Lost Odyssey

There's a cool game out for the Xbox 360 I've just finished playing. It's called Lost Odyssey. If you like RPG games, especially the Final Fantasy series, you'll enjoy this game. It has the usual themes; story line, grow your character, find treasure, stock up on items/equipment, acquire friend characters that join party, etc. And in an unexpected turn, the game started out being pretty challenging! You had a feeling akin in other games like you've reached a boss fight without adequately preparing (meaning you had to use everything at your disposal and have the right strategy to win). This ends up tapering off later in the game as your characters get stronger and you put together a good party, but I enjoyed the extra difficulty.

Out of the RPG games for the XBox 360 so far that I've played, I like it the best.

One little thing btw that was cute, is that some equipment you wear ends up showing in the game cut-scenes on your character. The ending was particularly funny with one of my characters wearing this silly little crown.

On other news, our pool teams didn't make the play offs (in one team by only 1 point). I played really good at the close of those, taking out some 7s, but we ended up just missing the cut as a team. We'll get them next session! :)

My UNCC classes have been going well. Getting A-grade results on my tests and papers turned in, hope to continue these last few weeks. It has been a real exercise in patience (most of the information is not relevant to my job, family, or hobbies). Sometimes I'm wondering to myself why I'm even taking the courses.

The kids are doing great. I recently bought them seasons passes to Carowinds. To my surprise, Carowinds considers my 8-year-old daughter an "Adult" as far as tickets go. My 4-year old qualified for the 'Jr' pass, which shockingly (or not) is pretty much the same price as the Adult pass. Prices notwithstanding, it was a good time and we'll surely be back soon and week-ends here and there.