Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, played it both on Wii U and Switch. It has Shin Megami Tensei's weakness system, and elements from Fire Emblem with it, with a story about making it in Japan's entertainment business. I like this game, it doesn't seem to get enough love from what I've seen.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
I mean I'm always looking for a reason to recommend Valkyria Chronicles 4.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,252 games (as of April 30th, 2024)
Favorite Quote: "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age the child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
I recommend Marchen Forest, maybe one of the obscurest of the obscure considering I could only find two reviews for the game on Switch when I bought it last year. It took me right under thirty hours to beat, so it's on the shorter end of JRPG's, although the third episode is hard!
I'm going to paste my "mini review" from the Games You Recently Beat thread.
Marchen Forest on the Switch - I originally added it to my wishlist just because I appreciated seeing a JRPG that wasn’t rated for suggestive themes, haha. It eventually went on sale pretty cheap, for five dollars, I think? I read the few reviews that existed for it and, despite none of them sounding too flattering, I wanted to give it a shot. Personally, I actually enjoyed the game and don’t regret my purchase at all.
It’s kinda weird to explain, but it’s divided into three episodes. The first one is a Ghibli-esque, sort of slice-of-life episode that sets the stage for the game and really isn’t that enjoyable outside of a few funny things like a penguin working out. It’s probably an hour or two long and it’s mostly just fetch quests, so it’s easily the weakest link out of all the episodes.
The second and third episodes have dungeon crawler-type gameplay, maybe with some roguelite elements? I haven’t played any rogues or roguelites, so I can’t entirely vouch that’s what it is, but it does have a sort of risk/reward system where you lose some of the items you obtained during a run if you’re defeated, so I think it’s along a similar vein. You also have to manage your health and your hunger, the latter of which gradually runs out over time as you explore, so there’s a light bit of management there in episode two, but it ramps way up in episode three.
Battles are one-on-one matches that are turn-based, but in real-time (sort of like if you had an invisible ATB gauge from early FF games), so you can’t move around the field. But battles, especially the boss fights, put a lot of emphasis on timing your dodges and countering enemies, so even though it’s turn-based, there’s always that anticipation of waiting for an enemy to strike that keeps battles feeling fast-paced and it sometimes requires you to have a fast reaction time, and I really enjoyed that. The battles are random enemy encounters, but it wasn’t too constant and I only got annoyed with it at the end of the game when the final dungeon dragged on a bit too long for me, and I ended up a bit overleveled for the ending. I think there was an accessory you could get that either decreased or removed enemy encounters, but I never got it, so I’m not sure.
The graphics are really cute and the creepier places are atmospheric enough, although I wish they gave character portraits to more of the main characters. It’s also full-voiced in Japanese which is cool, although the main character is occasionally a little too high-pitched for me and my earphones. lol The music is surprisingly epic and the story a bit dark for a cutesy game about a little girl with cat ears, but I ended up really liking it in the end.
I also think it would be a good October game for those who don’t like/can’t handle horror, because episode two has a spooky, ghostly, using people as live test subjects theme without breaching actual horror, and episode three has a different kind of dreary and otherworldly vibe, too (the plot also gets kinda… confusing by the end. lol). Although it’s rated E10+, I wonder if it should be T because episode three occasionally incorporates blood into the environment, which was jarring at first. Lol
Cute, dark, and surprisingly intense at times, Marchen Forest might be the most unexpected game for me this year.
I think it still drops down to five dollars on occasion, so if you're interested, I definitely recommend getting it then!
@Plusle_and_Minun huh sounds like Pokémon mystery dungeon and Mario and Luigi mixed together. I’ll definitely check it out. Especially at 5$. Thanks for the mini review.
@Plusle_and_Minun I will second Marchen Forest as well, and I didn't even know it came to Switch. Played a good chunk of it on PC, still need to finish it. From what I played it was really good.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
So since I’m a huge RPG fan does anyone know of any under appreciated RPGs on the switch?
Miitopia Earthlock Kitaria Fables
Miitopia is so fun, I agree with that, haven’t played the others. I’ve only played Miitopia on the 3ds, but there is so much creativity associated with that game, it even has a plot twist to shake up the predictable plotline!
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