i've had a few games like that. i remember picking up tomodachi life when it was new bc i saw a video about it and thought it looked fun and a good way to waste a week, plus best buy was doing a bogo deal on great 3DS titles that i already had, aside from tomodachi life. i thought it would be a great way to get bang for my buck and pick that game up to give it a try and a copy of pokemon x that i gave as a gift to my partner months later. loved tomodachi life more than i thought i would and spent way more than a week on it. i've been wanting to get back into it lately. i know the content is rather lacking and the minigames get tired quickly, but i enjoy creating characters and trying to get people together and unlocking foods and new rooms and stuff. really hoping to see another installment in the series someday that expands on things.
rayman 2 is another one. i knew it was a good game, but if you know me, you know how much i ***** about sucking at platformers and not being able to get hooked on them for very long. my partner gave me his copy of rayman 2 and i decided to give it a play that day and i literally sank 10 hours into it until i finally got to a part i got stuck on. that does not happen to me with platformers and it still shocks me to this day. i don't even know what about it got me hooked? i guess because it wasn't overwhelmingly hard, but it wasn't easy for me either, iirc. the music was also good and idk. i was just having a good time. i'll have to give it a revisit some time to see if it still holds up like that.
another big kicker is persona 5. the hype was real and everyone was into it. a friend of mine accidentally got two copies, having ordered a steelbook copy after preorders on the collector's edition closed and then another place reopened them. so she got two. i mentioned i was gonna see about grabbing a copy from gamestop just to check it out and see how it was and she sold me her steelbook copy for like $50 so hey, not a bad deal at all. i don't think i should explain this one bc if you know me you know i spent like the last two years completely dedicated to persona 5 and still am super into it to this day. i think...this is and always will remain one of the most influential games in my adult life. it brought me so much not just as a video game, but gave me a lot in the real world, too. i'm so grateful to it. and to think it was just a game i got on a whim to see what the hype was about.
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