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Title: Inazuma Eleven SD イナズマイレブン SD
Platform: Android / iOS
Genre: Action
Language: Japanese
Company: LEVEL-5
Summary: review was written 12/20 and I don’t intend to play beyond the few hours, so just small points. https://twitter.com/inazumaSD_L5/status/1318027689651892224 Shutting down Dec 1, 2020.
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Title: Pokemon Sword & Shield
Platform: Switch
Genre: RPG
Language: Japanese, English
Company: Gamefreak, Nintendo
Summary: I’m as disappointed as the next collector that the dex isn’t full but I still bought Sword (at a HUGE discount, I would not buy at full price) and I still intend to play it… speedrun style, and then go straight back to Fire Emblem Three Houses afterwards. I can’t believe they won’t even let you catch Pokemon that are above level of your gym badge limit.

So the run is done… 17 hrs and I’ve beaten Leon at the post-game Battle Tower.

Overall, I’m very disenchanted by the whole franchise from this gen, seeing as they’ve ditched Mega Evolutions for this dynamax junk. They probably thought Mega Evos were too broken for the meta, but they needed something to replace it, so they put in this more mindless version instead. ???

Not going to buy the DLC as it’s not worth the $30 price. I even got Sword at a discounted $30 price and don’t feel like it’s worth it. It’s even more insulting that Sword and Shield have separate DLC versions too. Don’t see enough people complaining about Pokemon DLC compared to when Fire Emblem Fates Conquest/Birthright had a single combined DLC price for Revelations. And people complain about not getting their worth in 3H’s DLC too, but I’m guessing almost none of those complainers bothered doing a new game run with Ashen Wolves in there, and that’s their loss.
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Title: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Faiā Emuburemu Fūkasetsugetsu (Japanese: ファイアーエムブレム 風花雪月)
Platform: Switch
Genre: SRPG
Language: Japanese
Company: Intelligent Systems, Nintendo
Summary: Director Kasukihara wasn’t kidding when he said one House takes 80 hrs. I started off with Golden Deer (Claude) and have done all four routes in order of Golden Deer > Church > Blue Lions > Edelgard. My “final” New game+ with ALL THE THINGS (all students, etc) will be on my everlasting favorite–Golden Deer. But I do love all the houses to some extent and I’ll be doing a TON of replays (all on Maddening from now on) anyway.

The games were kind of Otome RPG-esque since Awakening, but WOW they stepped it up even more for this one. SUCH OTOME RPG (for Claude).
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Title: Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Japanese: ファイアーエムブレム 蒼炎の軌跡 Fire Emblem: Path of the Blue Flame)
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Japanese: ファイアーエムブレム　暁の女神 Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn)
Platform: Gamecube, Wii
Genre: SRPG
Language: Japanese
Company: Intelligent Systems, Nintendo
Summary: Doing a proper playthrough for Tellius after my ignoramus runthrough back in 2010. Naturally, enjoying it a lot more this time!
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Title: Switch – Super Mario Odyssey
Platform: Switch
Genre: Action
Language: English
Company: Nintendo
Summary: I’ll be your 1up girl~
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Title: Switch/3DS – Fire Emblem Warriors
Platform: Switch/3DS
Genre: Action
Language: Japanese/English
Company: Nintendo/Koei Tecmo
Summary: I don’t mind grinding on this game as much as I thought I would. D8;
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Title: Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (ファイアーエムブレム Echoes もうひとりの英雄王
Platform: 3DS
Genre: strategy RPG
Language: Japanese
Company: Intelligent Systems, Nintendo
Summary:
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Title: Tales of the Rays テイルズ オブ ザ レイズ
Platform: Android
Genre: Action RPG
Language: Japanese
Company: Bandai Namco
Summary: Master race Tales mobage

A bit surprised I’ve never filled this out in the near 5 years it’s been out. I think mostly because it all gets raved on the English Discord~ which I mod… join us! :3
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Title: Pokemon GO
Platform: Android
Genre: Real-time adventure
Language: Japanese/English
Company: Niantic
Summary: Oops, I’m rank 35 as of this post and just forgot to ever put an entry up for the biggest mobile game of all time. 8D;;; I laugh whenever scrubs go “People still play this game?”
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Title: Tales of Berseria テイルズ オブ ベルセリア
Platform: PS3/PS4/PC
Genre: Action RPG
Language: Japanese
Company: Bandai Namco
Summary: I’ll admit overall I did like this a bit more than the mess that was Zestiria, but it was still NOWHERE NEAR as good as any of the previous Tales games in most terms x_x; I appreciated some things, but mostly still hated a lot of it. Lists behind the cut…
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