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Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore Review

  Tokyo Mirage Sessions is this bizarre combination of J-Pop, Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei. The fact it exists at all is minor miracle and it is quite unlike any JRPG I have ever played. It is completely amazing and insane and there is this weird sense of humour and awareness not seen in most RPGs. The premise is absolutely crazy; you play as Itski, a high schooler who signs up to an idol agency called Fotuna Entertainment. It turns out though that the agency is just a front, and their real goals are to fight of these evil spirits. You see, a bunch of otherworldly incidents have been happening in Tokyo. Secret demons have been invading and causing havoc by feasting on some celebrities’ Performa (which is basically their soul). This causes them to go crazy so the idols, employed by Fortuna Entertainment, need to enter the demon world, fight their way through a dungeon and defeat a boss to save the day. It is kind of like the Persona series, except instead of personas the idols f