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#80 - The World Ends With You (DS, 2008)

The World Ends With You is one DS game where the stylus matters a lot, and is hard to master. The game stars Neku, an extremely introverted boy who recently died and is forced to play in the Reapers' Game to return to life. The main gimmick of the game is that there is combat on both screens of the DS, and it forces you to both use the buttons to control the top screen and the stylus to control the bottom. It's a very rewarding experience and I enjoyed a good amount of the game, especially the soundtrack - Three Minutes Clapping is still one of my favorite video game songs.

#79 - Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory (Vita, 2018)

Digimon Story has been mentioned quite a few times already, they are a bunch of JRPGs released recently with a very self-aware translation. This game in particular has a worse storyline and more annoying side characters than the first game, but the core turn-based combat and monster collecting/raising is still just as good. Only annoyance for me is the platinum took two trips through almost the entire game, and it's a long one. I still remember getting this one finished in an airplane flying back from Extra Life back in 2018, it was quite the experience.

#78 - The Walking Dead Season One (Vita, 2012)

Nick just went over this one; this is the best Telltale game released and none of their other titles come close. Even with Telltale's continuance throughout their games of choices that barely matter in the end, this one has the best story line and characters and wraps it up with a successful final episode. The Vita version runs like absolute garbage but it didn't detract from the game too much. I played Season Two but was ultimately disappointed in how it played out - for me, the story basically ends here.

#77 - Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale (PC, 2010)

Capitalism, ho! One of the more unique games on this list, Recettear stars a young girl named Recette tasked with running an item shop to pay off a huge debt accumulated by her father. The item shop portion of the game has a surprising amount of depth, with different ways to accumulate more money through several random events, haggling with customers, and crafting more items through materials gained from dungeon crawling. Speaking of the dungeons, this is probably the one section that could have used more improvement, as the dungeons are somewhat boring to traverse as you continue through the game as they all consist of the same corridors and most enemies are simply palette swaps of each other. The game however is the only one of its kind to gain any success here, and I definitely sinked a good amount of hours into it myself.

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