noooo bro America can’t be a Balkanized and irrelevant fallen empire ravaged by contamination and barely clinging to life nooooo

You guys I might have made a mistake. Hard mode in Reverse Collapse is actually hard it’s not one of those games where hard mode is normal mode and normal mode is My First Fire Emblem Adventure for Ages 8 and Up

I will say it is amazing how scary they make the URNC soldiers feel both mechanically and narratively on max difficulty, I’m in the level where you first encounter elite commandos and having two of them walk on screen and start calling in artillery on you after you’ve made the obvious move of holing up in the abandoned houses for cover is such a “gotcha” moment.

The game is also so cruel to make you assume you’ve escaped from them when you get down the cliffside because that would be the video gamey thing to do, and then one turn later while you’re dealing with the ambush at the bottom of the cliff the camera pans back up to the same two fuckers who were tormenting you earlier setting up at the top with a team of snipers. It’s just such calculatedly wicked level design

You guys I might have made a mistake. Hard mode in Reverse Collapse is actually hard it’s not one of those games where hard mode is normal mode and normal mode is My First Fire Emblem Adventure for Ages 8 and Up