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ctesjbuvf posted...

Omega Ruby has some very fun post game stuff. If you liked RSE more than DPP originally then probably worry it to try it again sometime.

nice. sadly I have a problem where I can't transfer pokemon from my 3DS games to my Switch games, and this makes me super unmotivated to continue playing the 3DS games. like transferring Pokemon between Shield, Shining Pearl, and even Pokemon GO! is all valid, and that makes those Pokemon feel more "valuable" to me because they still have that sense of permanence. I'm not a master Pokemon breeder or anything, so when I went out of my way to breed a really specific Absol in Pokemon X that I used for catching Pokemon in the wild, it felt really cool to have one. however, now, this Absol is stuck forever in Pokemon X, and that's kinda sad, and makes the effort feel more wasted. on the flip side I got a Ditto with perfect IVs from a French player in Pokemon Shining Pearl, and I was able to trade it over to Pokemon Shield to help with breeding Pokemon in both games. the Umbreon that Voltch sent me, I was able to use that to make Eevees in both games. etc. etc.

There's just a lot of reasons why it's tough for me to go back to the non-Switch games now, even if some of those are just purely in my own head. after all, I did play Pokemon Red this year as well, and I enjoyed it. and I had lots of fun with Pokemon X while I was playing it. so yeah.

colliding posted...

I'll do the FFXIV brigade a solid and get this out of the way: you just have to play 100 more hours to get to the good parts! It's really the best Final Fantasy once you get there!

sounds exciting..!

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10. Romancing Saga 3 (Switch)

As I hinted in my Minstrel Song write up I played this game a ton, learned all of the systems, and just really, really enjoyed the fact that the game was presented to me in a more playable and polished format. A lot of the old fan translations had issues with text display and menu display, and with this game being a little bit on the cryptic end when it comes to some of the gameplay elements, those quality of life issues made it even harder to truly understand what you were supposed to be doing.

The version on Switch is extremely good and makes this game far more playable in my opinion. I'd be suprised if there are any die hard defenders of the fan translations out there but who knows, maybe they exist.

Essentially you pick one of the potential starting characters, make some choices about your starting build and then after playing through the prologue you have a lot of freedom with how you explore the world, complete quests, and even which party members to recruit. The default build for most main characters are usually pretty solid. It's possible to make an even more optimized build if you know what you're doing, but it's also possible to mess up and make your main character kinda suck if you just pick stuff randomly.

If you've never played a Romancing Saga game, I'll briefly try to explain the system beyond that. So in this game in particular your basic stats (Str/Dex/Int/etc.) are set when you create your build, and all party members have fixed stat arrays. You can equip some gear that gives minor bonus to these stats. After battle you sometimes randomly gain HP, MP, or SP depending on what you did in battle... Characters who don't know any spells and don't cast any spells will never gain MP, but this is also important because characters with 0 MP are better at unlocking new combat skills. When you use a weapon in battle, like say a greatsword, there's a chance that your "Greatsword" wielding proficiency will go up at the end of battle. Now, here's the really weird part; Whenever you make an attack in combat, there's a % chance based on your proficiency, the level of the enemy, and some other factors, that determine if your character will randomly learn a new skill and use it in the middle of battle. Every character in the game has different types of skills they are better at learning. Anyway, once you understand the system fully, it can be really fun. If you don't understand it at all... well, it's kinda cool, but maybe confusing.

Like Shadowrun on Genesis, Romancing Saga 3 mostly avoids my problem with 'open world' games due to the limiting factor of the SNES cart, and how the world was small and the interesting things were all very close together. It's also full of mini games and other things to do along the way.

I don't know if this port came out in 2022, but that's when I found out about it. It's probably one of the newer releases in my top 10 for this year... despite just being a port of an SNES game. Whoops.