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It's a decent Fire Emblem game and a particularly good first entry for anyone wanting to get into the series but it suffers for series veterans and those looking for a repeat playthrough since it forces you to play through Lyn's long winded tutorial campaign and you don't even unlock the toughest difficulty level until you've played through the full game two times.

Playing this on a fresh save just isn't an option for me.

I'm just glad to see all the weirdo enemies the game has on more modern graphics. And the soundtrack really is superb, can't wait to hear more of the arrangements, the boss theme was already great.

The "New" title was silly enough anyway and they really oughta have just dropped it in the first place after the DS game, at least that one was the first 2D Super Mario Bros game in a long time.

Mario Wonder itself looks great, the three things that did tie the "new series" together was the recycled music, multiplayer and how incredibly generic they all were. I'm very glad to see Nintendo's trying to do something a bit more interesting with the series.

"- Japanese and English voiceover
All event scenes are now fully voiced using the same voice cast from the original game"

Wait wait wait! Original game as in Second Story? Did they get the crusty old english cast from the PS1 release back for this because that'd actually be amazing.

It was good, New Mario new new I didn't see coming and it does actually look a touch more interesting than the earlier new mario bros games, then as usual Squeenix got things covered between the Mario RPG remake, the Star Ocean 2 remake and Dragon Quest Monsters, all games I'm heavily considering.

Could've been better sure but certainly could've been worse.

Have fun with the Lyn Tutorial+Eliwood Normal mode, frankly even though I do enjoy the game having to play through so much mindless easy mode gameplay to unlock the game's hardest difficulty just makes the vanilla game without any prior save files unplayable to me. Plus of course I wouldn't support Nintendo's dumb rental only game plan anyway.

"Pears into Peaches!"

Oh yeah, I'm all for that. I used to love SO:Second Story as a kid and while I wouldn't say it's a top tier JRPG or anything I'd be up for a revisit, hell I wouldn't mind too much even if they just repackaged the PSP remake as they did with SO1 already, this is what I'm expecting them to do.

It's probably a pipe dream to get the crusty old english voice overs from the PS1 release though... Getting those back would be actually amazing.

One of the best games in recent memory. I wouldn't mind replaying this at some point.

They're fine, I think they're better than the stuff in the pre botw 3D Zeldi games, just in general though most of the Zelda bosses are more for the spectacle than the gameplay.

Continuing with Etrian Odyssey 1 HD currently at the last floor of the 3rd Stratum. Proper automapping and not being tied to the small handheld screen has made this game so much better in my books, like to the point where I seriously have to consider this for a top games of all time list.

Got all of them expect Demon Gaze 2, but frankly the first one was such garbage that I want nothing to with it. Not that the other games are much better.

Prince darkness Gannon is my favorite.

This does look right up my alley.

Remake was an absolute travesty, I donno what they were smoking when they made that soundtrack. Also really not a fan of how the game looks.

I'm fine with both the grayscale look and the color look.

Mostly just regaining what was lost when moving from Curtain Call to Final Bar Line, but Robo's theme is a cool new addition.

Wish they got some other stuff too like Ocean Palace, The Sewer and Tyrano Lair to name a few, you could almost make a rhythm game of its own out of the Chrono Trigger soundtrack.

Cross also got pretty shafted, shoulda at least had one of the amazing map themes or the fun boss theme, something.

Aside from the steamy price I really have no issues with it, I got the games on the big screen and there's finally actual real automapping, though it's still a minor nuisance that you do still need to place the doors and the gathering points and whatever so maybe that could be improved upon.

It worked out here cus I do prefer the original visions of the Etrian Odyssey games over the remasters on the 3DS, but if at any point they're gonna release stuff like Strange Joyrney on newer systems and they do plan on incorporating the 3DS version "improvements" then I'd love to see the option to choose between the vanilla and the remastered version. I wouldn't like it but I could at least deal with the Untold versions of the Etrian Odyssey games but Strange Journey Redux was just too much, I hated it.

Oh yeah and Dark Spire, I still remember your best game Atlus. Maybe port that one too, for me, please?

Etrian Odyssey HD I didn't even realize how much I had missed playing this series until I started this, just reached the 2nd stratum of the game and I've been having an absolute blast, it's so much better now that there's proper auto mapping and I don't need to look at the tiny handheld screen.

Been trying a bit of a different thing from the usual strick party of 5 where I'm instead switching around from my currently around 10 units I think depending on what's useful and what kind of weapons and armor I have available at the moment.

@SwitchVogel
Expert Mode is the original difficulty.

Got the collection on Steam and just got about 30 minutes on Etrian Odyssey 1 and for my money this is already the definitive way to play the games, having the mapping almost entirely automated makes this so much quicker and being able to play on the big screen is such a boon as well, I know the mapping's like the series major gimmick and while I'd say it was a cute feature, it also did get very old very quick for such a long game and for game with as many entries as this.

I do also prefer the cleaned up sprites over the 3D enemy models they used on the 3DS releases, just gives it that more classic look.

I play with the game's rules so duping is out of the question for me never looked up how it works even. But I don't really see any point for going ham grinding for stuff either, level 3/3/2 Knight Armor which I immediatedly had 70 hours in when I finally figuredbout how to unlock the armor upgrades was more than enough defense for the rest of the game.

And besides I already beat the game.

The north american one for sure, it's simple and very stylish though the ign thing does hurt it.

The other two I find inredibly generic.

Zeldi still, I think I'm around 110 hours in now with one of the main 4 quests left, I'm still having a lot of fun just playing but I'm starting to get to the point where I'm probably just going to start being more methodical in my progression, not too much wandering around anymore, just going from objective to objective, maybe a bit of exploration of the Gerudo area too once I'm done with the main quest there and then whatever it is the game throws at me still. I feel like I've gotten quite a bit out of the game at this point, definitely moreso than I did from BotW even though I enjoyed that game as well.

I do also kind of want to start preparing myself for Etrian Odyssey next week.

85 hours last I checked, I had a pretty serious session just a moment ago which I wouldn't be surprised if it had pushed it past the 90 hour mark, I've only done two of the main dungeons so far.

It doesn't feel like it's been that long and I haven't grown tired of it yet either which is pretty rare, usually I'm not really in it for the 80 hour+ games.

Tears of the Kingdom for sure, I hated the shrines in BotW and considered them to be one of the weakest aspects of the game.

The puzzles are way more fun in general and I love how you can cheese so much of it, I find they're also visually more pleasing and the music isn't so dready either.

I should note that I'm not a fan of puzzles just in general.

Yeah, I had one of em affixed to the wheel of the the all-terrain vehicle at one point. Not because of malice, but only because I could.

Yeah playing Zeldi like a lot of people I'd assume. Game seems quite good, so far even better than BotW was and I already liked that one. Link's base abilities on this one are great.

Luckily managed to complete both of Advance Wars campaigns before this.

Been mostly playing the Advance Wars Remaster, good ways into the AW2 campaign about to start the Green Earth portion of it. I originally wasn't planning on following with the 2nd campaign immediatedly but I'm kinda glad I did, some really cool missions on this one, particularly a much bigger focus on non-predeploy missions which I kinda like.

I've played some of AW2 a long time ago but I had little recollection of the Yellow Comet missions for instance, the finale in that one was one of my favorite AW maps I've played in quite some time.

FF6 fans are an insufferable lot sometimes.

I love the game but frankly I found all of them pretty forgettable, charaterization has never been Zelda's strong suit (With some expectations, namely NPCs in Majora's Mask), the divine beast questlines being so incredibly copy & paste between each other didn't help things. I do like that Ravioli is just Falco.

Not surprised between the delay and near non-existant marketing, as much as I love it personally I doubt it does too much to appeal to anyone outside of the few people who were already fans of the series. Though the game doesn't comeacross as something with a large budget so maybe it'd be enough to meet expectations.

Seeing an actual new entry will probably be a pipe dream though sadly.

I only got the game yesterday so I'm not too far along into it yet, I think I'm at the AW1 main campaign mission 8 at the moment, I loved the original Advance Wars 1 and I think the remaster holds up. I like the artstyle and I personally don't mind the board game look, there's tons of content between all the war room maps and whatnot.

Though at the same time in terms of things added there doesn't seem to be a whole lot, being able to play on the big screen is a boon but other than that I'm not sure if there really is any particular reason to pick this one over the original. I do find the speed-up being mapped to ZR being a bit jank as well.

But it's still good because the original game was good and I've personally never played the AW2 campaign fully so I'm pretty excited for that one.

N64 controller is freaking awful, maybe the worst official controller I've ever used and the control stick breaks so easily too. It's a big part of the reason why the console's library continues to be so elusive.

Does Mystic Quest count? Unfortunately I didn't have any of the real Final Fantasies as my "starter" games on the SNES and I only got to experience 1 through 6 later on the PS1. I did have Chrono Trigger and Breath of Fire 2 though so it wasn't all bad definitely.

7 was my first real FF game though.

Judging by 4 which is the only one of these remasters I played, while I do like how the game looks and the arrangements are neat (though I'd like the option to have the old music too) the completely borked level of challenge (I think you get like 4x exp compared to the original) it turned the game into a total snooze fest. Awful.

Yeah that was a pretty goshdarn fine trailer.

Warioware DIY was such a wonderful piece of software.

Yeah, motion controls were still new and exciting at the time so I used the wheel for quite some time until I didn't, donno how I ever made it work.

Breath of Fire 2 is one of my "starter" games and as such it is a particularly important one for me and 3 was a superb JRPG also. I did also play Dragon Quarter last year and while it's very different from other BoF games I did find it surprisingly excellent also.

Yeah, I'd be up for a new BoF.

's gonna be worth it for me for sure but considering how they seemingly aren't much more than simple upscales of the DS games I can see why one could find the price quite spicy.

Still finally being able to play these games on the big screen is the dream.

Having played all of the main series by now DQ4 (DS version) stands still as my favorite easily, I consider it to be a top tier JRPG.

3, 5 and 11 are all pretty good as well.

I actually started with 9 and I personally found that one to be just awful, almost turned me off the series, but thankfully I managed to collect 4 from a bargain bin and didn't end up missing one of my all time favorites.

I did enjoy BotW but I donno if I'd be up to dealing with some of the things I disliked about it, namely the samey as hell shrines. I do look forward to exploring the overworld though at the very least, hopefully it does hit some of the same feels as BotW did in that.

I'm carefully optimistic but I feel like so many things could go wrong with it at the same time.

Where's Rocket Racer? Trailer didn't do much of anything to sell this for me tbqh even though I loved the PS1/N64 Lego Racer, trailer doesn't exactly make it clear whether you actually get to build anything on your own and whether or not there are even proper races.

Well I've always said that completionists are the type of people that just love to ruin everything for themselves (and sometimes for others).

Yeah loved that place too, in general Hollow Knight's atmosphere and sense of exploration were excellent. Wish these guys were the ones making new 2D Metroid games instead of the hacks at Mercury Steam.

Skip for these ones. I've never played these games but I was not impressed by the music back in Curtain Call, decisively not my style.

Waiting for those Chrono Trigger sounds.

Prolly just continuing Octopath 2 mainly, unfortunately it has entered similar stage as OT1 had towards the end where you really start to feel the repetition but I don't really want to give up on it either.

Tried the Resident Evil 4 remake demo, it was fine though I still find its existence highly unnecessary.

Friend is also visiting for the weekend so probably some Smash Ultimate and Mario Kart 8 too to test out the new tracks. I'm going to ask if he's up to for some Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 too for old times' sake since I think both of us are kind of hyped for the announcement of the new title in the series.

The Wii U art academy was amazing.

It was a mistake to include CD-I Link in this, you know I can't help myself.

That's some pretty expensive cardboard.

@Nanami_Ataraxia
Oh yeah, Triangle Strategy was superb, one of the best turn-based strategy games ever made in my books. I'd love to see a sequel to that one.