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Pokémon Legends: Arceus

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When Pokémon Legends: Arceus came out a couple years ago, I heard a lot about it. It seemed primitive, without all the quality of life updates that have come to the Pokémon games over the decades. The screen shots seemed low poly. People were throwing around words like “MMO-like” and “open world”, but that was said about Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, too, and those were very much like open world MMOs.

I came across the game at a used game store. It was affordable, I’d been working through the other Gen 8 games, and I figured I’d give it a shot.

Arceus might be the best of its generation, actually.

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White Knight Chronicles — best RPG I never heard of?

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In the PlayStation store, this RPG had no pictures, no movies, and only a note that the game’s servers had closed down a decade ago. Couldn’t download it, could only stream it, and it wouldn’t allow any screenshots or streaming.

The game loaded up, I made my character, jumped into the game, and realized pretty quickly that the character I made was not the main character of the story — she’s just someone who always just seems to be lurking around in the background. That was… so weird. But the story was good and the combat was interesting and I was getting these constant FFXI/FFXII vibes and I got drawn in. So read on for an RPG that time forgot. Or maybe it was just me.

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