Pokemon, White Knight Chronicles, Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, and Golden Sun. I love them all.
JRPGs you enjoyed
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Really, I find Yahtzee's view of JRPGs rather narrow minded and short sighted; but then I say the same for anyone who has a broad sweeping opinion of an entire genre, esp. if it's a negative one.cernik said:
Anyway that's not what you asked me however so let me get on with the topic at hand then. Some of the JRPGs I've enjoyed include:
Chrono Trigger
Tales of Symphonia
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Star Ocean: Last Hope (not nearly as much as 'Till the End of Time' however)
Chrono Cross
Secret of Evermore
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy X
Persona 3
EDIT:
Oops, I forgot,
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicals and the Pokemon games (Red, Yellow, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Fire Red, Leaf Green, Diamond)
I think there's been plenty of threads already like this, and your views on JRPGs look copy-paste Yahtzee. Not going to complain, it just is a little irritating.cernik said:
As for myself I love JRPGs, mainly because I'm an anime fan. My main favorites so far happen to be
Kingdom Hearts [all that have come out so far]
.hack [mainly G.U.]
EDIT:
Mana Khemia
Fire Emblem
Pretty much all of them until FFVII came out. From then on it was sparse with xenogears being a real standout for it's time.
Nowadays even the ones I enjoyed then I wouldn't really get into now. I guess I've just outgrown the genre? Who knows. I tell you though, I can STILL play FFVI any day, any time, all day, every day. Something about that game...That and FF Tactics remains my favorite games.
I suspect I'd love disgaea as well because it seems to follow the tactics forumla but for whatever reason I've yet to play one.
Nowadays even the ones I enjoyed then I wouldn't really get into now. I guess I've just outgrown the genre? Who knows. I tell you though, I can STILL play FFVI any day, any time, all day, every day. Something about that game...That and FF Tactics remains my favorite games.
I suspect I'd love disgaea as well because it seems to follow the tactics forumla but for whatever reason I've yet to play one.
Let me see here....
any Working Designs game;
Lunar series (Lunar Silver Star Story and Lunar Eternal Blue, both Sega CD and PS1 version)
Popful Mail...etc
These SNES RPGs
Earthbound (Mother 2)
Chrono Trigger
Star Ocean
Terranigma....etc.
That about it for me. Those really stand out in my head.
any Working Designs game;
Lunar series (Lunar Silver Star Story and Lunar Eternal Blue, both Sega CD and PS1 version)
Popful Mail...etc
These SNES RPGs
Earthbound (Mother 2)
Chrono Trigger
Star Ocean
Terranigma....etc.
That about it for me. Those really stand out in my head.
Pretty much everything in the Final Fantasy series (except 7)
The Star Ocean series
Persona series
Paper Mario series
Chrono Trigger
Wild Arms Series
Fire Emblem series
The list goes on. I love JRPGs and by the way your view is a very closed minded view on JRPGs. Try playing a few more and you will see how wrong you are and why bandwagon hating of RPGs really is stupid and the haters should be better informed and try a few games before hating on them.
The Star Ocean series
Persona series
Paper Mario series
Chrono Trigger
Wild Arms Series
Fire Emblem series
The list goes on. I love JRPGs and by the way your view is a very closed minded view on JRPGs. Try playing a few more and you will see how wrong you are and why bandwagon hating of RPGs really is stupid and the haters should be better informed and try a few games before hating on them.
Final Fantasy 2/4, 3/6, 7, 9, 10 and tactics.
Disgaea 1 and 2
Not sure if Odin Sphere and Grim Grimoire apply, but liked them
Suikoden 1, 2 and 4. 3 and tactics less so, but not bad and haven't sat down to 5 yet.
Jade cocoon 1 and 2
Xenogears
Mana Khemia
Phantom Brave
La Pucelle Tactics
Makai Kingdom (A lot of Atlus)
Breath of Fire 2,3. 4 to a lesser extent.
Brainlord
Illusion of Gaia
Inindo - Way of the Ninja
Lufia 2
Earthbound
Likely more
To follow up, here are some I disliked:
Lost Odyssey
Eternal Sonata
Empheral Phantasia
Xenosaga 2
Lufia 1
Breath of Fire 1 (mostly speed. It was so slow as to be unplayable)
7th Saga
Ogre Battle
Final fantasy 8, X-2, 12 and Tactics Advance
Granstream Saga (debatable if it applies)
Threads of fate
Shining tears
Legend of Dragoon (didn't hate this one, just couldn't care for some reason)
The .hack series.
Disgaea 1 and 2
Not sure if Odin Sphere and Grim Grimoire apply, but liked them
Suikoden 1, 2 and 4. 3 and tactics less so, but not bad and haven't sat down to 5 yet.
Jade cocoon 1 and 2
Xenogears
Mana Khemia
Phantom Brave
La Pucelle Tactics
Makai Kingdom (A lot of Atlus)
Breath of Fire 2,3. 4 to a lesser extent.
Brainlord
Illusion of Gaia
Inindo - Way of the Ninja
Lufia 2
Earthbound
Likely more
To follow up, here are some I disliked:
Lost Odyssey
Eternal Sonata
Empheral Phantasia
Xenosaga 2
Lufia 1
Breath of Fire 1 (mostly speed. It was so slow as to be unplayable)
7th Saga
Ogre Battle
Final fantasy 8, X-2, 12 and Tactics Advance
Granstream Saga (debatable if it applies)
Threads of fate
Shining tears
Legend of Dragoon (didn't hate this one, just couldn't care for some reason)
The .hack series.
JRPG's might just be the greatest genre of all. They're rivaled only by the BioWare genre.
Off the top of my head...
Disgaea 1,2,3
Suikoden 3,4,5, Tierkris
Valkyria Chronicles
Eternal Sonata
Chrono Trigger and Cross
Final Fantasy 4,6,9,10,12... and maybe 7. Final Fantasy Tactics. The Advance games have great gameplay, but terrible plots.
La Pucelle Tactics
Phantom Brave
Persona 3,4
Dragon Quest 5,8
Valkyrie Profile 1,2
Odin Sphere
GrimGrimoire
Super Mario RPG
Fire Emblem
Secret of Mana
Off the top of my head...
Disgaea 1,2,3
Suikoden 3,4,5, Tierkris
Valkyria Chronicles
Eternal Sonata
Chrono Trigger and Cross
Final Fantasy 4,6,9,10,12... and maybe 7. Final Fantasy Tactics. The Advance games have great gameplay, but terrible plots.
La Pucelle Tactics
Phantom Brave
Persona 3,4
Dragon Quest 5,8
Valkyrie Profile 1,2
Odin Sphere
GrimGrimoire
Super Mario RPG
Fire Emblem
Secret of Mana
Fire Emblem (or does that not count?), Tales of Symphonia, Chrono Trigger, the demo of Dragon Quest 8 (wanted to get the game but didn't), Final Fantasy VI, and Paper Mario. I also want to get around to Persona 3 and 4, and quite frankly I have some RPG's I need to play, Japanese and western.