sullynathan
Arcane
So I'm new to this sub genre. I've only played Chaos rings on the phone and Ni no Kuni demo years ago and I liked both, Ni no Kuni was very exciting.
I currently started the first final fantasy and I'm also liking it but something about walking around a world with nothing on the surface then randomly stumbling into fights or getting ambushed rubs me the wrong way.
Which JRPGs are good or should be played? Does someone have to play all the final fantasy games?
Sigourn has compiled a list for us
I currently started the first final fantasy and I'm also liking it but something about walking around a world with nothing on the surface then randomly stumbling into fights or getting ambushed rubs me the wrong way.
Which JRPGs are good or should be played? Does someone have to play all the final fantasy games?
Sigourn has compiled a list for us
I decided to keep the list as it was and not make any changes. People will have enough games to choose from.
As for me, I trimmed the fat of almost anything I could remotely consider questionable in any way or form when it came to weaboo, with a few notable exceptions. I ended up with 50 games that are much more reasonable to play than 100 (especially considering my Western list has like... 160 or so):
- Baroque
- Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
- Elminage Original
- Eternal Poison
- Eternal Ring
- Etrian Odyssey (Yes, I know)
- Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard (Yes, I know)
- Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City (Yes, I know)
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Final Fantasy XII: International Zodiac Job System
- Kartia: The Word of Fate
- King's Field
- King's Field II
- King's Field III
- King's Field IV
- Koudelka
- Kyuuki Megami Tensei
- Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen
- Pandora’s Tower
- Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
- Persona 2: Innocent Sin
- Revelations: Persona
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms X
- Shadow Hearts
- Shadow Hearts: Covenant
- Shadow Tower
- Shadow Tower Abyss
- Shadowrun
- Shadowrun
- Shin Megami Tensei
- Shin Megami Tensei II
- Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Maniax
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
- Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
- Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2
- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (Yes, I know)
- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (Yes, I know)
- Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
- Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
- The Dark Spire
- The Last Story
- Uncharted Waters: New Horizons
- Vagrant Story
- Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume
- Wizardry Gaiden 4: Throb Of The Demon's Heart (Taima No Kodou)
- Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land
- Xenoblade Chronicles
If I were asked to trim down to 10, then I would go with:
- Vagrant Story
- Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Maniax
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
- The Dark Spire
- Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
- Wizardry Gaiden 4: Throb Of The Demon's Heart (Taima No Kodou)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms X
- Shadow Tower Abyss
Bear in mind I've only played Vagrant Story (only Japanese RPG you will ever need), but the rest seem to be Codex and aweigh certified JRPGs. Paging Dr. aweigh to know if I picked the right Wizardry-inspired games or not.
Because I wasn't satisfied with my previous list, I decided to do the community a good favor and made a new one. See it here.
I went through many, many threads, looking at what the most common mentioned games were. For the record, those threads are the following:
- Console RPGs that don't suck?
- Non-linear JRPGs
- JRPGs more appealing to the western eyez...
- jRPGs that might appeal to wRPG fans
- Jrpgs with western rpg elements
- JRPG Recommendations?
- JRPGS, where to start? should I even
- JRPGs to begin/explore/understand the genre
And, of course, this thread, as well as the last console RPG voting of the Codex. There are a few threads that I didn't bother taking into account, namely: the one about obscure/interesting/underrated JRPGs, the one about the best S-RPGs, and the one about JRPGs with interesting systems. Why? Because it's digging deep into "who the fuck knows these games" territory, and most of the games that appears in those threads are mentioned by only one or two users. Otherwise, this list would have jumped from 130 to the 200s easily. Instead of that, you have a list of games that are recommended throughout the Codex. So stuff like The 7th Saga is here, but Metal Max Returns isn't. In regards to S-RPGs, the best ones have pretty much been mentioned in this thread: FFT, Tactics Ogre, Shining Force, Langrisser, you know the drill.
Hopefully it will be useful to you guys. Notable games missing from this list:
- Games released on PC that have "great" ports: Valkyria Chronicles, Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen, Souls series, mostly Wizardry-related games and Labyrinth of Touhou, Chinese Paladin, Trails in the Sky series, among others.
- Games that as of this date can't be emulated properly on a computer (PS3, PS4, Xbox, 3DS, PS Vita, among other consoles).
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