Demnogonis Saastuttaja
Magister
JRPG's are thrill rides. They are about seeing what comes next. If that's not exciting or if it flows badly (i.e. lots of random encounters and other filler stuff, which is almost all JRPG's I have seen.), the game is bad. An example of a good JRPG would be Paper Mario : The Thousand Year Door. I was consistently interested what weird stuff I would see next. Solid, witty writing, pretty unique style and good flow - things half of western RPG's don't do as well. It's very easy, though.
Bad JRPG's would be all before Chrono Trigger and most of them after it. They generally give you a headache from the frustration of playing them and never show you anything you haven't seen before a thousand times before.
Hairy balls of the gods I remember the headaches. FF8 with it's various forms of grinding (XP, AP, items, Triple Triad cards, spells...) and those several really horrible mazes and dungeons which were fucking long and would have a random encounter every few seconds. Or that horrible game on the Dreamcast... Well, whatever it's name was. It had characters named after weapons, was only about really horrible dungeon crawling and I can remember getting physically sick when trying to play it, despite really wanting to play something with the damn console. Perhaps I remember N64 so fondly because it didn't have almost any JRPG's.
Bad JRPG's would be all before Chrono Trigger and most of them after it. They generally give you a headache from the frustration of playing them and never show you anything you haven't seen before a thousand times before.
Hairy balls of the gods I remember the headaches. FF8 with it's various forms of grinding (XP, AP, items, Triple Triad cards, spells...) and those several really horrible mazes and dungeons which were fucking long and would have a random encounter every few seconds. Or that horrible game on the Dreamcast... Well, whatever it's name was. It had characters named after weapons, was only about really horrible dungeon crawling and I can remember getting physically sick when trying to play it, despite really wanting to play something with the damn console. Perhaps I remember N64 so fondly because it didn't have almost any JRPG's.