Japanese RPGs can be exhausting sometimes (I just beat Lost Odyssey)

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Khuutra on 18 February 2010

Whew.

So I just beat Lost Odyssey - great game, by the way, if it were a Final Fantasy it would join my unranked Top 5 for that series, which is a very elite club - and it's kind of an exhausting experience.

I grant that WRPGs and JRPGs have very different approaches to storytelling, and I prefer the character development and thematic explorations in good WRPGs by and large (like anything Chris Avellone writes), but a really good JRPG can rise above the melodrama that characterizes so much of the genre and really make an emotionally honest statement.

Mother 3 got me emotionally exhausted like no other game in the world.

Lost Odyssey was good for this kind of thing.

Hell, even Dragon Quest IV did it too, to a certain extent (I played as the male).

Anyway, yeha. Let's talk about JRPGs. When they're good, they're really good!

....

....Kinda want to play another one. Valkyria Chronicles is on my plate, though that doesn't really count.

Is Blue Dragon good?

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SnakeEyez on 18 February 2010

I recently beat LO as well, very good game, underrated if u ask me.

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reaver_x on 18 February 2010

beat LO twice. great game still my favourite JRPG released this gen

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Carl on 18 February 2010

Valkyria Chronicles is emotional! And amazing! And my fave game this gen so far! Play it! Nao!

As for Blue Dragon, i thought it was a good game, but was annoying after a while. The main character (I can't remember his name) and the other annoying little bear thing were just too much. After so long i just lost interest.

And it possibly has the worst villain in a game ever IMO.

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Blacksaber on 18 February 2010

Get Skies of Arcadia...I have to do that since I'm SoA Fanboy/Sega Fanboy of the site...also it is the same makers of Valkyria Chronicles...

Blue Dragon from what I played was not really fun...Don't even go to Eternal Sonata it will kill your ears...Not much left...Also the reason for my dots is my comma key is broken...

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SnakeEyez on 18 February 2010

^Skies of Arcadia was awesome. I remember beating it back in the DC days. I haven't played Blue Dragon but from what I've seen, it's not that good.

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Wagram on 18 February 2010

Blue Dragon is decent. Good battle system.

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Khuutra on 18 February 2010

Well like I said, Valkyria is up next. The writing so far (I'm five missions in) isn't stupendous or anything, but I expect it to get better over time.

I guess what it comes down to is that I like JRPGs best when they embrace their style and particular storytelling modes. Sakaguchi, after having learned from Hori, is particularly good at that