I’ve finally gotten a bit of free time and so have been playing more Persona 4. I still really love that game, despite, or perhaps because, it manages to psych me out with some of the social choices and various quizzes. Most of the answers could be easily googled, but I’m going with just the knowledge I have on hand and I’ve had an embarrassing wrong streak. All the more so since I’m normally good at tests. In some ways it gets the high school vibe down cold, it’s a lot more fun, but it still feels easy to screw up and embarrass yourself.
I hope I didn’t deny myself a social connection by being a jerk to someone because I was confused about whose younger brother he was. If I did, such is life, but it’s still embarrassing. I’m actually a bit reminded of the first No One Lives Forever which rewarded you for taking the professional dialogue choice and not the one that just made you sound cool.
I’ve been playing in combination with Wii Fit Plus. While the free step mode doesn’t net that many calories, free running actually seems to have a similar burn rate as does EA Active Life. We just picked up the add-on for Active Life, the creatively named More Exercises. I’m not going to make the transition just yet, because the 30 day challenge isn’t offered in the sequel, instead it’s got a six week thing. That’s fine, but after running into some initial trouble, my pride is on the line on getting through the challenge this time. That said, I’m not that proud, I’m entirely willing to change the clock so that I don’t get burned get bumped to the next day for finishing at 12:05 AM.
Anyways, good weekend on the whole. We’ve been working our way through Avatar Season 2 and have loved it. The story gets steadily more into mini-arcs as time goes by while still retaining an episodic charm. The only downside is that there’s only three seasons so we’re now more than half way through.
I find doing the free step works quite well if you treat it sort of like the running; it at least has some motion to it back and forth, whereas with the running, I find it really unnatural to move like that. So you just step on and off a lot faster than it tells you. You can work out a rhythm that counts all your steps still; I can do about 4000 an hour on it now, usually. If you're good with the running, go for that, but I think this'd be worth a try, too.
Posted by: Moti | December 01, 2009 at 01:02 AM