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Rajaah

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I think this is a good summary. I'd probably say to play FE3 as the first one since it has a lot of QOL improvements over the NES version and it's still essentially the same game

I've played FE4/5 and then Path of Radiance recently and working through Radiant Dawn now. Had a crazy good Path of Radiance file to transfer stats with that I boss abused a bunch of xp and have like 15 characters at 20/20 with several maxed stats lol

I liked Engage gameplay wise but man the story is trash and the characters are way too anime for my liking

Really hoping they drop a new game soon
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I found Fire Emblem Awakening (basically FE11) on my hacked Super 3DS with the thousands of emulated games and dozens of 3DS downloads. Always finding new things on here the rare times I dig through it.

So I gave it a try and, well, I see why I stopped paying attention to the series after FE10 (and pretty much left it alone entirely until I tried 3H and Engage). It was already wearing thin with FE10 on the Wii. Regardless, Awakening loses all the 2D charm of the others, none of the characters seem to have much charisma, and most of the battles/cutscenes are in a low-def 3D engine with lots of brown and grey. Which was pretty emblematic of that era of gaming I guess, but it sure is fuckin' boring. It's a good time-killer during downtime though since it practically plays itself with autobattle once you have the characters properly set up.

After this was FE Fates, which I also totally missed, and I hear people loathed that one for whatever reason and it nearly sank the series. Not sure what that was all about but it makes me hesitant to try it out.

In other news, this new game really nails the retro aesthetic in a way most "retro" games don't:



This reminds me of Chrono Trigger a lot more than Sea of Stars does. Damn. Putting this on the list.
 
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Siliconemelons

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Looks awesome..but I tend to not like the HD spell effects w/ pixel type art mix…

But onto “the list” it goes…next to Lunar :)
 
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Been really into Persona games lately. I never actually played any of them much really, I played Persona 3 on my PSP for a while back in the day but that's about it. Played the original release of Persona 5 for a bit back around when it released but for some reason I got distracted with some other games that came out and put it in my backlog. Right now I'm playing through Persona 4 Golden for PS4 on my PS5 and loving it. I played the Persona 3 remake a bit and was blown away by it. Also got the PS5 version of Persona 5 Golden and I plan to get through that after Persona 4.

I am usually not a fan of JRPG's but there just something about these games that really appeals to me.
 
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I ran out and bought a switch for this XCX - great freakin game. Optimized well and goes to show that if optimized and the art style is great, graphics aren't the most important thing. Looking forward to getting my mech!
 
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There is a 60 FPS mode in the XCX executable that is not perfectly functional right now. Everyone assumes it will be a Switch 2 thing for higher performance.
 
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Few hours into XCX and I'm already loving it. Being locked to 30 fps is a shame, but graphically this is about as good as you'll get on the switch.

If there's one thing all XC games do though is throw information at you nonstop. I remember 20 hours into XC2 I was still getting new tutorials.
 
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Input Lag on this game is absolute garbage. Switch 2 can't come fast enough. I'll still beat it but it's super noticable. If you go to an interior like a cave it's insanely bad. Like 1-2s bad.
 
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Noodleface said:
Input Lag on this game is absolute garbage. Switch 2 can't come fast enough. I'll still beat it but it's super noticable. If you go to an interior like a cave it's insanely bad. Like 1-2s bad.
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Yeah I read some complaints about camera stutter while playing docked as well. I have my copy sitting on my desk but I think I'm waiting until next week when we should be getting a Switch 2 release date. If Switch 2 is like June/July I might just wait, if it's fall I'll probably just play it.
 
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Got like 5 min into the demo...

The music is great, but its like "Hey Final Fantasy guy, make music...but for star trek the next generation" lol - its easliy noted to the ear who made the music. then right when the musical ques shift to "fantasy" it like NOP "TNG MUSIC!" lol

combat looks interesting, turn based and all that - adds some directional stuff that is cool.

but I am not getting the story, but its a demo...so...
 
Rajaah

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I'm so tired of anime aesthetics.

I don't even dislike anime or anything, I'm just tired of how redundant and uncreative that whole look is and it's in like EVERY GAME now.

Both Fire Emblem and Castlevania were way more interesting back when they had unique art styles, before they went generic anime.
 
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neo fantasian is by sakaguchi, i'll eventually get around to it but i still hold a grudge against him for not releasing more from lost odyssey, gimme a remaster bitch

doesnt help it was originally an ios game release lol
 
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