Home console jrpgs just seem hopelessly stale to me now. I took a break from them over the entire fall thinking I just had burnout and needed to take a break from them. Then I tried SO4 recently, was bored out of my mind (a supposedly good combat system doesn't mean jack when most battles are boring) and send it back. So seeing this news (Famitsu also rated it poorly) is disheartening. I just can't sit through a home console jrpg anymore. Their stories are severely over-rated (including FF7, the ultimate j-pop emo young adult soap opera). If I want a story, I'd rather watch TV, a movie, animu, read a book or play a visual novel. And their gameplay is sub-par, tedious and feels like a job rather than fun. Yet somehow, I can still play handheld jrpgs no problem and have fun. Etrian Odyssey for eg.
White Knight Chronicles apparently fits within the same damn console jrpg formula and western game reviewers are just sick it. And rightfully so. Even Famitsu gave it lacklustre grades.
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