Random JRPG News Thread

[karoliner]

 

[mediocrepoet]

Wild Arms 3 was pretty cool too.

I'd say all of the games in the series are worth playing, very much so including Wild Arms XF. XF is a really cool tactical-RPG. Wild ARMs 2 is probably the weakest in the series imo, and even still worth giving a shot.

I'm pretty excited about this kickstarter, honestly. I feel like there was always a certain amount of passion and experimentation behind both of the series these developers are coming from. I'm a HUGE fan of Shadow Hearts 1 and 2. From the New World has really good gameplay, but falls flat in everything else that made Shadow Hearts special. Still worth playing though.

Yeah, I only played WA3 though.
Well, and all the Shadow Hearts games. I've never really been into emulation, so if I miss something and didn't collect it, it's probably a done deal.

Anyway, I really liked Wild Arms 3's ammo system. Is that a thing in all of the titles? I thought I'd read that it was a later introduction that wasn't present in the first one at least.

 

[Lyre Mors]

I thought I'd read that it was a later introduction that wasn't present in the first one at least.

It's still there, but in a more limited capacity.

I've never really been into emulation, so if I miss something and didn't collect it, it's probably a done deal.

Weird. Can't understand why someone would be like this.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I've never really been into emulation, so if I miss something and didn't collect it, it's probably a done deal.

Weird. Can't understand why someone would be like this.

If you ever saw my backlog and the time spent on this hobby already, you'd get it.

 

[Lyre Mors]

If you ever saw my backlog and the time spent on this hobby already, you'd get it.

I guess I can understand that. But I'd always say, don't let your backlog control what you're going to play. Clearing what you already have is a great feeling, but sometimes you just have to enjoy something that has drawn your interest. And, I mean, you buy new games, right? Not really that different.

 

[mediocrepoet]

If you ever saw my backlog and the time spent on this hobby already, you'd get it.

I guess I can understand that. But I'd always say, don't let your backlog control what you're going to play. Clearing what you already have is a great feeling, but sometimes you just have to enjoy something that has drawn your interest. And, I mean, you buy new games, right? Not really that different.

It's more that I'd like to think I'll beat some of these before I die. Besides, I play almost everything. But I'll take your recommendations into consideration if I'm ever looking for classic JRPGs to go back and check out.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[Lyre Mors]

Looks amazing, but is very obviously a conceptual video. If they can bring something like that into the actual gameplay, I'd be ecstatic.

Man I've missed Shadow Hearts. Must be getting close to time do replay the series. Maybe with some difficulty mods or something.

 

[e-mailio estevez]

I played about halfway through SH2 somewhat recently (last year or two?). Game was decently hard when I was *very* careful not to upgrade and to practically never upgrade my weapons and armor, or at least let them stay 2-3 chapters obsolete. I was actually surprised to have to retry a boss fight or two.

My one big hope is that they retain the sense of humor to an extent. Maybe not as overboard as SH3 was- although I didn't mind it, personally. Hopefully the protagonist is just as much as a doofus as Yuri was.

 

[Rahdulan]

More are crawling out of the woodworks.

 

[Grauken]

More are crawling out of the woodworks.

I'm surprised people still believe Kickstarters

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I'm surprised people still believe Kickstarters

There is a born sucker every minute. Though honestly given that people keep throwing their money at Star Wars and other franchises long after they've gone bad, it's probably just consoomers who don't give a crap about quality and are quite easily milked by their nostalgia.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Eh I dunno, for big Japan game actually by the old dev we have 50:50 in Bloodstained and Mighty No. 9. Bloodstaine is hella good. Shenmue was uuuuh average I guess? Certainly good enough altho with Yakuze series existing its kinda not enough but on its own merit its fine. Then we have Eiyuden which we don't know how the finished game will turn out to be (the gaiden game looks OK but gameplay was very basic and just plain grindy, but if main game is structured like normal Suikoden RPG then it shouldn't have the same issue). Am I missing some major Japan based KS? There was project phoenix but that was mostly western devs with input from Japan.

 

[Grauken]

Bloodstained was ok but certainly not outstanding. And platformers in general do ok-ish on kickstarters due to their limited scope.

 

[abnaxus]

spiritual successor

 

[InD_ImaginE]

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ntasia-and-penny-blood?ref=discovery_category

KS Live

And it already gets 900k USD out of 725k goal

Editl: the nu-SH seems way to serious in tone. Shadow Hearts outside of Koudelka as setting prequel is actually pretty comedic in writing. You can say it is somewhat like Yakuza where it has pretty serious mainplot with comedic side content.

Hopefully they are not missing the beat on that front

 

[Expon]

Kemco games for tgs https://www.kemco.jp/infopage/information20220831.html

Cross Tales - Furry rpg from Rideon with multi perspectives

Zombie dot - Zombie survival rpg from hit-point. Written by Jiro Ishii

Isekai Rondo - Another isekai rpg from exe-create

Smiling alchemist - Alchemy simulation rpg from Asobox. it's not clear if this is a remake or a straight port of the mobile version

Port of Silver Nornir - Kemco talked about wanting to port all mobile games with compatibility issues to modern systems before. Seem they were serious.

 

[lightbane]

Not sure where to put this, but another Earthbound-like game was launched recently:

 

[Hobo Elf]

Editl: the nu-SH seems way to serious in tone. Shadow Hearts outside of Koudelka as setting prequel is actually pretty comedic in writing. You can say it is somewhat like Yakuza where it has pretty serious mainplot with comedic side content.

The first Shadow Hearts was fairly serious in tone. This seems to be along the lines of that.

 

[aweigh]

 

[Abu Antar]

Both Sony and Nintendo have video events in a few/several hours. Both should contain some JRPG news.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[Abu Antar]

Octopath Traveler II announced. Coming Febraury 2023. Switch/PS4/PS5/PC


Front Mission 1R in November, FM2R, in 2023, and FM3R in the future.

Atelier Ryza 3 announced.

Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song is coming on December 1.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[InD_ImaginE]

They are milking Ryza hard huh. Truly power of sex appeal

Its kinda annoying that new FE mainline will be a collab games essentially? 3H was fairly entertaining but now you make a cross over games instead? I wouldnt mind of its handled side games or smth but making big mainline game out of cross over seems strange