It was just a learning curve mostly. I'm used to playing strategy games where you must carefully consider how to utilise each member each turn, and as a Fire Emblem fan, also playing very cautiously. Also, the need to use a variety of troops to share experience equally.

Valkyria Chronicles is very different to that though - the character classes are not all made equally, and it took a while to get into the mindset that it's OK to use the same characters multiple times a turn, as you don't really lose out on exp or anything. Also, it's fine to run head first into danger sometimes because permadeath is rarer, and good rankings (and thus more exp) are based on playing quickly. Often the best tactic is to utilise scouts heavily to rush through the final push to the enemy base on many missions - blow up the soldiers there with a grenade and seize the flag for a much easier - and more lucrative - win then carefully blowing up tanks with lancers and bunkering down behind sandbags would.

I like playing slow and steady, but VC really expects you to be aggressive.

Oops, even more games I have to play.

Oh, it's true. It's part of a simple campaign to bring the Three I's to the Backloggery.

Intensity
Integrity
Intelligence

Of which I have none

Yeah I read a review and it sounds like they changed up more than I expected. Although apparently the new bosses aren't there anymore?

Wonder Boy Returns was... playable. It was about what I expected. It's got a clean but uninspired Flash-like look to it. But anything Wonder Boy I kind of need to buy at this point.

...i see that Lightening Force~ <3

Yeah, it wasn't great. My momentum on the collection has kinda stalled at the thought of playing Sword of Vermilion though. I decided to take a break and play Pokémon and Katamari for now and then dive back in. Sword of Vermilion is my final game of wave 2, and then wave 3 is full of good stuff. Wave 4 is pretty weak though...

It was an interesting read - you should aim to spend some time with the ones you haven't played before and see what you think!

It'd be nice to see your list!

I actually own the 3DS port of the arcade game already! Its probably one of the better super-scaler shooters imo, but I'm not really a huge fan of any - unlike the super scaler racers which I think are all pretty fun.

Yeah, it wasn't great!

I decided to beat all 51 games on the classics collection on Switch, so to make it so I didn't front load all the shorter, easier or better games in the collection I sorted them by genre and mixed them up into a planned order to play them. It means each 'wave' of games will have some good stuff like Sonic 2, some tough titles like ESWAT, some longer games like Shining in the Darkness, and occasionally some bad stuff, like Super Thunder Blade. Each wave is 5 or 6 games long and generally involves 1 platformer, 1 RPG, 1 beat-em-up, 1 action game, and then one or two games which are arcade style, puzzles, action adventures or scaling shooters - basically 'the rest'.