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I got this on original release for the PS3. It's the only Yakuza game I've played to completion thus far. 

And that little girl runs like Usain Bolt. 

You call that slacking? I only wrote two blogs the whole month. I'm the biggest slacker around here and proud of it.

In stores now for the Switch is Space Invaders Forever, which includes Space Invaders Extreme, Space Invaders Gigamax, and Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders. A company called Strictly Limited Games is supposedly planning an even more comprehensive collection called Space Invaders Infinite, which includes almost every Space Invaders game ever made, including the above three. But they've been taking pre-orders on it since last June, and it is expensive.

Space Invaders Extreme is what you're thinking of.

I hope this game gets a Switch re-release. It's one of Nintendo's few Wii U games left that haven't.

Trails in the Sky Second and Third Chapters almost didn't make it over here. Jessica Chavez, the Xseed translator who finished Second Chapter after Andrew Dice of Carpe Fulgur had to bow out due to needing to take care of his mental health, claimed that Second Chapter had more text in it than War and Peace.

My first experience was Faxanadu, and I was impressed with the RPG elements it had in common with some of the games I'd been playing. Legacy of the Wizard was featured in a Nintendo Power issue on RPGs along with Ultima III. That's actually the first time I saw the term "role-playing game," although I had played some RPGs on Atari XE and had a familiarity with them. I just didn't know what the genre was called at the time. Falcom games were known for their great music, and that tradition continues today. Yuzo Kushiro was the composer of Legacy of the Wizard (but not Faxanadu). 

They are very old-school RPGs, but it's nice to see franchises besides Dragon Quest embrace turn-based combat. The Legend of Heroes games do largely continue on in these ways, as they are turn-based RPGs. I'm enjoying Trails of Cold Steel, but Trails in the Sky is a good place to start.

I had this idea kind of knocking around in my head since people don't talk a lot about Falcom games. BaD seemed like the perfect time to do it. And yeah, I guess this is my all-inclusive BaD post. So y'all got a freebie with my 1943 post. 

Ys Origin got a remaster for the Switch. I actually found physical copies of it at the Best Buy on Camelback and picked one up. It was $30.

My first exposure to the series was with Faxanadu. I read about Legacy of the Wizard after Ultima 3 got me into the genre. They also did Brandish, a late SNES title. I'd see stuff about Falcom games on sites like RPGamer, but the first actual game of theirs I saw on shelves after a long time was Ys VI for PS2. 

I'm getting Ys IX, but I'm getting it on Switch since that is my primary system these days.