Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii (I have yet to play the Switch version).
Ace Attorney Trilogy/ Hotel Dusk for Nintendo DS.
Kinda cheating in the third one, but I am not even sure these are my favorites, they are the ones I have played the most that is for sure (maybe honorable mention to Toy Story 2 for PS1 lol).
EDIT: Honorable mentions to Shadow of The Colossus and God of War 2018, heck it is almost impossible to narrow this down to 3 games.
Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii (I have yet to play the Switch version).
It’s as awesome a game as it was back then, and the QoL changes are definitely welcome. The new chapter… Exists, I guess. It’s fun to play, and it’s nice to get more Melia, but the story really feels like filler content.
I was so disappointed by XC2’s direction that it mostly made me want to replay the first one again. I had started replaying Wii version, then they announced DE, so I waited and played that one instead. No regrets.
Nowadays, it would be very hard for me to choose between XC1 and 3 for my favourite though. 3 hits right in the feels in so many places, and its main cast is so good.
2 has… problems. It looks like a bingo of bad anime tropes and terrible character designs. It’s almost pervy comedy harem anime territory at times. You’ve probably heard cringe as a complaint, and yeah, it has that, quite a bit of it. It’s not all that bad, but when it is, it’s terrible.
It also has a pseudo-gatcha system (no actual microtransactions, thank you for that) to unlock optional characters. These all have side quests tied to them. Some are absurdly rare, hundreds of hours of farming and opening random capsules kind of rare. I hate it.
Mechanically, fights are fun at least, and of course it brings a bit of context that is a bit important to 3, so it’s hard to recommend skipping it if you want the full story.
Weird thing, the XC2 DLC episode, a prequel of sort, was very good. It’s short, but focused on a small group of likeable characters, and it’s like they concentrated the good parts of the main game in a neat, fun package.
I have a lot of fond memories with Jump Ultimate Stars in high school. I had a friend who was insanely good at it and could basically keep me in a combo loop throughout the match. The online gameplay was great for the DS back in the day with hardly any hiccups in connectivity. They really need to do a proper sequel to the game.
Did he play online as well? Perhaps I might know him.
A sequel is much needed for sure, indeed I almost fell into this April’s fool video lol.
Anyway, maybe it would be of your interest, or your friend, to know that we still gather together to play JUS thanks to Wimmfi, there is a Discord server where we arrange battles, and even a tournament is on debate.
Jump Ultimate Stars for Nintendo DS.
Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii (I have yet to play the Switch version).
Ace Attorney Trilogy/ Hotel Dusk for Nintendo DS.
Kinda cheating in the third one, but I am not even sure these are my favorites, they are the ones I have played the most that is for sure (maybe honorable mention to Toy Story 2 for PS1 lol).
EDIT: Honorable mentions to Shadow of The Colossus and God of War 2018, heck it is almost impossible to narrow this down to 3 games.
It’s as awesome a game as it was back then, and the QoL changes are definitely welcome. The new chapter… Exists, I guess. It’s fun to play, and it’s nice to get more Melia, but the story really feels like filler content.
I was so disappointed by XC2’s direction that it mostly made me want to replay the first one again. I had started replaying Wii version, then they announced DE, so I waited and played that one instead. No regrets.
Nowadays, it would be very hard for me to choose between XC1 and 3 for my favourite though. 3 hits right in the feels in so many places, and its main cast is so good.
I keep reading about Xenoblade 2 being the weaker of the trilogy, very discouraging to keep me in the franchise 😅
But it should pay off as I see no complaints with X3, as you just pointed out.
2 has… problems. It looks like a bingo of bad anime tropes and terrible character designs. It’s almost pervy comedy harem anime territory at times. You’ve probably heard cringe as a complaint, and yeah, it has that, quite a bit of it. It’s not all that bad, but when it is, it’s terrible.
It also has a pseudo-gatcha system (no actual microtransactions, thank you for that) to unlock optional characters. These all have side quests tied to them. Some are absurdly rare, hundreds of hours of farming and opening random capsules kind of rare. I hate it.
Mechanically, fights are fun at least, and of course it brings a bit of context that is a bit important to 3, so it’s hard to recommend skipping it if you want the full story.
Weird thing, the XC2 DLC episode, a prequel of sort, was very good. It’s short, but focused on a small group of likeable characters, and it’s like they concentrated the good parts of the main game in a neat, fun package.
I have a lot of fond memories with Jump Ultimate Stars in high school. I had a friend who was insanely good at it and could basically keep me in a combo loop throughout the match. The online gameplay was great for the DS back in the day with hardly any hiccups in connectivity. They really need to do a proper sequel to the game.
Did he play online as well? Perhaps I might know him.
A sequel is much needed for sure, indeed I almost fell into this April’s fool video lol.
Anyway, maybe it would be of your interest, or your friend, to know that we still gather together to play JUS thanks to Wimmfi, there is a Discord server where we arrange battles, and even a tournament is on debate.