I have played DQ11 so many times, and beaten it once. Always start on harder monsters, then fizzle out towards the end of act two and switch down to normal. Fun game, if maybe a few too many slow parts
Love the combat system mechanics, love the moveset variety among party members, love the huge enviroments, love the side content in general, love the pacing on the main quest, love everything about it. It was my first JRPG and generally the most formative game for my taste in video games.
I think I have more posts mentioning the game on this site than posts that don't mention it lol. Granted part of that is the current lack of more specific/niche discussion topics (which will hopefully be solved as the site grows) as I do have alot of game interests outside of JRPGs.
For me it has to be Grandia. This game feels like a pure dose of adventure, and to me it is a nostalgia pill I sometimes take for the trip. That it doesn't get more recognition in the modern day is beyond me.
To a lesser extent, Secret of Mana is also a game I like to redo every other year with different people, and that I know absolutely by heart (can't wait to experience that with my son someday).
Lastly I developed a love/hate relationship with the Trails series back in 2011, and the first game in this series in particular shifted my view on JRPGs forever. It is a bit too recent though to be "that game", but had it be published in the 90's it might have been
Threads of Fate/Dewprism. It's an action RPG with two protagonists so you have to play it twice to get the full story. It was actually one of the first JRPG or JRPG-adjacent games I ever played. Still, it's hard to explain why it left such an impression on me. The story isn't particularly deep and it's not particularly difficult, except for the part where it becomes a platformer for some reason, and I don't think I ever actually finished it as a kid, probably because of the platforming section now that I think about it. But for some reason whenever I feel nostalgic about old games this is the one I always go back to and play through.
Crymachina looks interesting, but considering the similar title and the fact that its by the same devs as Crystar (FuRyu), I'm assuming its at least a spiritual sequel so I wanna finally get around to playing Crystar.
Sand Land and Metaphor look like they'll end up being must-buys, so they'll probably be the games that pushes me into getting a modern rig since I still play on a laptop thats only a bit stronger than a base PS4 lol.
Ys X also looks neat but I've only played Ys 1 & 2 so I've got alot of catching up to do, I've got time though considering how long NISA takes to butcher localize games.
Ys X also looks neat but I've only played Ys 1 & 2 so I've got alot of catching up to do, I've got time though considering how long NISA takes to butcher localize games.
About half of what Joker 1 sold overall. As much as I like Monsters doing well, I gotta say, either this was a really weak entry or I’ve outgrown the series in the past 13 years or so since we last got one in the west. The story and characters felt especially weak this time and the changes to synthesis seemed like they were pushing you into buying the DLC to re-scout monsters e.g., synthesis relying more on specific combinations than before - I barely made a team full of B rank monsters and only ever made a single A rank before finishing the secret final boss.
I wanted to Try the SaGa games for a while and since this magazine is pretty dead I though I would be nice to show very niche titles in hopes to spark some user interactions (other than post a link to some news get a couple of upvotes and that's all), two birds with one stones
Let's try add some variety to the magazine with some JRPG gameplay
I'm very inexperienced and I don't have plans of becoming a youtuber or a streamer, so don't expect high quality content, but is kind of boring to just create links that lead to no conversations
Since we have no mods, I'll ask the users that are still over here. Is ok to post about "Tactical RPGs" if they are made in Japan? or you prefer to be strictly about JRPGs
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