After last night, I only have ONE more dungeon to go in Phantom Hourglass, the last tour of the Ocean King Temple. I flipped ahead a bit in the guide and I don’t have any other sidequests to do before heading out that way, so that’s my plan for tonight. And thank God, because as much fun as this game has been, I’m more than ready to put it to rest and close the cover of the Guide.

I honestly feel like I could review the guide right now, but after the debacle of the final boss in The World Ends with You guide, I trust nothing until the very end.

I must say that I’m very sad that Link didn’t get the Hammer until the second to last dungeon. That has to be the most fun weapon in his arsenal. I thought nothing could top the Bombchuchus, but oh was I wrong. I thoroughly enjoy smashing things to oblivion.

Two good gamer friends have sent me lengthy e-mails both stating close to the same things about why I should put aside my fears and dive into the fun of inFamous. So thanks to Mike and Nick, I will be playing inFamous and reviewing the accompanying guide.

And it may be sooner than planned.

I am having… difficulty finishing the Tales sequel for the Wii. The gameplay is still fun, but the story is kind of boring. It seems to be way too parallel to the first game, almost like they slapped the same route with different characters with the interweaving of characters from the first game. I never even played the first game but I can tell it’s virtually the same. How? We’re collecting Centurion cores. The characters from the first game have mentioned several times that we’re going to the same places as where they found the Summoning Spirits. Really? The same places? I know it’s the same world, but you couldn’t think of different places to put the cores?

Although, I hate to quit something when I’m pretty much halfway done, even if the story is boring and a little too Pokemon for me at times. Of course, it doesn’t help that inFamous is soooo tempting…

Even after watching trailers and playing the demo, I’m not sure about inFamous.

I had fun with demo, I really did. And when I found out there is going to be a guide, it made me even more stoked. Finally some guide to review out of my RPG-rut! However, some elements in the demo frustrated me a little, and I fear that these same things will overly frustrate me in the game to the point of quitting.

I was hesitant with the platforming aspects, but that was silly of me. It’s not like a typical platformer, such as Ratchet and Clank or Super Mario Bros. In other words, I had fun platforming. However, you seem to be able to die quickly. That isn’t as much the problem as when you are really, really injured, the screen goes gray and blurry and your movements slow. That makes it just a little difficult to 1) try to find something to heal yourself with and 2) avoid getting shot.

I also know that it’s just a demo, and the game often isn’t like the demo. I also hope that the game teaches you more about the controls than the demo did. I had no time to get used to them. Suddenly I was on a ledge and told to go way over there and help the train. Um, who and do what now? I had no time to really practice how to use my electricity powers, so I died quite a bit while trying to get used to aiming, firing, and not getting shot (I did the latter poorly). Luckily when you die you’re transported back to a nearby checkpoint, and I hope this is true in the real game too.

I want to bring something else here besides RPGs, I really do, even though I really like them. Fortunately, I still have Tales of Symphonia to finish, so it’s not like I don’t have anything to work on right now.

If anyone out there can offer some inFamous advice, I’d love it.