Aside from the one time I played Gunstar Heroes a few years ago, I have needed to "educate myself" on the Treasure catalog for a while. Having played the Japanese version of Dynamite Headdy via the Sega Genesis/Megadrive Classic Collection on Switch, I can say it's a solid, yet long 16-bit platformer.

Having looked into Dynamite Headdy a little, I decided to play the Japanese version due to a lighter difficulty, though it offers a lot more than that. Unfortunately, in the English localization of this game, the actual story of Dynamite Headdy is lost in translation. It's appreciated that SEGA's compilation cart for the Switch includes both NTSC and Japan releases, but it's still a shame that the text boxes exclusive to the Japanese version were not translated on the cartridge. Thankfully fans have already done that with plenty of ways to access a translated ROM, an option I may take for any future playthroughs.

Analyzing Dynamite Headdy to any extent reveals a boundary-pushing piece of software for the time. Including impressive 3D effects predating many more popular titles using similar features. This extends to the stellar soundtrack, as well as a general gameplay loop that feels both familiar and radically different from its contemporaries - even ones made by Treasure, themselves; think Gunstar Heroes meets Sonic meets Rayman. I could probably describe Dynamite Headdy in better detail, but with its ease of access both legally and otherwise, it's best you just give it a shot, yourself.

P3 FES is challenging, demanding, but also very worthwile with a banger soundtrack, good cast of characters and awesome sense of style.

While FES's design choices plays out differently to the rules and qols following the later entries it stands tall with structural support to add for a more involved experience tied in to the central characters own experience and adaptions as the story evolves.

This reflects through gradually unlocking more ai strat commands for your party members as you progress through the game, while you initially start out with only a few ai choices and abilities for the earlier chunks, it gets easier and a lot more intuitive past the early threshold. The battle UI is snappy and the ai prioritites are precise to the enemy parameters and weaknesses, once you analyse them after seeing them for the first time.

FES's story plays itself out slowly throughout its high school/social sim other half outside of the dungeoncrawling and finishes up with a bang for its final semester as well as having some of the best cast developments through the series.