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This Week in Mobile Games - The Beginning of the Endfield




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Covnam



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2026 4:07 pm Reply with quote
Welcome and looking forward to reading more in the future!

I've enjoyed what I've played so far of Endfield, but yeah, it'd be much better if the 120 guarantee carried over between banners.
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AiddonValentine



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2026 4:13 pm Reply with quote
Welcome aboard.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2026 4:51 pm Reply with quote
I spent a while wondering who the popular operator Surt was and eventually realized it was just a misspelling of Surtr.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2026 6:12 pm Reply with quote
Glad to see this is finally a thing. Way back at Otakon like 2018 or 2019, I went to the ANN panel and suggested that there should be a This Week in Games for mobile stuff, provided they could somehow find “the Heidi of mobile games”. Looks like they finally found someone.
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Slop Slop no Mi



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2026 5:43 pm Reply with quote
I feel like the "real games" dismissal had more water back in the day when console and PC games were mostly still good and mobile games were limited to short-burst time wasters you'd play on the toilet. But back in 2023 when Honkai Star Rail came out I thought it was the best JRPG that came out that year just because it had the most interesting characters, battles, and story. As the industry relies more and more on remakes, remasters, and re-releases it's not surprising to see how mobile games tend to lead the forefront and seem to have all the creativity and quality put into them. Seeing games like Umamusume and Blue Archive take off last year makes sense when you realize there's not much new traditional games coming out that can match the same feel so when a bunch of new people discovered them they remembered that games can have fun and interesting characters in them. It genuinely feels like those games have the best written and most memorable characters that have come out in recent years.
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