My busy review marathon is finally over, and with the advent of my Dragon Quest IX review I’m done with the game at last. Well, “done.” There’s still a ton of post-story content to tackle. And I’m dying to take the game to PAX, which I assume will be downright carcinogenic for all the wireless tag mode data being beamed around. I have to take a break from the game for the time being, though, because my 75 hours of progress are locked up on a review ROM. Nintendo promises they’ll be able to transfer all of that onto a real cart, which is a Christmas miracle to be sure, but it’s probably going to take a while.

But that’s OK, because this means I can move onto my latest project:

Unfortunately, now that I’ve fulfilled my primary Etrian Odyssey III goal of creating a red-haired, pig-tailed, female Monk named Ranma, I’m kind of at a loss for what to do next.