HazzaH said:
I like 'em. But like any kind of game there are some really awesome ones and really horrible ones. And the boxes all look so pretty it's hard to tell them apart until you've played them =(
I agree with this. While I am a massive fan of the RPG genre there are just like other genres out there many titles that are um, not as good as the rest
I do like my JRPG just as much as my WRPG and here is a short(ish) list of some of my closest favourites
- Secret of Mana (one of the first RPG's I played and one that I have dedicated most of my time to, flawless perfection)
- Chrono Trigger (great game that has some nice touches throughout the game and keeps things moving along nicely)
- Terranigma (Very old Enix game that has a truely awesome game style, plus replayability!)
- Secret of Evermore (Very old Square game that was one of the first to utilise the man/beast combo, oh and very very funny too

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- Suikoden (It has acutal auto-combat! Something that all games of this type should have, oh and it's a fun game too!)
- Kingdom Hearts 1&2 (Wow, it's like one game that has everything you need in it, not since Secret of Mana have I poured so much time and energy into a game. The gameboy version was strange but nice and I enjoyed playing to continue the gripping story and the fact the sequels continued the story well and improved on the previous version)
- Golden Sun (Apart from the fact that 1 ended so abruptly I thought the game had crashed, it worked very well for portable only. Plus I had hours of fun chasing up all the djinns!)
- Wild Arms (I think this was a western game done like a JRPG, but whatever it was it was done *VERY* well. Although I could never get that one damned piece of armor from the ocean

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I left off Final Fantasy for a reason, it is very much a love/hate thing, some things they did well and in others not at all. I love the ability to run around and take things at my own pace and not be forced down a single path, but at the same time I find that over grind gets boring. To be honest that pretty much sums up most JRPG's
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