What with ludicrous amounts of stress and busyness, Valkyria Chronicles expert mode has become less and less what I need in a game. Not that I don't endorse it wholeheartedly, but it's almost hilariously difficult, with even the vaguest pretense of fairness on the enemy's part totally out the window. So fun, but I don't necessarily feel the need to be punished mercilessly for the slightest mistake right now.
So, pokemon! Platinum, not very far into it yet. Bashful penguin and evil starling are the definite MVPs so far, stupid-looking ratata-clone beaver the most disappointing. Well, okay, the cricket is useless too, but I had lower expectations of early-game bugs.
I'm an obsessive completionist, so this may fall by the wayside in the urge to catch-'em-motherfucking-all, but I was thinking I may try a medieval great chain of being-themed playthrough, focusing on pokemon from the top of their respective food-chains (so winged snakes if I can find any, royalty, lions, elephants, roses, oak, gold, diamonds, eagles) and see if I can't put together a decent final team therein.