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Games that I'm working through right now, or at least trying to keep up with. Stalls are common.
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I'm going for that 1000 stages achievement. I will be the 1%.
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My journey through the older Fires Emblem has now taken me to Fates, Birthright to be specific. It's quite a strange mess compared to the others I've dabbled in or fully completed to this point, which I saw coming, its reputation precedes it.
I'm not sure if "plagued" is the right word, but there's a whole lot of weird plot choices and goofy moments in the first six introduction chapters, some relieving stablization after the path split, but still plenty of strange gaps of logic and decisionmaking by the core characters that only feel possible if there's a slow gas leak somewhere in their home castle.
It's not actually *bad* though, I do feel like some of that reputation is overblown. A lot of these characters (again, Birthright specifically) are good-to-great, support rank scenes are generally very entertaining, and the localization is as usual more than up to the job of delivering a solid punchy script. This is an Emblem you play more for the characters you like rather than the story they're stuck in.
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See my 2022 list. TL;DR: a perfectly solid entertaining JRPG-styled romp that may just be ever-so-slightly too light for its own good.
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See my 2022 list. TL;DR: anime cheesecake of the variety you maybe used to see on that shelf near the back of Blockbuster with a "not for kids!" sticker on it. Whether they were intentionally going for that specific vibe of late-90s VHS, not actually *great* or anything but it's still the 90s and anime hasn't completely broken through yet so this is what we got, this is kinda that. On Canadian basic cable between Venus Wars and Ninja Scroll.
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Forevergame #1. The only game I keep on my phone for several years running.
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Forevergame #2? New Genesis feels like an exceptionally solid (and very pretty) foundation for a larger game that's still waiting for the work order to get built on top of it. Until then, we've got scratch tickets and XP weekends and a handful of new zones that don't quite amount to as much as they should contentwise.
So it's not really a forevergame as I've logged in just a handful of times in the past few months. Still, part of me can't bring myself to cut it from this list? The old PSO greybeard in me won't stand for it I suppose, so I'll keep it here even while I cut other potential forevergames like Overwatch 2.
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