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I played Zero, then CS1, then Azure, and then I was hooked and went back to the beginning... now I've played all the way to the end of CS4 and Nayuta, and I'm gearing up to start Reverie. I played a bit of the demo of this and while there was some weirdness to try to wrap my head around (the combat and the fact that there are NPCs you cannot converse with, as well as suspending belief for the enormous jumps in technology being a bit hard to swallow), it looks great. I can't wait to get my day 1 preordered copy of the LE (still not here) and mosey through Reverie so I can play Daybreak.

Dunno if anyone’s mentioned it but the Bravely series is really good. Personally favorite being Bravely Second. 😌👌🏾

Huh. Had never heard of Etrian Odyssey, will definitely check that series out. One thing this video highlighted for me was some big names from my childhood that aren't around anymore. Might be time to remake/remaster some Breath of Fire, Shining Force, and Lunar games!

i just want a jrpg with a story, world, gameplay as good as genshin...still no luck

Cold steel is not good filled with non stop cliches and fake deaths. Third and fourth game being terrible.

You have great taste choosing Edelgard

Then someone will summon Chrono Trigger and rightly say that it's still better than anything on this list lol Cheers!

I just can’t get into anything SMT related the creatures/demons are why. I don’t like them and sadly mostly find them boring

Wow. I thought its just 1 or 2 games But the entire ensemble of jrpgs suck No quite an anime Definitely not a game

deep story，，，sure，，

Trails is the way if you want to be invested in a continuing story -- and a good story, I might add

Bro why is this video so good????

All around a good summary of the franchises, nice work. I would've just recommended you put "active JRPG franchise" in the title as it would be a mostly clearer picture of the video, I say mostly because as much as I love Valkyria Chronicles I think we can sadly consider it done at the moment, as other comments mentioned the Mana series would've been a better candidate for it's place.

Wasn't it revealed in the story of Persona 4 that the Dungeons and Wacky Personalities were created by the public misconceptions and desires? Only for it to cover the character's shadows inner true personal feelings. Hence why Yukiko was perceived as a Princess that can snag any prince (somebody) since everyone in school saw her as that way. Rise was a strip club because all the guys wanted to see her perform more seductive roles like how she was advertised before quitting the showbiz. Naoto acting like a child playing as a mad scientist in some childish secret liar due to the Police force only seeing her as child that thinks changing oneself is a game. Kanji loves doing stuff that wasn't perceived as masculine in the eyes of the public, hence why he tries to act tough around others but only crumbling down the moment someone sees him doing something feminine like sewing or struggling with a girl, but seem very attractive to what he thought was a guy, which is why people think he is secretly gay, that ended up creating the bath house and his Shadow as a stereotypical gay guy.

Breath "of the fire"??? Nope. I'm out.

I'm on the minority that prefers engage over three houses, the graphics, the combat, all of the characters from past games, it's just so good in my opinion. Yes the sim side of it is basic, and so is the story, but I don't play tactical jrpgs for the simulation side of things, and gameplay wise engage is superior.

The problem I have with JRPG's seems to have grew as I've aged and that's the voice acting. The English voice acting is often really bad. They always seem to use generic Californian accents. The exceptions to this are Persona and some of the FF games which are generally quite good but nothing stellar. I know it's not a Japanese issue because games like From Software's have good voice acting. Dialogue is also generally kind of poor compared to CRPGs. I always find it very cringey, childish and cutesy.

WE HAVE TO DO A BOSS RUSH AND HAVE SOME RUclipsRS SPONSOR IT GET THE BEST PLAYERS AND STREAM IT LETS SEE HOW FAST PEOPLE CAN REALLY LOCK IN AND KILL PROTO~

I love tales

Xenoblade Xenosaga Xenogears = The Xeno-series

cool video, perfect length for each one

Naoto Shirogane with the based answer to gender identity. It's basically, "Yeah, I wish I didn't have to go through the struggles of being a woman in this society that looks down on women in this field. Yeah I wish I was taken more seriously despite my age. Yeah I have more traditionally boyish interests. But I don't need to change my body to be comfortable with myself. I don't need people to change how they refer to me, or what gender they see me as. Because at the end of the day, I'm me, and I don't need to be a certain gender to validate my identity. I'm me, and being female is only biology, NOT my identity." and she then becomes so comfortable with herself that she doesn't mind dressing in more masculine or feminine clothes. She accepts she's a girl and identifies as such. It's a much healthier way to think and live. If these people who claim to "help" those with gender dysphoria actually used the methods that have been proven to work such as watefull watching, or changing the person's mind instead of their bodies like what has been proven to work with body dysmorphia and many, MANY other mental illnesses, those who struggle with their body and identity would actually become healthier and happier. I look at Naoto as a perfect example of how to maturely process and progress through this sort of challenge. She doesn't put on a mask to be what makes her feel more comfortable, she takes the harder but ultimately more beneficial path of facing the truth, and accepting it, and finding a healthy way to live with it and embrace an aspect of her life she struggles with. THAT is far more empowering than trying to change yourself until you feel you are worthy of your own love and acceptance.

Didn’t they say that Alisha was they wasn’t resonating anymore and the connection wasn’t there because of beliefs ?

Tales of Zesteria is even worse than you presented. The producer was publicly flirting with the voice actress of Rose (which was already creepy), so many saw this as playing favorites. Bandai Namco also said in an interview (I believe it was for a Taiwan show that happened right after release of the game) that they "never said Alisha was the heroine of the game." Many articles were then mysterious taken down and reuploaded to "fix the wording." Oh, and by mistake, a figure company accidentally announced plans of figures of the "main characters" Sorey and Alisha. Silly of them! Alicia basically did nothing but "build a bridge" for the entire rest of the game. She had no lore beyond that. Rose also felt like a Mary Sue, as in this world, any feelings of guilt will eventually cause a person to become a monster, but Rose, being the "assassin of good" can kill and not become a monster, because she's just that good (or in the eyes of most players, she's just a psychopath). The DLC did not help because it looked more like the producer trying to lower our opinions of Alisha and make Rose the morally superior. There were plenty of other general plotholes, but they're not really part of the controversy. Funny thing is, the anime adaptation actually keeps Alisha in, and is regarded by fans as the best adaptation the series got. I also think this game was the one that killed the series. Berseria was better, but didn't seem to do that well (probably because it was a prequel, which means it leads into Zesteria), and it took much longer than usual for another Tales game to make it out. It's been quiet for a while (sans the DLC), but hopefully we'll get another Tales game announcement soon...

I’d argue that ffxv was rushed because the switch over to Xv from versus 13 was larger than we know and all the dlc and patches was just the finished part of the game, not so much that it was held back to push later

I was told that the main difference from Western RPG's and JRPG's is in presentation. - artstyle is a common difference anime vs realistic. Though it is not a clear line. -JRPG's have their origins in visual novels, Dragon Quest and Shin Megami Tensei show how this came about. -JRPG stories have a feel like a play, where you are playing the character and the player is playing though an anime. Western RPG's typically want you to be who you want, good/evil/weird or somewhere in-between. Even if you can only affect stats it is still a western RPG component. Of course there are more points, and a Japanese dev can make a Western RPG and a Western dev can make a JRPG. These are simply categories like apple and oragnes there are difference, you can have preferences, but neither is better.

Sorry to say, but you handled the P4 story rather poorly. The controversy is more of a matter of certain people not accepting what the story was and they were trying to push their ideas onto the story. Naoto never wanted to be a man, she wanted to be respected in her field of work, not dissimilar to Mulan. And Kanji is left more vague, but it literally ends with him accepting himself for who he is. I understand the sentiment for people wanting this to be a more pro-lgbt story, but that simply wasn't what they had in mind while writing it back in the mid-2000s.

i finished atelier sophie 2, can i just say gameplay is more fluid than other ryza games i think. story not so much but just the button inputs are instant animations while in battle thats so good for me. but sadly atelier sophie 1 physical copy is so rare that i gave up looking for it. im playing on switch btw cheers! 🎉

you forgot Seiken Densetsu :(

Breath of Fire, oh my first love. Where art thou?

I am ok with stellar blade censorship. sometimes I get uncomfortable with too much TnA (bayonetta)

I always found the "JRPG controversy" fascinating. I understand where Yoshi-P was coming from, but there needs to be a way to distinguish Japanese/Japanese-inspired RPGs from Western RPGs. It would kind of suck to watch a video like this and get stuff like Skyrim and Witcher included. Not that they're bad games by any stretch - just very different content and recommendations than I'm searching for when there's already an existing category that sufficiently and broadly covers what I'm looking for.

Bro missed Tactics Ogre/Ogre Battle

Missing Breath of Fire, Suikoden, Shadow Hearts

interesting video idea , keep it up

Whats the craziest JRPG controversy you remember?

DQ11 is the greatest of all time

Cold Steel is waiting for you bro! The ending to the first game needs a reaction video from you. Cheers on your Trails journey because this is the best JRPG series hands down!

how can you hear the smt part and not think that anything else is mid in comparison

I wasn't expecting it to be brought up since it's pretty obscure in the US, but Super Robot Wars is a long running SRPG franchise like Fire Emblem. SRW features various mecha series in each game and has them cross over with each other with some original characters to create a new story. The most recent mainline release, 30, was released on Steam, and it alongside V, X, and T were also released on PS4 and Switch in Asia, but they all have official English translations.

I started at cold steel, honestly i would prefer going back to the old trails to understand the storyline. I feel like daybreak is no different but thats just me. This is the Calvard Arc, it was mentioned in previous trails alot and it was shrouded in mystery but was mentioned several times until daybreak so it is a fresh storyline unlike Liberl, Crossbell and Erebonia

Im glad atelier was mentioned, but didappointed on how short it was. Good vid.

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How can you know that Sky or Cold steel gets good at end without even playing them.

Playing Trails games in wrong order is very terrible idea. You will lose a lot of fun and important things.

Fuck this video made me realize how many video games ive played over the years.

As whom hasn't played a single Trails game but known about the series for years, I think I'll wait until the rumored Sky Trilogy remasters release. Don't get me wrong, I would like to try this as my gateway into the series like I did with Tales of Arise, but I'm a person who likes knowing the whole story (or at least most of it). Another thing to acknowledge is the excellent localization in this game, and from Falcom of all companies. In the end, a solid entry in an overall great series. The support this series gets is well-earned.