First of all Yuri has Savage Wolf Fury. Second Yuri unlike Kratos does not need wings or awesome hair or magic to be awesome. Third if you actually played the normal storyline of Symphonia and played Symphonia 2 you would know that Kratos coming back never happened. Explaining Yuri anymore would prove as a spoiler so i'm going to leave it at that. No offence but i REALLY think you sould replay ToV because i don't think you get the whole concept behind Yuri and Estelle.

You sould really get ToV. You won't regret it.

Vagrant Story had no business looking as good as it did on the PS1. I am so damn serious. That looks almost comparable to the really early trailers of Shenmue on the Saturn.

I just noticed a few more names in there. Executive producer was Sakaguchi.

A lot of talent went into that gem. Man I wish they would give us a sequel.

Everyone in this thread should watch the awesomeness contained in that video, just because it was one hell of a nice looking PS1 game, even now. It aged quite well.

1. Suikoden II (moon bird recipe FTW!)

2. chrono trigger

3. Final Fantasy VII

4. Xenosaga

5. Suikoden V

6. Wild arms

7. Breath of Fire III

8. Lost Odyssey

9. Final Fantasy X

10. Beyond the Beyond

I would also like to mention Shining Force 1-3.  I don't put them on the list because they aren't quite JRPG's, but are strategy JRPG's, but I would put them at the top of the list if they counted.  BTW I'm still praying that one day shining force 3 scenario's 2 and 3 somehow make it stateside...

My jaw dropped when I first saw the game on my PS1. It dropped again when I popped it into my PS2 with smoothing on.

Maybe it will drop again tomorrow when I pop it in with smoothing and upscaling.

This is without smoothing on. Still looks great for a PS1 title.

Yuri doesn't need any of that to be cool? That's like saying pop doesn't need sugar to be sweet. All of that add up to who Kratos is. A 4000 year old hero with supernatural powers strong enough to wipe out the other members of your ToS team by himself.

And you misunderstood my awkward return to the party. I meant after the first betrayal at the Tower of Salvation.

I dunno. They're both cool, but Kratos has definitely had a bigger impact on me. Clean and simple.

And fear not, any day now, when I'm not too busy, I will return to ToV, and finish Grade Grinding with Rita and achieve the piggy bank achievement and start my 2nd playthrough.

In no particular order

Lunar 2 Eternal Blue (sega Saturn Version)
Ys book I & II
Shining Force II
Lunar Silver Star Story Complete (sega saturn version)
Tengai Makyou IV (aka Far East of Eden)
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Grandia
Chrono Trigger
Phantasy Star Online ep I & II
Final Fantasy VI

Panzer Dragoon Saga

Grandia (Sega Saturn)

Tengai Makyou IV

Lunar Eternal Blue (sega saturn)

Good make sure you pay attention to everything on your 2nd playthrough so you can understand the storyline better. But i can understand how you think ToS is better then ToV since ToS was you first Tales game. But you have to admit one thing, Yuri had a better fighting style then Kratos. And what I mean by Yuri does not need cool hair and wings to be awesome is that Yuri's back story alone makes awesome. His funny personality and fighting style just adds too his awesomeness.

This young fella right here would eat Yuri and Kratos for breakfast.