Soul Caliber PSP and the Dissidia demo are pretty cool

I've only really played Soul Caliber with Kratos, but so far, so good. There's a single player mode in which on looks at a bunch of CPU opponents which is my favorite mode thus far. 'Skill' is indicated by the absolute numbers of matches they have fought as well as their win/loss record and thus far I haven't encountered any glaring AI holes, through I don't know if the AI plays the same character multiple ways as happens in VF. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for VF5R PSP, but until that happy day, Soul Caliber will do.

Also, I finally downloaded the Dissidia demo (its been around forever, I just ignored it, figuring it would be garbage) and was really impressed. Combat plays out exactly like it does in the big Cloud/Sephiroth faceoff at the end of Advent Children. Hitting a guy so hard the floor he is standing on shatters or knocking him through a pillar (whose chunks persist) is pretty cool. I played through the demo with each of the fighters and there was a good amount of variety in terms of attack styles, so I'm definentely going to pick Dissidia up in the near future (I kicking around whether to pick up this or Disgaea 2 first). I haven't had so much fun with a beat'em since Def Jam Vendetta 2.