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As usual I'm dashing around between a number of different games until something really grabs me. 

TellTale's Batman: I finished season 2. I'm using this game as a way to keep myself atop the achievement leaderboards but I am noticing its excellent production values. This is one of the best TellTale games even though I'm generally not a fan of this type of gameplay. 

Batman Arkham Knight: I started this and was pretty excited by it until I started to do missions. I went to save the firefighters first, found one, and then couldn't find any of the others. So I wandered around. I found a riddle but didn't know what to do with it. I went to the location. Then what? Then I went to a spot on the map that said "breakable object". I think I found the object on the side of a building but my batarang wouldn't break it. I don't knwo what's going on there. I did like the driving and shooting in the batmobile although the game didn't tell me how to dodge and I failed a challenge mission. The game did tell me once I got into a battle as part of the story. What's up with that? I love the traversal and melee fighting in the game. Flying around Gotham is a hoot and I can pretty much take down anyone on the street. I just don't get these missions and how to follow them. It seems like the game doesn't give me enough information or something. I got frustrated with it and took a break. 

EDF Insect Armageddon: Installed this to see if I have any achievement left to do. The answer is yes but they will take a while. I started up a Wing Diver (not actually called that in this American made EDF game) and played a few levels. There is an active time reload meter like in Gears. I feel like this dev team understands how to do online multiplayer unlike the Japanese made EDF games. You have a four player team, yourself and 3 AI. Online players then can drop in if you allow it fairly seemlessly. In EDF 2025 you have to go through a very arcane menu system to play with other people and it's a nightmare to get a friend in your group. Mark has Insect Armageddon too, so I'm hoping to try out co-op soon and level up a few classes I haven't played with before. 

Doom I and II: I played through the first set of levels and part of the second in Doon 1 before getting annoyed at getting lost in a level. Sometimes it's a real pain to try and remember where that yellow door is. But then I played some Doom II and the levels of the first mission were so familiar to me. For some reason I must've played more of Doom II back in the day than the first game. I knew where everything was instinctively. Eventually I'll replay all of these two games before replaying Doom 3 and then Doom 64. 

Kingdom Hearts III: I started it for rewards points but after getting 90 minutes into it, I think I'll continue and try and finish it. Since playing the demo, I have a better grasp of the battle system. I assigned magic to quick buttons and everything started to gel. I love those crazy special moves that put you in some kind of battle version of a Disneyland ride. 

And that's a day. More tomorrow in all likelihood.