Spann
2008
2020
2019
2023
It's kind of a shame this was the most accessible version of Persona 3 until Reload came out. It's far from a bad game, since it carries over Persona 3's excellent story, albeit truly awful villains. However, the PSP holds this game back heavily by making the player a cursor hovering over a PNG 75% of the game.
2001
2004
The game is a very interesting leap forward from its predecessor. Giving Yellow Pikmin more of a purpose, as well as adding the Purple and White Pikmin make the planet feel that much more alive. The lack of a time limit hurts the game, as there are no stakes for completing the game fast other than personal reward. Frustrating at times with the randomly generated caves often creating abominations only seen in Mario Maker. Yet, those same caves give the game plenty of girth in terms of playtime.
2013
2023
For an NES game that was the first of its series, this isn't that bad. That being said, going through it now is a slog. Even the 2x provided by the natural emulator still feels far too slow. Inventory management is a mess and will take up at LEAST 50% of your time. The only reason to play this game is just to say you have. Do not start here if you want to get into the series.
1992
Certainly an interesting Fire Emblem game. It definitely feels more refined from the original game, mostly due to the axing of inventories in general. If you want to experience this game, you should really just play Echoes. Or, if you want to say that you've played every Fire Emblem game, fine. It's at least more bearable than Fire Emblem 1.
A very fun game bogged down but the GBA Fire Emblem's simple mechanics and certain weird choices when it comes to the difficulty. The characters in this game are extremely unbalanced, but that's kind of the charm. The game feels very rewarding in various different ways, most of which other Fire Emblems can't touch.
A Fire Emblem game. Not much more to say. It's a great place to start, but after playing other games in the franchise, the milquetoast flavor of this game makes it hard to come back to. The story is often times nonsensical, a low amount of characters means little encouragement for replaying the game, and the game is fairly easy. Despite all of this, I can't help but feel the charm oozing out of this game.