I'm in the BETA for it actually, well, not played it in weeks so I don't know if it's over or not yet lol, but it was amazing, so much better than the first, it's going to be one of the best games of next year for sure, and yeah the wheel of death on the first game was annoying, but now I can get through it without dying so easily, after I got the Play trophy, that was it, everything suddenly became easy for me, lol.
Playing Gran Turismo 5 still, although I've played Resonance of Fate for about 4 hours and Star Ocean: The Last Hope for about 10 hours, Resonance of Fate starts off a little too slow for me, and unless you visit the Arena the battlesystem could be confusing, but I picked it up really quickly and find it fun, Star Ocean on the other hand, shit I actually love grinding on here, and the story so far hasn't really gripped me, but it's been fun, that Armaros boss thing was pretty fun to kill, even if it did take me a good 5-10 minutes, but I hear there's bosses later on that can take up to and over an hour to kill, can't wait!