Recently purchased, played & beaten

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Beat

- SSBU: World of Light (the adventure mode), true ending
- CV2: Simon's Quest

Backlog rn:
Fire Emblem 12 (very close to beating)
Starfox 64
Majora's Mask
Ghost Trick Detective whatever
Lisa

Beat FE12 and SF64.
I might skimp out on MM.

Two games I didn't realize would be on my radar is Pkmn Blue and Silver.
Beat Blue, BUT, doing a nuzlocke on Silver and holy shit I forgot the leveling scale is ASS in this game. Beat Johto side and the League but need to beat the Kanto side + Red.
So far lost 11 mons out of like 35 total mons I have access to, prob like 10 more encounters or so left in Kanto. Also fucked up trying to catch 3 mons, so basically 14 gone.

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Been playing smash ult again now that I feel like my anxiety and panic is lessened to the point that I can actually play some games decently

and man
i still got it LOL
https://rb.gy/dz9cfj

oldie but still an example of what I've been pulling off

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I beat some games this year

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Unicorn Overlord: 9/10

The switch has had a BUNCH of great tactical RPGS with dumbass names and this is right up there with the greatest and dumbest of em all. The story is anime bullshit I can't remember the details. You play a blue haired jagoff who leads his friends and grows an army against some evil prick and his army of mind controlled dummies. The party members have relationship meters with each other, and if you max out the meters you get some interesting insight into the story, or at the very least some comedic relief and light palette cleaner cut-scenes. I'm a sucker for shit like this, but you could ignore the bonding altogether and still enjoy the game unlike FE3H maybe.

Gameplay is about building squads with your party members and fighting enemy squads. If you halfway pay attention to the story you can figure out which characters work well together in squads. Squad formations are grid-like, which is important because some enemies can attack through your squad members. So like if I had a soldier in front of my mage and an enemy spearman engages, he could attack into soldier and mage at the same time. Eventually you get to a point where almost every slot is filled with a character, and then you focus less on formation and more on balance with roles in the squads. I really enjoyed the combat at first but I grew to find it tedious towards the end because of the number of squads I had. On higher difficulties I bet the squad management would be more engaging but I played on normal and really only needed like three or four squads the whole campaign. The game does a good job of scaling the difficulty I think until like the last region or so where I was whompin these suckers with ease.

My main gripe is that you can marry the giant barbarian lady but there really isn't much to it outside of "ha i love you let's fight". Was a bit of a letdown seeing as how I liked most of the relationship building and giant barbarian lady was maybe a bit more involved to get in your party than most other squad members, but thank you devs for making fan service that i can appreciate. Great buy for like $40, and it ain't too hard to find a copy for that price.

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Super Mario RPG on the switch. Remastered I guess? 8/10

Baby's first rpg showing why it's the gold standard on introducing people to turn-based rpgs. If you've played other Mario RPGs then I don't know that you'll be as wowed with this game versus people who played the original growing up, BUT this is a really slick and thoughtful presentation of a classic game.The story is nice and lightweight, with one of my favorite openings to an rpg. Young me thought walking right into Bowser's Castle, beating up his minions and finally confronting Bowser on chandeliers in the high reaches of his castle was fuckin' sick and that sequence still is pretty fuckin' sick today.  I really like how the writing pretty much gets you in and get you out over the course of exploring the Mushroom Kingdom. Most of the time you're going to a village, talking to a mole or a Toad, and finding out you're the solution to whatever problem is going on. Not a complex story, but a fun adventure to unwind with at the end of the day. The music here is top notch, and letting us switch between the original and modern soundtracks is a nice feature. The battles are still really engaging with the action commands added to traditional turn-based fights, and the new super moves depending on who is in your party were a cool addition. The devs also added a new postgame but it's whatever. The post-game story is more shallow than the main game which is kind of missed opportunity, oh well. I know some people griped about the length being too short, BUT if you score this for 25-$30 it aint a bad price for what you're getting imo.

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Super Mario Wonder - 4/10

This game was really overhyped. I think the power ups are lame. The talking plants are dumb idea, but good for a laugh when they fall off the screen. I liked the wonder gimmick, and that gimmick took the levels into some out there places for a Mario game, but there were only a few times it really wow'd me. But, I'm also not the target demographic for this game so if you want a light game to play with your kid or partner go for it.