oh is that what that game’s about? I should look into that

yeah all the cool human stuff is happening off screen

I want to play the game where you play as Delita and do a bunch of wars and get multiple extremely powerful political leaders to trust you and then find the right time to betray them to ultimately gain the throne and bring about real change

and at no point is Ramza like “Hey actually y’all make a lot of sense, and my noble brothers suck anyway, but the church sucks too, hmm, maybe I need to think about whose hands I’m playing into”

he doesn’t even ever really mention it, he’s too busy with “BLAH BLAH LUCAVI BLAH BLAH AURACITE”

it also doesn’t seem to really be interested in the promise of its themes re: the whole noble/commoner divide. enemies are constantly spitting absolute bars about the inequity of the world and the destruction of class hierarchy but they’re almost always depicted as misled at best and evil at worst

And Ramza’s just like “I DUNNO WHAT’S GOING ON OR WHY NO ONE WILL TELL ME ANYTHING BUT THESE STONES SURE SEEM LIKE TROUBLE WOT I AM VERY NOBLE”

It’s all a bit silly and nobody really learns or grows or changes

It all has this air of “and I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for that meddling Beoulve boy” and meanwhile Delita is Game of Thronesing his way to power almost completely offscreen, only stopping briefly to pull Ramza aside every so often and give him a “You know nothing, Jon Snow”

And the story and writing are lovely, but it’s all a bit blunted because Ramza just kind of bemusedly stumbles bass-ackwards into all the crucial plot points without ever really figuring out what’s going on beyond “church bad.” Everyone just twirls their mustaches at him, then curses him in defeat

Basically, you equip different elemental critters to each character to determine their class and abilities, and there’s a lot of interesting combinations and versatility. It’s fun!

JRPGs! Some light puzzle solving and decent stories, but an especially robust and unique magic system. I only played the first one but I think there are three of them.

Oooh, that looks fun! Have you ever played the Golden Sun games?

I mean, same

W!!!

not for soccer it isn't

never mind, I’ll just look it up later

As @danryckert.com is with professional wrestling, so you should be with professional wassailing

I’m sorry

hey, that Super Hexagon OST is a banger