1. Digimon World
-It is the best game ever made seriously. It is a virtual pet town building RPG that has one the the greatest gameplay loops that has kept me coming back to it about once every year since I got it. You have the virtual pet bit that include feeding your digimon, taking it to the bathroom, training, and sleeping all of which effect how strong you digimon will be and what it will evolve into.
But inorder to raise your digimon better you must improve your city by adventuring out into the wilderness to recruit digimon to improve your city.On top of this your Digimon has a fairly short life span before it dies and is reborn as a baby level digmon. All this leads to this very intense loop of having to plan out each digimon life and leading to situations where your digimon is about to die but you are so close to the next vital upgrade.
2. Persona 4- Not much really needs to be said especially on this site. Great solid gameplay, fantastic setting, fantastic characters, amazing music,and so much style. I only barely choose this over Persona 3 which as a slightly better story then 4 and also evokers but I personally like 4 characters and setting better.
3. .hack//Infection
- This is a place holder for the entire series as you really can't separate games from each other. Long before Mass Effect was around this game allowed you to carry your save between the games but in this case it includes everything levels, items, and even unlockable wallpapers. The basic conceit of these games is a game within a game a you play a character playing a MMO known as The World, the most popular MMO ever. Which funnily enough this game predates WOW.
Sure the gameplay in these games are not much better then the MMOs they are based on but that's not why you come to the .hack franchise. You come for the great story, amazing music, fantastic setting, and crazy indepth lore that spans the 7 (well 8 but Japan won't give us the last one!!!) games, multiple manga, animes, and novels.
That's not all you have a cast of the best characters ever yes even better than Persona 4. The whole game within a game conceit give every character whole new dimension by having the"in game"/"real world" character dynamic. Also bonus point to the second series for making my most hated character from the first series into one of my favorites while not really even changing the character that much other than painting him gold and giving him and a kickass theme song. Also two of my favorite characters in the series are that solely based on their posts on the fake message boards. One got criminally short amount of screen time during the games and the other is literally just a random background NPC.
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