u/RIP-hue-Shiny-Darco

Futaba is, in my opinion, the best-written character in Persona 5. Her palace and her story are just so grounded and in touch that I can't help but love this sweet little bean.

To be clear, I don't like her like *that*, I'm gay as shit. The reason why I do is a lot more personal, as she reminds me a lot of what my little sister went through. Without going into the details, she was also very young when adults broke her spirit in a way that she sank into a depressive episode and Futaba reminds me so much of her.

Her love for this stupid kids show, her aptitude for hacking, her self-doubt and self-loathing for something out of her control... it all just reminds me so much of her, a person I've sworn to protect.

Her palace is also coincidentally my second favorite in the game, simply because of the variety that went into it with the desert city, the pyramids puzzles etc. Even though her palace was by far the easiest, it was so cool because she was the only character before royal to have a palace that's not necessarily associated with her being "evil". The storytelling through the murals was also so cool and interesting, I just loved it so much.

"They trampled all over your young heart! Get mad! Don't forgive these rotten adults!" Is the single most powerful line in the entire game for me. I still get chills just thinking about it, because it encompasses what I believe these terrible people deserve. The entire boss fight held that emotional power and there's only the 3rd semester boss fight that could unleash such emotions in me, even if it was piss easy.

She's also the character I romance, NOT BECAUSE I WANT TO DO SOMETHING WITH MY SISTER!!! But more because I don't see Joker as a self-insert, but as his own character. And if I knew that someone else, someone with a strong sense of justice like Joker, a guy who was willing to stand up for a sexually abused woman, was capable of loving and protecting her, helping her to get out of herself in my stead, I'd be glad to know she'd be in good hands.

The reason why I made this post was to show appreciation to an in my opinion criminally underappreciated character. She may not be the character I relate to the most, that would be Makoto, but she's the character I've grown to love the most out of the main cast.

So thank you Atlus, for creating this sweet little bean for me to enjoy and cherish <3

(Oh also, she's saved my ass so often in combat, I was obligated to show her my respect)

Literally unplayable

As I already announced in another post, my marathon will kick off with fire emblem awakening.

I often heard it being called the best FE game or even best 3DS game, and I know why now.

First things first though, the game was unspeakably good. Combat was smooth and the animations were very beautiful for a 3ds game mind you. The characters were compelling and fun and due to my pride making me play hard mode for my first playthrough, the game got decently challenging at times... until it wasn't.

The game's mechanics were incredibly shallow, magic to me was incredibly disappointing, just being differently colored books with different stats that were mostly distinguished by MT instead of unique characteristics. I quickly caught on that Nosferatu was incredibly overpowered and that was a factor that carried me through the finale.

Speaking of which, due to poor EXP management that would come back to bite me, forcing me to grind the EXP DLC map.

My biggest gripe also serves as the biggest strongsuit: The sheer amount of playable units. I really wanted to use the child characters in particular, but due to them coming at lv10 in a class that most often either doesn't suit them or is straight up bad, I didn't have the energy to grind them all up, especially because a lot of my units were already further in development. This doesn't make it bad in any way shape or form, but it soured it a bit for me.

But the good far outweighs the bad for me. A wonderful game, story and one of the best 3DS titles I've played period.

Overall: My final verdict can be seen in the ever updating tier list.

Next up: Binding blade

Note: I accidentally swapped Shadow dragon with sacred stones

I've only ever completed one route of 3H and am currently playing awakening, when I realized how much fun these games actually are for me and despite not having finished 3H, somehow having so much love for the game and franchise and being genuinely excited when seeing the announcement before Fortune's weave I'd like a few tips along the way, perhaps to also not get burnt out halfway.

I would love to form some sort of "diary" around it as well, but am a bit lacking in ideas.

So... excited to hear what you guys think of it and am looking forward to your help and feedback and such ^-^