Well, the Labor Day sale has come and gone (as well as my B Day) and I am spent.  I picked up a lot of great games and am looking forward to many a long gaming session.  However things certainly didn't turn out the way I thought it would.  Hm, that was a bit ambiguous.  Let me be more specific.  While I did receive an iTunes card as a gift, it was a $25 card instead of a $15 card.  Add that to the $8 credit that I already had and that adds up.  Couple this with the awesome Labor Day sale (tons of .99 cent games) and I nearly had a brain hemmorage.  Anyways, here are the games (in no particular order):

Paid Games
Across Ages - It's billed as a Zelda-clone, but is really just another KRPG.  Fun, but not Zelda.
Silent Hill The Escape - a touch-centric title that I do not like.  Out of the lot it is the only one I regret buying.  Luckily, it was only .99 cents.
Zenonia Series (1, 2, and 3) - I had so much fun with part 3, I ended up buying the first two.  All are fast-paced Secret of Mana-style games.
Illusia - another great Gamevil title, this one a Popful Mail-style game.
Dead Space - only .99 cents, and one of the best new gaming experiences I've had all year.  It makes me want to grab the console titles.
Hyper Crush - A Mario-type platform based around an electronic band.  I can barely describe it.
Zombie Infection - a Gameloft third-person shooter with zombies.  I like killing zombies, and it was .99 cents.
Resident Evil 4: Platinum - I've read it's not the full game,  more like a greatest-hits version.  It controls well and was only .99 cents.
Vay - surprisingly, this was the only traditional JRPG that I picked up (and $5 at that). 
Shadow Guardian - another Gameloft third-person game, this one clearly modeled after Uncharted.  Fun, and .99 cents.
Gangstar: Miami Vindication - the second Gangstar game, this one quite good looking and fun.  It was not on sale, but I had so much fun with the demo.
SNES Player - this isn't a game, but rather an app that allows you to listen to spc and rsn files (direct sound rips from SNES games).  What can I say, I'm a dork.
Noise Entertainment System - plays nsf (NES) and gbn (Gameboy) sound files.  Very cool.

Free Games
Aurum Blade Free - Yep, free.  For the whole game.  Cutesy-Diablo/Secret of Mana game.
Inotia 2: Eternity - Like Zenonia 3, there is a free and paid version of the game.  Unlike Zenonia 3, there are a ton of ads in this game.  If it turns out to be good, I'll buy the full version (like I did with Zenonia 3).
Guardian Saga - I must have picked this up the single day it was free, because it is now $1.99.  It's basically a Dragon Warrior game, 8-bit graphics and all.
Fallen EP-1 - Third person survival horror with traditional controls and some touch-centric actions scenes (bashing open a glass window with a fire extinguisher).  A bit annoying, but still fun.

Near Misses
GTA Chinatown Wars - Basically a port of the PSP version, but with touch.  While I did buy both versions of this game (DS and PSP), I decided against this one.  Not really for any problems with the game, but since I've already bought it twice...
Bug Panic - you wonder around a forest, blasting giant, cute bugs with bombs.  Great controls, lock ons, and charging attacks make this game stand out.  I would have bought it if was cheaper and had more content.
1112 - an episodic touch-adventure game.  It was clearly made more for the iPad than the iPhone/iTouch, but it still looked nice.  Far too short (from what I hear), a relatively large price tag, and the fact I kept getting stuck in the bathroom kept this one away.

Well, that's it (for now).  I'm knocking around an idea for doing a semi-regular feature about iOS and Android games (I'll be getting an Android phone in October) to maybe give some more love to some of these great titles.  I don't know.  It'll depend on how bad my online class gets.

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