Currently slogging my way thought Tokyo Mirage Sessions. A game at one point I was super excited to play when seeing trailers for it. Two of my favorite gaming companies Nintendo and Atlus collaborating together. on top of two of my favorite RPG series crossing over, that teaser trailer along creamed my pants. On top of some pretty good character design with the lead and the mirages with a pretty good music backing the trailer(I am kinda of JPop trash) I was hyped. I didn't get at launch solely cause I was still a broke neet. but a year later I got it and ignored it until just recently. Why? Let's just say unless it's called Wonderful 101(and donkey kong). most nintendo Wii U games aren't very good. and after putting 20 hours into it. here are some of thoughts. you know how in most mainline SMT games, your just dicking around between dungeons barely making story progress until you get there. but instead of beeing given a big map broken into chunks. your given a persona style map. a small map with almost nothing in it. they a item, accessories, Costume shops. and everything else that dose something is either a heal point or dungeon to fight enemies. the rest of gameplay is standard SMT fair, FE is barely in its DNA. weapon weakness sort of plays a bigger part. but not much else. I would call this game a cheap Persona rip off as it a "social link" system that it tries to pass off a Fire emblem like supports. but there just social links, but three times shorter, so the them behind chapter progression(another try to add more Fire Emblem). which leads me into the story its very good, either SMT or FE has never had steller writing. but in this it feels like a shit ton of story beats are missing and we surposse to pretend to care. the worse case I come across is Yashiro. he is suppose to be a dick head rival character that might be evil. but guess what set up it no were to be found. he just simply comes off a bit of dick, because MC is new to business with no goal in mind. Oh for some reason it was in a dungeon, HE MIGHT BE UP TO SOMETHING!!!1111!!! oh you mean he's doing more then just doing his job as idol. oh he is mirage master already...... here's me thinking we get to see that happen, might have cool to see. oh he thinks we hate him cause he kicked our ass to take tiki away, but didn't cause she was scared of him. so their connected I guess. Nothing about him really comes off like what they seem the want him to be. In the end though this game comes off as cheap SMT game with FE branding. not a bad game, it just really obvious where the money went.