Let’s hear about some games you maybe were told were not worth your time, or had bad reviews but you managed to love regardless.
I’ll go first. I’m not embarrased to admit that I played the shit out of Elder Scrolls Blades (the easily forgettable Skyrim-esque mobile game). I had to wait for it to release on Switch which had the benifit of the shitty timers being gone by then.
Once I started to think of it as a kind of advanced ‘Swords and Sandles’ type game I was hooked.
SaGa (the series in general). Always heard it was the obtuse bastard child in the RPG family. The series has tried a lot of interesting things and while most games in the series are flawed, they are all really interesting in spite of themselves.
I wish I could have played SaGa Frontier when I was a teenager and had tons of free time. I have been playing through it recently and love a lot about it but without a guide it is easy to get lost.
SF is personally my least favourite. I want to like it but I was constantly getting lost and not knowing what one specific thing the game wanted me to do to advance. Don’t let it turn you off from the series though! SaGa II and Scarlet Grace are so good. Romancing is good too, but I haven’t finished those yet.