Of course you'll be forgiven! I know people are busy and don't always have time to write me, so the contests are a reward for you guys (and gals) who provided such great content. Do not feel bad!

I mean you're welcome to guess those games, but I think you know those aren't in my top five! Anyway, that is a fine guess but incorrect! I'm going to omit the lists people send in, because that would make things too easy!

My word, that is a fantastic question, which I will of course provide you with an answer to. Here's the list, in reverse order:

1. Time Mages - I'm a huge fan of supportive classes with abilities that aren't necessarily damage dealing, and this is one of the best. Though the class often shows up with damage dealing spells, the classic haste/slow spells are its bread and butter.

2. Saboteur -  Kind of a grab bag of ideas, this Final Fantasy XIII class is just a grab bag of debuffs, which I think is pretty cool.

3. Summoner - There's nothing like summoning giant monsters to do the heavy lifting for you

4. Monks - Classic class focusing on fist-based combat and skills and often healing. They provide a much more robust "cleric" type class that is often easier to equip thanks to not using any weapons.

5. Ninja - Though I often don't care for their secondary skills, high mobility combined with dual-wielding makes them a powerful force.

6. Orator - Why fight when you can talk your way out of battles?

7. Geomancer - I like this class in tactics games because it makes the makeup of the battlefield very important.

8. Black Mage - Classic damage dealing powerhouse

9. Archers - I never cared much for this class until Tactics Ogre (the remake), where they are incredibly powerful ranged attackers.

10. Mounted Knights - Mainly thinking of the Shining Force centaurs and the mounted knights in Fire Emblem. With long movement range and powerful attacks, they are often the most important troops in your force.

Hope the list is helpful!

Oh boy, this is going to be good...

I think we all got sucked in back then just because it was a new Star Wars movie. I mean the very idea of anything new in the series just seemed an impossible dream. Sadly, as many re-watched, we all realized it just wasn't very good. I don't know if I can even blame the actors for some sub-par performances, it seems like the script just stunk. I think Lucas needed to hand off writing/directing, or at least the directing like he'd done in the past.

Yes, Attack of the Clones was a far better film. Though it had some issues with what should have been the most well developed part of the story (Anakin), the action scenes were great, and there were a lot more of them. It still can't touch the original films, but that's OK. Even the Yoda fight at the end, which seemed to clearly be a bit of fan service, was a lot of fun.

I did enjoy Revenge of the Sith a lot, despite a bit of silliness near the end. Your talk of the book makes me wish perhaps the movie was a bit longer to expand on some things. Anakin's fall isn't well enough developed in my opinion, but it wasn't horrible. I think this is the thing with very popular sequels to things, fans tend to overreact if they aren't as good as the originals. The prequels do not approach the quality of the originals for sure, but neither are they offense to cinema that they are often made out to be (well, not the second two anyway). They're some decent movies. Even so, I think Lucas should hand the series off to others with fresh ideas. Which Star Wars film is your favorite? (I'd go with Empire)

Softball you say? I'm finding this one a bit tough, so I'll have to delay it a week for extra research.

They are not fun, but I think the worst offender is Phantom Brave. You can stack items and such on top of one another, which makes targeting infuriatingly difficult. The Tactics Ogre  remake clearly realizes the issue, as it allows you to flatten the whole battle screen down to a 2D view to make targeting much easier. I'm not sure why it took that long to get such camera control, but it is a great touch. Still I don't think it is that bad, given that Final Fantasy Tactics is still an amazing game. We can probably blame the isometric perspective on the inception of 3D (no not THAT 3D) in gaming, so that the classic 2D style of tactics games was no longer welcome.

Didn't the game have some kind of feature where you could look back at events in the story? I can't remember. Anyway, I'd have to see I do like complex stories in games even if it isn't strictly necessary on a gameplay level. I think your concerns would be alleviated if more games kept some kind of journal of story events.

Pretty awful, no idea how they haven't been able to turn that into a big release.

As long as I only need to finish one character's story I'm all for it. As much as I find the game enjoyable at times, playing through all the characters is a bit much, and not really necessary.

No, but only because pretty much everything of worth has been ported elsewhere. If you are really interested in the console's library, you're better off getting a Wii and downloading games there, since you'll be able to use a better controller. Don't get me wrong, the system had great games, but the controller wasn't great, so the Wii is far more preferable to play them on.

I have actually never played Terranigma, and it is somewhat odd that it never made it out in the US, given that Europe was often the region getting the short end of the stick back then. That brings me to a completely different question. Whatever happened to Quintet? They seem to have fallen off the face of the earth.

Oh no, I was trying to block these games out of my mind! I'd say try the Shining Souls games and ignore absolutely everything else, especially Neo and EXA. The Souls games at least took place in the Shining Force universe, but I don't think any of the others really resemble the original series in the slightest.

I'm wondering if this is some sort of subliminal attempt to get me to finally play and complete all three parts of Shining Force III. Well whether it is or not, it's working!

Also going to save these for next week as the previous challenge already sucked up all my researching time!

I...wow, is this karma for all the generalizations we make about the Japanese? Please continue..

You may have intended otherwise but I really want to play this series now. I have to wonder, are they just trolling us? Did the developers just know nothing about America? Or perhaps they intended it to be completely silly? Regardless, sounds like it provides a good laugh.

As always, thank you for the content!

They are! To be fair to fans though, it is such a departure from the style and tone of Chrono Trigger that I can't really blame them too harshly for disliking it. Still, on its own merits, it is a fine game. I think it could use a nice remake, especially to fix certain characters that were supposed to be characters from Trigger.

It may not be as good as a Suikoden cast, but there's a lot of different fun and unique characters to play, and it gives the player a lot of freedom. Not that this freedom changes much, but it still is a nice feature.

I have no idea, there's a lot of games with new game plus modes that could really use this kind of feature. Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System has something similar, allowing you to speed up combat, but that's about all I can think of. There's a lot of games with multiple story paths that could really use this feature!

I have not played them, but I've heard of them and they sound quite good. Genre mashups are something we've seen a lot of in recent years, and when done properly they can be quite amazing! I'll give it a try and share my thoughts!

Thanks for the tip!