Professor Layton for DS

Warning: This post is for you, even if you are not a gamer/anime freak.

Unless you lived under a rock, like me, you probably heard about Professor Layton games for Nintendo DS. I just started it yesterday. I'm in the 7th riddle (very beginning). It is an adventure game that requires you to solve small riddles, unrelated to the story, in order to progress. The game has an inexplicable charisma.
I strongly recommend it. Even if you are not a gamer.

Finished Jump Ultimate Stars, for nintendo DS

Today I finished Finished Jump Ultimate Stars, for Nintendo DS. That means, I got all characters, played all the scenarios in the story mode and reached all the objectives for each of them.

It is a fighting game, but it has a mission description for each stage, that requires understanding. Character names and skills are all written in Japanese. But the most important is that the game is addictive. Specially for this last one, I strongly recommend it.

One of my favorite characters in the game is Allen Walker, wich I knew it was from D.Gray-Man, but I never watched it. Now I'm doing it. It also seems like a nice series. I still not recommend it, but definitely try Allen when playing Jump Ultimate Stars.

Ow, no! My Japanese is getting too good to keep playing games!

After a long and sad time without a TV, I finally manage to get one and turn my playstation on this year. I put persona 4 in there and started to play it.
The last time I was playing it was awesome. Every word was new. Every kanji had a new reading. Every expression had to be decifered. The game skills, items, moves, options? They were incomprehensible.

Now I can understand pretty much everything. Even the curvy balls like 何処 are not so curvy anymore.

So my question is. Does anki + massive listening for fun rip off the challenge from language learning?

Btw, I'm almost giving up on French. It's so hard! Japanese is so comfy!