#154 – Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny (PS2)
Onimusha 2 has always been a clear favorite of mine from the Onimusha trilogy on the PS2. Playing as Jubei instead of Samanosuke wasn’t much of a factor to me because Jubei was equally cool. Compared to the first, Onimusha 2 does so many things better. The story is much more intriguing than the first and the sheer number of paths you can take (leading to different scenarios) adds so much gameplay to the game. You could be playing through the game 10 times and still haven’t seen half the scenes the game has to offer. These scenes potentially lead to who your partner will be and each partner has his/her own unique personality and style of fighting. The levels in Onimusha and some of the epic boss (Gogandantess ^_^) fights are what makes Onimusha 2 a truly fun experience. The best from the trilogy IMO but if you wanna play this game I suggest you play all three of them.
#153 – Dragon Quest III: And Thus Into Legend (NES)
Again, I refuse to call Dragon Quest – Dragon Warrior. You will not believe how much DQ3 has improved over the first two. For one you can control 4 party members unlike DQ1 and for two the super unforgiving and unfair difficulty from DQ2 is gone (DQ3 is still moderately challenging for an RPG). Like always story isn’t the main attraction of DQ3 (It isn’t anything bad just generic). This is also the DQ game which concludes the Erdrick or Loto storyline as far as I can remember. However what makes DQ3 one of the best RPGs of the early gaming era is its unique job/class system. Now I dunno whether FF stole this idea from DQ or if it was the other way around but the class system in DQ3 added so many possibilities to the gameplay. Upgrading a class to a higher class is also an original DQ idea and overall DQ3 does everything a DQ game does best, and i.e the wide variety of memorable monsters, great dungeons and overall a fantastic journey or rather a quest.
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