I was loving it, but as I was having a discussion with a friend and playing the game in-between our messages, when I play the game I am reminded of that and I just don't enjoy it anymore as much as I did.
Astral Chain 2 is probably being made as we speak. in a Bayonetta 3 trailer, they put the dog mascot for a few seconds. I got baited hard because I was more hyped for Astral Chain 2 than bayo 3 but ...I'm sure it was to let us know they're doing something with it.
Valkyria Chronicles 3 is best game in series (and also best selling VC game in Japan, the only one game in series who sold more than 100k in first week) and it's a pity when this amazing game is still,, only in Japan'' PSP ekslusive. This game need remake + translation.
Magical Starsign! That was a hidden gem back during my DS days. Always chose the dark powers. Probably because of my emo phase. The Valkyria Chronicles was perfection during its first inception. But then the devs lost their way, creating one spinoff after spinoff. Even becoming a dating sim for one before they finally came back to their roots. I never had a chance to play the Xenoblade series. Only came at 3 when I got it from a friend. I fell in love with the characters, especially Eunie. She was just such a darling, that you can't help but adore. Even with her foul mouth.
If you don't know Valkyria Chronicles series roots is Dating Sim / Tactical RPG (they adopted ARMS battle system from Sakura Taisen 3-5 and upgraded into BLiTZ + both series were developed by same studio - Sega WoW / Sega Overworks).
9:52 - Just a warning about anyone interested in Relayer: the publisher, Red Art Games, is a small time company in France who sell their games online, so you're not likely to find this out in the wild. Most eBay listings of this game were for brand new copies from sellers in the US or France (mostly the latter).
I thought Star Ocean: The Second Story just wasn't my game, then I played almost straight through to the end last week and now consider it a certified classic. I had to learn that a) skills were useful in combat and gave you beneficial RNG triggered effects b) if you are playing melee you have to give them a more ranged special as well as a high damage close-up special. Alas, I got stuck at the end boss because I missed the Easter egg earlier in the game that makes him fair.
It's been about 5+ years since I last played it, but if you're talking about the limiter remover side-quest that opens up the secret dungeon, that actually makes him harder. I don't remember there being something that made him easier. But then again, maybe I just missed it too lol
@@valkrieknights After having trouble with the boss being busted in the second half of the fight, I consulted a walkthrough and found that I should have done more "Private Actions" as those are for fun and bonuses in SC1 but much more crucial in SC2 as they deliberately made the game more for hardcore players (that like to explore everywhere, find everything and basically turn over every stone in a game). It is just like Suikoden for players who have to get all 108 characters as opposed to myself who are happy with about half from just a streamlined run through the story.
@@Blernster The crafting is just RNG that you can adjust more in your favour with Skill Points. The Skill system reminds me of D&D where depending on your DM, you may be using more skills outside of combat and depending on your characters stats and specializations, you have a better or worse chance of success.
@@jayrobitaille2402 I suppose we're the same in that regard. While I would love to recruit every character in the suikoden games, it's just too easy to miss some and they're mostly just for fun anyway. While I do enjoy the private actions quite a bit, I also did not see the need to go out of my way to do them.
The music in that Utawarerumono is really REALLY good. It was bringing tears to my eyes and making me cry, wow! Of course I see that Atlus is on the cover of the game. I’ve been seeing how far back Atlus goes with all of the amazing games they create. Those developers are one of the best in the biz for sure.
Umm, just want to say, that ATLUS only handling the Publishing aspect of Utawarerumono games. The Developer of Utawarerumono, from the beginning, is actually Leaf / Aquaplus (Leaf is a Subsidiary of Aquaplus Company). It's been famous as the developer of Visual Novel type of game. I'm glad that in Utawarerumono series, they included Tactical Strategy aspect too. ATLUS had publish some games, that been made by other companies. The most famous ones is Vanillaware (Odin's Sphere, Dragon Crown, 13 Sentinels; Aegis Rim, etc).
@@rigelothello709 Thank you for telling me I was not aware! Makes sense because I knew 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim was Vanillaware but on the cover I think it says Atlus so can be misleading
Magical Starsing is sequel for Magical Vacation (Gameboy Advance), which is also a good game. Although, it is japan-only, and you'll need fan-translation patch.
Funny part is a lot of time the fan translated version is actually superior due to fact they tend not to do nearly as much western substitution. Of course most horrendous often times are the dubs as example Final Fantasy remake basically remaking the personality of many of the characters. Glad I learned Japanese.
@@Ya_Mosura Well, those games were made on PSP so small and tiny maps are understandable. I'm pretty sure if those games would be released on PS3/PS4 or remaded on PS4/PS5, would have bigger and more complex maps like VC4.
Arc Rise Fantasia was one I bought on release, tried it for a bit, then forgot about it. Fired it up a few years later and was like, "Why didn't I play through this sooner?!" 10 years after finishing that casual play, I finally did a full Let's Play of it too.
Astral chain is awesome. Always wanted to play it, didn't have Switch. Waited till Bayonetta 3 released, now I finally have it but still wait for the right time to play it. I guess this year''s vacation will be hidden gems on Switch :D
From day one I thought Digimon seemed terribly derivative of Pokemon, but over time it began to set itself apart by having more in-depth/darker stories. The Dark Masters arc of Adventure 1 was what caught my young self's attention; a stretch where our heroes are facing a group of memorable new enemies so powerful that some of them want to just give up the fight or blame their leader. Suggestion: Interesting things you would like to see a new JRPG try
Since you were very unsure about Yakuza I am happy to see you took to it so well. If future Yakuza games that come out end up being turn based and are as fun as this one, I'd bet you will give them a chance too. Such a cool JRPG. Fantastic list Erick! I really need to get Death End Request and its sequel, they have always looked fun to me.
I think I heard in some video that the Yakuza games are going to use turn based combat from now on, but they have another franchise that will continue the previous series signature gameplay. I don't know how much truth there is to that however.
Yakuza LaD is such a good game. Yakuza humor taken to 11 along with the great story and great battle mechanics make this one of my favorite games in recent years.
I can't wait until Resonance of Fate is added to these lists... 10 years from now. Seeing as you like Valkyrie Profile 2, RoF, if you actually play and beat it, should impress on a different level.
Watching this just made me realize how seriously bad my backlog is these days...due in part to a) working way too much to barely have time to play anything anymore and b) because I'm still glued to totk any spare chance I get which isn't much, but I've slowly amassed about 170hrs into it now and just finished maxing my energy cell. Still a ridiculous amount to do in it though. Only got about half the depths mapped out and a ton of side quests and the last bit of the main to do. But I've still got at least half of these from the video in my backlogs too not to mention about a thousand other games. Too many games not enough time in my lifetime to finish em all
utawarerumono is god tier... also didnt expect i wouldnt like it as much as i did, since im not the biggest fan of the setting, but the characters, sci-fi elements etc. blow my mind and it became one of my favorite series of all times.. in aqua plus/leaf we trust
I'm starting to believe, you don't enjoy anime and all, unless it looks interesting enough to you, nothing wrong with that, but that's what people call, narrow-minded and you slept on a lot of good games. I'm glad that you tried all of these games and getting to play and finish some of the games and I'm glad that you've broaden your horizons, when it comes to jrpg and possibly, role-playing games in general, no matter how unappealing that it looks and also, give everything a chance.
For me Tokyo Mirage Sessions totally surpassed my expectations. I thought it would be a cheap game with tons of Idol stuff I didn't care about. Boy! Was I wrong! It became one of my favorite switch games. It was gorgeous, the story was fun, and the combat was amazing!
I can't think of any games that were better than I expected, but 2 games I've played more than once, and the 2nd time I like them better were: Phantasy Star III and Final Fantasy 8
One of my surpises was Eastward. Pretty looking Indie game, that has a great story and character development. Loved every second of it, while I thought I would just "rush" it as a snack, seeing my Switch was away. Played it on Xbox (Gamepass). Tried Soul Hackers 2, but that was a big disappointment.
I really like Compile Hearts games. Yeah, they have there own charm. Sure, budget is low, many things works... somehow. But it's still fun. Got few Platina's on those games. Including for both 1 and 2 Death end; ReQuest. It was worth it. As for games that surpassed my expactations... well, Compile Hearts games) As for names: Agarest, Cross Edge, Nights of Azure. 13 Sentinels (I knew it's gonna be great, but it beat my expactation in a good way)
Have you played Front Mission 3 on the PS1? It's a pretty good mecha based strategy rpg, with two story paths to follow at the beginning of the game. Worth playing.
am a fan of digimon anime franchise but i never liked the games aside from Cyber Sleuth, Survive though, that was really good, especially considering it did something Pokemon never did (or will ever do), there is a story, characters and they can and will die depending on which route you take which leads to different endings. NGL i also like a lot of Compile Heart games and i must say Death End Re-quest took it to a whole new level. Heck Neptunia series is good too, weird and funny, but good. Also am not sure if it was recommended before but you should really try the Trails series, that is the best JRPG series i have ever played starting from Trails in the Sky Trilogy to Zero and most recent Azure and finally Cold Steel 1-4 with Reverie coming soon. Oh Scralet Nexus is also a really good game to try out.
I have both utawarerumoni mask of deception & truth games on steam. I’ve been meaning to play it for yrs now. Still have no idea when I’ll actually play it tho.
Valkyria Chronicles 3 was very good, in fact it's actually my favorite among the 4 games though I love 1 and 4 too. VC2 is really bad, I think the fans (including myself) had high expectations due to the success of the first game but I was utterly disappointed. If ever they make an english remaster of VC3, I will definitely play it again I was skeptical of Yakuza 7 too because Kiryu wasn't the main protag but when it was free for PS plus, I gave it a chance and I actually liked it. Platinumed it too.
Got Utawarerumono second and third way back thought Id get to play them. But after seeing this. Ive just ordered Prelude to the fallen aswell :) so now I have something Nice to do in a while
Asdivine Heart for me. A buddy recommended it to me and at first I was like naaaah but that somewhat grandia style battle system really sucked me in and next I knew I had 100%ed it lol
I’m just tired of them using fan service as a crutch in rpgs. Xenoblade 2 and Ryza being two examples. If they think it won’t go well then they do a bunch of fan service. Then if it works out they give us games that we should have gotten. The drastic change from xbc2 to xbc3 makes you think none of the same people were involved in the game and they shouldn’t be the same series. It’s pathetic and they should be called out for it. Just make good games and stop rely on fan service when unsure.
Man your lucky having a friend play the utawarerumono mask of deception on the ps4 and ps vita IN ENGLISH. I got the japanese version had to rely on youtube to translate stuff for me but omg the characters each and everyone it was just a rollercoaster of emotions.
Digimon Survive was so good. Was it what I expected? No, but it was still amazing. Unlike most others I wasn't even expecting anything crazy. I was thinking it would be more like Devil Survivor. While it was different in how it went about things, I wasn't actually all that far off. I would have wanted it more like Devil Survivor but what it was was great. It's rare for me to go through a game that quickly. It's even more rare for me to go through every story the game has back to back to back. I just blew through everything in that game in one go. For reference, I only did one playthrough of Three Houses and Ys Origin. Yet I did everything in Digimon Survive. So I have three (four including the DLC?) playthroughs of Three Houses to go and two more of Ys Origin.
Shining Force 1 also. Because I played SF2 first. And thought I'd picked up the inferior predecessor for novelty mostly. Until I played it. And realized it may be even better than SF2....
Two things that i disagree in this list. 1- Astral Chain is not a JRPG. It's a action/hack slash with RPG elements and a heavy inspiration from anime (the gameplay resembles a lot Chaos Legion, a PS2 game published by Capcom). RPG elements are present in almost every game today, having skill trees is not enough to call a game a RPG. Just because a game has anime-like vibes and progression system, doesn't make it a JRPG. 2- Digimon is not a pokémon clone. The two franchises were launched almost at the same time with completely different niches. Pokémon never truly changed, it was a monster capture/taming game from start; Digimon started as a virtual pet/tamagotchi brand. Totally different ways of distribution, playing and audience.
Out of the rest of Yakuza games I really recommend Yakuza 0, it has a deep and dark plot that blew me away, just how you like it and 2 separate protagonists
Due to ps+ gave us like a dragon a few months ago, now im playing yakuza kiwami. (1rst yakuza remade) and i really enjoy the saga now. Not turn based, but worth the 5/ 6€ that It costs in ps store. Kiryu is a really good character too. We all love ichiban kasuga.
Except that half the game wasn't voiced - in English - I loved Death end Request. Its sequel was also really good in the storytelling department, because it covers some pretty dark subject matter. Despite some ... questionable female bonding, I think it is absolutely worth your time" Even a couple throwbacks to the previous one too.
I'm currently 150 hours into Xenoblade 2. I try to get as close to 100% as possible in all the JRPGs I play and this game is so draining. I enjoy exploring and finding hidden secrets but some parts are just so tedious. Finally finished all the merc quests (I think) and currently working on filling out all rare blades' affinity charts. I've been telling myself that I'm done with this series after XC2 (providing that I won't die of old age first).
Xeno 2 and X on Wii U are by far the longest of the series to fully complete.... Xeno 3 is far more streamlined and much easier too fully complete... 👍
@@elsonlam XC2 is quite a challenge to do 100% especially in getting all rare blades…also if you even bother to do new game+ all the merc missions reset in terms of completion, you’ll have access to all of them though. You also need to start the whole new game+ to get one of the blade, TE LOS. Still love the game even with its flaws and all.
@@maroXUprising I actually got all the rare blades. The funny thing is that I got the last 2 by using rare crystals. I bond with rare crystals then release the common blades to get boosters to use with legendary crystals. And repeat. Somehow, it was the rare crystals that got me the last 2 rare blades. Anyway, I don't think I'm going to do the new game+. Knowing myself, if I start, I'm going to have to finish it. That could be another 150 extra hours. I don't think I have the energy for that.
@@elsonlam that’s very fortunate. Getting all rare blades. I didn’t get all of ‘em until my 360th hr runtime while I was doing NG+. Yeah it’s best to not even bother doing NG+ though I forgot to mention there are merc missions if I’m not mistaken that unlock in NG+. Probably wrong on that, it’s been a long time since I completed both Playthroughs 100%
There’s surprisingly some really useful tech to learn that the game doesn’t teach you such as dodge offset canceling into various legion combos and such.
About Digimon, while I'm not saying anything about your lack of interest in the series; that's absolutely fine, of course, even as a fan of primarily Pokemon, though I'd always wanted to get into Digimon, as well; I'm just here to correct you on something. It's really not a Pokemon clone at all; much more of a Tamagotchi clone; far more of a virtual pet than any Pokemon game. If the name makes it seem like a clone, that's simply because Japan loves to portmanteau words; in this case, "pocket" and "monster" for Pokemon and "Digital" and "monster" for Digimon. While it does have a lot of cute creatures that change form just like Pokemon, it's more about the particular way you raise your single Digimon to evolve it and usually about it dying and reincarnating in order to become the different Digimon rather than just catching an entire team. Digimon World 1, Re:Digitize/Decode, and Next Order are far more along their tradition than the likes of Digimon Cyber Sleuth I know of. And since one does usually have only 1 Digimon, or, rarely, 2, Survive and the various seasons of the anime are more like their usual, as well. Heck, Shin Megami Tensei is more of a "Pokemon clone" than Digimon is, with how you negotiate with the demons in the middle of battle to, usually, try to get them on your side and how you usually have an entire team of them!
Honestly, "X clone" and "X like" really just need to be removed from the gamer/reviewer lexicon because 9 out of 10 times the comparison is completely wrong, or technically accurate but extremely reductive. It shows a very shallow level of analysis.
Pokemon is SMT clone (precisely Last Bible 3), not SMT is Pokemon clone. First Megami Tensei game was released in 1987 on Famicom, when first Pokemon was released in 1996. Digimon is clone of first two Devil Summoner games (spin-off SMT).
Xenoblade is my Astral Chain... I just can't get into it. Yet I keep going back for some reason lol (well, either way I'll profit so...) I may have to play it again.
I bought my Wii solely because of Xenoblade Chronicles - it's awesome, but because of how grind-heavy XBC is and how much I hate the wii-mote as a controller, I stopped playing after 160 hours and a mountain of dead batteries. After finding out that there's a Switch rerelease of XBC1, hopefully I can sit through the entire thing this time.
@@TheBlackSeraph indeed, the game was MUCH better when I got the wii pro controller than just using the wii mote. I got to the third to last boss than my wii died though :( I hope to re-do my game on the switch soon (already got my copy :) I hope you have yours as the price is going through the roof! ... than again it was the same early on for the wii copy but the second run and switch release made it virtually worthless lol so who knows). Forget what I was droning on about lol but you have a good plan! It's XBC 2 that gets me really I always get stuck eventually as I just can't get ahold of the battle system. I was told to just play the Torna expansion as the tutorials are MUCH better even at explaining the original game... but. Also the old 'man overcomes God and becomes god' story just kills my inner religious soul lol (basically all the Xeno- games are like this) but eh... I keep buying the stupid game I don't know why lol. It's pretty good if only I could get a grasp on the system lol
@@pdraggy XBC1's Wii release was expensive because the fanbase had to fight for it to get one print run (esp for PAL gamers). Anyhow, bought XBC3 day one, and recently made a point to get the switch rereleases of XBC1 & 2 (I never had a 3DS so being able to get the trilogy all at once was a godsend).
To anyone who want to play Digimon games, only play Survive and Cyber Sleuth. Those are the only good ones (Decode and World 1 are too, but they're not RPGs)
Astral chain was fun but I never got used to the platforming but did somehow beat it. Digimon survive was great but a lack of a English dub slightly pulls it down but great fun. Shin megami 3 is haven't beaten as I'm stuck in the third kepla and Dante keeps shooting me in my knees and laughs (seriously I hate this part) and I want to beat the game but it's either the true demon ending or nothing
To think that Astral Chain is hard to get into, is like saying clothes are hard to get into. Everything is fluid and intuitive in Astral Chain. Your opinion makes absolutely no sense at all.
¿Consideras que Astral Chain es un juego de rol?, a mí me encanta, está entre mis hack and slash favoritos, pero realmente no le veo muchas posibilidades roleras, eres un DPS o un DPS, ¿no?
Valkyria Chronicles is such a cheating franchise with such weird design decisions, but the first one still stands as a great game because of the story. I didn't like 2 and 3 so much because they were from PSP, it kind of ruined the performance of the classes, the game is not so beautiful anymore and the huge maps turned into corridors. 4 is just really disappointing too.
@@nr2676 I won't talk about him in detail because of spoilers but I don't like how he handled the justifications for sacrifices in that game and some other things are far-fetched and hard to believe. The first game handled humanity on both sides and war in general better, both sides had their rottenness and the script didn't try to play nice with that.
HI Erick, most of ur videos u repeat everything. U'll have a video of the same game cussing it out, and the same game just complaning about it. I would love to see more indie games from the Switch and Ps4 and PS 5. Which r ur top indie rpgs. and keep a series going for indie rpgs. something we can buy and play thats physical. everything is getting boring, but i still support u.
Nah, Death End Re;Quest or whatever sucked. Along with Dragon Star Vanir, I either played them through PlayStation Now or rented them from GameFly, idr... but I don't think I even got halfway through before I decided to spend my remaining time focusing on other games that sucked less.
Не устаю рофлить с этого жрпг эксперта)0) то у него легчайшие жрпг попадают в топ «сложных», то теперь вот астрал чейн жрпг стала Ор)) Русскоговорящим привет! Я могла бы написать это на английском, но мне лень, пускай ломают голову.)
Astral Chain is such a dream, I hope there's a sequel one day.
I was loving it, but as I was having a discussion with a friend and playing the game in-between our messages, when I play the game I am reminded of that and I just don't enjoy it anymore as much as I did.
Astral Chain 2 is probably being made as we speak. in a Bayonetta 3 trailer, they put the dog mascot for a few seconds. I got baited hard because I was more hyped for Astral Chain 2 than bayo 3 but ...I'm sure it was to let us know they're doing something with it.
Ah for sure in 20 years around you will get a sequel 😋 nah am kidding i think the next 5 years around they bring the sequel
I'd just love it to no longer be Switch Exclusive
@Broad Sword I literally couldn't care less tbh.
We need an HD remaster of “Valkyria Chronicles 3”! It’s SUCH a good game with great story. (I love 1-4, but 3 has my favorite story so far)
Digimon feels like it's closer to SMT than Pokemon
Digimon is precisely close to Devil Summoner / Soul Hackers series (even some devs from first two Devil Summoner games worked later on Digimon games).
Valkyria Chronicles 3 is best game in series (and also best selling VC game in Japan, the only one game in series who sold more than 100k in first week) and it's a pity when this amazing game is still,, only in Japan'' PSP ekslusive. This game need remake + translation.
Magical Starsign! That was a hidden gem back during my DS days. Always chose the dark powers. Probably because of my emo phase.
The Valkyria Chronicles was perfection during its first inception. But then the devs lost their way, creating one spinoff after spinoff. Even becoming a dating sim for one
before they finally came back to their roots.
I never had a chance to play the Xenoblade series. Only came at 3 when I got it from a friend. I fell in love with the characters, especially Eunie. She was just such
a darling, that you can't help but adore. Even with her foul mouth.
If you don't know Valkyria Chronicles series roots is Dating Sim / Tactical RPG (they adopted ARMS battle system from Sakura Taisen 3-5 and upgraded into BLiTZ + both series were developed by same studio - Sega WoW / Sega Overworks).
Magical Starsign was awesome
9:52 - Just a warning about anyone interested in Relayer: the publisher, Red Art Games, is a small time company in France who sell their games online, so you're not likely to find this out in the wild. Most eBay listings of this game were for brand new copies from sellers in the US or France (mostly the latter).
I thought Star Ocean: The Second Story just wasn't my game, then I played almost straight through to the end last week and now consider it a certified classic. I had to learn that a) skills were useful in combat and gave you beneficial RNG triggered effects b) if you are playing melee you have to give them a more ranged special as well as a high damage close-up special. Alas, I got stuck at the end boss because I missed the Easter egg earlier in the game that makes him fair.
It's been about 5+ years since I last played it, but if you're talking about the limiter remover side-quest that opens up the secret dungeon, that actually makes him harder. I don't remember there being something that made him easier. But then again, maybe I just missed it too lol
I tried that game for hours but the crafting stuff was so confusing I gave up
@@valkrieknights After having trouble with the boss being busted in the second half of the fight, I consulted a walkthrough and found that I should have done more "Private Actions" as those are for fun and bonuses in SC1 but much more crucial in SC2 as they deliberately made the game more for hardcore players (that like to explore everywhere, find everything and basically turn over every stone in a game). It is just like Suikoden for players who have to get all 108 characters as opposed to myself who are happy with about half from just a streamlined run through the story.
@@Blernster The crafting is just RNG that you can adjust more in your favour with Skill Points. The Skill system reminds me of D&D where depending on your DM, you may be using more skills outside of combat and depending on your characters stats and specializations, you have a better or worse chance of success.
@@jayrobitaille2402 I suppose we're the same in that regard. While I would love to recruit every character in the suikoden games, it's just too easy to miss some and they're mostly just for fun anyway. While I do enjoy the private actions quite a bit, I also did not see the need to go out of my way to do them.
Bro, path of radiance was a masterpiece. I wish the new fire emblem games were that good.
I 2nd this!
The last good, ,,normal'' FE game.
I like your channel since you talk about games at lower price points as well as the higher ones
Yakuza like a dragon is a gem
The music in that Utawarerumono is really REALLY good. It was bringing tears to my eyes and making me cry, wow! Of course I see that Atlus is on the cover of the game. I’ve been seeing how far back Atlus goes with all of the amazing games they create. Those developers are one of the best in the biz for sure.
Umm, just want to say, that ATLUS only handling the Publishing aspect of Utawarerumono games. The Developer of Utawarerumono, from the beginning, is actually Leaf / Aquaplus (Leaf is a Subsidiary of Aquaplus Company). It's been famous as the developer of Visual Novel type of game. I'm glad that in Utawarerumono series, they included Tactical Strategy aspect too.
ATLUS had publish some games, that been made by other companies. The most famous ones is Vanillaware (Odin's Sphere, Dragon Crown, 13 Sentinels; Aegis Rim, etc).
@@rigelothello709 Thank you for telling me I was not aware! Makes sense because I knew 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim was Vanillaware but on the cover I think it says Atlus so can be misleading
@@Mclearmountain Don't worry, it's normal we confused about Developer and Publisher. Sometimes I can be like that too.
Magical Starsing is sequel for Magical Vacation (Gameboy Advance), which is also a good game. Although, it is japan-only, and you'll need fan-translation patch.
I played the fan translation of Valkyria Chronicles 3.
It's definitely my favorite in the series by far.
Funny part is a lot of time the fan translated version is actually superior due to fact they tend not to do nearly as much western substitution. Of course most horrendous often times are the dubs as example Final Fantasy remake basically remaking the personality of many of the characters. Glad I learned Japanese.
Played a lot of 2 and 3 but the tiny maps really kill them for me.
@@Ya_Mosura Well, those games were made on PSP so small and tiny maps are understandable. I'm pretty sure if those games would be released on PS3/PS4 or remaded on PS4/PS5, would have bigger and more complex maps like VC4.
Arc Rise Fantasia was one I bought on release, tried it for a bit, then forgot about it. Fired it up a few years later and was like, "Why didn't I play through this sooner?!" 10 years after finishing that casual play, I finally did a full Let's Play of it too.
It's my favorite game of all time
Astral chain is awesome. Always wanted to play it, didn't have Switch. Waited till Bayonetta 3 released, now I finally have it but still wait for the right time to play it. I guess this year''s vacation will be hidden gems on Switch :D
Valkyria Chronicles 3 is the best in the series when it comes to the story and yes I have played all four of them.
And best customization.
From day one I thought Digimon seemed terribly derivative of Pokemon, but over time it began to set itself apart by having more in-depth/darker stories. The Dark Masters arc of Adventure 1 was what caught my young self's attention; a stretch where our heroes are facing a group of memorable new enemies so powerful that some of them want to just give up the fight or blame their leader.
Suggestion: Interesting things you would like to see a new JRPG try
Since you were very unsure about Yakuza I am happy to see you took to it so well. If future Yakuza games that come out end up being turn based and are as fun as this one, I'd bet you will give them a chance too. Such a cool JRPG. Fantastic list Erick! I really need to get Death End Request and its sequel, they have always looked fun to me.
I think I heard in some video that the Yakuza games are going to use turn based combat from now on, but they have another franchise that will continue the previous series signature gameplay. I don't know how much truth there is to that however.
@@Dpyrt This is also what I heard. Yakuza 8 is confirmed to be Turnbased.
Yakuza LaD is such a good game. Yakuza humor taken to 11 along with the great story and great battle mechanics make this one of my favorite games in recent years.
Death end request was amazing. I really want a third one. You should try the somnium games.
I can't wait until Resonance of Fate is added to these lists... 10 years from now. Seeing as you like Valkyrie Profile 2, RoF, if you actually play and beat it, should impress on a different level.
another great video friend!!! keed them coming and ill keep watching!
Watching this just made me realize how seriously bad my backlog is these days...due in part to a) working way too much to barely have time to play anything anymore and b) because I'm still glued to totk any spare chance I get which isn't much, but I've slowly amassed about 170hrs into it now and just finished maxing my energy cell. Still a ridiculous amount to do in it though. Only got about half the depths mapped out and a ton of side quests and the last bit of the main to do. But I've still got at least half of these from the video in my backlogs too not to mention about a thousand other games. Too many games not enough time in my lifetime to finish em all
Brave story , that game surpass my expectations
utawarerumono is god tier... also didnt expect i wouldnt like it as much as i did, since im not the biggest fan of the setting, but the characters, sci-fi elements etc. blow my mind and it became one of my favorite series of all times.. in aqua plus/leaf we trust
I'm starting to believe, you don't enjoy anime and all, unless it looks interesting enough to you, nothing wrong with that, but that's what people call, narrow-minded and you slept on a lot of good games. I'm glad that you tried all of these games and getting to play and finish some of the games and I'm glad that you've broaden your horizons, when it comes to jrpg and possibly, role-playing games in general, no matter how unappealing that it looks and also, give everything a chance.
For me Tokyo Mirage Sessions totally surpassed my expectations. I thought it would be a cheap game with tons of Idol stuff I didn't care about. Boy! Was I wrong! It became one of my favorite switch games. It was gorgeous, the story was fun, and the combat was amazing!
I can't think of any games that were better than I expected, but 2 games I've played more than once, and the 2nd time I like them better were: Phantasy Star III and Final Fantasy 8
Great video, thank you!
Just realized how much the Astral protag runs like FE's Byleth.
One of my surpises was Eastward. Pretty looking Indie game, that has a great story and character development. Loved every second of it, while I thought I would just "rush" it as a snack, seeing my Switch was away. Played it on Xbox (Gamepass). Tried Soul Hackers 2, but that was a big disappointment.
Haven't finish Valkeria 3 yet, good thing I get to see it here cuz it made me remember that game, I'm gonna play it again and finish it this time
Valkyria Chronicles 3 the best game of the series for me.
You might want to check out the Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth games, since they are essentially Digimon-skinned budget Shin Megami Tensei games.
I finished it and i liked. I got to know some digimons not ine the anime whom i wish they were(first being Mastemon).
I really like Compile Hearts games.
Yeah, they have there own charm. Sure, budget is low, many things works... somehow. But it's still fun.
Got few Platina's on those games. Including for both 1 and 2 Death end; ReQuest. It was worth it.
As for games that surpassed my expactations... well, Compile Hearts games) As for names: Agarest, Cross Edge, Nights of Azure. 13 Sentinels (I knew it's gonna be great, but it beat my expactation in a good way)
magical starsign is a sequel to magical vacation for GBA which i had fun playing.
I love how the artbook for valkyria chronicles 3 is in English however the game was never localized I loved the game too
Ah yes my all time favorite Valkyria Chronicles
I got 1 for you. Trinity Trigger is amazing. The customization keeps my spending most of my time trying to min max my triggers. Give it a shot.
Magical Starsign was my first ds rpg then breath of the wild to astral chain on switch
Yakuza was first on the PS2, thought it was first on the Dreamcast
Have you played Front Mission 3 on the PS1? It's a pretty good mecha based strategy rpg, with two story paths to follow at the beginning of the game. Worth playing.
I loved Xenoblade Chronicles 3.. I tried to play Xenoblade 2 AFTER that and just can't get into it!!
For me it was fairy fencer. I didn't think it would be very good but it surprised me
am a fan of digimon anime franchise but i never liked the games aside from Cyber Sleuth, Survive though, that was really good, especially considering it did something Pokemon never did (or will ever do), there is a story, characters and they can and will die depending on which route you take which leads to different endings.
NGL i also like a lot of Compile Heart games and i must say Death End Re-quest took it to a whole new level. Heck Neptunia series is good too, weird and funny, but good.
Also am not sure if it was recommended before but you should really try the Trails series, that is the best JRPG series i have ever played starting from Trails in the Sky Trilogy to Zero and most recent Azure and finally Cold Steel 1-4 with Reverie coming soon.
Oh Scralet Nexus is also a really good game to try out.
I have both utawarerumoni mask of deception & truth games on steam. I’ve been meaning to play it for yrs now. Still have no idea when I’ll actually play it tho.
I think Erick Landon RPG doesn't have time for MMO RPGs. The best genre of all time.
Valkyria Chronicles 3 was very good, in fact it's actually my favorite among the 4 games though I love 1 and 4 too. VC2 is really bad, I think the fans (including myself) had high expectations due to the success of the first game but I was utterly disappointed. If ever they make an english remaster of VC3, I will definitely play it again
I was skeptical of Yakuza 7 too because Kiryu wasn't the main protag but when it was free for PS plus, I gave it a chance and I actually liked it. Platinumed it too.
VC2 is one of the victims of turning franchises into Persona 4 clone. That annoying trend in 2008-2013 ruined many good franchises.
Got Utawarerumono second and third way back thought Id get to play them. But after seeing this. Ive just ordered Prelude to the fallen aswell :) so now I have something Nice to do in a while
Asdivine Heart for me. A buddy recommended it to me and at first I was like naaaah but that somewhat grandia style battle system really sucked me in and next I knew I had 100%ed it lol
Thanks for the video 🎮
I’m just tired of them using fan service as a crutch in rpgs. Xenoblade 2 and Ryza being two examples. If they think it won’t go well then they do a bunch of fan service. Then if it works out they give us games that we should have gotten. The drastic change from xbc2 to xbc3 makes you think none of the same people were involved in the game and they shouldn’t be the same series. It’s pathetic and they should be called out for it. Just make good games and stop rely on fan service when unsure.
Agreed. 'Man cannot live on horn alone!' -'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Man your lucky having a friend play the utawarerumono mask of deception on the ps4 and ps vita IN ENGLISH. I got the japanese version had to rely on youtube to translate stuff for me but omg the characters each and everyone it was just a rollercoaster of emotions.
Yo erick you tried chained echoes? Its really good.
Digimon Survive was so good. Was it what I expected? No, but it was still amazing.
Unlike most others I wasn't even expecting anything crazy. I was thinking it would be more like Devil Survivor. While it was different in how it went about things, I wasn't actually all that far off. I would have wanted it more like Devil Survivor but what it was was great.
It's rare for me to go through a game that quickly. It's even more rare for me to go through every story the game has back to back to back. I just blew through everything in that game in one go. For reference, I only did one playthrough of Three Houses and Ys Origin. Yet I did everything in Digimon Survive. So I have three (four including the DLC?) playthroughs of Three Houses to go and two more of Ys Origin.
Shining Force 1 also. Because I played SF2 first. And thought I'd picked up the inferior predecessor for novelty mostly. Until I played it. And realized it may be even better than SF2....
Two things that i disagree in this list.
1- Astral Chain is not a JRPG. It's a action/hack slash with RPG elements and a heavy inspiration from anime (the gameplay resembles a lot Chaos Legion, a PS2 game published by Capcom). RPG elements are present in almost every game today, having skill trees is not enough to call a game a RPG. Just because a game has anime-like vibes and progression system, doesn't make it a JRPG.
2- Digimon is not a pokémon clone. The two franchises were launched almost at the same time with completely different niches. Pokémon never truly changed, it was a monster capture/taming game from start; Digimon started as a virtual pet/tamagotchi brand. Totally different ways of distribution, playing and audience.
Yes!!! Death End Re Quest is great!!! I feel that the second one is trash, but the first one is so good!!!
Out of the rest of Yakuza games I really recommend Yakuza 0, it has a deep and dark plot that blew me away, just how you like it and 2 separate protagonists
Astral chain is superb tnx hideki kamiya,👍
What was the game at the beginning of the video with the witch?
Xenoblade chronicles x is the craziest, with them mechs.....
Due to ps+ gave us like a dragon a few months ago, now im playing yakuza kiwami. (1rst yakuza remade) and i really enjoy the saga now. Not turn based, but worth the 5/ 6€ that It costs in ps store. Kiryu is a really good character too. We all love ichiban kasuga.
Booba Police looks good.
erick have you finished rondo of swords?
Solid list as usual. Btw, what's the title of the game on the very first second of the video?
8:35 this game has a sequel
Except that half the game wasn't voiced - in English - I loved Death end Request. Its sequel was also really good in the storytelling department, because it covers some pretty dark subject matter. Despite some ... questionable female bonding, I think it is absolutely worth your time" Even a couple throwbacks to the previous one too.
9:16 Sexualized demons you say? That’s my favorite kind of demon. 😈
Astral chain mentioned
You got good choice in games
I'm currently 150 hours into Xenoblade 2. I try to get as close to 100% as possible in all the JRPGs I play and this game is so draining. I enjoy exploring and finding hidden secrets but some parts are just so tedious. Finally finished all the merc quests (I think) and currently working on filling out all rare blades' affinity charts. I've been telling myself that I'm done with this series after XC2 (providing that I won't die of old age first).
Xeno 2 and X on Wii U are by far the longest of the series to fully complete.... Xeno 3 is far more streamlined and much easier too fully complete... 👍
@@Beavernator I hope so because I really enjoy most of the game.
@@elsonlam XC2 is quite a challenge to do 100% especially in getting all rare blades…also if you even bother to do new game+ all the merc missions reset in terms of completion, you’ll have access to all of them though. You also need to start the whole new game+ to get one of the blade, TE LOS.
Still love the game even with its flaws and all.
@@maroXUprising I actually got all the rare blades. The funny thing is that I got the last 2 by using rare crystals. I bond with rare crystals then release the common blades to get boosters to use with legendary crystals. And repeat. Somehow, it was the rare crystals that got me the last 2 rare blades.
Anyway, I don't think I'm going to do the new game+. Knowing myself, if I start, I'm going to have to finish it. That could be another 150 extra hours. I don't think I have the energy for that.
@@elsonlam that’s very fortunate. Getting all rare blades.
I didn’t get all of ‘em until my 360th hr runtime while I was doing NG+.
Yeah it’s best to not even bother doing NG+ though I forgot to mention there are merc missions if I’m not mistaken that unlock in NG+. Probably wrong on that, it’s been a long time since I completed both Playthroughs 100%
I'd recommend Yakuza 0 for a start
Astral Chain is really really Good! Practice the Controls and its Heaven
There’s surprisingly some really useful tech to learn that the game doesn’t teach you such as dodge offset canceling into various legion combos and such.
Can you do your top 10 action RPGs peaches please
Awesome that you enjoyed Yakuza 7. Even though I have the same worries for XC2 I'm gonna try out try it out since I don't want to skip it before XC3.
About Digimon, while I'm not saying anything about your lack of interest in the series; that's absolutely fine, of course, even as a fan of primarily Pokemon, though I'd always wanted to get into Digimon, as well; I'm just here to correct you on something. It's really not a Pokemon clone at all; much more of a Tamagotchi clone; far more of a virtual pet than any Pokemon game. If the name makes it seem like a clone, that's simply because Japan loves to portmanteau words; in this case, "pocket" and "monster" for Pokemon and "Digital" and "monster" for Digimon.
While it does have a lot of cute creatures that change form just like Pokemon, it's more about the particular way you raise your single Digimon to evolve it and usually about it dying and reincarnating in order to become the different Digimon rather than just catching an entire team. Digimon World 1, Re:Digitize/Decode, and Next Order are far more along their tradition than the likes of Digimon Cyber Sleuth I know of. And since one does usually have only 1 Digimon, or, rarely, 2, Survive and the various seasons of the anime are more like their usual, as well.
Heck, Shin Megami Tensei is more of a "Pokemon clone" than Digimon is, with how you negotiate with the demons in the middle of battle to, usually, try to get them on your side and how you usually have an entire team of them!
Honestly, "X clone" and "X like" really just need to be removed from the gamer/reviewer lexicon because 9 out of 10 times the comparison is completely wrong, or technically accurate but extremely reductive. It shows a very shallow level of analysis.
Pokemon is SMT clone (precisely Last Bible 3), not SMT is Pokemon clone. First Megami Tensei game was released in 1987 on Famicom, when first Pokemon was released in 1996. Digimon is clone of first two Devil Summoner games (spin-off SMT).
@@nr2676 That is a good point; I kinda messed up on taking into account when the Megaten series started and when Pokemon started.
Xenoblade is my Astral Chain... I just can't get into it. Yet I keep going back for some reason lol (well, either way I'll profit so...) I may have to play it again.
I bought my Wii solely because of Xenoblade Chronicles - it's awesome, but because of how grind-heavy XBC is and how much I hate the wii-mote as a controller, I stopped playing after 160 hours and a mountain of dead batteries. After finding out that there's a Switch rerelease of XBC1, hopefully I can sit through the entire thing this time.
@@TheBlackSeraph indeed, the game was MUCH better when I got the wii pro controller than just using the wii mote. I got to the third to last boss than my wii died though :( I hope to re-do my game on the switch soon (already got my copy :) I hope you have yours as the price is going through the roof! ... than again it was the same early on for the wii copy but the second run and switch release made it virtually worthless lol so who knows). Forget what I was droning on about lol but you have a good plan!
It's XBC 2 that gets me really I always get stuck eventually as I just can't get ahold of the battle system. I was told to just play the Torna expansion as the tutorials are MUCH better even at explaining the original game... but.
Also the old 'man overcomes God and becomes god' story just kills my inner religious soul lol (basically all the Xeno- games are like this) but eh... I keep buying the stupid game I don't know why lol. It's pretty good if only I could get a grasp on the system lol
@@pdraggy XBC1's Wii release was expensive because the fanbase had to fight for it to get one print run (esp for PAL gamers).
Anyhow, bought XBC3 day one, and recently made a point to get the switch rereleases of XBC1 & 2 (I never had a 3DS so being able to get the trilogy all at once was a godsend).
To anyone who want to play Digimon games, only play Survive and Cyber Sleuth.
Those are the only good ones (Decode and World 1 are too, but they're not RPGs)
Astral chain was fun but I never got used to the platforming but did somehow beat it. Digimon survive was great but a lack of a English dub slightly pulls it down but great fun. Shin megami 3 is haven't beaten as I'm stuck in the third kepla and Dante keeps shooting me in my knees and laughs (seriously I hate this part) and I want to beat the game but it's either the true demon ending or nothing
Did you play xenoblade Chronicles x
lol astral chain is a jrpg? is devil may cry series a jrpg too?
For him even Visual Novel and Platformers are JRPG
If you play another Yakuza game try Yakuza 0 or 龍が如く０ it generally the best one out there.
To think that Astral Chain is hard to get into, is like saying clothes are hard to get into. Everything is fluid and intuitive in Astral Chain. Your opinion makes absolutely no sense at all.
Digimon came before Pokémon so it’s not a clone of it
¿Consideras que Astral Chain es un juego de rol?, a mí me encanta, está entre mis hack and slash favoritos, pero realmente no le veo muchas posibilidades roleras, eres un DPS o un DPS, ¿no?
Para mi, es un juego de accion.
Gaming community likes to put it on RPGs.
Platinum games site and Nintendo has genre :action
@@noxmadness7342, I agree. It should be in the action category.
try Mugen no frontier and mugen no frontier exceed, the most YABAI game on ds and super funny gameplay.
what hentai game surpassed your expectations the most?
18:36, what is this game?
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
@@NeroPhamtomhive no no, the game immediately after that. It shows on screen for about 3 seconds only
That was like death and request or whatever he talked about the game pretty early in the vid
@@nightnightbar3862 ok thanks
What is a JRPG, dont 90% of non RPG Maker games come from Japan? hell Pokemon is a JRPG.
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Valkyria Chronicles is such a cheating franchise with such weird design decisions, but the first one still stands as a great game because of the story. I didn't like 2 and 3 so much because they were from PSP, it kind of ruined the performance of the classes, the game is not so beautiful anymore and the huge maps turned into corridors. 4 is just really disappointing too.
Yeah, I wish the series had stayed on console/PC as I just can't get into the tiny broken up maps.
VC4 is very good, except boring and anime tropy part before Siegval Line. After Siegval Line game is amazing.
@@nr2676 I won't talk about him in detail because of spoilers but I don't like how he handled the justifications for sacrifices in that game and some other things are far-fetched and hard to believe. The first game handled humanity on both sides and war in general better, both sides had their rottenness and the script didn't try to play nice with that.
HI Erick, most of ur videos u repeat everything. U'll have a video of the same game cussing it out, and the same game just complaning about it. I would love to see more indie games from the Switch and Ps4 and PS 5. Which r ur top indie rpgs. and keep a series going for indie rpgs. something we can buy and play thats physical. everything is getting boring, but i still support u.
If I manage to catch up to his livestream, I think I should try saying it. I admire your "I'm not gonna sugarcoat it" comment.
Nah, Death End Re;Quest or whatever sucked. Along with Dragon Star Vanir, I either played them through PlayStation Now or rented them from GameFly, idr... but I don't think I even got halfway through before I decided to spend my remaining time focusing on other games that sucked less.
Not gonna lie Astral Chain is a good game but very overrated
Не устаю рофлить с этого жрпг эксперта)0) то у него легчайшие жрпг попадают в топ «сложных», то теперь вот астрал чейн жрпг стала
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Русскоговорящим привет!
Я могла бы написать это на английском, но мне лень, пускай ломают голову.)
Me:
Nier (2010)
Nier Replicant
Nier Automata
I have to tell you Nier has become my favorite franchise of all time...
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