Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Halo: Reach

I've had Kingdom Hearts:BBS for a while now but I forgot to write about it. I havn't beaten it yet because school has been taking up a lot of time and I let my brother play it so I didn't get to see it for almost two months. The game play is very similar to Kingdom Hearts I & II, with minor changes so it's a bit different but not too different so you still have the Kingdom Hearts feel to it. I'm a sucker for stories and this one is awesome. We get to find out about Terra, Aqua and everyone's favorite Ventus. I don't want to spoil anything so I'm going to stop there with that game.

Moving on.. Over Thanksgiving break I was able to play Halo: Reach. It's awesome. I really like how you can pick to be a female spartan in this one. You also get to pick your armor colors. The gameplay is about the same as anyother Halo game but it doesn't feel outdated at all. In this game we get to learn about the fall of Reach... unfortunatly no matter what you do Reach will fall. As a spartan you get assigned to be apart of "Noble Team" with five other spartans and you carry out missions against the covanent invasion. unfortunatly I haven't been able to beat this one either because Thanksgiving was only a four day break and it wasn't my game.

Final Fantasy XIII

So I finally got my hands on Final Fantasy XIII and I must say it is just amazing... You're immediately thrown into the action. Right after the first cinematic, you head straight into the battle tutorial. The battle system is very easy to pick up; it’s an active time battle (ATB) type system, which means that you have to wait a specific amount of time before you can attack. Square-enix makes this iteration simpler then before by adding an auto-battle selection which arranges attacks for you.

This game is very long in my opinion, but that’s something that I like. I’ve clocked over 24hrs and I’m still on the second disc. The story starts off seemingly complicated but once you have some facts the story comes together very nicely making for a very original game.

Persona

So recently I've been playing Persona 4 for the PS2, and I must say it's quite addicting. It's one part JRPG one part life sim and all parts fun. It has slow parts, mostly in the beginning, that play out like an anime so you can set the controller down, but after that you get to travel in to the strange world of  "The Midnight Channel" on the other side of the TV screen. The game has a great story line and pretty simple gameplay. I don't know what it is about this game, but it keeps me playing even through the boring level grinding.