Vacation

I have not taken a full-on vacation in several years. That changed this year. We are visiting some of my wife's family in the Houston, Texas area. With all of the airplane travel and my tendency to wake up early in the morning, my DS is getting a workout.

I picked up Moon for the DS. It is an interesting title that has excellent 3D graphics for the platform. I would say that anyone who enjoys FPS's and adventure games should give this a shot. The controls work very well, and I am constantly amazed by the environments as I work my way through the levels. I hope that this game sells well enough to merit further games from the developers.

I also picked up Children of Mana. At this point, I am fairly certain that everyone out there who is into Action RPGs and the DS has played this title. I am a bit slow in getting on board sometimes. So far I am loving this title as well. Beautiful 2D graphics and tight controls help this game a lot. I played very little of The Secret of Mana on the SNES when I was younger, but I always wanted to play more. I don't know what took me so long to pick this game up for my DS, but I am glad that I did.

Even with these great titles, I can not wait to get back home and jump back into Fallout 3 and Red Faction: Guerrilla.