Tales of Symphonia

Another reason I've been away for the past two weeks is that Jeremy bought me Tales of Symphonia, which has gulped a lot of my free time. It has a useful game-time feature, that counts only the time that's gone into the saved games, meaning failures and backtracking time is dropped. This claim I've been playing over seven hours now. That means I'm less than 10% of the way through the 80 hours of gameplay available (and on top of that I usually play slowly). So far, I can't fault the game except for not having a way to skip over scenes you've seen before (although you can speed them up), and the placing of long scenes before someplace you're surely going to die a few times. The graphics is beautiful, the music and sound can't be faulted, and the gameplay is speedily-paced. I'll have more once I get further.