Been lazy. Currently playing Dark Cloud and put a lot of "reviews" on hold. In this game you play as a boy named Toan. His village is seemingly wiped out by some shady character who awoke a fat, man-eating genie which I can't help but associate with Majin Buu after he and his summoner take flight and start destroying random villages.

The game is extremely simple, gameplay wise. You travel through randomly generated dungeons and collect these spheres called "Atla" which you need in order to rebuild the world. Each Atla contains a person, house or object which you can later release with a magical gauntlet given to you by the Fairy King. The fight system is simple enough. Pretty much Zelda with no sidestep(so far) and allies.

Your weapons can break if you don't repair them before their HP drops to zero and these can also level up. You may equip special items to your weapons in order to make them stronger, and once they level up, they will absorb them so you may further equip items to them and so on. After they reach a certain level, they can be permanently transformed into one of these items with a fixed percentage of the original weapon's power. This makes me wonder if there's a limit as to how strong a weapon can become. I'll keep updating and I'll write about my findings plus other things.

Oh, and I read one of Yahtzee's articles on The Escapist. He mentioned the family mechanic on Fable 2 not being rewarding enough so the first thing that came to my mind was "make it so your son or daughter can follow you around and do tasks for you or be trained as a warrior". I haven't played the game but someone I know told me about it. I thinkit would be pretty cool to raise your own son to be a killing machine or to have him run some errands for you. I also tried to play Street Fighter 4 online only to be reminded of how bad I am compared to the good Sagat players. Oh well.

Game of the day:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/492477
This is a turn based RPG. Kind of just a Final Fantasy with less plot and items but A LOT of abilities and status effects. Still a great challenge if you play on Heroic mode(battle system goes ATB instead of TB).

A picture of the ability grid:


Battle system: