{"id":773528,"date":"2025-11-30T01:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/five-of-the-best-summons?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-11-30T01:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:27:53","slug":"five-of-the-best-summons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/five-of-the-best-summons\/","title":{"rendered":"Five of the Best: Summons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/five-of-the-best-summons.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><em>Five of the Best is a weekly series for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/subscribe\"><em>supporters of Eurogamer<\/em><\/a><em>. It&#8217;s a series that highlights some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It&#8217;s also about having your say, so don&#8217;t be shy, use the comments below and join in!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oh and if you want to read more, you can &#8211; you can find <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/five-of-the-best\"><em>our entire Five of the Best archive<\/em><\/a><em> elsewhere on the site.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m playing Thaumaturge at the moment, a new role-playing game about a magic user who has a strange relationship with spirits, which fight with them in battle, and it&#8217;s made me think about summons. That in turn made me think those hours I won&#8217;t get back from playing Xbox 360 RPG Blue Dragon many years ago &#8211; that was a slog, wasn&#8217;t it? Though, I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the smoothing effect of time but my memories of it have turned worryingly fond. 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