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Random Game Wednesdays: Illusion of Gaia (SNES)

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The Super Nintendo was the console that I discovered RPGs on. I didn’t have my own yet, but I was at a friend’s house and he showed me Final Fantasy II (which is what we called IV back then). During this time, I quickly became aware of many other games in the genre. One that I had heard of but knew absolutely nothing about was Illusion of Gaia. It had a logo that made it look like something similar to Final Fantasy, a title that reminded me of Secret of Mana, and I had no idea if it had anything to do with either of these. Well, now, in 2025, the random number generator has decided that I need to actually see what this game is.

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2024 Game Of The Year Eligible Games!

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It’s just about time for my top ten games of the year list! If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably already know the rules, but here they are anyway. To be eligible for my list a game needs to have its first release in the United States happen in the year 2024, full remakes count but not remasters, and I have to have played them. I thought I’d do something different this year and post every game that is eligible. Now, when your favorite doesn’t show up, you can look here and see if I even played it.

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Emio- The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club Review

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Famicom Detective Club was a short series of two visual novels that released in 1988 for the Famicom Disc System that never left Japan. That kind of changed in 2021 with the release of remakes for the Nintendo Switch which did find their way over here. If you’ve been a reader for a long time, you know that I loved those remakes, with them being tied for fourth place in my top ten list that year. I always assumed that that would be the last we’d see of the series, but to my surprise, Nintendo announced a brand new game and it released this year.

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Those Game Awards, Huh?

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I am very tired today, but I need to write something to keep my goal of writing every day in November going. So, here’s a couple sentences about the nominees for this year’s Game Awards. The choices pick seem pretty weird, especially the inclusion of Elden Ring’s DLC, which is, you know, not a game. That being said, I’ve seen multiple people online say that this is some kind of conspiracy to keep JRPGs off the list, but that seems dumb too because both Metaphor: Refantazio and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth did get nominated. But at the end of the day, who really cares, because no one watches the Game Awards for the awards, right? We’re just watching because maybe Nintendo will announce the Switch 2. That’d be neat. Okay, see you tomorrow for something more substantial.