I apologize for neglecting to post yesterday. Blame Chris. I apologize, too, for not adding anything to the sidebar links recently. (Blame him for that as well.) I’ve been playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance on the train for the past few days, and it’s as addictive as I was promised it would be. The very beginning was as irritating as are the beginnings of most RPGs (although I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many cut scenes in a GBA game before, RPG or otherwise), but now that I’m past the God Damned Snowball Crap it’s all the sort of good clean monster-fighting fun I remember from, say, Final Fantasy (for NES). This sort of game, and others with the same sort of appeal (like Pokémon and Advance Wars), is what really excels when it comes to the GBA - stuff like Super Mario Advance and that horrible Powerpuff Girls game is all well and good, but side scrollers really don’t work as well as I would have expected when it comes to something to be played for twenty minutes on the train or whatever. And it’s not just because I prefer the genre in general - when it comes to PS2 or computer gaming, I’m more interested in things like fighters and racing games (and whatever the hell you’d call GTA).