Lately I have been into my Japanese RPG's, I have been playing games like Skies of Arcadia and Blue Dragon, and I NEED MORE!!! Could you please recommend some jrpg's for me, I don't care what console or handheld they are on. Thanks
JRPG recommendations
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Check out Persona 3 and 4 on PS2, or Valkyria Chronicles on PS3. Legend of Dragoon on Playstation is an underrated gem. Devil Survivor and Strange Journey on DS are also awesome.
The Dragon Quest games are pretty good, I think.
Journey of the Cursed King's alright, anyway. It's for the PS2 and is really, really, really long. Or I just take forever with fights. I forget.
Should kill some time, anyway. If you can find it, that is. I'm not sure how easy it is to get hold of these days, haven't looked.
Journey of the Cursed King's alright, anyway. It's for the PS2 and is really, really, really long. Or I just take forever with fights. I forget.
Should kill some time, anyway. If you can find it, that is. I'm not sure how easy it is to get hold of these days, haven't looked.
I love the dragon quest series, and I have a copy of VIII, I've just never got round to playing it
Handhelds are pretty much king for JRPG's this gen. Talking consoles, Lost Odyssey is a great JRPG made by the same people who made Blue Dragon. You can't really go wrong with the Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest or Tales series, the latest installments being Final Fantasy XIII, Dragon Quest IX (DS exclusive) and Tales of Vesperia. Eternal Sonata is also a good JRPG to check into. If you live in Europe, or don't mind importing, the Wii has Xenoblade Chronicles and I believe they have or are getting The Last Story as well. In terms of the DS, The World Ends With You has been pretty well received as well as the Chrono Trigger remake/port for the DS. The DS also has quite a few Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy games to it's name. I'm a pretty casual fan of the JRPG genre, so the games I listed are probably good if your just starting out, but there are tons of JRPGs that I know I missed. Hope this helps 
I've recently been playing Eternal Sonata for the PS3/Xbox360. Good story, a little boring initially but ain't that the way with JRPGs. However I'd avoid the later final fantasies like the plague, they have predictable stories and ever worsening gameplay.
I'm rather enjoying Lost Odyssey myself at the moment.
The story is great and it has some tiny differences that make it stand out as a JRPG.
It's also been produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi,who you might know from something called Final Fantasy
The story is great and it has some tiny differences that make it stand out as a JRPG.
It's also been produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi,who you might know from something called Final Fantasy
Truer words never spoken. Of course you got your basic FF series which is always a good one... hmm.. oh! The Tales of games are amazing (Symphonia, Vesperia, Eternia)TehCookie said:
Then you got your Star Ocean, I'm a magnormous fan of the Shadow Heart series, the first one is a bit of a pain to get a hold of but realy worth it, can play the second and third without it though.
That's all I can think of off of the top of my head right now but should keep you going for many a week if your a completionist kind of JRPG player x3
I could just list all my JRPGs but I would be hear for like 10 minutes typing them all ^^"
I quite enjoyed Golden Sun when I were a lad...not that I've tried any of the new ones. Here's a tip, download and emulator for GBA, get the first Golden Sun ROM and see if you enjoy it, if you don't, no loss except maybe your time and if you do enjoy it, then go purchase the new one and see if it's also any good. It may not be but there's a safe bet that a sequel is gonna play just like it's predecessor except with my shiny things...
Dragon quest: Journey of the cursed king on PS2 [http://www.videox-store.co.uk/products.php?product=Dragon-Quest] or Shining force 1/2 on the genesis. These games ooze charm and charecter. Much better than the modern tripe that gets squeezed out. I love the protagonists in each of these games. I do not see why JRPGs seem so hung up on unlikable charecters at the moment.
For something very different try Koudelka on the ps1. Turn based horror JRPG. The party is fantastic with a witch, a priest and an adventurer thrown together. Their conversations with each other are fantastic and the atmosphere is smonething else.
For something very different try Koudelka on the ps1. Turn based horror JRPG. The party is fantastic with a witch, a priest and an adventurer thrown together. Their conversations with each other are fantastic and the atmosphere is smonething else.
Strange Journey? (The Shin Megami Tensei game that's a throwback to the original SMT games, with the Demonica?) Haa, I love that game. I'm still in the second sector, but man, I love that game. I also agree with you on Legend of Dragoon.Fusioncode9 said:
Hmm. I'm actually doing the absurd thing of playing all the FF games as soon as I can get access to them. (which has slowed down substantially since the remaining few I can't emulate. X/XII/XIII damn your current/lastgen-ness!)
Golden Sun and The Lost Age were good, can't comment on Dark Dawn since I haven't played it yet. Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga was damn good if you can tolerate it being Mario. (Though Partners in Time was eternally dull to me, Bowser's Inside Story is also pretty good.)
Uh... Wow. I need to play some JRPGs myself. Been playing too many masochistic platformers lately.