What games are you playing now?

Final Fantasy VIII (2nd playthrough), first time for Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Still re-playing Metroid Prime. Also started Twilight Princess HD.

....And, as usual, I'm still playing Street Fighter V on a daily basis.

Played more of Bravely Second. In short, I like it, but it's not without flaws.

In long:
Overall, I think it's better than Default so far. The overall pace seems much smoother, Yew and Magnolia are fun in their own right and the control fixes (allowing for faster Brave-usage and better control of autobattle and encounters) make things more accessible. That being said, the new "streak" battles are a bit annoying since a major amount of whether you can get the maximum multiplicator relies a lot on luck. The German translation, unfortunately, suffers from a noticeable lack of editorial oversight. :/

I think the new streak battles have been good. It's more of a bonus and makes you try to output maximum damage in as few moves as possible to force the next battle. There is a little luck, like if the enemy happens to get an attack in first, the streak is ended, but since it's a bonus chance to get more EXP etc, I've not really been annoyed about it.

Battles and game as a whole is very streamlined and accessible. Perhaps the best of any turn-based RPG I've played. Just about all options I could ask for are there from the get-go.

The dialogue I've been really let down by, though. I can't stand some of these voices and the forced humour. I feel like it's gone back a step. The battle and job system is saving it at the moment.

Curious - what is Magnolia's alternate language in the German version? She uses French in English dub, and English in the Japanese dub.

Why not picking the english localization ? That (I think) has likely more chances of having better editorial control.

Yes, maximizing damage is a good choice, as is minimizing BP output (good choices for that: Swordmaster's "Multitasking" and "Counter" and the extra weapon equip skills from the Chariot class), but the longer the streak gets, the more reliant on BP boni you become. Though I do think it works better than what Default had.

French. There's no German dub, so they just left it in.

Possibly, yes. Reason being I usually talk with some local friends about the game and they're adamant about it being in German, so it helps with helping each other out.

I finally played Kingdom Hearts 2. It was an amazing game. Story was a mess, though. On to Birth By Sleep!

The story gets more convoluted with each entry.

I just finished my first quick playthrough of Fire Emblem: Awakening. I didn't expect the main plot to be so... flat. I guess its story's charm essentially relies on the relationship you see between the characters you control. Started a new game immediately to focus on that part more, because due to rushing I didn't get to explore the mechanic of building relationships between them properly.

imho Birth By Sleep is just as amazing if not even better than KH2. It has my favourite story in the series. Sure, it convolutes stuff even further, but somehow isn't nearly as messy as KH2.

I've put aside my 2nd playthrough for Fire Emblem: Awakening to finally dig myself into Xenoblade Chronicles 3D.

Playing DMC Devil May Cry. The gameplay is pretty good. Second best DMC game. F*** the haters.

Yup, DmC is a pretty good game. And speaking of Ninja Theory, I'm gonna try out Enslaved now.

It really is, the only flaw that this game has is...It takes its writing WAY too seriously for its own good.

Replaying PERSONA 3FES in hard mode.

I'm playing Pokemon Y now! It's my first Pokemon since Soul Silver and pushed me to finally buy a 3DS today (I've been borrowing my sister's). I'm really enjoying all the new stuff in the game.

Then you may find the post-game stuff severely lacking. Seriously, X/Y took it back to the days of Red and Blue where there's only like 1 thing to do once you beat the game. And besides, what few cool things they added in gen 6 are far outweighed by all the other crappy things they added (like the godawful skate/run/walk control scheme). And they ditched some of the best things about 5th gen, like the "gym leader's last Pokemon" music, and a storyline/characters that are actually, y'know, interesting. But whatever. Mini rant over. Gen 6 was the only generation I really disliked.

I've never been into post-game stuff too much really. I'm not a completionist by any means. I just want a fun game and to trade Pokemon with my friends, which Y is thus far delivering on.

Like I said, I haven't played a Pokemon game since Soul Silver and I only got six badges in it, so I'm not missing any features from Black and White or their sequels. I never really expected a deep, interesting plotline out of a Pokemon game, either.

I like the rollerskates too.

I'm not either. Doesn't have anything to do with the fact that the lack of post-game content is a disappointing step backwards from other recent Pokemon games.

Of course nobody plays Pokemon for the story or anything, but if you had played the gen 5 games you would have realized that the story/characters/evil team in X/Y were all major regressions and felt incredibly lazy. And what I mean by that is they were pretty standard for Pokemon, but B/W was such a step forward that X/Y felt like whiplash. Gen 5 had genuinely cool and interesting characters like N and Hugh, but gen 6 just didn't.

B/W was supposed to be the pseudo-reboot to the series, but in my opinion that title belongs to X/Y.

But hey, if you like the game then more power to you. I couldn't like it though.