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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 152: Lagrange Point

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this technologically impressive sci-fi Famicom RPG from Konami

Strife

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/strife/An ambitious attempt to take the Doom engine and make it work in an action-RPG hybrid.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dusk/Part of the recent wave of 90s-style indie first person shooters, Dusk takes all of the best lessons learned from games like Quake and puts them together into a creative, insanely well put together experience.

Guide to Shin Megami Tensei - New Preview PDF/MOBI

As a thanks to all of our Patreon supporters, I've prepared a new preview of the upcoming (and long awaited) Unofficial Guide to Shin Megami Tensei and Persona. The previous version contained the core SMT games - this one adds in some of the spinoffs, including the entire Devil Summoner line (with Soul Hackers and Raidou Kuzunoha), Digital Devil Saga, Devil Survivor, and Tokyo Mirage Sessions....

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 22: Super C

Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/final-fantasy-tactics-a2-grimoire-of-the-rift/Our FF Tactics feature closes off with the final game in the series, a DS entry which fixes some of the issues from its predecessor, but still struggles to justify itself.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 151: Abzu

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this wet and somewhat wild little swimming sim. This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Fantasy General.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 150: Astal

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank one of the Saturn's hidden 2D gems. This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Fantasy General.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 21: Dune 2

Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/final-fantasy-tactics-advance/This not-quite-sequel to Final Fantasy Tactics disappointed many longtime fans, though in reworking the game for the portable format (and a younger audience), it also removes many of its frustrations. (Though it also adds a few of its own.)

Final Fantasy Tactics

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/final-fantasy-tactics/Part of the foundation of the strategy-RPG genre, and still one of the best of its kind.This article took a LONG time to put together - I think I was playing these games around this time last year, just to give an idea - so pardon any messiness, or if I got anything wrong. In the three times I played through the original FFT, I never really un...

What Remains of Edith Finch

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/what-remains-of-edith-finch/A rather brilliant walking sim where you discover what happened to the Finch family, often putting you in their shoes as they take the steps that will, in one way or another, lead to their death

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 149: Myst

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the historically important, historically pretty point-and-click. This weekend's bonus game is Super C.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 148: Battlezone (1998)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game about the bossiest tank ever. This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Super C.

Psycho Soldier

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/psycho-soldier/The not-quite-sequel to Athena resets everything and sets the stage in modern day Japan, and turns the warrior goddess into a psychic school girl/pop idol.

Athena

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/athena/In the process of migrating the old site to the new one, there were certain articles I wanted to hold off on until I got a chance to rewrite them. The Athena article was one of them - the old ones were just way too short. Though this was done independently of the SNK 40th Annivesary Collection released last month, I figured today would be a good day to start...

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 147: Mother 3

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the heartfelt JRPG masterpiece that Nintendo DOESN'T want you to play!

SegaSonic Bros.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/segasonic-bros/A long-lost Sonic the Hedgehog-themed puzzle arcade game finally made its way on the public internet last week, so here's a look at it. It was unreleased because it failed location tests, and you can kind of see why, but it's interesting for Sega and puzzle fans alike.