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Didn't pick it up initially because, while it sounded like good entertainment, the $60 price tag didn't seem to fit the content. But I snapped it up in a heartbeat when Amazon had it on sale for $25. I just completed it last night (minus a few tech orbs and masks) and enjoyed every minute of it.

My DS and Dragon Quest IX. I'd finally maybe have time to level everyone up.

And an mp3 player loaded with lots of audiobooks.

And a fake shaving cream can full of frozen embryos of various species.

So I can get a monitor that shows Joystiq when I'm sitting at my desk but a spreadsheet when my boss views it from the hall? :-D

It's been said already, but the game stands on it's own. I've never owned a Batman comic or graphic novel, though I do enough the whole superhero genre. I never saw Dark Night in the theater, though more because I had a newborn daughter and didn't have much time to get out. But I did love the movie.

I'd say AA is to Batman/superhero games what Dark Night is to Batman/superhero movies. There aren't many games these days, due to the aforementioned daughter, that I devote the time to play regularly. I have a stack of games I've begun but never finished. But with AA, the game's pace was so compelling that I was up into the wee hours of the morning to get just a little bit further.

I too waited to hear more before buying it, only getting my copy last week. I devoured it over the Labor Day weekend. It's worthy of your dollars, whether purchased or rented. I can't see myself playing it much more anytime soon now that I've completed the story mode, but it's one game that will stay in my library, never to be traded-in.

That kind of mustache just looks wrong on an Asian man to me.

Of the ones I've played, I'd have to say FF6 is my favorite.

Isn't Pure Good Polygamist Lesbian an option?

I'm not certain about the bit about sound effects covering over music channels. That is, I'm not so convinced it was intentional exactly - I think it was a product of the design process. One they could have overcome by choice such as with the sprite flicker option, but I'm conviced they developed Mega Man 9 in a NES emulation environment.

Obviously things like the leaderboards interface with the Wii hardware, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a simple matter to produce a Mega Man 9 ROM playable in an emulator or real NES hardware.

Oh? Bummer. Hadn't tried it yet. Maybe I could hack a switch into the RetroPort to swap the wiring of the buttons. Shame to have to mess with it though.