Over this last week I’ve continued working through Muramasa and it has remained beautiful.  I’ve continued to mentally note little quirks that I think might be useful ideas to expand on for effects later.

In addition to some more time spent on Mario Wii, however, I got to do some more multiplayer.  Unfortunately we only have two controllers, but the experience of gaming with one friend, or watching two others play for the first time was great fun.

I’ve never been a huge First Person Shooter fan, but in light of our group gathering, I got some time in with Team Fortress 2.  I imagine the experience after some practice and achievement of more options (such as expanded weapon repertoire and a better understanding of the class-countering-class dynamic) would heighten the experience, but as it stands just blowing up friends on a private server was good for some laughs.

As a strange early Christmas exchange, one friend of mine gifted me with a stack of boxed Japanese and Korean games of various sorts purely for the entertainment value, as he came across them quite cheaply.  I think I’ll keep them in the packaging though, and continue to admire them for their new sentimental value, rather than attempt to penetrate the language of the moon.