My god. The hands on pre­view for Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles includes some jaw-drop­ping screen shots. Unfortunately, the next install­ment of the FF series seems to rely heav­i­ly on mul­ti­play­er, as well as Game Boy Advance con­nec­tiv­i­ty, and since I’m the only one I know with both, I might have a dif­fi­cult time play­ing this game. I’ve always been a big­ger fan of sin­gle play­er games than mul­ti­play­er games (online mul­ti­play­er aside) sim­ply because I had no friends to play with. The prob­lem (or fea­ture, I might say) with RPGs is that they’re gen­er­al­ly not pick-up-and-play games because of the involv­ing sto­ry lines and deep game­play, and it’s dif­fi­cult to find some­one who’s will­ing to just come into the mid­dle of the sto­ry.

As for Soul Calibur 2 com­ing out in three days, I’m hop­ing it’ll snap me back into my old hard­core gam­ing lifestyle, which I seem to have lost over the sum­mer. Once again, I don’t have any­one to play with/against, so I’ll prob­a­bly be prac­tic­ing in the quest mode.