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#84 - Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland (PS3, 2012)

The 3rd game in the now tetralogy of the Arland games in the Atelier series, Atelier Meruru was originally made to be a send-off to the Arland games by bringing back characters from the 1st and 2nd games to tie everything together. The PS3 and Vita versions I've played both have various (and completely different) problems ranging from pop-in of enemies and age regression of a character, but the end result is another solid entry in the series, with both great music and one of the best alchemy systems in the series - so much that when they remade Atelier Rorona they took this game's system to use as its base.

#83 - The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC (PSP, 2011)

The Trails series that Board 8 has been raving about started here, with a very overlooked PSP title that started as a commercial failure for XSEED. The game itself starts as two young bracers traveling through the kingdom in order to become full-fledged bracers and eventually develops into a much bigger plot behind the scenes. By the end of the second chapter I was hooked on this series, and placed this title at 2nd on my top 10 games of 2011. The characterization of all characters - including NPCs - has been one of the series' highlights, with dialogue constantly changing as major events in the story happen. A lot also carries over through a save import to the sequel - but I'll talk about that when we get to that game.

#82 - Kirby Super Star (SNES, 1996; version played - DS, 2008)

The only Kirby game on my list but still the best one - this title places Kirby in a number of different scenarios, with even more added into the DS remake that I played. My save file is permanently at 98% - I've tried many times to finish the True Arena but I have not been able to do it. Even with that, the various scenarios in the game are all fun to play through, fitting Kirby perfectly. My favorite scenarios are actually the ones added in Ultra, the Revenge of the King and Meta Knightmare Ultra, with The Great Cave Offensive in 3rd (though the Smash stage based on it is terrible).

#81 - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (DS, 2001)

I still remember getting into this series as one of my friends in high school lended his copy to me one day. That night I played all the way through the first four cases, and eventually finished the fifth two days later. The game still holds up even today, as I replayed the game last year. 1-4 is still one of my favorite cases in the series - though, I am very indifferent towards 1-5 as it is still too easy to get lost in the investigation and it really drags on with some of the most annoying witnesses in the game (though the villain is one of the best!) I eventually got my own copy years later when they reprinted it alongside Ghost Trick.

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