Sounds like Princess Peach: Showtime! has a bit of a Kirby and the Forgotten Land structure going on here short singleplayer story with a good chunk of end game!

Oh man I'd have been burned out long before

Wow that's cool!! That is nice to see

It is April... a direct would be nice

RIP 3DS/Wii U online
I'll definitely miss the 3DS online a lot. I'm glad you got all the My Castle stuff done though!!

Your unicorn pun is forgiven. 🦄

I also am only picking up one more announced game this year (SMTV2) and also Episode Aigis, so yeah ... it will be my "best game released in 2024" GOAT most likely!

I do agree that bumping up the difficulty wouldn't have done much. Both the joy and curse of strategy games is once you learn the game, you can break it wide open regardless of difficulty. I can challenge myself the next time with a self-imposed challenge, but at the end of the day I still have the knowledge of how to break armored units. Tactical was comfortable and required tweaking once in a while and that's fine.

In the end, I built 5 units that I felt were solid (with 3 mega bangers and 2 great ones) and one that was pretty meh. But I did it! What a delight, and I played on Tactical throughout. I'll surely return to it again and again.

Damn, you really blasted through! I also have 6 units built, which feels like a good amount. But I would say 3 of my units are bangers, 1 is pretty good in niche situations and my other two are just not that great. But they have fallen behind now since my other units are for the most part mobile and just mop up maps. We'll see. The final area's units are irritating me right now.

It's been absolute hell trying to get a copy of the special edition this week So many cancelations, refunds, shops getting different language copies and scalpers boosting the price

I have an unopened standard PS5 copy while I look but I think I’m just going to give up on it as its £200+ now and no way am I paying that

I poked my head into Elheim (okay, that's a lie: I ran as far as I could until I was gated by plot) and picked up my girl Rosalinde, who really just broke most of Drakenhold wide open. Then Berengaria shows up and Drakenhold was a steamroll except for the far northern battle.

I'm most than halfway done with Elheim and for the most part my unit she's in is just destroying everything.

I also pushed into Bastorias as far as I could and no, there's no scaling. I did find the first half of Elheim to be too easy (both the liberation and the side questing) but once you regain control of the castle I wasn't too far ahead of the curve.

I have really enjoyed the depth of strategy but still don't understand why some of unit synergizes so well.

Unicorn Overlord really might be a sleeper pick for GOTY for me too so far. (depends on if I beat FF7R2 this year or not )
I am enjoying it endlessly. It's just so good

I like to keep my gaming tastes relatively simple. 😂

I like my little spreadsheet and so far it's helped me build units. The sense I'm getting is that apart from having dedicated flyer/non-flyer units for terrain, we'll probably want to build units around a few complimentary types of units (like Housecarls and Gladiators with Clerics, Shamans with that other class that benefits from debuffing) or build mixed all-rounder units.

I roamed around Elfland and then followed the plot and I will say ... pleasantly surprised that side characters from the demo hours are featuring in the story. There is enough intrigue to make up for what is otherwise a pretty simple story. But it keeps the momentum.