Just that we have similar taste has me so interested in whatever the sam hell Jade Cocoon is lol. You're a man of fine taste.
It’s all thanks to how gaming used to work back in the day. Namely, Blockbuster. Me and my brother would go every Friday to rent a video game. This one time there was a certain PS2 game I wanted to rent (can’t even remember what it was), but it wasn’t in stock. So for those of you too young to have experienced Blockbuster, if a game wasn’t in stock to rent, you just had to find something else or get nothing. Oh and the rental time was I believe like 3-5 days or something like that. Anyway, since the game I wanted wasn’t in, I looked around and saw that game, Jade Cocoon 2. This was before smart phones and before the internet was anywhere NEAR what it is today, so it’s not like I could pull out my phone and look it up. All I could do was look at the art on the cover, and look at the descriptions of the game on the back. It looked pretty fun and interesting, so decided to try it out. One of the best gaming decisions I’ve ever made.
Both me and my brother, who typically like similar things (except unfortunately he’s not into fighting games like I am), fell in love with the game. If I had to describe the gameplay, It’s essentially a more strategic form of Pokémon… kinda. The game was way ahead of its time but it was also severely underrated. Had I not randomly accidentally stumbled upon it, I doubt I would’ve ever heard of it let alone played it. I’ll still play it from time to time. I’ve put a ridiculous amount of hours into it, what I wouldn’t give for a remake, a sequel, or even just a remaster. There’s so many things they could do these days to improve upon it. It’s the same way I feel about the game Enchanted Arms. Which was another turn based game where you collect golems to fight with and what not. Which funnily enough, the game was made by FromSoft, so technically it was my first FromSoft game. With Enchanted Arms, there’s also a lot you could do to improve it. The biggest and most crucial would be adding a New Game + (NG+).
Oh, and instead of Duel Links on my list, I should’ve put this PS2 Yugioh game called “The Duelists of the Roses”. That game was godlike and had an amazing OST
There’s a lot of games that I could’ve put in my top 25, or are just outside of it. Like the Gen 1 Pokémon games, Dragon Age Origins instead of Inquisition, Tenchu Z, For Honor, SF3 3rd Strike, SF4, MvC3, DBFZ, DBZ Budokai 3, Diddy Kong Racing, Halo 1, War of the Monsters, TMNT Turtles in Time, Killer Instinct, I Wanna Be The Guy (IWBTG), The Fable games, R6 Siege, and I could keep going and going. So many amazing video games I’ve played, and a bunch I haven’t played as well. I still never finished BG3, which I need to do. Only got like 5-6 hours or so into it.
