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March of the Black Queen on Virtual Console? Sweetness! If I didn't already own one of those extremely rare SNES cartridges, I would snap this up in a heartbeat. Note to anyone reading this: buy this game immediately, if you are any kind of Strategy RPG gamer. The reputation system is extremely deep, you have a ton of control over the composition of your army, and the gameplay doesn't resemble anything on the market right now. For $8, this is an incredible steal.

Ah, so many hours spent with this game back in the day... I can't remember which run was my favorite, the "Evil" run where I bottomed out the reputation meter and had an army full of werewolves and undead, or my personal creation of the "Girl Power!" variant: only female characters allowed! (Amazons, valkyries, witches, clerics, mermaids, faeries, and angels... with a female Lord character too, naturally!)

I didn't like any of the other Ogre Battle games nearly as much. The tile-based system of Tactics Ogre/Knight of Lodis didn't grab me the same way, and Person of Lordly Calibre was just too slooooooow moving. Yes, I'm sure others will disagree with that.



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End of 2008 totals: Wii 42m, 360 24m, PS3 18.5m (made Jan. 4, 2008)