Metroid (NES)

Late last year I began working on a metroidvania style game with a friend.  I played a bunch of metroidvania games to try and get a feel for this style of game.  In the beginning it was pretty scattershot, just playing whatever random game seemed interesting, and never finishing them.  I decided that I’d like to revisit my metroidvania journey from the beginning, and play through each game much more extensively.  The natural starting point for this is the original Metroid.

Triple Triad in Final Fantasy VIII

This is the first post in a series called “CCGs in RPGs”.  I put together a list of 7 RPG video games that each have their own mini-game featuring some sort of card game where you can create your own deck:

• Arcomage – Might and Magic VII (1999)
• Triple Triad – Final Fantasy VIII (1999)
• Tetra Master – Final Fantasy IX (2000)
• Xeno Card – Xenosaga (2002)
• Pazaak – Knights of the Old Republic (2003)/ KOTOR 2 (2004)
• Caravan – Fallout: New Vegas (2010)
• Gwent – Witcher 3 (2015)

I decided to start with Triple Triad as it was the game that made me want to start this series.  But going forward I will do them in chronological order of release, continuing with Arcomage Tetra Master.  (While I was researching the Arcomage game, I found out that it is not customizable. Therefore I had to remove it from the list.)