Fire Emblem is keeping me busy. My big game this August is going to be Astral Chain. Love me some Platinum Games.
September is gonna be super loaded for me. Within the span of a few days late in the month, Link's Awakening, Dragon Quest XI S, and Ni no Kuni are all coming out.
Actually, now that I think about it, it reminds me of Krusty proudly saying that he didn't have Itchy and Scratchy, but he did have Eastern Europe's favorite cat-and-mouse team, Worker and Parasite.
I can imagine there were a few people at Nintendo going "What the hell was that?!" when they saw CF63 1/3 or Quest 64.
I hope you get to a point where you can get a Switch. Fire Emblem aside, it is an amazing little system. I haven't played PS4 much since I got it, save for occasional PS4 games I like that aren't on Switch.
i kind of looked at Pillars of Eternity. It's gotten my interest because it was made by Obsidian, which is probably my favorite western RPG maker based mostly on New Vegas and The Outer Worlds. Fire Emblem is a SRPG, though, and I love my SRPGs.
The main protagonist, Byleth, has blue-green hair, regardless of whether you choose Manleth or Femleth. Lady Rhea, leader of the monastery where FE's between-battle segments take place, has green hair.
Kid Icarus helped me get into the real thing, and I enjoyed it, even with all the lurid parts. I read The Iliad and the Odyssey, and unlike most people, I got into the Iliad more. It also indirectly steered me towards Norse mythology, although we got a fanciful video game take on that later on with Valkyrie Profile.
My favorite games on 3DS were Zelda, the Fire Emblem games, Bravely Default (which played a lot like Final Fantasy V), and The 7th Dragon III, which was a neat little overhead view dungeon crawler from Sega. And the 3DS version of Dragon Quest VII was pretty good, it took out a lot of things people didn't like about the original. I overall enjoyed the 3DS more than the DS, although so many of its games were ones I wished could have been on Wii U instead. So you can imagine that I'm all in with the Switch.
I really like how River City Girls looks and am thinking about getting that when it comes out.
Both. It's a lot more beginner-friendly than earlier Fire Emblem games. You can choose whether to have permadeath on or off when you start, there are plenty of guidss in-game to help you navigate battles, and at worst, there's a "rewind time" mechanic that lets you rewind the battle if you meet with disaster.
All the Mortal Kombat stuff was neat. I'm kind of surprised you guys were thinking about it. I actually did find the Chris Houlihan room during my second or third playthrough of A Link to the Past.
Stage Select:
My video game nemesis is EA... wait, that's not what you meant, right? Okay, my nemesis is those giant fish in World 3 of Super Mario Bros 3, the ones that can eat Mario instantly no matter how powered up he is. I freakin' hate those things and will often run out the clock shooting them with fireballs.
Cage Match:
You're kidding, right? Killer Instinct Gold is easily the best of these two mediocre N64 fighting games. I never did see KI as anything more than an off-brand Mortal Kombat, but I needed something to play on N64 other than Super Mario 64. It wasn't anywhere on the level of Virtua Fighter or Tekken, but it was something to play. It was a testament to how dry the N64 library was that CF 63 1/3 got a cover story in Nintendo Power. It kind of reminded me of how Nintendo was like, "Hey, we don't have Final Fantasy VII on N64, but we have Quest 64, which is just as good!" Anyway, KI Gold was okay, and they even had the best 3-D backgrounds in a fighting game at the time. The game itself just didn't make use of them.
Now there's a good cage match for next time: Quest 64 vs FFVII.
Kid Icarus is pretty navigable. You go up or right, and the vertical stages wrap like the tunnels in Pac-Man. You just gotta avoid the bottom of the screen at all costs, even if the platform you were standing on scrolls off the screen. Hooray, cheap falling deaths. They even sell an item in-game that lets you escape one cheap falling death.
