Platform: 3DS
Time played: 60 minutes
Session fun rating: 9/10
I love turned based games. Civilization, Advance Wars, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, etc. My first was actually a very unknown title for PS1, Kartia. I thought it was a JRPG like Final Fantasy or Earthbound but it turned into my first crush on a turn based strategy RPG. It had cool anime, nice music and a weird thing where people would use magic cards to make tea and such. It had a very simple rock-paper-scissors kind of gameplay but it got me hooked on the genre.
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| My first strategy RPG love. |
Here I am, more than ten years later, playing Ghost Recon Shadow Wars. I am still being introduced to characters. I played two missions, the first was a mission about taking out mobile SAM turrets. I failed the last time I tried. This time I took my time and waited for my team to move together and succeeded handsomely.
The next mission I was introduced to a spy type character and an engineer type character. The spy is really cool as she can attack without provoking return fire. The engineer has a very strong turret that can be dropped on the field. He seems powerful but defensive. The mission was simple as it was more a tutorial than a real mission.
The next mission was the first where I had to choose 4 out of my 6 ghosts to defend a building. I chose the engineer for his turret, the medic to keep everyone alive, the gunner to hold down the building and the sniper for damage. It was a cool mission because I had to kind of hole up in this little building and defend it from four fronts.
