I have heard nothing but great things about it as far as story and visuals and game play go! I have heard, exactly as you said, that the sidequests are not very rewarding and the big open world feels kind of empty...which seems to be the case with a lot of open worlds honestly. I'll definitely be playing it at some point! It looks amazing. That REALLY sucks that it came 5 days late though. I hope you were able to avoid spoilers.

Oh figure collecting, very nice! I have a few friends who are really into figure collecting! I know some can get really expensive, but man, some of them are so nice. I don't have any figures really, except two of the Danganronpa GoodSmile ones. Kyoko and Chiaki. I'd love to see your figure collection sometime!

My friend did say that The Answer was pretty decent story wise, but had an absolutely awful difficulty spike that made it pretty unenjoyable to play. I'm not sure how others feel about it, but he also didn't care for it. I'm glad all the other stuff is going to be there. I'm really looking forward to playing it, especially now that I have 5 and 4 under my belt!

Ya, that and Binding Blade are two I REALLY need to play. I've held off on those two hoping for official releases but if the next game is something else, I will definitely have to check them out.

FF Tactics is another one I've been saying I'll play for so long. I remember you absolutely praising it in your old YouTube videos. I might hold off a bit and just see if that remaster rumour is true, but I really do want to check it out.

Oh, please do! I'm not too worried about it as long as there are no major spoilers! I'd really like to know!

Man, Final Fantasy 16 sounds really good. From everything I've seen, it sounds like a great game! Did you grab it day 1? Did they end up coming through on your Tears of the Kingdom Collectors edition? Hopefully they did! I had some gift cards and ended up grabbing Raincode. It won't be here for a few weeks but that's ok cause I'm going to be at Zelda for a while still

Just in time! We're getting a Persona 3 remake! It sounds like none of the FES or Portable additional content will be there though...well at least the epilogue from FES or the female protagonist from Portable. We'll see what they add though, I'm looking forward to it and will probably wait to play P3 until it comes out.

Ya, the story ended up actually being really solid! The ending in Replicant was interesting and made me really excited for Automata! I'm sure it will be a great game!

I'm REALLY hoping for a Geneology of the Holy War remake. That would be amazing. I've heard, much like Shadows of Valentia the game play is quite different but I've heard from a story perspective it is amazing. I'd love to play it. I haven't played any of the Japan exclusive ones. You're right though with Three Houses! Playing that first story bit 4 times was....a lot lol. It'd be cool to see if the beginning was totally different for each one.

I did see that! I've heard great things about Tactics Ogre and remember you giving it a lot of praise back in the day when you made videos! I'll definitely check it out.

I'll add Chained Echoes to the list too! I had a friend play it as well and he said it was great. It's cool that there may be a second one too. Hopefully they do to give the story some closure.

Oh damn, really? I'm stoked to play it then. The fact that it's made you so excited for the future has me really looking forward to it!

I honestly forgot all about FF16 as well. Might be a little while before I pick it up, but going to get Zelda on day 1 next week. I'm also interested in Master Detective Archives: Raincode at the end of June too!

I definitely prefer Persona 5 Royal but I did really enjoy Persona 4 Golden as well. Both are amazing games in my opinion. I keep hearing that about 3...FES has an epilogue to it and you can walk around on the overworld, but P3P allows you to have full party control and let's you do a second playthrough as the female protagonist with new S Links. Definitely would be nice to get a definitive release before I dive into it lol.

My friend who I play through some of my games with is a big fan of Baten Kaitos, so when it comes out, I'll probably play through it with him!

Ya, I noticed that, definitely do some world building, like the small shade in the village one and the lghthouse one. It's a really intriguing story, and definitely really hits you on the B playthrough.

I liked it. Overall, my thoughts are about the same. Great gameplay and definitely one I would like to replay to maximize the gameplay as it has so much potential. Definitely though the story and characters were pretty uninteresting and lacking though to be honest. I would love to see them really commit to story again like PoR and FE7.

Oh I'm actually not super familiar with Chained Echoes! I'll have to look it up! It looks cool after a quick Google Search! What did you end up thinking of it when you finished it?