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Time to go over this batch! I have to imagine I'm just gonna settle on one now, unless something else of major note crosses my eyes.

Just to get it out of the way, Justice & Pride I blinded off basically right away, didn't even get to a real map passed the prologue. The writing just wasn't doing it for me. I think any attempt to make something like this is astoundingly impressive, but I don't think I'll be racking this one unless someone gives me reason to otherwise.

Similarly, Code of the Black Knights didn't work for me out the gate either, which is a shame because it seems like all the animation and combat assets in this game were made from scratch, which is wonderful, but I'm just not coming with this one here.

One of the games I tried was a demo of something newer which isn't out yet, Dreaming of Other Twilights. This IS DEFINITELY early, some animation bugs and weird cutscene transitions, but feels like this could end up being a real deal. It seems....overtuned, difficulty wise, but it's v0.3 and only has 4 chapters out so gotta give it some slack.

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Bells of Bylen, yeaaaaaaah this is Thracia. I was questioning my interest in this before downloading, but it didn't register to me that the game would still be a single narrative even if the stages were telephone developed. Thought is was gonna be 30ish unrelated chapters lol. Pretty interesting start to the game with the prison right out the gate, lots of capturing too! The timer and item shuffle on the first stage definitely results in you hitting the ground running.

Four Kings has a pretty funny start here, one of your main Lords just being a total asshole and basically having you be the "bad guy" right off the bat. I'm sure it'll twist into a Luke Fon Fabre adjacent situation at some point, but can't say I'm on board immediately lol. Showing what I assume is a huge chunk of the playable cast coming to join you and then having all but one of them leave because you're a dipshit was fun.

Morrow's Golden Country has me VERY interested. Similar color pallet to Cerulean Crescent which I like, unironically think having the full bios all the way down to preferred pronouns is fun lol. Clearly going for heavy diversity here (which a lot of these do which I like, but it seems more pronounced here...no pun intend, but even besides that I was pretty sold on the basic but particular prologue map and what seems like one of the new in depth implications of the skill system. Very curious how the Radiant Dawness of this one goes down, already nailing that part of it with the base conversations.

Dream of Five, this seems like a REAL potential winner to me, not sure why it's clicking so much but the story has me interested. Feels pretty similar to Vision Quest in why I'm drawn to it, actually. Some really good spritework and animations here, too. This is near the top of the list so far.

Finishing it off with Sacred Echoes, which is definitely the strangest one I played in how not strange it is! A DEMAKE of the REMAKE Shadows of Valentia. I am absolutely stunned by what they've done here. This is without a doubt the best LOOKING mod so far, with the most impressive assets and music and animations. Yes, it's all based on Echoes, so it's not like I can give them a half credit for story, but it's still whole made by the creator here. It also says they've redone and created new maps (Echoes was the best 3DS FE game as we ALL KNOW, other than having some unfortunately bad maps), as well as added new characters (I stopped at stage 3, but they added a new Thief), and retooling the dungeons into actual stages for...obvious reasons. But, like, they still have the fountains and prayer statues inside those stages themselves! It's all here and then some, even more feature rich than the 3DS game, including the option to share convoy between Alm and Celica.....that said....even though this is arguably the most impressive release so far, it's also way down towards the bottom of the list I'm priority because at the end of the day it's still a game I already played lol.

So now I just got a decide. I didn't think it would be this difficult.