A fun enough tactics challenge. Found it a considerably more enjoyable game than Birthright. The triple-release story was an interesting experiment that ultimately led to the vastly superior Three Houses.

Have almost finished both the Black Eagles and Blue Lions routes, but ultimately haven't finished either. Still, though, I've found this to be my favourite Fire Emblem game thus far, and will come back to polish off the Golden Deer storyline.

2018

Absolutely gorgeous game. Short enough to knock out in an evening, and doesn't overstay its welcome.

Another game that I perhaps look upon with robustly thick nostalgia-tinted glasses. I adored the first Diablo game and this felt like an improvement in every way. Back when Blizzard could do no wrong, this got repeated play-throughs with every character, multiple times.

This was the only game on our TV for like 6 months when it first came out. My god I ravenously consumed this bad boy and loved it through and through. But it has aged poorly, and the ending still sits as one of the dumbest things I've ever come across in video games. Why do Bethesda utterly shit the bed with their main quest lines in these games?

A fine enough game, but utilised tired JRPG tropes, and had no staying power for me whatsoever. Much like the original, this fell into tedium and I just couldn't bring myself to push through.

Decent 3D mascot platformer. Played it a lot when it first came out, but always fell off at the abysmal boxing match.

Man...I'm some would refer to as "sports-retarded". I'm one of those insufferable pricks that calls football "sports ball", but by god this hooked me more than it should've.

Just to be clear; sports games are not my thing at all, and I haven't touched a Mario golf/tennis/soccer/whatever, so the RPG aspect of this game kind of took me by surprise. The story is engaging, pretty funny, and the golfing is satisfying. It's opened my eyes to trying more sports orientated games.

Such a banger of a puzzle game man. It's genuinely kind of gutting how little fanfare it seems to garner. My brother and I got absolutely hooked on this at the end of the DS' life cycle, and the remaster has been a joy on switch.