Since it's been nearly 2 months since my last backlog update, I'd thought I'd make a bit of an Update on that front. Slowly, but surely, the backlog has been kept minimal, while not a whole lot of progress has been made. This is due to the fact that the majority of the remaining games on my backlog are long and somewhat tedious. Anyways...let's take a look at what I've completed over the past 2 months:

July - 7 items
- MadWorld (Beat the game)
- Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (Beat the game)
- Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1 (Beat the game)
- SBCG4AP: Episode 3 (Beat the game)
- The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition (Beat the game) [200g]
- Tales of Vesperia [1000g]

August - 6 items
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled (Beat the game) [200g]
- New Play Control! Pikmin (Beat the game, 18 days)
- Dead Space (Beat the game)
- Shadow Complex (Beat the game) [200g]
- Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2 (Beat the game)
- Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts [1250g]
- Metroid Prime (Beat the game)

In July I managed to beat an old PSP game, as well as not only finish one of my 2 Achievement goals, I blew right past it for a full 1000g in Tales of Vesperia. In August I continued that trend by finally getting 1250g in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. The last 2 months were mainly set aside for newer games that I bought, including Tales of Monkey Island Chapters 1 & 2, Metroid Prime of the Trilogy Re-Release, Dead Space, and a few downloadable titles. Overall, pretty productive, but the backlog still remains firm at a total of 9. Oh, and I actually got through Disc 2 of Lost Odyssey, so I'm halfway through that game.

In September and October, I hope to make progress on the following games:
- Metroid Prime Trilogy (Echoes and Corruption)
- Lost Odyssey (Get through Disc 3)
- Final Fantasy IV
- Final Fantasy VI
- Final Fantasy VII
- Pokemon Platinum
- Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars

I don't have any preset goals for the Final Fantasy games. I'm early on into IV and VII while I'm halfway done with VI. I think putting goals on them would be a bad idea for now. But I suspect I'm going to get through at least one of them. I might get through Platinum as well, but that's still a good 35-45 hours I must put into it over the next 2 months. As for Chinatown Wars, I've got to pick that one up again. Hopefully I'll beat it before the PSP version comes out.

I'm hopeful I can make progress on all of these games to get my backlog number down. It's definitely going to get a bit worse over the next few months, and until around April of next year, the stream of games doesn't look like it'll die down.