My thoughts on your entries: 1. Tales of Berseria did take a little getting used to especially when I was trying to pull off mystic arts with someone other than Velvet but with a little practice, it became more familiar. 2. Star Ocean Divine Force-I too had my frustrating experiences like with that bloody bird but from that point onward, I started to get better understanding of the battle mechanics as a whole and it also helped that I learned new abilities. Great game. 3. Xenosaga Trilogy-I get your confusion but honestly, episode 1 wasn’t that bad and it has such a compelling story with amazing soundtrack. Episode 2 was a big letdown; I finished it but once I did, I didn’t want to play it again. Episode 3 redeemed the series and I played that even after finishing main story for the fun of it. I am bummed that this series isn’t getting an HD remaster on current generation consoles; wishing I hadn’t sold my PS2 copies if I had known this would happen. 4. Kingdom Hearts-A game for kids couldn’t be further from the truth when you consider bosses like Lingering Will or Sephiroth; that’s a one sided massacre for kids and adults alike. The first time I attempted Sephiroth in KH1 with a level 100 Sora equipped with Ultima Keyblade and best equipment, I got my ass handed to me in five seconds.
Xenogears EP1 was definitely a kick in the face for me when I was still young and inexperienced at JRPGs outside of Final Fantasy. The Gnosis Cathedral ship ramps up the enemy toughness considerably, as does the Encephalon and Song of Nephilim, enabling them to abuse Boosting mercilessly. You have to do the same and play more conservatively to survive. I probably enjoyed the Xenocard mini-game more than the actual combat. A problem I'm noticing in a lot of action RPGs lately is that strong attacks lack impact or 'crunch', and with so much happening all at once you can take fatal damage and not know how it happened. Also noticing it in World of Warcraft Classic.
Yeah I remember that ship. I would fight one enemy then go back and save and heal then fight the next and repeat. It was a challenge but I made it through. Luckily I also had like 100 healing items in my inventory so that helped too.
@@guipifon Nah, came out before I was really into RPGs. I remember people mentioning one hard boss fight in it (Redrum) and a few annoying dungeons, but that game was always more lauded for its story anyway.
Berseria is a fun game. I started on normal for a bit and then upped it a level for more score/rank points. For one, thegame expects you to explore everything. If you also then fight everything, you tend to stay ahead on levels. It lets you gather extra stuff for the equipment enhancement too. One thing to keep in mind is to set up your move set so you have multiple "finishers" available, so you can use one of the right type/element for that extra damage, and more importantly to get your finishing blows in to keep your gauge up so you can keep yelling "DEVOUR!" and wrecking face. Xenosaga: Just don't take the hyper kick with the cyborg guy, you gotta take the aoe thing where he jumps and shoots fireballs out of his foot. Yes I know this sounds crazy but it makes sense if you play the game. While the spaz kick is hilarious to use, it is outclassed by the other move big time, and choices like that can really alter the difficulty in the game. NOTE: if someone would like to give me episode 3 I will gladly take it so I can finally play it. FF9: Always steal.
FF9 was a nice game visually, musically, and storyline wise, but I _hated_ the whole Steal thing. Steal steal steal steal steal. It made boss battles a slog grind where it took 15+ minutes of stealing before you FINALLY got the stuff you wanted. Now, thankfully IIRC, the re-releases allowed you to turn "Always Steal" on, Thank God. But the OG PS1 version? Ugh. It was the thing I hated most about that game.
Ugh. That giant sword in Super Mario RPG. It was the first JRPG I ever played and even though you are getting close to the end of the game by that point, I had no clue how to approach that battle and how to beat him with those eyes and mouth also attacking you too. It took me many tries but eventually I figured out to use the Princess for healing only and equip her with the heaviest protective gear possible so that you can keep the rest of your party alive and attacking. The final boss wasn’t too bad if you play conservatively. But it will be a 45 min long battle easily.
Those rock guys in Ryza gave me trouble too. After that I focused on always making the best gear I could, and the rest of the game was a walk in the park.
I felt it in my soul when you mentioned the Mechanical Guardian from Grandia 3. That boss utterly destroyed me so many times, it was infuriating. I had to grind and look up a strategy to exploit its weaknesses. The final boss was no joke either.
Velvet is cool buf I really like Milla Maxell's story more because of her serious determined nature like Velvet, but was more inspiring and simultaneously funny with her fish of water moments. That said I never had issues with the game. Xillia on the other hand I was breezing thru, for to chronos, and got my ass handed to me pretty darn hard.
I just finished the main story for Ray in Star Ocean the other day, I plan on doing the post game dungeons and eventually doing Leticias run at a later time. Loved the game just as much as Star Ocean: Second Story, I was honestly a little bummed because I didn’t want the game to end.
In Star Ocean 3 we have post game super boss called freya, fighting her is like fighting Ultra Instict Goku and Saitama fused together, while you being a normal human.
I get you with Xenosaga 1. The game is a decent challenge for the most part but still was fun and it’s easy to progress if you play conservatively. But the final two bosses of the game were really hard and you had to be decked out and ready for them as well as get to know their patterns. This took trial and error with lots of deaths but eventually I figured out what to do and when to do it when I happily beat the game. The game is in the lower half of my top 10 best JRPGs but the final two bosses are a cautionary tale to anyone wanting to experience it’s greatness. Be prepared indeed!
Nah, XS1 is an example of a game that just gets easier as you go, especially if you are keeping up with the game's system. There are a couple bonus bosses that offer some challenge though. By the time I was going through the final dungeon, I had most of my attackers being able to launch 2 finishers in one turn and was able to wipe the final boss in under three rounds. The game gives you all kinds of tools to break it.
Ff9, absolutely. There are ways to easily 'break' the game and make it easy, but I didn't know them or use a guide and really struggled at times. I had to use both healers in my party to keep HPs up and grind away to beat it.
As a teen, I remember getting stuck on the fire guardian with my underdeveloped party. I remember finally taking the hp down and being so happy, only to be one shotted by her desperation attack. When i finally survived only with vivi who was otherwise useless, I was SO happy. Same with gizmaluke. What a game lol
I swear I was like "So... lemme get this straight, most bosses have mutiple stealable items, some which are unique AND are required for something else, but at less than a 1% chance, and I have to keep doing it for ages WHILE surviving said boss AND not kill it ?" It was literally what made me never complete FF9 xD
First of all, let me tell you that I couldn't move forward in this game without quinoa in ff9 cause the that sea serpent will surf the shit out of you no matter what you do without the blue mage quinoa... the olny boss that said: it's hopeless. Before the grand cross zombie status nonsense.
Will always remember the first time I fought Tiamat in 9, and it opened right away with Jet Exhaust, inflicting Heat on everyone, so everyone dies as soon as they try to take an action. And people say Yunalesca using Mega Death in FF 10 is cheap XD.
@@WhiteFangofWar Well, Mega Death is cheap in the sense that the solution is not instinctive : you have to realize that you should only cure Zombie when that character has very low HP and desperately needs healing, since Zombie status is what keeps you characters alive. On the other hand you should have had a few encounters with the freeze and heat status in FF9 by the time you reached Tiamat, so you should have noticed how dangerous they are and should have equipped "Body Temp" on everyone to prevent them. I'd understand the struggle if you were too young to figure this out or if it was your first FF though (btw some people never realized that Vivi can cure Heat with Blizzard or Freeze with Fire, same for FF6's freeze). I agree that FF9 is quite hard though so it really deserves its spot on the list. I feel that you can finish FF4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 10 with very few KOs, but your Phoenix Downs or Raise/Arise/Revive will definitely see some use in 9 - I blame the damage randomness that is through the roof in that game (and the random status ailments/instant KO from the last boss can lead to a game-over even with your whole team protected against all abnormalities if the RNG decides to screw you since some of them like Berserk, you can do nothing against). I mentionned that FF9 is one of the hardest FFs on some forum a few years back and some smartass was like "you find FF9 hard? lol, it's the easiest actually". So annoying. I still don't know if he was trolling, trying to act superior by playing the usual dumb "pro-gamer" card, or was just insanely lucky in his playthrough; but try to argue against that... It was doubly-annoying since everyone else in the forums just read our "yes it's hard / no it's not" exchange without participating, they just ate chips while enjoying the show of me trying to argue with a troll. The fact no one came to my help still hurts, haha (eventually I stopped giving examples of the game's difficulty when I realized he wasn't willing to listen so I let him have the last word and he probably thought he "won" the argument. My autistic self is still mad about that, lmfao).
I died in the same spot in Atelier Ryza, I had to go back and create as many high end items to use in battle. When i went back I beat that boss with a single bomb. I hadn't really been using items in battle because in most rpgs it's not necessary.
Oh i remember Grandia 3 getting ridiculous towards the end. I recall skipping most enemies in the final dungeon cause they were ridiculous and not worth it and i wanted to go full hp/mp to the final boss. It was an insane spike. It showed the development was rushed at the end.
0 hour gang! 😁 Just kidding. Anyway, I clicked when I saw it was Erick. Really influenced me on playing Odin Sphere which led to me playing Muramasa after. Lol! Although our tastes sometimes clash (TWEWY and Yggdra Union, I really love those 2 to death!), I still really respect and agree with most of your takes. Thanks for keeping my backlog full man! 😂
Tales of Berseria is so beautiful that I would lack of words to describe it. One of the best JRPG`s I have ever played. PD: In Fire Emble The Sacred Stones, on the Desert Map what I did was move fast and hard to the left and defeat the enemy there, trench, eliminate the 200 reinforces that arrive and then attack the main boss in the right. Easy.
Indeed, I was shocked to see Persona 5 still do that with a major boss as well as random encounters. I thought designers had learned better than that since P2.
I have had a lot of experience with the Star Ocean series so when I started Divine Force I did so on universe difficulty. When I got to the first boss, I thought I had made a wrong turn somewhere because there was no possible way the game expected me to beat this giant sand wurm thing that shoots volleys of magic that rip me to shreds at level 9.
Star Ocean: the Divine Force, since you asked, same you can in most SO games, by crafting weapons and armor that's much, much better than what you can currently buy. I farmed dark matter (from dark material monster in the crashed research ship) and then used alchemy to turn those into moonstones and used these to craft way better gear. So the sword I used had an attack of 947 while the sword you can buy had like 500, same for the armor. At least in the SO games I've played there's always a way to manipulate the crafting system to get gear that's OP compared to where you are in the game.
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on Magna Carta Tears of Blood for ps2 and Magna Carta 2 for the Xbox 360. They are two of my favorite rpgs that ive heard almost nobody talk about. Highly underrated and overlooked games. They didn't even give them the backwards compatibility treatment.
I probably would have put Final Fantasy 8 instead of 9. The main issue with 8 is that they changed the way the leveling system worked, so unlike the previous entries, enemies leveled with you. Coupled with the new junction system, any person playing the game for the first time should find the game very challenging until they understand both systems. 9 has its fair share of parts where the difficulty ramps up, but it never gets as challenging as playing 8 for the first time.
Yeah but once you get the junction system even a bit, its a wrap. As a kid, I plowed through ff8 by using ONLY gfs. Never had an issue until adel where gfs would also kill rinoa. I then found myself locked into an unwinnable situation
@@NWOtion I went through the game by not focusing on GFs and by grindingly. It wasn’t easy but was do-able. When I play again I’ll use GFs more and suspect will find it much easier
@@jekw23 nah definitely dont rely on them. Just never cast magic except healing spells and junction everything to hp and strength. Thats the entire game right there lol
I would love to play the Atelier games, but HOLY COW... The cost to get each game multiplied by the quantity of them. Still waiting for a mad Steam sale. I recently finished Grandia 3 (PS2 Emulator) again. It was as good as I originally remembered it. You just got to know where to grind and how to synth your mana eggs.
True, I wanted to get into Atelier series but not with those prices. I can literally buy 2 copies of Red Dead 2 for the same price as 1 of older Atelier game (when both are discounted on Steam sale). It's crazy.
Tbh I don't think Ryza is that hard... You just need the proper equipments and items... Most bosses I fought got destroyed before I even expect them to
Both that bird and the damn mother worm (the first real boss of SO6) absolutely annihilated me. There's definitely quite a few difficult bosses in that game and I was playing on normal.
if you want to trivialize SMRPG, equip mario with jump shoes and do nothing with him but jump. There's a hidden mechanic that increases the power of jump every time you use it and it quickly scales to become a cheap efficient attack that will carry you through the entire game. Jump shoes is there to ignore enemy resistances to jump.
I like Fire Emblem Sacred Stones. I play this game when i first got it and its my personal favorite. And after you beat the main story, you get to have fun bashing monsters while also getting certain characters by clearing a ceartin number of floors and beating them 3 times in the tower and ruins.
I played Xenosaga ep 1 when it was new, and while I didn't think it was that difficult, there actually were a TON of players that would say how hard the gargoyle boss was. Quite a few also had a hard time with Tiamat. I personally only had 2 game overs, 1 on Gigas, who is considered one of the easiest bosses, I dunno how cuz that guy would double AOE spam me constantly for the same amount as gargoyle's biggest aoe attack, twice as often, and uhh.. Some hidden SURPRISE MUTHAF-2@#% boss hiding in a loot chest in the 2nd last dungeon. That said I refuse to use Erde kaiser, not sure why they put an IWIN spell in the game. I almost wiped on Proto dora too, another boss nobody complained about. It had this weird sonic wave tentacle aoe attack that 1shot my entire party except 1 character. Not sure how a boss can have a move so damn strong and nobody mentions it as hard.
Atelier Ryza was my first Atelier game so I didn't have the problem with beeing spoiled. And I might have gone a little nuts with the synthesis, blasting everything with a bomb is just fun for some time.
I agree with Kingdom Hearts games being so underestimated, because my nephew once got too attracted by how "Disney" it is (back when he was still 5 to 6-years old) and his dad - my older brother - wasn't aware of the game not being the most kid-friendly Disney game as far as gameplay is concerned. So, when my nephew got himself KH1, he kept getting stuck at various parts of the game, with me frequently having to help him out - leading to me playing the game more than he did. TBH, I really liked KH1, but it's definitely a product of its time with some of its issues. Then, my nephew got his eyes on KH2 and obviously wanted to play it. Having played the game before he did, I actually thought "why not troll him to show that KH isn't the easiest Disney game around?". So I did, starting a new file for him to play, but on Proud Mode unbeknownst to him. He ended up getting stuck on one of the early-game bosses, and I still remember seeing him rage from his constant losses. I think he got quite a wake-up call from that. Oh, before I forgot, these are the original PS2 versions - no the HD Final Mix remasters.
FF9 can throw some curve balls, that is why Steiner is my favorite character, not only he is a very well written person, he fricking survives, i lost the count the times he saved my bacon by not dying, seeing him going is trance is like having "you cant get a game over" for a while, i always had permanent protect shell and regen, one time a boss made him berserker and killed the rest of party, i let go of controller waiting for defeat, but no, steiner started going hard on the boss, taking almost no damage with trance and regen hp until he killed it, damn boy, when i fought belatrix, he was way stronger than her, and those cutscenes made no sense, he was slaughtering the enemies with no issue. kindom hearts 2 final mix is easier than the original even in the proud mode, but KH1 final was a nightmare.
I don't think Grandia 3 is talked about enough. Such a good jrpg. I stayed for the combat, not for the story, lol. Grinding/combining those eggs were fun, just watch out for those pink rabbits.
Dude yes! my favorite turn based combat in any RPG ever, hands down. The story does fall off hard but it it looks really good and has a nice OST, save for the shitty desert town lol
I totally understand that Kingdom Hearts feeling. I remember the first time facing those fat shadows and having a though time like "excuse me? Is this supposed to be this hard or I just suck?"
What you say about Berseria is not true. The games is easy, you play on normal and it becomes easier and easier, so you need to up the difficulty, and unlock new higher difficulties because each new step up becomes easy after a few hours. Maybe after three or four difficulty ups it becomes hard, but never hardcore. I concede the last few missions are harder than the rest and you need enough curatives and some grinding, because if you die, you will lose several hours (same as in Arise, super long last dungeon without fast travel other than at the beginning). But, yeah, if you approach a Tales game as though it was a Bayonetta or a Nier game, you will have trouble. Berseria looks like a hack & slash, but a hack & slash it is not. You need to learn the combat and how the attack you make with any of the four face buttons will be different if it was preceded by X, O, Square or Triangle, creating countless variations, but smashing the same buttons won't do it (again, this is not Bayonetta or Nier). As for Atelier Ryza, the problem is not the game, it is your approach! if you are a gamer who plays Crap of Tsushima, Far Crap 3, Spider-Crap, Horizon Zero Crap and other open world with crafting mechanics you don't need to learn or even use to finish the game, you will think Atelier is the same, and that's a mistake. Atelier has deep crafting mechanic, that's the focus of the game! I mean, it's called "atelier", right? Then, if you don't engage in depth with the crafting system, you won't get better equipment, and a simple upgrade here marks the difference. It's not like a Silver Sword and then a Silver Sword +1 like most games, no. Here, that simple +1 means you now deal not 25 hp of damage, but 80. Each piece or your equipment that you improve to the next level, is a big jump, not a small irrelevant one. Mario games have never been easy. Super Mario Bros, SMB2, SMB3, SM World, Yoshi's Island were hard. Not hardcore. And Mario RPG is not hardcore either, just normal Mario. I don't think anyone would have approached Mario RPG thinking it would have been an easy game.
Super Mario RPG is only hard until you get Peach, then the game is a cakewalk. Even if you don't get the Lazy Shell Armor and stick it on her, she still effectively removes any and all challenge with her Group Hug spell. If you give her the Lazy Shell Armor (which does take a little effort to find), you become 100% invincible. Yes, even _CULEX_ can't touch you. It also helps that bosses have limited FP, for example the guy at the end of Seaside Town has limited FP. Just defend and heal through his attacks until he runs out of FP and then beat the crap out of him from complete safety because he has zero normal attacks. Culex is the same way, just let the other 2 die and let him do 1 damage with everything to Peach until him and his crystals are out of FP and then rez the other two and just pound him to death.
I wanted to like Berseria so much, but I finally gave up after 20-something hours because the combat was so...not fun, even after I understood the battle system. I'm looking forward to playing Sacred Stones, since it's the first FE game that actually lets you grind (unlike FE7, which is why I quit that one). Agreed about FF IX, ironically one of the hardest FF games I've played despite also being my first.
Agreed with FE Sacred Stones, had some trouble in some maps as well I guess people call it easy because you can grind and...Seth is a thing, I have talked about it to people and all the answers are "why aren't you using Seth?", "why aren't you grinding?" Moral of the story: a game is easy if you use overpowered things
I found it easy as a kid(I was 12) without grinding, except to raise my lower level units to the same level(l'rachael, the merc that arrives with her, but not the trainees, I did that in actual levels as it made them feel amazing) as my lowest main party member, and I thought prepromote=bad at I never used Seth, the hardest part was the desert, and only because the leader with the crit immune shield was slightly too strong(decent crit, 1-2 range weapon, on a fort)
The Berseria haters can take a long puff on a short pole for all I care, that game had a fantastic story and a fun battle system. Easy to pickup, but with a high skill ceiling to master. Haters will disagree but there's no proof of them playing that game on anything but easy mode, if at all.
I gotta say while playing Berseria I would often just lean back and do nothing when the character I controlled died and then watch the others finish the fight on their own. Worked 99% of the time. I never really learned the combat system, did no extra leveling and still had no isuues.
Can't get into action rpgs they are just too repetitive can't play the old ones ore the new ff7 remake..just imo turn based jrpgs are the best but that could be me being 50 yrs old and grew up playing gems so these new games just won't ever get any respect from me. Ty for the video man I agree with you on ff9 and grandia 3 I love both those games.
For sure. I am looking forward to ff16 but i am concerned itll be too easy like 15 where you just plow through everything. The draw of turn based rpgs is that you and your party are vastly inferior to the enemy and must strategize to win
@@NWOtion i didn't even make it 30 mins in ff15 I haven't played any since 12 as 13 was also awful 😐 idk why they think final fantasy fans ever wanted action rpgs
Trails of Cold Steel 2 was one for me - I had my party all at the level 140's with maxed out master quartz, the whole thing. The final boss was so damn cheap - you had to keep an s-craft in your back pocket at all times to clear the screen of the little minions he would spawn, and you also had to keep your people with a speed up bonus and immune to Vanish...I think I spent a good 6 hours just on that one enemy.
There are so many evil fights like that in Trails. Some of them hit you out of nowhere and come specifically to bust your gut and test your observation... I recall a certain chest fight in Trails from Zero- if you haven't played I won't spoil the one, but those who have played might just know which one- that at level was cruelty incarnate. Trails bosses almost expect you to go in with a 200 CP party at some point, usually midway.
@@PacketWrangler I haven't played 4 yet, but 3 was definitely a little easier. Overall, considering how relatively easy the Trails in the Sky trilogy was I was a little surprised at the difficulty spike here.
I love these videos, so many new games to check out. I even finally got Xenoblade Chronicles 1,2,3 and Torna. Didn't know that there was some prequel to 2nd game. RPGs are even better these days because you can play them for a long time and they cost a bit less than new releases, niche games have its perks.
@@webslinger325 Oh yeah, I forgot about this game, I have Japanese Wii U console with Bayonetta1/2, Xenoblade Chronicles X and Mario Kart 8. Maybe it's finally time to play these games, but it's still hard to read Japanese for now. I somehow managed to finish Yakuza 7 (Ryu Ga Gotoku 7, just because it was available 6months before Eu/America release) and then watched playthrough on youtube to understand what I understood.
5:57 a game that can be quite difficult is Tears Of The Kingdom. With a bit of practice most standard enemy encounters are easy, but the big enemies and bosses are really HARD!!!!!
I own Berseria and I haven't touched it. I low key got burnt out on takes after Graces F and Zesteria especially... Action RPGs are my favorite genre but Tales games kinda felt stagnant. I haven't played Arise but I've heard good things about that and Berseria...
Berseria is a blast, the combat sort of works like zersteria in that you have more then one "mode" but it is smoothed out a lot. You need to mix up your skills though because to make it fun you have to basically fight everything and explore everywhere. Trying to "skip a part" will just leave you under leveled. Level in both games is pretty noticeable. Berseria is a long game though if you do explore a lot. Sort of the cliche "grindy" feel. I did a lot of messing around in the "optional" final dungeon so the end fight was an absolute stompfest. This set up a pretty nice newgame+ though. Zesteria's newgame+ to me almost feels like they expect you to do a real newgame+ on the THIRD go through though, no way I could grind enough grade to unlock the stuff I would like to in time for the second go round. I just started Arise. So far it is fun, but control early in the game does not feel as polished in combat at berseria did. I am sure it improves, even the tutorial stuff hints at more mechanics in the future so I am sure it grows into a robust system. I only have two characters in the party so it is very early on yet.
I love xenosaga so much, just re-finished the trilogy (finished the first one 4 times, it was the 2nd game that I finished on PS2, first one was zone of the enders the 2nd runner)
Berseria is no joke if you're breezing through it as quickly as possible. About the last third of the game really expects you to start getting it, even on normal. That final dungeon is so convoluted it made me despise how many encounters I wanted to run away from because I just wanted to get it over with. SCREW THAT THING! One of my go-tos for unexpected difficulty is the Trails series. Not that I would call the system the easiest to grasp in the first place because mid-to-endgame really forces you to start being observant and has far less forgiveness. Haven't gotten to Cold Steel yet, only played through the first one for ~20 hours when the amazing Trails from Zero remaster Durante and The Geofront got to improve with a proper English release, and that's where I'm mid to endgame of, after having played FC, SC and the 3rd, in anticipation of the (Steam, I feel bad for the PS4 players as they don't get Durante's improvements on Falcom's vexing insistence) release of Trails to Azure in the 14th! P.S.: Thank you for turning me on to Shining Resonance Refrain Erick! I had it for a few years and like so many others the backlog got the better of it. Now I'm playing it and it's an absolute hidden gem with brilliant writing. I don't mind the fanservice at all and I love how adaptable the dungeon system is- briliant way to give the player to grind, and the game most certainly expects you will grind.
The later Trails games are much easier than Sky, especially Cold Steel. Hard mode in Cold Steel is still easier than Normal in Sky. There is a bunch of very abusable builds in that game. Won't spoil of course but i'd say it isn't hard to figure them out either.
I would get it if you were a newcomer to the series or something but imo Fire Emblem Sacred Stones just isnt hard if you have played more than 1 or 2 Fe games. You said he cant, but Seth can quite literally solo the whole game and the hardest part about that is making sure no one else enters any battles to make it a true Seth solo run. That aside you get fed plenty of other good units like Vanessa and Cormag plus ephraim is the best lord unit in the Gba trilogy imo (Its a bit harder if you choose Eirikas route I guess). Overall I just dont see Sacred Stones as a hard game unless you wanna put various restrictions on how you play.
I did find it hard and it was the...4th I played? Idk how people find it easy, the Hamil Canyon map is insane and all I hear from people is that the game is easy
As for Atelier ryza y played in normal and died with the dragon and the final boss. With the dragon I learned the interruption mechanic and start to take more serious the game. With the final boss I died in the second fase and understand that I am not going to win with that gear, so I created a better equipment in order to take that boss. I remember that took me 2 more tries
To be honest I think Atelier games are not that easy, especially if you try to achive the better endings or to beat the super bosses. I never could achive that in Rorona or Totori because of the time limit and to synthesize the best gear is also not easy and you better take notes for a new game plus if you don't want to use a guide.
I remember the first time I played Berseria on PC in normal there were some really harsh enemies and the stupid octopus you showed. Then years after I played the PS4 version in hard and it was a walk in the park 🤔
Too be honest... Ryza wasn't that gard for me... Until the last boss... I could not kill the last boss so I went back to see how to get stronger only to realize... My item creations so back to the drawing board
I think you're mostly off the mark in this video. Kingdom hearts, FF9 and Mario RPG are definitely not underestimated, maybe the others too a little. These are among the most popular within the JRPG community and highly praised. The only step further is to become mainstream outside JRPGs, but even then, they're almost at that point too.
Tales of berseria...that last level... After a few afternoons, many evenings and hours going through portals looking for the last one, just googled the damn ending lol. Loved it though Sigh, star ocean.. played most of them many times. Gave up on the latest one after one damn dungeon not able to open the last portal to the boss, I think it glitched. I should mention there a ton of games I would have loved if it were no for maze dungeons. Ffx I at least finished but the trials. I hate those!! Every play through And I see grandma 3 is on this list, I just started this one via emulation. Damnit, I should just give up now lol
If Xenosaga got ported to switch with some mild QOL it would be a megahit with that audience. It has almost as good of a story as Xenogears and it doesn't insult your intelligence at the end. Each of the episodes is better than the last one, and you get a formal payoff at the end.
I remember when it was Christmas and i got a ps2 with Kingdom Hearts. Daaamn i was so happy! But my parents Dident knew what a memory card was so i had to wait a couple of days then buy one haha 🤣
The combination of your accent, the way your enunciate your words and your pronunciation makes you really funny man. Big fan
My thoughts on your entries:
1. Tales of Berseria did take a little getting used to especially when I was trying to pull off mystic arts with someone other than Velvet but with a little practice, it became more familiar.
2. Star Ocean Divine Force-I too had my frustrating experiences like with that bloody bird but from that point onward, I started to get better understanding of the battle mechanics as a whole and it also helped that I learned new abilities. Great game.
3. Xenosaga Trilogy-I get your confusion but honestly, episode 1 wasn’t that bad and it has such a compelling story with amazing soundtrack. Episode 2 was a big letdown; I finished it but once I did, I didn’t want to play it again. Episode 3 redeemed the series and I played that even after finishing main story for the fun of it. I am bummed that this series isn’t getting an HD remaster on current generation consoles; wishing I hadn’t sold my PS2 copies if I had known this would happen.
4. Kingdom Hearts-A game for kids couldn’t be further from the truth when you consider bosses like Lingering Will or Sephiroth; that’s a one sided massacre for kids and adults alike. The first time I attempted Sephiroth in KH1 with a level 100 Sora equipped with Ultima Keyblade and best equipment, I got my ass handed to me in five seconds.
I agree to all - but I can't give an opinion on Xenosaga: seeing how episode 1 and 3 were denied us in the UK...
Xenogears EP1 was definitely a kick in the face for me when I was still young and inexperienced at JRPGs outside of Final Fantasy. The Gnosis Cathedral ship ramps up the enemy toughness considerably, as does the Encephalon and Song of Nephilim, enabling them to abuse Boosting mercilessly. You have to do the same and play more conservatively to survive. I probably enjoyed the Xenocard mini-game more than the actual combat.
A problem I'm noticing in a lot of action RPGs lately is that strong attacks lack impact or 'crunch', and with so much happening all at once you can take fatal damage and not know how it happened. Also noticing it in World of Warcraft Classic.
Yeah I remember that ship. I would fight one enemy then go back and save and heal then fight the next and repeat. It was a challenge but I made it through. Luckily I also had like 100 healing items in my inventory so that helped too.
Did you try the original, Xenogears??
@@guipifon Nah, came out before I was really into RPGs. I remember people mentioning one hard boss fight in it (Redrum) and a few annoying dungeons, but that game was always more lauded for its story anyway.
@@guipifon I have it downloaded off of PSN on my PS3. Look forward to playing it.
Always loved that game but never got to finish it. Hopefully can get back to it one day. Still need the 3rd game tho.
Freaking Sacred Stones absolutely DESTROYED me as a teenager. That stupid desert level kicked my ass so hard
Berseria is a fun game. I started on normal for a bit and then upped it a level for more score/rank points. For one, thegame expects you to explore everything. If you also then fight everything, you tend to stay ahead on levels. It lets you gather extra stuff for the equipment enhancement too. One thing to keep in mind is to set up your move set so you have multiple "finishers" available, so you can use one of the right type/element for that extra damage, and more importantly to get your finishing blows in to keep your gauge up so you can keep yelling "DEVOUR!" and wrecking face.
Xenosaga: Just don't take the hyper kick with the cyborg guy, you gotta take the aoe thing where he jumps and shoots fireballs out of his foot. Yes I know this sounds crazy but it makes sense if you play the game. While the spaz kick is hilarious to use, it is outclassed by the other move big time, and choices like that can really alter the difficulty in the game. NOTE: if someone would like to give me episode 3 I will gladly take it so I can finally play it.
FF9: Always steal.
FF9 was a nice game visually, musically, and storyline wise, but I _hated_ the whole Steal thing. Steal steal steal steal steal. It made boss battles a slog grind where it took 15+ minutes of stealing before you FINALLY got the stuff you wanted. Now, thankfully IIRC, the re-releases allowed you to turn "Always Steal" on, Thank God. But the OG PS1 version? Ugh. It was the thing I hated most about that game.
The Grandia series will always have the best combat system
Ugh. That giant sword in Super Mario RPG. It was the first JRPG I ever played and even though you are getting close to the end of the game by that point, I had no clue how to approach that battle and how to beat him with those eyes and mouth also attacking you too. It took me many tries but eventually I figured out to use the Princess for healing only and equip her with the heaviest protective gear possible so that you can keep the rest of your party alive and attacking. The final boss wasn’t too bad if you play conservatively. But it will be a 45 min long battle easily.
I agree, without following a guide this game is very difficult
Those rock guys in Ryza gave me trouble too. After that I focused on always making the best gear I could, and the rest of the game was a walk in the park.
I felt it in my soul when you mentioned the Mechanical Guardian from Grandia 3. That boss utterly destroyed me so many times, it was infuriating. I had to grind and look up a strategy to exploit its weaknesses. The final boss was no joke either.
2:26 - lol, you can tell that real JRPG rage has had its effect on this one.
I clicked because of the thumbnail: I like tales of berseria and Velvet Crowe story of revenge
Velvet is cool buf I really like Milla Maxell's story more because of her serious determined nature like Velvet, but was more inspiring and simultaneously funny with her fish of water moments.
That said I never had issues with the game. Xillia on the other hand I was breezing thru, for to chronos, and got my ass handed to me pretty darn hard.
Need a new tales mashup with Velvet
Best Tales protagonist and best game imo
Your so edgey and cool so were we all in 1990 your nothing special moving on lol
@@JimC1984 damn bro, no one talking about how special they are for liking Berseria and Velvet. Stop projecting.
I just finished the main story for Ray in Star Ocean the other day, I plan on doing the post game dungeons and eventually doing Leticias run at a later time.
Loved the game just as much as Star Ocean: Second Story, I was honestly a little bummed because I didn’t want the game to end.
In Star Ocean 3 we have post game super boss called freya, fighting her is like fighting Ultra Instict Goku and Saitama fused together, while you being a normal human.
Could that be Valkyrie Profile's Freya? I hear Star Ocean has some VP nods
I get you with Xenosaga 1. The game is a decent challenge for the most part but still was fun and it’s easy to progress if you play conservatively. But the final two bosses of the game were really hard and you had to be decked out and ready for them as well as get to know their patterns. This took trial and error with lots of deaths but eventually I figured out what to do and when to do it when I happily beat the game. The game is in the lower half of my top 10 best JRPGs but the final two bosses are a cautionary tale to anyone wanting to experience it’s greatness. Be prepared indeed!
Nah, XS1 is an example of a game that just gets easier as you go, especially if you are keeping up with the game's system. There are a couple bonus bosses that offer some challenge though.
By the time I was going through the final dungeon, I had most of my attackers being able to launch 2 finishers in one turn and was able to wipe the final boss in under three rounds. The game gives you all kinds of tools to break it.
@@deedoubs well I didn’t have this things I guess. But I’m still glad I beat it anyway.
Ff9, absolutely. There are ways to easily 'break' the game and make it easy, but I didn't know them or use a guide and really struggled at times. I had to use both healers in my party to keep HPs up and grind away to beat it.
As a teen, I remember getting stuck on the fire guardian with my underdeveloped party. I remember finally taking the hp down and being so happy, only to be one shotted by her desperation attack. When i finally survived only with vivi who was otherwise useless, I was SO happy. Same with gizmaluke. What a game lol
Yeah, the enemies scale with your level too I believe. Making the game consistently challenging.
@@SomsaiArts That's FF8, or does 9 do it too?
@@Fermin-hw5pd that's just ff8
Always steal. From every boss.
Really nice video dude!!!! so much of my childhood ragequits on this one. Thank you!!
Another good video. Any chance of getting a video about Infinite Undiscovery?
Platinum of Kingdom hearts 2 is so fun, I love the secret bosses on hardest difficulty.
The hardest thing about final fantasy 9 is just stealing all the items before you kill the bosses.
I swear I was like "So... lemme get this straight, most bosses have mutiple stealable items, some which are unique AND are required for something else, but at less than a 1% chance, and I have to keep doing it for ages WHILE surviving said boss AND not kill it ?"
It was literally what made me never complete FF9 xD
First of all, let me tell you that I couldn't move forward in this game without quinoa in ff9 cause the that sea serpent will surf the shit out of you no matter what you do without the blue mage quinoa... the olny boss that said: it's hopeless.
Before the grand cross zombie status nonsense.
@@sonny167349 that is why i had quina with magic hammer to zero the enemy mp , so no skill, i did this on Ozma as well.
Will always remember the first time I fought Tiamat in 9, and it opened right away with Jet Exhaust, inflicting Heat on everyone, so everyone dies as soon as they try to take an action. And people say Yunalesca using Mega Death in FF 10 is cheap XD.
@@WhiteFangofWar Well, Mega Death is cheap in the sense that the solution is not instinctive : you have to realize that you should only cure Zombie when that character has very low HP and desperately needs healing, since Zombie status is what keeps you characters alive. On the other hand you should have had a few encounters with the freeze and heat status in FF9 by the time you reached Tiamat, so you should have noticed how dangerous they are and should have equipped "Body Temp" on everyone to prevent them. I'd understand the struggle if you were too young to figure this out or if it was your first FF though (btw some people never realized that Vivi can cure Heat with Blizzard or Freeze with Fire, same for FF6's freeze). I agree that FF9 is quite hard though so it really deserves its spot on the list. I feel that you can finish FF4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 10 with very few KOs, but your Phoenix Downs or Raise/Arise/Revive will definitely see some use in 9 - I blame the damage randomness that is through the roof in that game (and the random status ailments/instant KO from the last boss can lead to a game-over even with your whole team protected against all abnormalities if the RNG decides to screw you since some of them like Berserk, you can do nothing against).
I mentionned that FF9 is one of the hardest FFs on some forum a few years back and some smartass was like "you find FF9 hard? lol, it's the easiest actually". So annoying. I still don't know if he was trolling, trying to act superior by playing the usual dumb "pro-gamer" card, or was just insanely lucky in his playthrough; but try to argue against that... It was doubly-annoying since everyone else in the forums just read our "yes it's hard / no it's not" exchange without participating, they just ate chips while enjoying the show of me trying to argue with a troll. The fact no one came to my help still hurts, haha (eventually I stopped giving examples of the game's difficulty when I realized he wasn't willing to listen so I let him have the last word and he probably thought he "won" the argument. My autistic self is still mad about that, lmfao).
I died in the same spot in Atelier Ryza, I had to go back and create as many high end items to use in battle. When i went back I beat that boss with a single bomb. I hadn't really been using items in battle because in most rpgs it's not necessary.
Oh i remember Grandia 3 getting ridiculous towards the end. I recall skipping most enemies in the final dungeon cause they were ridiculous and not worth it and i wanted to go full hp/mp to the final boss. It was an insane spike. It showed the development was rushed at the end.
0 hour gang! 😁
Just kidding. Anyway, I clicked when I saw it was Erick. Really influenced me on playing Odin Sphere which led to me playing Muramasa after. Lol! Although our tastes sometimes clash (TWEWY and Yggdra Union, I really love those 2 to death!), I still really respect and agree with most of your takes. Thanks for keeping my backlog full man! 😂
Tales of Berseria is so beautiful that I would lack of words to describe it. One of the best JRPG`s I have ever played.
PD: In Fire Emble The Sacred Stones, on the Desert Map what I did was move fast and hard to the left and defeat the enemy there, trench, eliminate the 200 reinforces that arrive and then attack the main boss in the right. Easy.
Random encounters with a count down gives me anxiety to this day
Indeed, I was shocked to see Persona 5 still do that with a major boss as well as random encounters. I thought designers had learned better than that since P2.
Same, I hate it.
I have had a lot of experience with the Star Ocean series so when I started Divine Force I did so on universe difficulty. When I got to the first boss, I thought I had made a wrong turn somewhere because there was no possible way the game expected me to beat this giant sand wurm thing that shoots volleys of magic that rip me to shreds at level 9.
Star Ocean: the Divine Force, since you asked, same you can in most SO games, by crafting weapons and armor that's much, much better than what you can currently buy. I farmed dark matter (from dark material monster in the crashed research ship) and then used alchemy to turn those into moonstones and used these to craft way better gear. So the sword I used had an attack of 947 while the sword you can buy had like 500, same for the armor. At least in the SO games I've played there's always a way to manipulate the crafting system to get gear that's OP compared to where you are in the game.
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on Magna Carta Tears of Blood for ps2 and Magna Carta 2 for the Xbox 360. They are two of my favorite rpgs that ive heard almost nobody talk about. Highly underrated and overlooked games. They didn't even give them the backwards compatibility treatment.
I probably would have put Final Fantasy 8 instead of 9. The main issue with 8 is that they changed the way the leveling system worked, so unlike the previous entries, enemies leveled with you. Coupled with the new junction system, any person playing the game for the first time should find the game very challenging until they understand both systems.
9 has its fair share of parts where the difficulty ramps up, but it never gets as challenging as playing 8 for the first time.
Yeah but once you get the junction system even a bit, its a wrap. As a kid, I plowed through ff8 by using ONLY gfs. Never had an issue until adel where gfs would also kill rinoa. I then found myself locked into an unwinnable situation
@@NWOtion I went through the game by not focusing on GFs and by grindingly. It wasn’t easy but was do-able. When I play again I’ll use GFs more and suspect will find it much easier
@@jekw23 nah definitely dont rely on them. Just never cast magic except healing spells and junction everything to hp and strength. Thats the entire game right there lol
I would love to play the Atelier games, but HOLY COW... The cost to get each game multiplied by the quantity of them. Still waiting for a mad Steam sale.
I recently finished Grandia 3 (PS2 Emulator) again. It was as good as I originally remembered it. You just got to know where to grind and how to synth your mana eggs.
True, I wanted to get into Atelier series but not with those prices. I can literally buy 2 copies of Red Dead 2 for the same price as 1 of older Atelier game (when both are discounted on Steam sale). It's crazy.
All about that grind
Now I finally understand why Xenosaga doesn't appear on your lists.
i'm more interested in those first 3 games you showed before the start of your countdown what are their titles please?
Tbh I don't think Ryza is that hard... You just need the proper equipments and items... Most bosses I fought got destroyed before I even expect them to
Both that bird and the damn mother worm (the first real boss of SO6) absolutely annihilated me. There's definitely quite a few difficult bosses in that game and I was playing on normal.
if you want to trivialize SMRPG, equip mario with jump shoes and do nothing with him but jump. There's a hidden mechanic that increases the power of jump every time you use it and it quickly scales to become a cheap efficient attack that will carry you through the entire game. Jump shoes is there to ignore enemy resistances to jump.
I like Fire Emblem Sacred Stones. I play this game when i first got it and its my personal favorite. And after you beat the main story, you get to have fun bashing monsters while also getting certain characters by clearing a ceartin number of floors and beating them 3 times in the tower and ruins.
I played Xenosaga ep 1 when it was new, and while I didn't think it was that difficult, there actually were a TON of players that would say how hard the gargoyle boss was. Quite a few also had a hard time with Tiamat.
I personally only had 2 game overs, 1 on Gigas, who is considered one of the easiest bosses, I dunno how cuz that guy would double AOE spam me constantly for the same amount as gargoyle's biggest aoe attack, twice as often, and uhh.. Some hidden SURPRISE MUTHAF-2@#% boss hiding in a loot chest in the 2nd last dungeon. That said I refuse to use Erde kaiser, not sure why they put an IWIN spell in the game.
I almost wiped on Proto dora too, another boss nobody complained about. It had this weird sonic wave tentacle aoe attack that 1shot my entire party except 1 character. Not sure how a boss can have a move so damn strong and nobody mentions it as hard.
Bro...im still stuck in those floating ruins in grandia iii. That magic golem thing is something out of hell.
I tell you, some levels in Fire Emblem Engage are HARDER THAN MY CO--
Atelier Ryza was my first Atelier game so I didn't have the problem with beeing spoiled. And I might have gone a little nuts with the synthesis, blasting everything with a bomb is just fun for some time.
Tales of Berseria definitely kept me busy back then, especially after getting Magilou. Weird enough I haven't even played Zestiria lmao.
You aren't missing much except a few character relations and seeing the same towns in a different era.
I agree with Kingdom Hearts games being so underestimated, because my nephew once got too attracted by how "Disney" it is (back when he was still 5 to 6-years old) and his dad - my older brother - wasn't aware of the game not being the most kid-friendly Disney game as far as gameplay is concerned. So, when my nephew got himself KH1, he kept getting stuck at various parts of the game, with me frequently having to help him out - leading to me playing the game more than he did. TBH, I really liked KH1, but it's definitely a product of its time with some of its issues.
Then, my nephew got his eyes on KH2 and obviously wanted to play it. Having played the game before he did, I actually thought "why not troll him to show that KH isn't the easiest Disney game around?". So I did, starting a new file for him to play, but on Proud Mode unbeknownst to him. He ended up getting stuck on one of the early-game bosses, and I still remember seeing him rage from his constant losses. I think he got quite a wake-up call from that.
Oh, before I forgot, these are the original PS2 versions - no the HD Final Mix remasters.
FF9 can throw some curve balls, that is why Steiner is my favorite character, not only he is a very well written person, he fricking survives, i lost the count the times he saved my bacon by not dying, seeing him going is trance is like having "you cant get a game over" for a while, i always had permanent protect shell and regen, one time a boss made him berserker and killed the rest of party, i let go of controller waiting for defeat, but no, steiner started going hard on the boss, taking almost no damage with trance and regen hp until he killed it, damn boy, when i fought belatrix, he was way stronger than her, and those cutscenes made no sense, he was slaughtering the enemies with no issue.
kindom hearts 2 final mix is easier than the original even in the proud mode, but KH1 final was a nightmare.
I don't think Grandia 3 is talked about enough. Such a good jrpg. I stayed for the combat, not for the story, lol. Grinding/combining those eggs were fun, just watch out for those pink rabbits.
Dude yes! my favorite turn based combat in any RPG ever, hands down. The story does fall off hard but it it looks really good and has a nice OST, save for the shitty desert town lol
until this day I wait for remake of Grandia Series, or a Grandia 4, maybe the ressurection of one of my favorite series!
I totally understand that Kingdom Hearts feeling. I remember the first time facing those fat shadows and having a though time like "excuse me? Is this supposed to be this hard or I just suck?"
KH2 platinum including secret bosses and hardest difficulty is a great challenge. Platinumed kh1 too but really don't like it that much.
SMT IV taught me not to underestimate RPGs
Berseria was my first Tales game so the mechanics kicked my ass for about 20 hours.
And here I thought every Atelier game is suppose to be chill and relaxing game...
going in blind only to battle Culex on MarioRpg was by far the best experience for me on during snes days
What you say about Berseria is not true. The games is easy, you play on normal and it becomes easier and easier, so you need to up the difficulty, and unlock new higher difficulties because each new step up becomes easy after a few hours. Maybe after three or four difficulty ups it becomes hard, but never hardcore. I concede the last few missions are harder than the rest and you need enough curatives and some grinding, because if you die, you will lose several hours (same as in Arise, super long last dungeon without fast travel other than at the beginning). But, yeah, if you approach a Tales game as though it was a Bayonetta or a Nier game, you will have trouble. Berseria looks like a hack & slash, but a hack & slash it is not. You need to learn the combat and how the attack you make with any of the four face buttons will be different if it was preceded by X, O, Square or Triangle, creating countless variations, but smashing the same buttons won't do it (again, this is not Bayonetta or Nier).
As for Atelier Ryza, the problem is not the game, it is your approach! if you are a gamer who plays Crap of Tsushima, Far Crap 3, Spider-Crap, Horizon Zero Crap and other open world with crafting mechanics you don't need to learn or even use to finish the game, you will think Atelier is the same, and that's a mistake. Atelier has deep crafting mechanic, that's the focus of the game! I mean, it's called "atelier", right? Then, if you don't engage in depth with the crafting system, you won't get better equipment, and a simple upgrade here marks the difference. It's not like a Silver Sword and then a Silver Sword +1 like most games, no. Here, that simple +1 means you now deal not 25 hp of damage, but 80. Each piece or your equipment that you improve to the next level, is a big jump, not a small irrelevant one.
Mario games have never been easy. Super Mario Bros, SMB2, SMB3, SM World, Yoshi's Island were hard. Not hardcore. And Mario RPG is not hardcore either, just normal Mario. I don't think anyone would have approached Mario RPG thinking it would have been an easy game.
Super Mario RPG is only hard until you get Peach, then the game is a cakewalk. Even if you don't get the Lazy Shell Armor and stick it on her, she still effectively removes any and all challenge with her Group Hug spell. If you give her the Lazy Shell Armor (which does take a little effort to find), you become 100% invincible. Yes, even _CULEX_ can't touch you. It also helps that bosses have limited FP, for example the guy at the end of Seaside Town has limited FP. Just defend and heal through his attacks until he runs out of FP and then beat the crap out of him from complete safety because he has zero normal attacks. Culex is the same way, just let the other 2 die and let him do 1 damage with everything to Peach until him and his crystals are out of FP and then rez the other two and just pound him to death.
Sacred Stones is an interesting case, if you don't use the tower or Arenas to grind, It's at least as hard, if not harder than FE7
What is the name of the game on the first second of the video???some kind of mechs battle??? Can someone tell me please???
I wanted to like Berseria so much, but I finally gave up after 20-something hours because the combat was so...not fun, even after I understood the battle system. I'm looking forward to playing Sacred Stones, since it's the first FE game that actually lets you grind (unlike FE7, which is why I quit that one). Agreed about FF IX, ironically one of the hardest FF games I've played despite also being my first.
Agreed with FE Sacred Stones, had some trouble in some maps as well
I guess people call it easy because you can grind and...Seth is a thing, I have talked about it to people and all the answers are "why aren't you using Seth?", "why aren't you grinding?"
Moral of the story: a game is easy if you use overpowered things
I found it easy as a kid(I was 12) without grinding, except to raise my lower level units to the same level(l'rachael, the merc that arrives with her, but not the trainees, I did that in actual levels as it made them feel amazing) as my lowest main party member, and I thought prepromote=bad at I never used Seth, the hardest part was the desert, and only because the leader with the crit immune shield was slightly too strong(decent crit, 1-2 range weapon, on a fort)
Disagree about Tales of Berseria - I feel like it has a nice difficulty curve, and is never particularly challenging.
The Berseria haters can take a long puff on a short pole for all I care, that game had a fantastic story and a fun battle system. Easy to pickup, but with a high skill ceiling to master. Haters will disagree but there's no proof of them playing that game on anything but easy mode, if at all.
I dislike it as a game but I love the story.
100% agree about “FFIX”. One of the only modern “FF’s” that kicked my butt the first time I played it!
I gotta say while playing Berseria I would often just lean back and do nothing when the character I controlled died and then watch the others finish the fight on their own. Worked 99% of the time. I never really learned the combat system, did no extra leveling and still had no isuues.
I dont know in what world FFIX is underestimated... But to me, a VERY underestimated jrpg is Scarlet Nexus
What’s the game from the first 3 seconds of the video?
Glad to hear I wasn't the only that didn't finish xenosaga 1. I got stuck like chuck near the end and I was just done.
Can't get into action rpgs they are just too repetitive can't play the old ones ore the new ff7 remake..just imo turn based jrpgs are the best but that could be me being 50 yrs old and grew up playing gems so these new games just won't ever get any respect from me. Ty for the video man I agree with you on ff9 and grandia 3 I love both those games.
For sure. I am looking forward to ff16 but i am concerned itll be too easy like 15 where you just plow through everything. The draw of turn based rpgs is that you and your party are vastly inferior to the enemy and must strategize to win
@@NWOtion i didn't even make it 30 mins in ff15 I haven't played any since 12 as 13 was also awful 😐 idk why they think final fantasy fans ever wanted action rpgs
@@jaydeebow6431 ff7r was good though and i dont even like ff7 that much
Trails of Cold Steel 2 was one for me - I had my party all at the level 140's with maxed out master quartz, the whole thing. The final boss was so damn cheap - you had to keep an s-craft in your back pocket at all times to clear the screen of the little minions he would spawn, and you also had to keep your people with a speed up bonus and immune to Vanish...I think I spent a good 6 hours just on that one enemy.
There are so many evil fights like that in Trails. Some of them hit you out of nowhere and come specifically to bust your gut and test your observation... I recall a certain chest fight in Trails from Zero- if you haven't played I won't spoil the one, but those who have played might just know which one- that at level was cruelty incarnate. Trails bosses almost expect you to go in with a 200 CP party at some point, usually midway.
Cold Steel 2 in particular had a few very difficult bosses that caught me off guard
@@shadowcatofthenorth1984 Didn't it though? I thought Cold Steel IV was a cake walk by comparison
The worst part about ToCS 2 and even ToCS 3 is all the damn bosses that heal themselves. It made me rage quit more than once.
@@PacketWrangler I haven't played 4 yet, but 3 was definitely a little easier. Overall, considering how relatively easy the Trails in the Sky trilogy was I was a little surprised at the difficulty spike here.
At ff9 on that boss - give him a tent ⛺️
I love these videos, so many new games to check out. I even finally got Xenoblade Chronicles 1,2,3 and Torna. Didn't know that there was some prequel to 2nd game. RPGs are even better these days because you can play them for a long time and they cost a bit less than new releases, niche games have its perks.
What about chronicles X?
@@webslinger325 Oh yeah, I forgot about this game, I have Japanese Wii U console with Bayonetta1/2, Xenoblade Chronicles X and Mario Kart 8. Maybe it's finally time to play these games, but it's still hard to read Japanese for now. I somehow managed to finish Yakuza 7 (Ryu Ga Gotoku 7, just because it was available 6months before Eu/America release) and then watched playthrough on youtube to understand what I understood.
5:57 a game that can be quite difficult is Tears Of The Kingdom. With a bit of practice most standard enemy encounters are easy, but the big enemies and bosses are really HARD!!!!!
I am a big consumer of JRPG and I have Atelier Ryza and Star Ocean 6 on my list, im gonna play them at some point i have played the previous ones.
Xenosaga gets pretty tough in places, but that's why you get Erde Kaiser and let him solve all your problems.
What is the game in the minute 00:00 ?
Hoping someone knows
Found it, trials of cold steel 3
@@Dagr81 Thanks, my man! Have a nice day!
I own Berseria and I haven't touched it. I low key got burnt out on takes after Graces F and Zesteria especially...
Action RPGs are my favorite genre but Tales games kinda felt stagnant. I haven't played Arise but I've heard good things about that and Berseria...
Berseria is a blast, the combat sort of works like zersteria in that you have more then one "mode" but it is smoothed out a lot. You need to mix up your skills though because to make it fun you have to basically fight everything and explore everywhere. Trying to "skip a part" will just leave you under leveled. Level in both games is pretty noticeable. Berseria is a long game though if you do explore a lot. Sort of the cliche "grindy" feel. I did a lot of messing around in the "optional" final dungeon so the end fight was an absolute stompfest. This set up a pretty nice newgame+ though. Zesteria's newgame+ to me almost feels like they expect you to do a real newgame+ on the THIRD go through though, no way I could grind enough grade to unlock the stuff I would like to in time for the second go round.
I just started Arise. So far it is fun, but control early in the game does not feel as polished in combat at berseria did. I am sure it improves, even the tutorial stuff hints at more mechanics in the future so I am sure it grows into a robust system. I only have two characters in the party so it is very early on yet.
Problem with Erik is that he claims to ignore side content. That’s probably why he finds Ryza difficult since otherwise it’s a extremely easy game.
I love xenosaga so much, just re-finished the trilogy (finished the first one 4 times, it was the 2nd game that I finished on PS2, first one was zone of the enders the 2nd runner)
Berseria is no joke if you're breezing through it as quickly as possible. About the last third of the game really expects you to start getting it, even on normal. That final dungeon is so convoluted it made me despise how many encounters I wanted to run away from because I just wanted to get it over with. SCREW THAT THING! One of my go-tos for unexpected difficulty is the Trails series. Not that I would call the system the easiest to grasp in the first place because mid-to-endgame really forces you to start being observant and has far less forgiveness. Haven't gotten to Cold Steel yet, only played through the first one for ~20 hours when the amazing Trails from Zero remaster Durante and The Geofront got to improve with a proper English release, and that's where I'm mid to endgame of, after having played FC, SC and the 3rd, in anticipation of the (Steam, I feel bad for the PS4 players as they don't get Durante's improvements on Falcom's vexing insistence) release of Trails to Azure in the 14th!
P.S.: Thank you for turning me on to Shining Resonance Refrain Erick! I had it for a few years and like so many others the backlog got the better of it. Now I'm playing it and it's an absolute hidden gem with brilliant writing. I don't mind the fanservice at all and I love how adaptable the dungeon system is- briliant way to give the player to grind, and the game most certainly expects you will grind.
Yeah, you're 💯 on the difficulty spike. Had to start paying attention to combos
The later Trails games are much easier than Sky, especially Cold Steel. Hard mode in Cold Steel is still easier than Normal in Sky. There is a bunch of very abusable builds in that game. Won't spoil of course but i'd say it isn't hard to figure them out either.
Star Ocean Divine Force was all about the crafting, it broke the game in hilarious and completely overpowered ways
Fuhm..I sense there'll be a lot of magic egg grinding in my not so distant future
I would get it if you were a newcomer to the series or something but imo Fire Emblem Sacred Stones just isnt hard if you have played more than 1 or 2 Fe games. You said he cant, but Seth can quite literally solo the whole game and the hardest part about that is making sure no one else enters any battles to make it a true Seth solo run. That aside you get fed plenty of other good units like Vanessa and Cormag plus ephraim is the best lord unit in the Gba trilogy imo (Its a bit harder if you choose Eirikas route I guess). Overall I just dont see Sacred Stones as a hard game unless you wanna put various restrictions on how you play.
This is just facts. They also feed you promo items and theres plenty of legendary and s rank weapons to go around
I did find it hard and it was the...4th I played? Idk how people find it easy, the Hamil Canyon map is insane and all I hear from people is that the game is easy
Berseria was great, and Velvet was is one of my fave Tales protags
I’m a simple [questioning gender identity], I see Velvet, I click
As for Atelier ryza y played in normal and died with the dragon and the final boss. With the dragon I learned the interruption mechanic and start to take more serious the game. With the final boss I died in the second fase and understand that I am not going to win with that gear, so I created a better equipment in order to take that boss. I remember that took me 2 more tries
Stop Erick. Stop making my jrpg backlog even bigger
To be honest I think Atelier games are not that easy, especially if you try to achive the better endings or to beat the super bosses. I never could achive that in Rorona or Totori because of the time limit and to synthesize the best gear is also not easy and you better take notes for a new game plus if you don't want to use a guide.
Star ocean 3 is one of my favorites
I remember the first time I played Berseria on PC in normal there were some really harsh enemies and the stupid octopus you showed. Then years after I played the PS4 version in hard and it was a walk in the park 🤔
Too be honest... Ryza wasn't that gard for me... Until the last boss... I could not kill the last boss so I went back to see how to get stronger only to realize... My item creations so back to the drawing board
What was the 1st game, 1 sec into the video
I think you're mostly off the mark in this video. Kingdom hearts, FF9 and Mario RPG are definitely not underestimated, maybe the others too a little. These are among the most popular within the JRPG community and highly praised. The only step further is to become mainstream outside JRPGs, but even then, they're almost at that point too.
Nah I agree, boss spikes in the Divine Force suck (and I found it to be pretty often from what I played). Normal enemies are a cakewalk but yeah.
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I skipped Berseria for so long but recently played it and really like it. Also rare for a female character that's more than a love interest
Ni no Kuni. It's pretty much a cakewalk until "that boss". Anyone who's played this game knows what I'm talking about
Grandia 3 was really enjoyable but i remember it was sorta grindy
BTW Tales of Berseria has the best Story by far of the Tales series
Those stupid blue things in Ryza killed me like 20 times. Ridiculous.
Tales of berseria...that last level...
After a few afternoons, many evenings and hours going through portals looking for the last one, just googled the damn ending lol.
Loved it though
Sigh, star ocean.. played most of them many times. Gave up on the latest one after one damn dungeon not able to open the last portal to the boss, I think it glitched.
I should mention there a ton of games I would have loved if it were no for maze dungeons.
Ffx I at least finished but the trials. I hate those!! Every play through
And I see grandma 3 is on this list, I just started this one via emulation. Damnit, I should just give up now lol
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If Xenosaga got ported to switch with some mild QOL it would be a megahit with that audience. It has almost as good of a story as Xenogears and it doesn't insult your intelligence at the end. Each of the episodes is better than the last one, and you get a formal payoff at the end.
I remember when it was Christmas and i got a ps2 with Kingdom Hearts. Daaamn i was so happy! But my parents Dident knew what a memory card was so i had to wait a couple of days then buy one haha 🤣
I kinda underestimate SMT Nocturne. I just don't believe it's as hard as people say.
I spilled my drink when you said sacred stones
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Another badass video! That was so damn funny when you said that one boss was as hard as your c***! 👊🤣 Keep making entertaining videos bro!