Fire Emblem Awakening
Not the hardest game in terms of gameplay. This game messes with you differently. Emotionally. Like XCOM, you have characters that you care for. But only some of them can make it to the end with you. Making decisions on who should live or die feels almost real.
By the end of it, you look back and realize, “Oh yeah.. it was just a game.”.
Mega Man
Mega Man is a classic. Most of us have played a Mega Man game because there’s literally over 100 different titles for the franchise. But we’re looking at the original because of its limited checkpoints and challenging levels. Dying in Mega Man was frustrating because you really had to memorize enemy movements and where their projectiles went in order to beat it. They didn’t make it easy for you to just breeze through a level like Mario at times. Each one was uniquely challenging and rewarding.
But really.. Couldn’t have added a few more checkpoints?
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