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Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Your game is the best game ever, and yet so few people have heard of it? Here's the post where you can tell everyone all about why they should play your game in particular. We have over ten days until signups close, which is more than enough time to play a game!

(Or several, if you don't sleep. Sleep is for those without gaming backlogs.)

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FANDOM NAME:
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT:
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional):

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FANDOM NAME: Ultima
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: You play The Avatar TM, an Earthly (as in, fallen into another world from the planet Earth, circa 1980-something) seeker and incarnation of the Eight Virtues, on quest after quest to save the realm of Britannia from various threats. Your cast of friends usually includes Paladin Pal Dupre and Bardic Buddy Iolo, along with Shamino the Ranger, although each game has a roster of NPCs you can recruit to your team, most of them based on game creator Lord British (aka Shamino) and his RL friends. The stories hit up a variety of not-as-black-and-white-as-thou-think philosophical quandaries, within sandbox RPG worlds where you can wander off and bake bread if you prefer. The last plot arc, starting with Ultima VII, involves fighting a giant muppet being of great cosmic evil from destroying the multiple realms - and you can jump right into that one.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: Ultima IV and both Worlds of Ultima: Savage Empire and Martian Dreams are free on GoG. Martian Dreams is one of my favorites: Rescue a bunch of Historic Personalities on Steampunk Mars! The rest of the series is there, too, for a nominal price. I recommend V, VI, and both parts of VII most.


FANDOM NAME: Saints Row
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: ...bear with me here, but the first game (an XBox Exclusive, sadly) starts as a down-to-earth if satirical sandbox game where you join a street gang, the Saints, after their leader saves your life... and through a variety of twists and turns, by the fourth game you wind up the President of the United States fighting aliens in a virtual world imbued with super-powers. Really. Featuring a powerful Character Creator, an awesome cast of NPCs (all of whom in IV have non-exclusive romance easter eggs if you like that kind of thing), an oddly dark and desperate at times story, along with a fuckton of humor that's often as intelligent as it is irreverent. And the phallic baseball bat weapon, which you've undoubtedly already heard of if you've ever heard of Saints Row before. 8)
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: I think you can download for XBox One and PS4. There are also disc copies. Steam and GOG both have it. SR2 is considered a notoriously bad port on PC, but there's a fan patch that rebalances everything; and personally, I've found it fine if you play with a controller. You can jump right into IV, which loses some of the buildup going from the beginning, but it does make an effort to bring you up to speed and has some really fun gameplay.


FANDOM NAME: Moon Hunters
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: About an hour long per play, randomly generated Mesopotamian-themed RPG-lite. Pick your hero, pick your hometown, then try to unravel the mystery of the missing Moon Goddess. Lots of little choices and flavor text, and every play your hero is immortalized and personality summed up as a constellation based on in-game choices. Made to be played over and over to unlock new little details and story bits.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: GOG or Steam.


FANDOM NAME: Lost Odyssey
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: You play an immortal man named Kaim on his quest to unravel his thousand years of missing memories, and why he can't die. Kaim, along with a handful of others, end up the world's only hope against an influx of increasingly destructive magic weapons and the political machinations behind them. Story heavy with turn-based combat, in the spirit of Final Fantasy.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT? It's an XBox 360 game if you like discs, and is also XBox downloadable now, if I'm not mistaken.


FANDOM NAME: Trials of Mana aka Seiken Densetsu 3
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Choose three out of six characters per game, with the narrative changing based on who you do choose and the characters you didn't choose showing up along the way in different capacities. High replay value for at least the three major end-game campaigns (one for each pair of warring nations as represented by the six heroes), and a lot of little character moments. The combat system can lag a little until you get used to it, but it's a solid action RPG with a fun world-saving romp of a story.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT? Trials of Mana was officially released in English for the Switch last month as part of The Mana Collection. So happy! :D


FANDOM NAME: Legend of Mana
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Pokeihl. Just... Pokiehl. An ambitious melding of sandbox style systems and Japanese action RPG conventions, Legend of Mana comes off as more experimental than most titles. You either love it or hate it. Featuring a blank slate character, a robust crafting system, three major story arcs, a plethora of mini story arcs, beautiful watercolor scenery, a colorful cast of characters... oh - and a lot of worldbuilding. Literal worldbuilding, as your character rebuilds the world using artifacts. Somehow.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT? It's available for download in the PSN.