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Finished Unicorn Overlord!

What an amazing game. The storyline lacks depth, but everything else shines - gameplay is great, the amount of customization you have is staggering, the visuals and soundtrack are beautiful, and the world is big and full of places to explore.

I was also extremely impressed on how polished and optimized the Switch version is. Loading screens are non-existent, everything is clean, fast and fluid.

Can't recommend this one enough, it's a must-play for strategy game fans.

Playing The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak!

Another arc with a new cast and location is something this series desperately needed after all those games in the Cold Steel saga and I'm glad this day has finally arrived. I'm still early in the game, finished the Prologue and early into Chapter 1, but I can already see why people say so many good things about this one.

Van is an excellent main character. He's smart, experienced, and I like how he's more morally "gray", willing go get his hands dirty if necessary - the whole idea of having the main characters working on shadier jobs is a nice contrast to the previous games. I'm less thrilled about Agnes, she feels too much like a "generic main heroine", but she does a good job as the audience surrogate and I expect she'll get more development during the game.

One thing I'm finding surprisingly enjoyable is the "dual" battle system - when you meet an enemy you start in a "action" style battle, and you can at any time press a button to transition to turn-based. The idea is that you can use the "action" part of the battle to stun the enemies and get an advantage, but when fighting weaker enemies you can often finish the battle without going into turn-based, which makes this a really nice time-saving/QOL feature.