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Good Lord.

I need Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II like BURNING. Like, RIGHT NOW. So much so that I'm looking forward to it much, much more than Persona 5. Or FFXV.

Second in line in my NEED list is actually Tales of Berseria because it looks great and Eizen is droolworthy I can't even.

Not saying that I'm not interested in FFXV or Persona 5. It's just that they're not really high in the NEED list. In fact, I'm not really in too much haste to get FFXV (The only reason for urgency is that my PS4 is SERIOUSLY lacking in games and unfortunately FF Type-0 doesn't entice me as much as I had hoped since I'm more of a turn-based JRPG gamer (except when in comes to Tales of games) so I might get them once they're on sale or something.

Thank God Persona 5 and Tales of Berseria are only out next year.

On another note, I'm shedding my completionist tendencies. Decided that my time is worth more than that. Which is how I managed to finish Cold Steel I back then.

Maybe I should get down to FFX and Tales of Xillia now. And the long-abandoned FFXIII-2.

Plus, I've gone too far into Tales of Vesperia that I've pretty much blown probably >50% of its sidequests into oblivion. A pity.

As for Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness, reviews on it are pretty much average. In other words, considering all the hype surrounding it before it was released, it bombed. Another pity - mainly because I liked the title. And blue-haired swordsmen.

At least I can push it way behind in my NEED list. Especially since I'm barely even a quarter into Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope.

Need. More. Time.

It's final - Star Ocean IV is starting to be a chore. Sure the gameplay was okay at first, but then it became clear how "button-mashing" it can be that I got irked. At least with SO3 and its predecessors they made the distinction between long ranged and short ranged attacks. SO4's blindside is great, but it got pretty old quick

Am I losing faith in Star Ocean? No idea. Never mind that I'm still halfway with my SO1 and barely into SO2...

But I still got disappointed when I found out that SO5 might not be released on the PS3 to the West. Yes, despite my dismissal that the main female characters were...terribly designed (loli-much?), so to speak.

On a side note,

Final Fantasy VII Remake, huzzah!

Tales of Zestiria!

Kingdom Hearts III!

...oh, and FFXV too, I suppose.

...Good God, does this mean that I'm actually considering a PS4 now?

Pfft.

New Star Ocean, yes!

And it's planned to be released on the PS3.

How exciting. An addition to already a number of games to look forward to: Tales of Zestiria, Persona 5.

Never mind that my backlog itself is pretty long...