I've got I Am Alive, but havent progressed too far into it. It is quite punishing of mistakes, to the point that I actually replayed the first hour and a half from scratch as I had lost all my 'retrys' aka lives. The kind of mistakes you'll make in the early running though are ones that appear to allow you to learn from them so I don't think there will be too many more nasty surprises coming up where I don't know what to do. Computer games being what they are though, if someone points a gun at you, then you point your gun at them and blast their brains out, right? Well, actually, no...that adjustment took a little time to get used to.
I'm plodding along very nicely with Tales of Graces f, the story remains free of a world threatening evil which I must say is surprising...pleasantly surprising, that is. The battle system is really, properly, good aswell. Most battles are fast and furious, and the game continually throws challenges at you for even the most mundane of fights, and likewise throws no end of rewards at you for completing them, or just generally for doing, uh, stuff. The item crafting system is decent aswell, it seemed very simple on the surface to me but there seems to be quite some depth to the weapon/armor crafting side of things.
And still playing SARPBC Even after over 3 years of near daily play, it still gives me so much pleasure. I scored a quite frankly sick reverse aerial goal the other week which had me literally jumping for joy. I'll have to upload and 'tube it, so you can share my elation ^___^