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I'm happy. One of my most wanted games to be remastered for Switch 1&2.

Remake it, but keep it loyal to the base game. Just some modern graphics and maybe some small QoL changes, but otherwise the game doesn't need much. Sincerely hope that contemplation comes to fruition.

I'm probably in the minority here, but I prefer Sw/Sh over S/V. Regardless of the dex cut I had a lot of fun with those games, whereas performance issues really hindered my enjoyment with S/V. Also max raids over tera raids any day.

Fire Emblem has been doing that for me for years. Engage in particular came out about a month after my mom's passing... Suddenly I had something that was a lot of fun to look forward to and it kept my mind occupied. Very cathartic and I'm thankful for it.

Yep. Games being this expensive means I'm only going to be spending full price on my absolute favorite series, but otherwise I'm mainly going to wait for games to go on sale. I feel like I'm going to start playing rom hacks more or playing my older gen consoles cos with inflation, tariffs, etc things aren't economically well and my family has to come first. Just cos I can buy these things doesn't mean I should when we've got other priorities.

Beat Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones, but this time for Switch online finally giving my poor GBA copy some rest. I'm clearing the post game. Doing the final run of Lagdou Ruins today to get Lyon!

Good. The original is too pricey for people who don't have it. They prey on that nostalgia.

Fire Emblem is my favorite series and has been for years. I do love me some Dragon Quest, Pokemon, and Shin Megami Tensei too though. These games make any Nintendo machine worthwhile for me.

I would love a revival of the Nino Kuni series backed with Studio Ghibli again and Redemption Reapers left the game on a cliff hanger, so a second game would be nice.

Ironically, I beat Fire Emblem Blazing Blade (again) the day Sacred Stones was announced for Switch.

So now I'm replaying Fire Emblem Sacred Stones for the millionth time, but this time Switch instead of GBA. Having a blast as per the usual. Already on chapter 14. I've refrained from grinding with the Tower of Valni, but I'm going to abuse it once I obtain Metis's Tome and go crazy with trainee Ewan. Done this before and he makes for an awesome summoner. Ah, good times~

@OldManHermit Very good comparisons! Advance Wars is made by Intelligent Systems, the same ones who make the Fire Emblem series. While Fire Emblem predates Shining Force, as a SRPG fan I'll say both are fantastic and it's a crying shame there aren't more SF games. Anywho, Sacred Stones is a ton of fun. Hope you enjoy it.

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT Ironically Sacred Stones is. Probably the best place to start in general. Not only is it a heck of a lot of fun, but Seth is such a broken unit and you have free opportunities to grind unlike most FE. This game still has harder concepts like permadeth, but the previously mentioned things help alleviate that. Game has so many classic FE staples like the weapon triangle, supports, (some) class skills, branching promotions, and pretty much 99% of all key combat related things are in this game, which'll help you to learn mechanics of the series going forward. It's accessible without ever feeling convoluted information wise and if you use Seth and grinding opportunities the game is fairly simple. Once you get better you can ignore these and have moderate difficulty. Very fun game with an interesting story, beautiful attack animations, and fun combat/gameplay. Perfect game in my honest opinion and a personal fav. Once you beat it you should give Engage a whirl!

Also, as great as Blazing Blade (FE7) is, the tutorial doesn't cover everything and is a 10 chapter chore to get through. You're still best off with Sacred Stones on Switch. I feel the best place to start the series in general is Sacred Stones and/or Fates Birthright.

Hype! This was one of my most wanted games for Switch online. Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones is one of my all time favorite games. It's a super fun classic I've beaten a million times on the GBA, but I've had to delete many files throughout the years cos 3 files are never enough. Now I can keep the ones I've got and preserve my copy. Just saying, this is one the best SRPGs.

Yeah, y'all missed low-key one of the FE games, the Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones being stealthily added to Switch GBA online. Been waiting for Nintendolife to give the good news to fellow fans. I'm in bliss right now~

Makes you wonder why they do this when everyone knows Nintendo Ninjas are cutting people down for it...

As much as I love SRPGs, I'm not a fan of visual novels or calendar social sim. I think I'll see what the core game is like before I pull the trigger on buying or passing.

Replaying Fire Emblem Blazing Blade taking on Hector's route. His route is definitely my favorite of the 3 lords and ngl, been feeling like a galaxy brain with a lotta plays I'm doing. Hector and Farina are my standout units. Very fun, classic experience. Oho!

Have some friends coming over today. Dunno what we'll play. Most likely Fire Emblem Warriors, Mario Kart 8, or Smash Ultimate. Can't wait~

Thought the soundtrack was pretty great to Engage. Exciting news!

Star Wars and strategy?! You've my attention.

Sometime last week I finally beat all of history mode, collected every Anna memento, and S ranked every mission in Fire Emblem Warriors for Switch. I've beaten the game 3 or 4 times at this point, but this is the first time I've took on the daunting history mode to completion. Must say, Elise in particular is a lot of fun. She has a guaranteed lethality build~

Don't really have a lot going on right now, so I'm playing a hack previously titled Fire Emblem Two Milkmen Go Comedy. So far it's fun!

I'd like to know that when Switch 2 goes in full force if we can buy individual games from online services personally. I'd buy Fire Emblem Blazing Blade, Earthbound, and a bunch of others. Would hate to have family plans for 2 separate Switches.

I'd say Switch 2 isn't a Steam Deck killer no more than Steam Deck was to the OG Switch.

Steam Deck couldn't kill the Switch. Switch 2 can't kill Steam Deck, cos economy in the US is killing the Switch 2.

Yeah, poor economy on my end and tariffs will be an unfortunate delay for me. I plan to get Switch 2 eventually, but I can't afford it right now.

Glad Nintendo doesn't plan to just kill the OG Switch though. Great library of games I'm not willing to just shelve.

@hypercoyote That's idealistic thinking, not realistic. I don't think the average person has the capacity to talk about political events without getting political. These sort of things always end in toxic dumpster fire.

Anywho, I'm bouncing out. ✌️

Ah yes, I see this political topic going well. There will crossfire. What do? I believe I'll stop, drop, and roll.

Gonna have more people emulating if this is true...

They should've fixed that a long time ago, but better late than never I suppose. The OG Switch could've done it cos Switch took on games harder to run than S/V, but Gamefreak got a little too hasty releasing those games. I'd rather wait and get a high quality product than have it now and it run like those games did.

No Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy Wars remake/10.

Nah, it was pretty fire all things considered. Wish we could've had GameCube online for OG Switch though.

Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and Pokemon Colloseum make this worthwhile alone. PoR is one of my fav games of all time and I played out my Pkmn C to the point the disc stopped working.

Pining for the next Fire Emblem Echoes game, this time hopefully Genealogy of the Holy Wars. This or an Engage Warriors game would be quite welcome.

Figure it'll be ports mostly rather than new games so Switch 2 will have a strong launch.

Replaying Fire Emblem Warriors. I've already beat the game again, but this time I'm hellbent on beating History Mode, something I left undone in previous playthroughs. Kinda easy to forget how addictive this game is. Been quite enjoying it all over again.

Atelier series deserves to break out in a big way. The ones I've played have been fantastic. Hope Yumia is very successful!

For me Fire Emblem Engage. Not only did I genuinely enjoy my time with the game, but it revived my love for my favorite series (Three Houses is my least favorite FE. I don't like the whole monastery segments personally) and came at a time when I was in bereavement over the loss of my mother...

Engage offered the tightest strategic combat I've seen and was a joyride beginning to end for me. It's now my favorite game.

Runner ups: Dragon Quest XI S, Redemption Reapers, Pokemon Legends Arceus, and Pokemon Shield.

I just beat Atelier Shallie and I'm in between games atm. Been playing Balatro to tide me over. Beat the game with almost every deck at this point.

I would prefer they kept the CTB combat style for Legends games, cos at least it's still a version of traditional turn based. I don't think they'll change the mainline games being turn based, but I quite liked the battle system of Arceus and tbf, one of the reasons I like franchises like Dragon Quest and Pokemon is because they're some of the few series still doing traditional turn based. Everything is going real time these days it seems.

Fantastic game. This is a steal for those of you that don't have it, cos this is easily one of the best JRPG experiences out there and ludicrously fun.

"Well sure, Wynaut?"

Corrected the title for you. 🫡

@FishyS My sentiments exactly. Legends Arceus is one of my favorite Pokemon games of all time. I had such a blast playing it. I rather enjoyed it's CTB combat system and I've always enjoyed turn based Pokemon battles. I'm not so sure about real time though... So many games are doing that these days and Pokemon was great for me cos it was one of the few franchises still doing traditional turn based.

I think I'm going to wait to see how things pan out, but I 100% feel what you're saying.

I was never worried about the Steam Deck being competition in the first place.

My question is... why? Balatro is cheap. Not saying pro or against emulation, but some games are ludicrously expensive, hard to come by, or Japan etc exclusive. Those games I can see justification for, but a cheap game that you can play on your Switch, phone, etc why on earth would you want to emulate that and especially on non-modern gaming devices?

NB4 somebody tries to explain it, I don't really care. Seems silly.

@Andee Fun stuff. THUG 2 is my favorite TH game off all, but love me the OG THUG and AW.

Awesome. Something I want for sure. Would love to get THUG 1+2 and American Wasteland, but can't complain.

Been playing Atelier Shallie. Playing on hardcore and being a top class hunter and sage of alchemy~

Hope it gets released in NA. Definitely something I'd be interested in.

That's... the perfect amount of games. 😏

Green Day reference.

I'll wait on buying it day one, cos I've been burned with consoles having bugs day 1 before.

Nino Kuni Wrath of the White Witch has by far my favorite side quests in general of any game. I oddly enough, ended up doing the side quests as I progressed through the game. The rewards were great adding extra spells to your arsenal and a plethora of equipment, healing items, money, etc etc. Most importantly the side quests were fulfilling; you were essentially going around restoring the strong emotional zing to people and helped retrieve back humanity to the broken hearted. Very fun and rewarding indeed.

I just beat Unicorn Overlord and man, that game went straight into my favorites list. Very unorthodox strategy battle system that ended up being a lot of fun. Very beautiful presentation and good story. Wasn't expecting the plot twist with Galerius and their identity at the end. Perfect game.

Kinda taking a small gaming break to be with family. UI kinda took hold of me there for a bit. 😅

I'm having to penny pinch right now, but I'll get it eventually I suppose.