My car is currently out of action, and has been for nearly a month and a half. Despite that, I picked up a Takamine Mini G on the cheap. And I must say - what a lovely little guitar.

Those of you that follow me know that I love a good travel acoustic and parlour guitars, and I have to say this is probably the best I have played to date. Not only does it look rather snazzy, it sounds great with the Martin XP strings I put on there (the orange Tommy Emmanuel ones).

In terms of sound, it blows my Sigma TM-1 out of the park, and the fondest memories I have with a travel guitar are with the Taylor Baby, and this guitar fits into that tier of travel guitar for me. Except, this has a pickup system. Although I have not tried the pickup system - and to be frank it’s probably just a piezo system- which I personally don’t think sound that great on their own, without a dedicated mic inside the guitar.

I have also been playing a hell of a lot of Dragon Quest builders 2 - really not the sort of game I would normally be interested in. I blame Tim Rogers of action button, formally of Kotaku.com. I really enjoyed the extended demo, which is the most generous sized demo I have ever played- and then decided to bite the bullet and buy the game.

I also bought TMNT Shredders Revenge, which is a beat em up arcade-style game. Holy wow is this game well developed. The mechanics are really tight, and one of the better ones i have seen in a beat em up. Not only have they gone back to get the original cartoon imagery, graphics, and voice actors, but they have built a solid game that plays really well (and is really cheap).