big one is so expensive 

I missed out on the fat PS3s but I don't mind. I've never had to worry about space on that thing. I just download stuff, like, whenever lol. I haven't played Valkyria Chronicles yet but when I got a PS3 I knew it was one of the days I had to have. I'm glad I won't have to worry about finding it later.

Cool! Is it the original design or the slim? I wish I had the money to get one now because of that OLED screen but it's just a no go. I started playing my PSP again the other day, though, and was reminded how much I like it. I'm sure I'd love a Vita. *sigh* Some day...

I wondered how you had time to play all those games, but I guess it makes sense to just get a taste. And speaking of catching up, I've been hoping to get through yours...you're just a tad verbose lol and I haven't been able to use my computer the last few days because of a power cord issue. So much to do! Anyway, glad you like the blogs. I think it's the most I've ever done in one month.

The best games of that era were hard but fair. Plenty were hard and not fair though lol. You make some good points here. Some games were hard to make up for being short, I think, like Contra. You can breeze through that pretty quick if you're good at it (or have 30 lives) but no one would have come back to play it more if they beat it their first try. Hard games are really satisfying to beat but yeah, most of us just don't have the time for them anymore.