Stella Glow - Nintendo 3DS

I'll try to keep this simple. I love games like this. Sure it's cliched and stories like this have been done in the past. However nowadays, games like this don't come over to the west much anymore. That being said, a game like this which was once all too easy to come by, is much more difficult to find now. As such, it makes a game as good as this, a treat to play. The music is excellent. It would have to be as it's somewhat of a main piece of the story. The story isn't doing anything new but what it does do, it does well. The gameplay is rather simple compared to other games of this style out now for the 3DS but it's not ruined by unnecessary added mechanics that only serve to convolute and overcomplicate the flow of battle. The battles are fun and do have enough strategy to make it fun and challenging. You also have the ability to grind for levels outside of storyline battles which is always a welcome addition in games like this. The visuals are beautiful. Crisp, clean, detailed and colorful. It's easy to turn everything drab in this genre but the art style makes everything bright and vibrant which is rather nice to look at. Again, this game isn't doing anything new or genre defining or breaking but then again, does it really have to? Everything it does it does much better than average so it doesn't need to change the formula up. So why should you get this game over Fire Emblem Fates? You probably shouldn't. I don't have a Fates game yet (I bought this and Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth for the Vita instead) but even without having played one of the two/three I know that those are better games overall. However, Fire Emblem Fates isn't going anywhere now that Awakening sold so well. It's never going to become difficult to find and Nintendo will keep making copies so long as people want them. On the other side though, buying a game like Stella Glow tells the industry that we want more like this more than a purchase of a Fire Emblem game. Supporting "lesser" game companies by purchasing games like this really helps this genre that the industry wants to kill off by showing them with your money that you do still want these games to be made and brought overseas. There is also the fact that over the course of the next few weeks, this game will become more and more difficult to find. As I already pointed out, Fire Emblem will keep getting produced but this game will not. So that means that this game will only go up in value as it sells out in stores and your only option is Ebay, Amazon or the third party sellers on Walmart.com. So you'll not only be getting a very good game by purchasing Stella Glow, you'll also be helping to get more games like this localized and you'll be making a good investment as this game will only go up in value as time passes. There's also a good chance that by buying now, you'll be getting the special edition even though it came out in March like I did by purchasing through Walmart.com. There's not a lot of perks to getting the special edition but it's nice to have and it's more than likely to go higher in value than the standard release.