The unthinkable just happened, dear fellow gamers: I’m done putting my whole Switch collection to the New Classic test! (‘My whole Switch collection’ means all my physical Switch games, bar visual novels; and it represents a good 80% of all my Switch games.) If I do say so myself, that’s one serious mammoth achievement.
Shameless self-praise aside, this first major New Classics session taught me a number of important lessons, such as:
— I don’t like SRPGs. Discovering the genre through isolated games such as Luminous Arc and Stella Glow was nice enough; but SRPG gameplay as a whole really turns me off. The only SRPG series I genuinely enjoy is Fire Emblem — but with perma-death off, please.
— The New Classic modus operandi is just perfect to save some time. I kinda enjoyed some games while playing them, and I thought they could be worthy of the New Classic title; however, a mere couple of days — sometimes hours — were enough for them to evaporate entirely from my gamer’s soul. Had I kept playing these games instead of just testing them, I would ultimately have lost precious playing hours, because they would have left no imprint whatsoever once the run was over. In fact, my gaming career is full of such games, from Rhapsody to Suikoden Tierkreis; I have no more time and energy to devote to such fleeting, half-hearted experiences.
— Some of my potential New Classics may not be New Classics after all — meaning, I might play them once and enjoy them tremendously, and yet never feel like touching them again after that. The perfect example of such a situation is Trails in the Sky: I had a blast playing it, I’m immensely glad I did, and I’ll never forget my run of that game; yet at the same time, I’m starting to realise that I’ll probably never replay it — I feel it, deep in my gamer’s soul. I’m accepting that new category gladly — and you can totally expect an upcoming post lining up all the games I adored yet won’t play again.
— I’m finally reaching a more peaceful stage of my gaming career. After my Second Coming of Gaming, I spent literal years making up for all the lost time, for all my accumulated gaming frustrations, in what can only be described as a manic frenzy of collecting and playing. I needed that phase to heal my gamer’s soul — and hey, it was mad fun to boot! I’m serene and content now, and I can take it easy — or easier, if you will. I can stop purchasing every single RPG under the gaming sun, I can stop trying my hardest to enjoy every single game I purchase. I don’t need to love all entries in my favourite series, I don’t need to finish every game I start. Just let the gaming instinct do its thing, baby!
As for the next steps, they’re pretty clear: to apply the New Classic treatment to every sub-collection of mine! Next in line is the 3DS/2DS, just because my gaming instinct says so. Kinda unrelated, but did you notice that I published every evening for the last couple of days? Well, that will keep happening for some time, because I have a crap ton of posts to unleash onto the world. Keep doing your thing as well, dear fellow gamers — and take care!
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