i finally beat Alma last night, took me probably an hour of trial and error over 2 days. i was on the verge of giving it the old f$@k it and sending it back to gamefly. after i beat her i was more relieved than happy. i thought i had hit my skillz wall, that the game had finished me. if up to me, i will never unlock NG2 and NG3. i am hoping that maybe the xbox mag with the demo disks will give us a game save with everything unlocked.