Jerzat

I've gone through all the normal stage songs, as with the first one it doesn't take much time to complete at first, especially if you already finished one of the previous two titles in very hard mode, you'll probably never fail a song.
It feels like Ouendan 1 on Elite Beat Agents engine, which is good. Plays exactly like the previous games, nothing new really 'cept for some menu polishing and extras (able rewatch endings and intermission cutscenes along with a few others i still have to explore).
As for the songs choice I must say that I still like Ouendan 1 tracklist morem but maybe it's a matter of affection, I guess I'll come to like these songs as well as I play through the harder modes even though a few play like mediocre jpop songs, a consistent number of others do actually stand out. The beat patterns are great and much more varied than Ouendan 1 so it looks like slightly more fun to me on that perspective.
I think I'll love this game just as much as I loved the first one.

Clearly the reviewers never had a chance to level up a character in Final Fantasy XI or any other MMORPG where leveling up is actually even a little bit challenging compared to WoW. Leveling up a character in WoW takes a fraction of the time needed in most other games.

It's quite difficult to get an Europe-wide amendment when we're constantly failing to get a common constitution approved.

Please joystiq state when the offers you link to are only available within the US. It's really annoying browsing to the site just to find that like half of the people you sent there can't actually have anything out of the deal.

Vladimir Cole (Joystiq annoyance #0001)

Super Smash. Bros Melee.

I live in Italy. And the author's point in the article "slap on the Italian equivalent of an M-rating and move on" isn't applicable, since the video-games rating system in Italy doesn't prevent a 12-years old with too much money in his hands to go in a shop and buy the game.
GTA: SA is rated 18+, yet every minor in the country can go and buy a copy. That's what brought up the mess on the medias yesterday. Hopefully they'll enforce some kind of sale restrictions on videogames rated 18+ as they do with DVDs and all the other stuff.