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Game Reviews:
Ys Origins
Admittedly it's been a while since I played this game but I think it deserves a place on my list. This was a pretty good game. The only area that I would like to see improved was that storyline. The bosses were challenging and the levels were setup in a nostalgic "Item X allows Ability Y to pass area Z".
Despite being set in a tower, it has the clearly defined clichéd stages (water stage, fire stage, etc) but that's fine, it would be pretty boring if it looked like a tower the whole game.
As far as game mechanics go, there were no points that I felt like the controls were holding me back, the grinding never became tedious and the enemy types didn't stick around long enough to become boring.


Ys III : Oath in Felghana
This is a remake of Ys III for the SNES and MSX.
That said, it only resemblence the original games. I thought that it was fantastic. great story, great character development, 3D!, action RPG, and best of all; it doesn't get ridiculously hard at the halfway mark (AKA the pacing is tremendously improved).
The bosses are awesome in the way that good old bosses were: pattern based avoidable (with effort) attacks that required a lot of strategic maneuvering.


3D Dot Game Heroes
Let's just start off with this :Zelda Clone.
Now that that's out of the way, the game itself is an homage to classic adventure gameplay. The format is pretty standard 'go to dungeon, collect magic item' but this game is more than just a nostalgia trip. The world is open to aimless wandering(adventuring) and has lots of sidequests but more importantly, the main objectives are always clearly defined. No more of this "we better wander around till we find our next objective" feeling. The story is kinda cheesy, and the game breaks the fourth wall to acknowledge that in a toungue in cheek manner, but it's fun. There's only one fetch quest forced upon the hero, so besides that the game pace is fairly linear. The game mechanics are fine tuned with the only annoyance being that the huge sword at full health makes it hard to move on if you take a hit no matter how many life upgrades you have (but you don't have to worry about that in spelunker mode since one hit is instant death).
Final note: some of the music is awesome, and some of it is very oldschool and repetitive but if you're like me and enjoy that then it's fine.

Recettear
It's exactly whet everyone said it was; a refreshing break from the usual rpg standard. All in all though, the item shop managment (like all other management games) and the dungeon crawling becomes tedious quick. At least it's an action RPG though, no "random" battles, besides bosses, are completely necessary.