That's right, they injected a little 4X into XCOM. And each mission requires you to build out a resistance camp in each area by gaining intel and defending it from aliens. There are far more dice rolls, but, as Tom Senior wrote in his piece on the mod, it retains the excitement of chance by flooding the game with smaller, but still impactful decisions. Missions come in various degrees of severity and you have to juggle your squads to survive them. But the tweaks it makes to units, enemies, and the overall structure of each mission, forces you to approach it with an all-new strategy. The mod doesn't go out of its way to explain itself, so you'll have to rely on existing knowledge of the base game. The single caveat to The Long War 2 mod is that it's primarily aimed at people who are already experienced with XCOM 2. It takes Firaxis' solid tactics game and folds in complexity to give it much more weight than the base game. The Long War 2 mod for XCOM 2 is a little bit of a cheat for a list like this, but this mod is absolutely unparalleled. Persona 5 is a long journey, but a journey that's worth it.

And outside the combat, you get to explore both the mundane hallways of the main character's high school and the warped labyrinths in its dream-like dungeons. It also has surprisingly dynamic turn-based combat that tasks you with keeping momentum to clean out your enemies efficiently, which rewards clever tactics and sharp knowledge of your characters. 'It might not be what you'd expect from quite possibly the longest JRPG you'll ever play, but each of those many hours is filled to the brim with inventiveness that-quite frankly-can make it hard to go back to other games in the genre,' Oscar Taylor-Kent wrote in our review of Persona 5. But to see all of that, you have to commit over 100 hours of your life to it. It exudes style, has an outstanding soundtrack, and a weird, but charming cast of characters. Persona 5 is the quintessential JRPG, taking lessons learned from the genre's history and incorporating modernized tactics. The Persona series taunt JRPG-curious players with how ridiculously long each one takes to complete.

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