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The Trails saga continues! Shortly after I finished the first game, I went on to play the second and third in this first trilogy. The story picks up right where the first game left off and really kicks the story (and anime tropes) into high gear. Having now finished the entire Sky trilogy, one might wonder what I thought of it. So, let’s get into that.
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13 years after the fact, the soundtrack I and Josh Whelchel wrote for Caller’s Bane (or as it was known back then, Scrolls) is available on streaming services courtesy of Mojang! I’m still really proud of this music, so it feels great that more people can access it now.
I recently finished the second game in the unbelievably ambitious Final Fantasy VII remake series of games, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. In a way that only Square Enix can, the naming is of course ridiculous but how was the game? I’ll save you reading the rest of the post if you want: I absolutely loved it. Let’s get in to why!
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With Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth around the corner I finally mustered up the courage to play Crisis Core. I’ve owned on PSP forever but never got around to playing it, partially due to fear that it’d soil my pristine memory of Final Fantasy VII as a perfect game in its own right. But now that the remakes are flipping everything on its head anyway and Crisis Core got its own fancy remake treatment, it was finally time.
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I finally got around to starting the Trails series. A sub-series of Falcom’s The Legend of Heroes, it’s epic Japanese role-playing games with an overarching narrative. In other words, you basically have to play all 10+ games in order to get the best experience—or so the fans say. The first game, Trails in the Sky, establishes the world and starts off what’s called the Liberl arc of the story.
So was it worth beginning this daunting task? This humongous video game undertaking? This “most ambitious story in video games”, as the developer calls it? After just one game I’m inclined to say: yes.
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The year is almost over which means it’s time for all those game of the year lists. Since I never agree with any of those, and because I love making lists, I’ve decided to make my own. The criteria for the Anosou’s Game of the Year award is simple: I must’ve made up a reason to put it on this list.
So let’s get to it!
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I’ve played Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a game that I can only assume is Nintendo’s swan song on the Switch. The latest take on the 2D Mario formula, Wonder is still about a plumber who jumps. However, like in Super Mario Odyssey before it, Nintendo’s crammed it full of unexpected delight.
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Like most of the people who like RPGs, I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate III. It’s a sequel to the genre-defining Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II but I don’t particularly care about that since I’ve not played either of those games. It’s also by Larian Studios who made Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity: Original Sin 2, and this is huge because I loved those games. So did it live up to the hype?
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I really like pinball video games. In fact, I have probably liked pinball video games ever since my family inherited a shitty Toshiba laptop from my cousin. It had a monochrome orange screen that weighed a metric fuckton. It also had the MS-DOS version of Pinball Fantasies on it, and that game was fantastic.
Fast-forward to present day and I’m still playing pinball video games. One of those is Zaccaria Pinball, a game that started with simulations of machines from the now lesser known Italian manufacturer Zaccaria.
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Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout is the umpteenth game in the Atelier-series by Gust. An often cozy, slice-of-life RPG with focus on alchemy—a robust crafting system that’s at the core of its gameplay. I first came in contact with the series on PlayStation 2 with Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana and its sequels during my first “buy all Japanese RPGs” period. With Ryza on Switch getting glowing reviews, I thought I’d try jumping back in.
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