i might be the only person on the planet who's still
>BUYAN
vita games in current year, but i dunno, i just like looking at the boxart and changing out cartridges
>Mind 0
i got an amazon gift card as consolation for dropping out of college and being hikineet for 2 years, and bought that with it, among other things. i've had it described to me as "persona 4 but first-person and with a worse story", but i feel like people tend to trash on literally any JRPG that isn't normie approved, and a first-person dungeon crawler with persona's (or twewy i guess) setting, tone, and writing (and soundtrack, ideally) is something i'd love to see more of. i'm excited to get to this...eventually.
>Freedom Wars
my childhood Wii randomly spontaneously combusted one morning and i wanted to replace it. the game store that i went to had a deal going where if you bought a new console, you could get any one game for free. they didn't have any wii/gamecube games i really wanted, and i looked in the vita section and saw Freedom Wars, so i got it. i've only really gotten up to the tutorial and character creation, it seems fun, but the controls feel a bit...cluttered, if that makes sense? i don't know how to describe it. i probably should've gotten the remastered version, especially because this game seems to have an emphasis on multiplayer, but i don't like the industry's current obsession with reselling the same games we've had for the past 10 years over and over and over again, and the way i see it, i'm probably not going to be playing the game with anyone anyway. the game seems to be light on story, which is kind of a shame. i knew going in that it's kind of like monster hunter, but i was hoping the game would give me some more incentive to progress that isn't "make incremental dents in your 1,000,000 year prison sentence".
>Mary Skelter
this one's not as recent of a purchase, i got it around a year ago, but this is really important to me and i'm happy i have it. this was from the same game store where i'd later get my Wii from, and i was surprised to see a copy in person at a relatively normie game store considering that i could never find a single listing for the game online. with this, i have all three games physically, and that makes me happy, since Mary Skelter might be my favorite game series ever, or at least one of them. going back to this version after playing the remake or either of the later games isn't difficult necessarily, but it is a bit intimidating to me. the...relatively few people who've played this talk about the size of the dungeons, and while that's apparent as soon as you make it to the Temple, that isn't really what intimidates me, it's the overall game speed and balancing that i have to make an effort to get used to. i find this version less difficult than the remake overall, but the overall game speed feels much slower, between noticeable loading when you encounter an enemy, your overall movement speed being much lower going from tile to tile, and having to manually click X whenever you find a chest, an item, or when the moon changes color. i feel like nobody talks about this game's job system either, this is easily my most disliked thing about this game and i'm happy they changed it in the remake and 2; changing jobs at all requires job rights, so any time you want to change jobs or a build on a specific character, or if you make a mistake while choosing a new job for a character, you either have to grind 10 levels or savescum, which makes unlocking new jobs to learn new skills really stressful for me. i get the idea was that unlocking a new job was meant to be a permanent, linear upgrade, but it doesn't really allow me to experiment and see what builds work for which characters, since when i pick a job, i'm potentially stuck with it for the next dungeon (though as i type this out, i wonder if i could use Blood Devolution to bump whichever character back down 10 levels to make grinding back up faster? i still would rather not do that if i want to change jobs). i prefer how it is in later games where unlocking a new job lets you freely switch between it and anything you unlocked previously. but nevertheless, it's still ultimately the same Mary Skelter i've fallen in love with.