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Gaming - 100 Good JRPGs - View Post

kupomogli on 11 May 2014
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gergroy said:
kupomogli said:

I was getting towards the end and couldn't think of anything else I've completed that I liked while also leaving out games I didn't consider JRPGs even if they have  RPG elements.  I forgot Dragon's Crown though which was pretty amazing, which is also more RPG influence than beat em up.  Might add that in and remove Vandal Hearts.

That being said, Vandal Hearts isn't a bad game, it just had a gameplay element that people didn't like.  I could have added Grandia Xtreme instead and I'd think the same.  People hated the character designs, the story, and the maps, but the egg system and the battle system makes up for it.

The simultaneous movement pretty much made the game unplayable.  How they went from the amazing original vandal hearts to vandal hearts 2 is beyond me.  Did they even try playing their own game?

anyway, I know this is your list, but there are definitely better jrpg's out there if you were feeling stretched, but maybe you havent played them? Suikoden 5 is awesome as well as baten kaitos, for example.

It's not as good as the first game, not even close, but it was far from unplayable.  There are plenty of games I could have added that I wouldn't have because I thought it was a better game.  Final Fantasy 3, 10, 12, 13, Valkyrie Profile, Vagrant Story, Ni No Kuni, Pokemon Blue, Diamond, X, Dragon Quest 9, are available from the pool and I'd still skip to Vandal Hearts 2.  Other games I liked better than those I just listed that I still passed over were Atelier Totori, Phantasy Star, Phantasy Star 2, Destiny of an Emperor, etc.  It's not like Vandal Hearts 2 was all I had left to choose from, it's just what I thought the best game was out of the other games I've had to choose from. As I said earlier though, I forgot about Dragon's Crown and as of writing this Dragon Quest 8 comes to mind, so those two games would kick Vandal Hearts 2 off the list when I update it anyways.

Suikoden 5 I've only played 10 hours and apparently I was right next to getting the castle, but aside from not completing it so it wouldn't be on the list anyways, the first 10 hours in that game is what got me to quit due to how boring it was.

But there are also games I haven't played.  I've still yet to play Xillia, Xenoblade, Baten Kaitos, Radiant Historia, SMT Strange Journey, etc.  

There's also some JRPGs that I couldn't add to the list because they're technically not JRPGs if they're from a western developer.  Breath of Death 7 would be on this list and maybe the other games Zeboyd games has made whenever I get around to playing them.