No Game No Life volume 11 available:

I don't have time to read the book right now, but at least something good has happened after a long spell of doldrums.  Supposedly next week Imouto Sae Ireba Ii will have a new volume as well.

I also don't have time for the Otome ge Kibishii anime.  The protagonist is needlessly rude and stupid, creating problems where there are none.  It's dropped.

The only thing I have time for these days is Fire Emblem.  With the new expansion pack content, I'm tackling the challenge of 'maddening difficulty classic mode.'  So far I've beaten the Crimson Flower storyline and am working on the Azure Moon arc.  I'm trying to get my new characters' skills up to par, S+, which can't be done in a single playthrough.  Only by training, buying their skills with renown in a new game plus, and then training some more can you unleash the full potential of your units.

I'd say the new classes are brokenly strong, but the game is still surprisingly hard at this difficulty level.  Plus there were brokenly strong things in the original version too, like the 'impregnable guard' battalion or the 'bolting' spell.  If you wanted to cheaply win the game you could do so before this expansion content too, so mainly the expansion content isn't about being cheap, it's about having fun with new options that weren't around previously.

In my previous playthrough I relied on the 'cheap' new chalice of beginnings artifact to mow through everything.  This playthrough I'm barely using it at all, and yet I'm still getting the same positive results.  It's as though the cheap new artifact isn't actually that much better than the other equipment options the game already had.  Thrysus, or the Aegis shield, for instance, were available from the beginning, and seem to mow through the enemy just as well.

I've won the game with fist weapons, bows, magic and swords.  I'm currently winning with axes.  It's as though the game is well balanced and any equipment you go with will work out.  It's as though the designers of this game know what they're doing, whether it's the regular version or the expanded one.

The infinite depth of strategic options, the equipment, skills, characters and weapons you choose, makes this game infinitely replayable.  I don't think any other game has captivated me as long as this one has.  It doesn't have the emotional and musical weight of Final Fantasy 7 or Tactics, but for sheer gameplay fun it's unmatched.  I guess it depends on what you're looking for from a game, to decide whether this is the best game ever.