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I’ve been playing jrpg’s since I was a little kid. I loved Final Fantasy I and II. And I remember having an iPad over fifteen years ago at this point where I realized you could buy all the Final Fantasys never released in the US that happened in-between I, II, and VII. They were translated into English and they brought me back to Saturdays in my parent’s basement watching BONK the fighter waggle his sword at a slime. The time that I started to check out of final fantasy was around seven. While the storyline was good, the feature that I hated the most creeping into my Final Fantasy games was the elimination of turn based combat (with that being said, I have played the ones with Yuna and the ones with Lightning, though I didn’t enjoy them as much as II, my all time favorite).
I started picking up the Fire Emblem series that thankfully hasn’t tried to eliminate turn based combat. The main reason, I loathe rpgs without turn based combat is that I have a naturally slow reaction time. For example, I do bad in buzzer based trivia games. I generally know the answers, but I can never hit the buzzer fast enough. There was a game called Fable that I gave up playing because there was a level that was just too challenging for me because I couldn’t mash the button fast enough. I played the entire Mass Effect series on its easiest setting because I loved the story line, but on easy it was one of the hardest games I ever played.