Most of us play video games as a way to escape the dreary tedium that can accompany our every day lives. It gives us a break, the opportunity to blow off steam, adventures unfettered, and sometimes…sometimes…

It lets us simulate someone else’s work day…

Wait…what…?

All right, all right, let’s start this off with some backstory, shall we?

Now, I have grown to love the Nintendo series Fire Emblem. Most gamers are semi-familiar with the series now, through either the resounding success of Three Houses on the Nintendo Switch, the inclusion of Fire Emblem characters in Super Smash Bros. since Melee, or maybe even the mobile game, Fire Emblem: Heroes.

You know, Nintendo’s successful mobile game that’s made over half a BILLION dollars as of this past July¹?

Anyway, long story as short as I can make it, Nintendo published the original Fire Emblem from Intelligent Systems back in 1990 on the Family Computer Disk System (commonly known as the Famicom, and the Japanese equivalent to the Nintendo Entertainment System).

They continued to make Fire Emblem games on the Famicom (NES), Super Famicom (SNES), and finally released their first installment in the US on the Game Boy Advance in 2003. Experiencing moderate success in the west, games were published for the Gamecube, DS, and Wii through the 2000s.

Fire Emblem in the US didn’t really hit its stride until Awakening was released in 2013. Intelligent Systems packed the game with story, strategy, and content that gave fans what they were looking for and converted many gamers into series followers. So many, in fact, that it saved the series from being cancelled².

From there, the series continued on the DS family of systems and made its previously mentioned debut on mobile. Which is where I came on board, sort of.

I had an ill fated run in with Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon back in ’09…as I recall, it didn’t go well…

Being eased into the series through Heroes helped me to learn the basics of the game and the rest…is a longer story than this one already is.

SO, having finally had the time to sit down and begin to really enjoy the latest iteration, Three Houses, I began to notice some disturbing similarities between my latest two-hour play session and a typical work day, which I shall now illustrate with a variety of screenshots…

True story…but with less swearing…

-Share your own games to life encounter in the comments below!

¹https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/07/27/dragalia-lost-surpasses-100-million-in-revenue-is-now-nintendos-second-most-successful

²https://www.gamespot.com/articles/strong-fire-emblem-awakening-sales-saved-the-series-cancellation/1100-6408782/