🥇 Twelve

🥈 Fifteen

🥉 Bravely Second

I played twelve to 100% completion as a kid (except killing Yiazmat) so it’s formative to what fantasy games are to me. The incredible worldbuilding of Ivalice is something that I’ve yet to see done in another game.

I adore the boy band of fifteen and even though I think the plot is trite and perfunctory, it’s still one of my favorite games because the camaraderie is so strong. It really captures the (final) fantasy of having friends and time to spend with them.

Do the Bravely games count? I think they do. Anyway, the second game has the most fun combat system out of any jrpg I’ve played. The plot’s cheesy, but it executed it very sincerely which is refreshing and I’ll never forget the moment where

I appreciate you transcribing the comments. It’s hard to read skinny screenshots of text

The gameplay of SoV makes it hard to play other FE games afterwards imo. I really appreciate how refined it is: minimal inventory, few classes, small roster, no eugenics, no battle gimmicks.

Even though other games in the franchise are more complex, echoes feels the most tactical to me. Because more often than not, the optimal way to play other entries is to spam the strongest class with the best characters - chess if your pawns were queens and your knights were queens and your rooks were queens, etc.

Also this might be just me but I HATE the inventory management aspect of FE. I’m not playing these games to rifle through menus and go grocery shopping!

I agree, it really is strange that they’ve left Okami’s sequel forgotten on the DS. I bet most people don’t even know that there is a sequel

They’re both on PSP. Patapon is a rhythm game where you play war drums to command a troop of little guys and LocoRoco is a platformer where you play as the planet to push around cute, musical blobs.

Btw I specified 2 because the sequels of these games make the originals look like rough drafts. Though the sequels to the sequels (Patapon 3 and LocoRoco Midnight Carnival) are completely different to the prior entries, and low-key worse.

I’m playing Okamiden and it’s so funny that it’s a DS game. Everything is so crunchy and the open world is really just a long hallway, to account for the D-pad. Aside from the veeeeery slow text speed I don’t mind though, it’s charming.

The burnout games are the most fun I’ve ever had with the racing genre. It’s so much fun smashing into everyone

Have you played Patapon 2 and LocoRoco 2 yet? Those games are the best! Not just on the console, but of all time

The famously-Cuban sombreros and sarapes too

To any USians who need glasses: buy them online if you don’t already. If you know your prescription then you can get a pair of glasses for like twenty bucks on whichever website, without health insurance.

Also, Transitions™️ lenses are a brand. You can get generic photochromic lenses for a fraction of the price that work just as well.

Idk about online struggle sessions but my irl family sometimes says Hispano, sometimes says Latino, but normally uses a more specific word. Like the country/region/state a person is from or their ethnicity. Ex: Portorriqueño, Venezolano, Sudamericano, Caribe, Oaxaqueño, Náhuatl, güero

And they use standard Spanish gender rules for those words (do neutral versions even exist? shout out to the güerxs out there)

Latino/a/e/x/@ is a strange term because to a certain extent, it’s used to group millions into 1 category for the people who can’t tell us apart. I’m pretty sure that in my area, corporations use it more than the people it’s meant to represent.