Never been into jrpgs but I wish you all a very pleasant death to america
Bit idea: JRPG where you go on an epic quest to find your dad, who turns out to be an eldritch horror chaos god, but when you go to kill him, it turns out he was actually the United States all along
The united states is lavos if you think about it
I like how there's a second Square character to cover up Monolith representation lmao
Since the merger theres actually three Square characters here lol.
That said Xenoblade is cool but Chrono Trigger is the all time greatest so I agree with the decision.
That merger is like 20+ years old, but I still think of DQ as an Enix thing lol.
That said Xenoblade is cool but Chrono Trigger is the all time greatest so I agree with the decision.
Toriyama sensei can have two characters designs represented lol
Both
I’m a huge sucker for JRPG’s. One of the first emulators I had was a SNES one that was stuffed with JRPG’s. I spent hours playing them over and over. I still get a weird tinge of nostalgia when I hear sounds from Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger isn't like, my personal favorite game because there are games that have more like, significance to me. But it is the game that I consider the "best game I've played" from like, objective standards if you know what I mean?
earthbound and mother 3 my beloveddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Been playing through Earthbound and streaming it for my girlfriend a bit lately. Its really enjoyable. The early game is SO difficult and even after you get party members the inventory management can be annoying, but the writing is so clever that its all very worth it. I am admitedly using an exploit to make PP management not as much of a worry at my girlfriend's recomendation and I'm worried its making the game too easy lol, but I'm still having a very good time exploring what the game has to offer.
I'm really excited to try Mother 3 as well. Though that might be a bit because me and my gf agreed I stream me playing Earthbound for her, then she streams her playing Chrono Trigger for me, before we do Mother 3.
yea earthbound is pretty difficult in the beginning (the first boss is kinda shit) and then gets more easier... until fourside and then the last "your sancturary" location
mother 3 in many ways is different from earthbound, its less surrealistic, more story-based and combat is a bit more streamlined but its also Super Good. both of them are one of my favourite games, i hope you enjoy mother 3 when you get to it :::D
MOTHER 2: The most They Might Be Giants game to not be a They Might Be Giants game
Can I still do it if I'm an SRPG loser instead
Of course!
(Tbh Fire Emblem is basically a JRPG for me anyway because if anime and tropes lol).
Liked JRPGs as a kid. Don't now. The stories are just anime for the most part, the gameplay is a skinner box where the treat pellets are cutscenes, and once I'd read some books and whatever, they generally come off as pretty trite. No matter the twist on it, it's shonen with what is barely gameplay and I don't like shonen. There are good ones, Earthbound and Mother 3 are something else (aside from the gameplay which is, pretty eh at best tbh), Chrono Trigger (of course), I can fuck with the Tales games cause of the gameplay and I eat tactical jrpgs for breakfast but that's cause I really like turn based strategy games. Your standard party vs monster with overworld and battle screens and menus just bug me now. The ones I have enjoyed are very very strategy heavy or are like Bug Fable or Mario and Luigi with good real time elements. Pokémon could be cool
the gameplay is a skinner box where the treat pellets are cutscenes
Me as a kid cheating this system by running from battles so I could get to the next cutscene or town to talk to people in (yes, I liked getting one line of dialoug from each NPC that much). Then ending up coming up against a boss that I'm underleveled for, getting stuck, and quitting.
Honestly for me growing up has been learning to enjoy the gameplay part more as well. I get what you're saying though. But personally I like the narratives of pretty much every game in the FF series a lot, for example. And the Tales series as you mention. Other ones have more simple ones but still feel satisfying to me to explore it. I just find that method of narrative exploration very rewarding.
But I also like Shonen lol so that probably has something to do with it.
Liking Shonen will get you everywhere with JRPGs. Some FF games have their moments I've played 1-7 as well as 10 and 12, there's some pretty good stuff there, but I wouldn't really rank any above YA quality, which is the target audience and I liked it then. Tales games have good characters usually but the narrative is usually both convolulted and pretty shallow at the same time. I also believe there's only about 25 or so games that actually have really good stories, and that's leaving room for ones I haven't played.
I hate JRPGs
