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5 Games Considered

5 Options ConsideredPriceSteam RatingPlatforms
XCOM 2
Mostly Positive–
South Park: The Fractured but Whole
MixedPlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows
The Banner Saga 2
–Windows, PS4, Xbox One
Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance
–Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4
Valkyria Chronicles Remastered
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XCOM 2

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Callixtus
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Excellent suspense

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Throughout the campaign you'll always be running against the clock. You have a limited window of time to save humanity before the aliens take over completely. Successful missions only set them back slightly. Unsuccessful missions set you back significantly. It always feels like you're in an...
Callixtus
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It's fun to manage your squad

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One of the main aspects of XCOM 2 is preparing your squad for each mission. You need to consider the terrain, objective, and enemy types. Based on these you'll select the appropriate soldiers, weapons, and gadgets. A lot of the missions have some leeway, so you'll be able to form a squad th...
Callixtus
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Makes you feel more for your characters than most character driven games

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One of the more fun parts about this game is managing your squad. You can customize the looks, voices, and even names of your soldiers. As you take your soldiers on missions you'll get attached to them. This will create a lot of tense moments when your soldiers are about to die and you desperat...
Callixtus
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Poor performance

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At times it feels like the PS4 struggles to run XCOM 2 properly. Inconsistent framerates, stuttering, and really long load times, which can get in the way of fun.
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Steam Rating:Mostly Positive
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South Park: The Fractured but Whole

Kristaps
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Quite funny

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While there are plenty of fart jokes in this game, it primarily focuses on satire. At the forefront you have a parody of superhero movie franchises, which allows you to create your own ridiculous superhero origin story, managing to mix in commentary on modern culture, political correctness, and ev...
Kristaps
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Unique visual style

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Playing South Park: The Fractured but Whole feels like watching an episode of the South Park TV show. It's very colorful, detailed, and interesting to look at, especially because everything seems like a cardboard cutout laid out in 2D view. This includes the environments, the houses, the occasi...
Kristaps
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Fun turn-based combat

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Over the course of the game, you and your superhero friends will take on various enemies. During fights, both sides are placed on a tactical grid and take turns in moving, attacking, and using special moves such as fireballs, explosions, and even fart bombs that stop time. Some abilities even have...
Kristaps
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Somewhat buggy

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There are quite a few bugs that you might encounter during a playthrough. This includes quests getting stuck, not getting credit when picking up collectibles, and various other bugs, so it's best to have multiple saves in case something goes wrong.
Kristaps
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Not a game for kids

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Even though this game is about grade schoolers playing as superheroes, there's tons of mature content and messed up moments you wouldn't want your kids to see.
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Steam Rating:Mixed
Genre:Role-Playing
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The Banner Saga 2

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Ryan
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Helps you to learn the gameplay thoroughly

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Tactical RPGs can be really intimidating, especially if you're just starting out. The tutorials often blaze forward, causing you to miss important mechanics. Luckily, Banner Saga 2 tries to alleviate this by adding a trainer NPC who will give you challenges. These involve performing various com...
Ryan
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Solid tactical combat

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Even though Banner Saga 2’s turn-based combat system is fairly straightforward. You and your opponent take turns in moving and attacking with units on a tactical grid. Each unit has its strengths, weaknesses, and set of unique abilities that you need to consider. For example, archers can attack fr...
Ryan
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Great hand drawn graphics

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Banner Saga 2 environments, characters, and animations are all hand-drawn. This includes your caravan as it marches over a snowy hill, passing trees and houses in the distance. The various viking-esque soldiers, centaurs and other mythological creatures, swinging axes and thrusting spears on a worn...
Ryan
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HP damage based attacks cause one-dimensional tactics

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A unit's current number of hit points equals the damage it will deal to an enemy. Because of this, the best strategy is always to hit all enemy units in a sequence, so they inflict as little damage as possible. Any other strategy is too risky and can backfire way too easily, limiting your creat...
Ryan
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Incomplete story

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To get a full and satisfying story, you’ll have to play the entire Banner Saga trilogy. Banner Saga 2 on its own feels like you’ve suddenly started reading a book from the middle. There are a lot of characters you know very little about, making it hard to understand their motivations. The on-going...
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Genre:Turn-based RPG
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Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance

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Ryan
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Tons of content

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There are multiple endings, secret superbosses, hidden items, unlockable classes, and even a map editor for creating new content. All of this keeps it interesting for a long time, allowing you to easily spend hundreds of hours playing Disgaea 5.
Ryan
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Making your characters strong is addicting

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The first time you 1-hit-kill an enemy, you'll realize how good it feels to overpower an enemy. So when you encounter stronger enemies, you'll want to keep this feeling up, turning it into an obsession. This will repeat all the way to the strongest boss in the game – Overlord Baal. Being ab...
Ryan
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Fun tactical gameplay

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In Disgaea 5 it's all about having your character cooperate. They can perform combos together, multiplying the damage done and showing a cool animation. They can pick each other up, allowing you to throw them into a better position to perform a devastating attack. They can also pick up enemies...
Ryan
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Can get really repetitive

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Disgaea 5 is all about leveling your characters and items. This means repeating the same stage, defeating the same enemies, or running the item world hundreds of times.
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Genre:Tactical Role-Playing
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Valkyria Chronicles Remastered

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Ryan
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Great turn-based, tactical gameplay

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Valkyria Chronicles features an expertly-crafted, turn-based combat system, where you control only a few characters in each battle. You are often against greater numbers, so tactics play a huge part in this game. The combat system is called BLiTZ (Battle of Live Tactical Zones). You view an overhe...
Ryan
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Very immersive story

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Valkyria Chronicles is a story about war and all the ugly truths behind it. It effectively uses cutscenes for outlining each team member's motivations, so you really get invested in keeping them alive. In the end, it's the soldiers who suffer the most.
Ryan
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Amazing soundtrack

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This game features a soundtrack composed by Hitoshi Sakamoto (known for his work on FFT and FFXII). The orchestra music makes you feel various emotions at the right times. It's a mix of melancholy, hope, and also fear. Some of the songs make you feel even more tense than the battles themselves.
Ryan
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Characters have permadeath

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If a character dies in a skirmish, they are dead forever, no getting them back.
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