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I have been a JRPG fan since the late 90s and I don't remember a year like 2024 since maybe 1999 or 2000, it's basically a new golden age for the genre. If you asked me two weeks ago I'd have said the best of 2024 was Infinite Wealth, but now that I'm playing it I think Metaphor might take the crown (with both easily on my top 10 all time JRPG list).
@@The_Lightlessmetaphor making it into the goty awards even if it didn't get all the ones it deserved was a major win for us jrpg fans I don't think I've been this excited and optimistic for gaming since the PS2 days 💯
I never understand this constant complaining that there are no games to play, I think these people aren't gamers anymore and just don't realize it yet. 2024 is yet another great year in video games. Rebirth, Granblue Fantasy, Shadow of the Erdtree, Hundred Heroes (I play on Xbox), Visions of Mana, Metaphor: Refantazio, Y's X. This is a lot right here but there was a lot more too.
The thing is time, they take alot of time to finish to even play any of them back to back. If your a kid yeah you got all the time in the world but if you have kids, work, family it's harder to finish all those games due to time management
This year will definitely go down in history as one of the best years for JRPGs, there were just so many of them that it is insane and a lot of those were really high quality.
i agree with all this, except eiyuden. for me it was shallow and boring, and could not capture the charm of suiko1 and 2 or even 5. Heck even 3 and 4 i consider better than eiyuden. The main cast was developed so poorly, compared to even rising. and the extra characters do not even deserve mention.
@ as someone who bought suikoden 1&2 on their release dates and still own those copies, eiyuden was exactly what I was looking for, loved it, each to their own
Pretty great list man. Whereas Atlus keeps hitting the high notes with gems like Metaphor, Bandai Namco is still obsessed with pumping all these underwhelming to say the least licensed RPGs. It's so sad really. Anyway, 2024 is the year of the RPG for me. Games I'd recommend would FF7 Rebirth, Like a Dragon 8, Granblue Fantasy R, Visions of Mana, & Metaphor.
Unicorn Overlord is easy to explain, it's Ogre Battle + FF12's Gambits. The rock/paper system I think is overly simplistic the stats and skills you have equipped and synergy within the party play a larger role than just x class counters y though that does apply. This is one of the best games of the year.
Ys X is also a really good game that released on pc this year. The demo is Also quite lengthy and can tell you exactly what to expect from the gameplay loop
Dude I was hoping for the whole video that you eventually got around to Visions of Mana. It flew so under the radar it's insane, honestly for me personally it was one of the most enjoyable jrpgs of the year just under FF7 Rebirth, it was such a joy to play through it
Metaphor Re Fantazio, Unicorn Overlord, FF7 Rebirth, Beyond Galaxyland, Eiyuden Chronicles, and Bloomtown were all worth playing this year. 2024 was SOLID
My top for the year are Persona 3 Reload, FF7 Rebirth, Unicorn Overlord, SMT Vengeance, Dragon Quest 3 HD and the one that's not being mentioned anywhere near enough all round, Ys X Nordics.
Sega being the MVP company of the year wasn’t on my bingo card: Yakuza Infinite Wealth Metaphor (atlus) Persona 3 (atlus) Shin Megami Tensei VV (Atlus) Unicorn overlord (atlus/vanilla) Sonic X Shadow
So here's a perspective for you. I'm a huge trails fan. Since finding it in 2021 I've beat every one of the 10+ games over 3 times each with an average of 250 hours on the more recent titles and over 100 on all the older. Currently 150 hours into daybreak on my ng+ run. I put metaphor as my goty over trails through daybreak... It was that damn good. So good that as I beat it I told my friend this deserves to be a long running franchise as persona is and has the ability to pass almost all of my fav series if that happens
I just bought trails thru daybreak on 20% off sale and I likely won’t play it for a very long time haha I’m on trails from zero right now but I’ve just been buying up the whole series on my ps5 when I see them go on sales. I think the only 2 I haven’t bought yet are Cold Steel 1/2 so I’m hoping they go on sale soon too lol
@@krispybowgod9656 I also have been playing through the series and i started with trails from zero. I play one trails game then 1 or 2 other games then go back to the series. I am on Trails of cold steel 3 currently.
Is fine, but Is also kind of a mess ... Is the kind of Game that gets better, gameplaywise, in the end Game content after the credits. Is a super easy Game because there are broken Jobs that require Zero effort. The story ... Is there. Nothing special. The characters are fine enough. As a fan of the mana games I can't really recommend it, but Is not a Bad Game either
@@mauricioaguilera3194 that's a rather interesting take. I don't have much experience with the Mana games but I wanna check visions out at some point. As a fan of the mana games which one's your favorite and/or represent the series the best?
I wasn't familiar with Natsume Atari, only the American company Natsume (which split from the Japanese Natsume in the 90s). It turns out Natsume Atari made all the Power Rangers games I played the heck out of when I was a kid.
Eiyuden Chronicles was great on PS5, hope people will give it a chance there, you can feel a lot of love was put into the game - it deserves a chance to shine.
For Unicorn Overlord, it's essentially a spiritual successor to Ogre Battle from what you are saying. Which would also explain just why it is difficult to explain. As for Visions of Mana, I definitely missed out on that. I have been a fan of the Mana series since the 90s. The Neptunia one is definitely purely intended for fans of the series. And while I have played several of them, and enjoyed them, and the fact that it was largely due to the fact that Idea Factory found something that worked for them and just stuck with it. And to be honest, sometimes that's all you need for an enjoyable game.
A new gaming shelf video? Hell yeah let’s goo!!! I miss your videos and wish you were more active but I know life must be busy all the time. Also I apologize I had to stop Patreon money was too tight lately
I wasn't sold on Visions of Mana until I saw the thick thighed squirrel lady. Unicorn Overlord I also had to see more gameplay. But Monster Hunter and other things come first.
There is one major flaw with Metaphor, that being that you can't change classes in combat, so a lot of times you can end up with a completely worthless party line up and not be able to do anything but reload your game. The game likes to mess with you too, it'll have dungeons full of enemies weak to specific abilities and then have surprise enemies pop up that will hit all of your weaknesses and be immune to all of your attacks. Not a deal breaker but man does it kill my play momentum sometimes.
You’re probably building your team wrong then. The game gives you more than enough customization to make a team that can both handle most situations AND prepare for specific enemies. For exemple if you know the boss of the area or the most common ennemy is weak to fire, you don’t need everyone to do fire attacks. 1 or 2 is enough and you can dedicate characters to handle a variety of other situations with inherited skills. Also don’t forget you can use items that deal elemental damage, they proc the « extra turns » too and are super cheap to buy. Always have like 10 of each in your inventory and you’ll be ready to handle these unexpected encounters.
Man, I miss reviews where they compare versions released in different platforms. We know that games are struggling now in Switch, and it is great to know when someone calls the attention to that, so we don't need to suffer with slow downs or crashes (yes, I am looking at you Bloodstained RotN). Congrats on the call about Eiyuden Chronicles.
I have a hard time, deciding if my favorite game of the year would be metaphor: refantazio or unicorn overlord, but in the end I have to pick unicorn overlord because of the awesome world and 40 different characters you can use, and all the awesome combos people have created on UA-cam. but metaphor: refantazio definitely goes to my second best game of the year. it’s insane both of these games came out in the same year.🤣
Is unicorn overlord really that good? I've put it off because the style doesn't really seem like my cup of tea. But to put it on metaphors level and seeing everyone else's praise has really piqued my interest.
i agree..have it on the switch, but the loading times killed it for me so i stopped playing unfortunately..tested it on my brothers ps5 and there were no load times in and out of battle and on menus..i cant justify buying a ps5 yet because there isn't any game that caught my attention 😢 Let's hope suikoden 1 and 2 isnt bad with loading on the switch, or i would really have to buy a ps5 lol..Suikoden 2 is my favorite rpg of all time
This was a good year. Lot of good games. Think it's good to recognize ones like Granblue that came out much earlier in the year and could easily be lost amidst all the heavy hitters later in the year. That game was fun, had a good story, and had so many characters to enjoy getting a feel for. That was pure excellence. Visions of Mana was great. That's a beautiful game and such a nice continuation for the franchise. Sucks the studio that made it how things went. But they put together an excellent game. Just good looking and pure mana. Best one though may have come near the end. Metaphor ReFantazio is freaking amazing. They took all the lessons they learned in making the Persona games and put together this awesome game. The Archetype concept works so well and lets you be incredibly flexible in how you approach things. Just a beautiful game that tells a solid story. Some good twists in there that I didn't expect, but had me engaged with it. Also, why are we still pretending that FF7R is a remake? Yeah, it's not exactly a 1:1 remake...because it's a sequel! In-universe the original happened and this story is the consequence of time travel. There's a lot of quality put into the game. But let's just take it for what it is. It's not a remake!
I've seen a few videos and posts about Eiyuden Chronicles and learned that the English localization took too much liberties, ultimately taking the charm out of the original story. I haven't played the game, but am disappointed that the translators did such a thing. Though, I did also learn that there's a mod that keeps the dialogue as close as possible to the original Japanese story, but that's only for the PC version.
You don't have to be a Final Fantasy fan or specifically a Final Fantasy 7 veteran to play Rebirth. It's an incredible game with a huge amount of content and production values, and a very fun combat system. A huge upgrade over Remake part 1.
@krispybowgod9656 Got a source? I got screwed once too often. MFs released Royal edition and had the balls to release seperate DLC. A year later, they released "definitive" Royal edition. Can't make this shit up.
@ lots of games drop DLc man…. No one is forcing you to buy the game 3 times in a row just to get a bit of extra DLC. If you want to wait 2 years to play the game that’s fine. Just seems like a long wait to get a tiny bit of extra content
Unicorn Overlord, Trails Through Daybreak, and Ys X are my favorite RPGs this year. For awareness I don't have a Playstation so I was a bit limited on RPG options this year Edit: I played Reynatis and yeah I didn't finish it.
I'm currently conflicted. There's a Steam Sale going on until February 5th that includes both parts of the FF7 remake that are currently out for $70 total (A bundle), Metaphor ReFantazio for $44 and change, Persona 3 Reload for $35, SMT 5 Vengeance for $36, Eiyuden Chronicle for $25, and I only have $70 to use until my birthday on Feb. 11th. Any advice? A couple friends recommend getting FF7 Remake Intergrade and Rebirth on sale, while others aren't as big on JRPGs and thus have been little help.
Congrats on putting the most overrated game of the year as the 1st choice!! Audio issues, a stupidly laid out final boss rush, crappy controlled mini games. Quests so complicated that YT guides are a must. But hey. It's pretty. Ignore that most of the cool animations are skipped or off screen.
Not jrpgs exclusively 5 games to avoid. 1. Ff7 rebirth these remake games have been awful. 2. Reynats 3. Zenless zone zero 4. Dragons dogma 2 5. Horizon zero remastered, not because it's bad but because a remaster was completely unnecessary and these business practices should not be supported Again not rpgs expensively but 5 games to get 1. Metaphor 2. eiyuden chronicles 3. Soul reaver 1 and 2 remastered 4. Unicorn overlord 5. Zelda echos of wisdom Bro eiyuden chronicles... you definitely reaching for that one. You used the only version that has any issues.
Interesting list! If I had to give a recommendation that was not on the list nor in the intro, it would have to be Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven. I don't have anything that I would not recommend that I have played this year.
God... I remember seeing the trailers for Reynatis and thinking, "oh, this looks really cool!" ...and then I found out there wasn't going to be English voice acting and gave it a pass. Apparently, I unintentionally dodged a bullet. Also, swap out Visions of Mana with Ys X, and the "worth it" list is pretty much the games I also enjoyed this year.
Awesome list here. Sadly I agree that Eiyuden Chronicles for the Switch is a real sore spot for me for those exact mentioned reasons. With that said, all 5 mentioned games worth playing definitely a go! Visions of Mana, Metaphor and Granblue I'll have to save for when a PS5 comes along my way. I got other RPG titles to still cross off my backlog. Still need to complete Trails to Reverie before I can even tough the Trails to Daybreak arcs. So far FF7 Rebirth has won me over this year.
I know this video is recently released but a big recommendation RPG would be *DQ3 HD2D* Great RPG brought back with Octopath Traveller paint and many quality of life additions Best time to start a Dragon Quest
Hey could you not use metacritic review scores as a reason for why someone should or shouldn't buy games? I know you have your own reasons for not liking Reynatis, but I wouldn't use the opinions of random strangers from review sites to dictate wheather a game is good or not.
Boy, is it true that trailers always make games look the best they can without spoiling too much. Usually everything they show in a trailer is as much as can be shown without spoiling and the best looking parts. Lots of games and anime like get overlooked because of the name and it's really unfortunate, it doesn't really have anything to do with presentation or whatever but I'm sure you get what I mean
Nice video, I love FF7 so when I do get a pc or ps5 yea along with Grand Blue Fantasy. Am on NW so I got Eiyuden CHH on sale which I have not started to play as yet as am now playing SMT5-V & That time I got.... I love the anime so I saw the game with is on sale but not for $20 lol I'll still buy it but thanks for the heads up.
FF7 Rebirth: The game was great. Could’ve done without gears and gambits. There wasn’t a ton of bloat, honestly. You don’t have to do everything at all. I wanted to, but I’m not everyone. If you think you are, you haven’t met enough people.
I was really looking forward to Visions Of Mana but then I played the demo (PS4) and it didn't leave a good impression the framerate was awful. For those who played the main game on PS4 how did it run?
its kinda crazy that granblue relink gets ignored a lot by people even tho it was the most successful JRPG launch this year and the only game that broke the +100k concurrent stram players, in a year filled with new entries from the best JRPG franchises relink towers over them all (except rebirth i assume it wouldve done better if we actually have the numbers or if it launched day 1 on steam).
Taylor, I love your videos but not including Trails Through Daybreak in here is criminal... c'mon man, even if you don't like the series, it deserves to be here.
I see every1 say metaphor has got better pacing than persona because youre more free to do what you want. And then you come here saying its the opposite. And isnt the game also like 20 hours shorter on average than the persona games? Huh...you got me lost here
I wasn't as enthralled by We Have Persona At Home. It just seemed like it was missing something that I couldn't put my finger on. I still enjoyed it, but I don't think it'll be one of those games that'll stay with me.
The intermission dlc did soooo much for her char development. Not to mention she's the best fighter on hard mode in rebirth imo. Her ability to switch elements to exploit weakness without exhausting mp is so clutch
This year, i played unicorn overload on my own time and currently playing ff7 rebirth I did also streamed p3r an the dlc, now I'm streaming Metaphor ReFantazio
Interesting list of games 🤔 appreciate you sharing. I’m actually quite happy with Reynatis myself ❤ I’m having a lot of fun with it. Personally I find critic reviews to be hogwash💣 I quite paying attention to them a long time ago.
I think Mana suffered what a few others did. It felt like ten thousand games came out, and there's only so much money. And short memories about trailers.
Unicorn Overload is practically built for the PC audience, where most western strategy gamers reside. You can tell it'd really work well with a mouse. Gotta love stick in the mud studio management, who were more willing to bail their company out from their own pocket, than to port any games to PC (funny story that).
I see how you mention eiyuden chronicles and i just want to say I can respect what you say about it. Your just calling out the issue and it sound like for switch it would be a disaster. I have it for the ps5 but i can understand for switch it can be a disaster and it needs to be called out so it can be fixed or notified otherwise it won't be changed so I just wanted to give a friendly shoutout on that :) Also i was bummed about sky ocean as i too was rooting for it but when it came out and i watched people play it and all, i was like sigh nope. Great things you mention :)
I still getting Eiyuden on Switch because Switch2 is backward compatible 🤔 For Reynatis, I know it's not for everyone, but it reminds me of PS2 era RPG, so I'm picking it up for nostalgia..🙄 Thanks for the list though 🙂
I really wanted to like Reynatis, but not being able to fight after blocking is dumb, I do disagree that it looks bad though, it has a cool art style altogether, I'm more mad that there is no english dub at all. Ofcourse FF7 rebirth looks real good. I might give Slime Isekai chronicles a chance I like games with alot of characters, and the gameplay looks fun, and it's cheaper now.
Damn, how can i get sooo many hours in my life to even play these, and i LOVE JRPGs... It's rough... The ones i played and LOVED: Rebirth and Persona 3. I still did buy Daybreak (Played everything till Reverie), YS 10, Unicorn Overlord and Metaphor Re:Fantasio. I am thinking of buying Eyuden Chronicles and Romancing saga 2 for my PS5, still have my doubts for SMT 5 tho... Another game that i absolutly loved this year was Stellar Blade even tho it's not an JRPG, it's still an amazing game!
eyden chroniclels hundred heroes is a great game don't know why he said to avoid it however maybe he didn't try it when it came out for ps4/ps5 and said switch and switch might have a long haul with it but its out for every other system if he is gonna b***h about switch load and the only down side apparently was how long it did releaase and the dlc have been delayed and yes im wondering when dlc is coming out
For me Eyuden is worth it while in contrast Unicorn Overlord is an absolute fail to me. But as always it's getting down on personal preference or at least subjectivity rather than objectivity
FF7R, Granblue Fantasy, Unicorn Overlord, Metaphor Re:Fantazio, Shin Megami Tensei V:V are definitely top 5. Other games like Paper Mario: TYD, Eiyuden Chronicles (not switch), Yakuza Infinite Wealth, Visions of Mana and Ys X Nordics are worth considering too. Those games not worth it can be consider as wait-until-big-sale category as those are not too bad but need some improvements.
I was super into Rebirth at first and don't get me wrong its a really well made game but the constant stop-start nature (be it from mini games or "go detour to hit this switch" or whatever) of it really started to get on my nerves and I honesty had to put it down because of burnout. And I'm not sure I even want to go back.
I played SDS Grand Cross back when it launched. But only for ~half an hour. I just couldn't stomach the boneheaded decision to interrupt the game every other moment with a ~40 second minute download. Several times per chapter. Would it be too much to ask to at least be able to choose to download the entire chapter's data at once?!
Granblue has amazing combat, sadly the bosses happen to be reskins with very few changes. And grinding the best weapons is annoying and multiplayer is only mission base
Hard disagree with the Reynatis take. The game is not any graphics marvel, but the game runs well, its combat is quite fun and the story is pretty good. I feel it received a way harder treatment than deserved specially from the "specialized" press. I mean there are a few points that were hardly criticized in the game that were completely ignored in higher budget titles.
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The exat JRPG not to play!
No...I dont think that I will. You should feel bad
hahaha hell no
I have been a JRPG fan since the late 90s and I don't remember a year like 2024 since maybe 1999 or 2000, it's basically a new golden age for the genre. If you asked me two weeks ago I'd have said the best of 2024 was Infinite Wealth, but now that I'm playing it I think Metaphor might take the crown (with both easily on my top 10 all time JRPG list).
2024 has been absolutely insane!
As someone who loved JRPGs as a kid in the ps1/ps2 days but moved away from the genre until a year or 2 ago I’m eating extremely well again
If you played Eyuden Chronicles on Switch you've done yourself dirty. It's solid on PS5 and PC.
Rebirth, Reload, and Metaphor were all amazing games, definitely a great year
I know, right? JRPGs are on fire this year!
@@TheGamingShelf for sure! Definitely a great time to be a JRPG fan, hopefully next year has some great ones too but 2024 will be hard to top
What a year for Atlus, complete success all across the board. Seriously, they deserve it all.
@@The_Lightlessmetaphor making it into the goty awards even if it didn't get all the ones it deserved was a major win for us jrpg fans I don't think I've been this excited and optimistic for gaming since the PS2 days 💯
I never understand this constant complaining that there are no games to play, I think these people aren't gamers anymore and just don't realize it yet. 2024 is yet another great year in video games. Rebirth, Granblue Fantasy, Shadow of the Erdtree, Hundred Heroes (I play on Xbox), Visions of Mana, Metaphor: Refantazio, Y's X. This is a lot right here but there was a lot more too.
The thing is time, they take alot of time to finish to even play any of them back to back. If your a kid yeah you got all the time in the world but if you have kids, work, family it's harder to finish all those games due to time management
@@xpapadeliciosox3986I put around 6 to 10 hours a week on my RPGs, still playing them with 2 kids and a job.
You're right, 2024 is STACKED!
@@xpapadeliciosox3986I mean still you can be aware what came out and was praised. You don't need to play everything to know that good games came out.
Sote and ff7 remake are bullshit
This year will definitely go down in history as one of the best years for JRPGs, there were just so many of them that it is insane and a lot of those were really high quality.
Yeah I’ve said in a few places that I think it’s been the best since the official end of the PS2.
Ff7, metaphor, persona 3, granblue, eiyuden, infinite wealth and Ys x were my 2024
I agree it’s incredible how many awesome JRPG's we got this year 😄
i agree with all this, except eiyuden. for me it was shallow and boring, and could not capture the charm of suiko1 and 2 or even 5. Heck even 3 and 4 i consider better than eiyuden. The main cast was developed so poorly, compared to even rising. and the extra characters do not even deserve mention.
@ as someone who bought suikoden 1&2 on their release dates and still own those copies, eiyuden was exactly what I was looking for, loved it, each to their own
@@justdust9089 I felt the exact same way. Nothing tops Suikoden 2 imo.
romancing saga 2 remake, dragon quest 3 hd remake too.. damn we are fed well this year.. preordered neo dimension fantasian, hope the game is good too
Pretty great list man. Whereas Atlus keeps hitting the high notes with gems like Metaphor, Bandai Namco is still obsessed with pumping all these underwhelming to say the least licensed RPGs. It's so sad really. Anyway, 2024 is the year of the RPG for me. Games I'd recommend would FF7 Rebirth, Like a Dragon 8, Granblue Fantasy R, Visions of Mana, & Metaphor.
Unicorn Overlord is easy to explain, it's Ogre Battle + FF12's Gambits.
The rock/paper system I think is overly simplistic the stats and skills you have equipped and synergy within the party play a larger role than just x class counters y though that does apply.
This is one of the best games of the year.
1:29 “I think what grabbed me the most” followed by the video footage playing in the background. It’s all about the timing.
Ys X is also a really good game that released on pc this year. The demo is Also quite lengthy and can tell you exactly what to expect from the gameplay loop
Dude I was hoping for the whole video that you eventually got around to Visions of Mana. It flew so under the radar it's insane, honestly for me personally it was one of the most enjoyable jrpgs of the year just under FF7 Rebirth, it was such a joy to play through it
Metaphor Re Fantazio,
Unicorn Overlord,
FF7 Rebirth,
Beyond Galaxyland,
Eiyuden Chronicles, and
Bloomtown were all worth playing this year. 2024 was SOLID
Yuffie reminds me so much of my daughter I smile every time I play Rebirth
That's honestly awesome and wholesome dude. Keep being a good father like Barret!
My top for the year are Persona 3 Reload, FF7 Rebirth, Unicorn Overlord, SMT Vengeance, Dragon Quest 3 HD and the one that's not being mentioned anywhere near enough all round, Ys X Nordics.
Yeah, Ys in general is underrated.
Sega being the MVP company of the year wasn’t on my bingo card:
Yakuza Infinite Wealth
Metaphor (atlus)
Persona 3 (atlus)
Shin Megami Tensei VV (Atlus)
Unicorn overlord (atlus/vanilla)
Sonic X Shadow
Metaphor did win quite a few awards this year. Definitely thinking on it
So here's a perspective for you. I'm a huge trails fan. Since finding it in 2021 I've beat every one of the 10+ games over 3 times each with an average of 250 hours on the more recent titles and over 100 on all the older. Currently 150 hours into daybreak on my ng+ run. I put metaphor as my goty over trails through daybreak... It was that damn good. So good that as I beat it I told my friend this deserves to be a long running franchise as persona is and has the ability to pass almost all of my fav series if that happens
Trails Through Daybreak and Ys X are 2 other easy ones to say are worth buying also
I just bought trails thru daybreak on 20% off sale and I likely won’t play it for a very long time haha I’m on trails from zero right now but I’ve just been buying up the whole series on my ps5 when I see them go on sales. I think the only 2 I haven’t bought yet are Cold Steel 1/2 so I’m hoping they go on sale soon too lol
@@krispybowgod9656 I also have been playing through the series and i started with trails from zero. I play one trails game then 1 or 2 other games then go back to the series. I am on Trails of cold steel 3 currently.
@@RoachyRoachandthefunkybunch I started on zero as well. But now I see they are remaking the Sky series so I might go back track and play those too
Granblue Fantasy Relink is definitely worth it. I had a ton of fun with that game! Great video!
Glad you liked it!
I feel Eiyuden Chronicle is a bit of a bait and switch considering it's more a system issue with the switch version than the game itself.
yeah for me ff7 rebirth is the best jrpg this year definitely deserves goty this year
Visions of Mana was exactly the kind of new old school RPG I needed. I originally had no interst but it was the demo that made me purchase.
Is fine, but Is also kind of a mess ... Is the kind of Game that gets better, gameplaywise, in the end Game content after the credits. Is a super easy Game because there are broken Jobs that require Zero effort. The story ... Is there. Nothing special. The characters are fine enough.
As a fan of the mana games I can't really recommend it, but Is not a Bad Game either
@@mauricioaguilera3194 that's a rather interesting take. I don't have much experience with the Mana games but I wanna check visions out at some point. As a fan of the mana games which one's your favorite and/or represent the series the best?
I wasn't familiar with Natsume Atari, only the American company Natsume (which split from the Japanese Natsume in the 90s). It turns out Natsume Atari made all the Power Rangers games I played the heck out of when I was a kid.
Eiyuden Chronicles was great on PS5, hope people will give it a chance there, you can feel a lot of love was put into the game - it deserves a chance to shine.
I’m happy to have gotten unicorn overload this year
I finished recently and im having trouble finding stuff to fill the void. I got Valkyria Chronicles 4 and its amazing.
Reasonable gamer: Unicorn Overlord is hard to understand.
Ogre Battle obsessed me: finally!!!
As a big fan of The March of the Black Queen I really have to try it 👀
For Unicorn Overlord, it's essentially a spiritual successor to Ogre Battle from what you are saying. Which would also explain just why it is difficult to explain. As for Visions of Mana, I definitely missed out on that. I have been a fan of the Mana series since the 90s. The Neptunia one is definitely purely intended for fans of the series. And while I have played several of them, and enjoyed them, and the fact that it was largely due to the fact that Idea Factory found something that worked for them and just stuck with it. And to be honest, sometimes that's all you need for an enjoyable game.
A new gaming shelf video? Hell yeah let’s goo!!! I miss your videos and wish you were more active but I know life must be busy all the time. Also I apologize I had to stop Patreon money was too tight lately
Appreciate the love - sometimes the schedule gets hectic but I'm always trying to churn out the videos!
@@TheGamingShelfyeah for sure. You know we just love your videos so much I want more and more lol
Whats with your beef with Falcom games?
Did you watch to the end of the video? Have you seen his praise of previous Ys titles? 🤷♂️
I didnt see any on the not worth list
He just dont like trails as much, but then is his video and his oppinion.
Why does “beef” have to be a negative connotation?
His father was disfigured by a falcon and the traumas spreading
seeing both 7ds grand cross and ff7 rebirth makes me happy lol
I wasn't sold on Visions of Mana until I saw the thick thighed squirrel lady. Unicorn Overlord I also had to see more gameplay.
But Monster Hunter and other things come first.
I just picked up Unicorn Overlord a day or two ago, and am loving the early game. Can't wait to get deeper into it!
There is one major flaw with Metaphor, that being that you can't change classes in combat, so a lot of times you can end up with a completely worthless party line up and not be able to do anything but reload your game. The game likes to mess with you too, it'll have dungeons full of enemies weak to specific abilities and then have surprise enemies pop up that will hit all of your weaknesses and be immune to all of your attacks. Not a deal breaker but man does it kill my play momentum sometimes.
You’re probably building your team wrong then. The game gives you more than enough customization to make a team that can both handle most situations AND prepare for specific enemies. For exemple if you know the boss of the area or the most common ennemy is weak to fire, you don’t need everyone to do fire attacks. 1 or 2 is enough and you can dedicate characters to handle a variety of other situations with inherited skills. Also don’t forget you can use items that deal elemental damage, they proc the « extra turns » too and are super cheap to buy. Always have like 10 of each in your inventory and you’ll be ready to handle these unexpected encounters.
Relink was, and still is my GOTY. I don't think I'll ever forget such an amazing experience for a long time
Man, I miss reviews where they compare versions released in different platforms. We know that games are struggling now in Switch, and it is great to know when someone calls the attention to that, so we don't need to suffer with slow downs or crashes (yes, I am looking at you Bloodstained RotN). Congrats on the call about Eiyuden Chronicles.
Not even adding in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth makes me honestly sad at this list. Especially when lesser known franchises are added.
I have a hard time, deciding if my favorite game of the year would be metaphor: refantazio or unicorn overlord, but in the end I have to pick unicorn overlord because of the awesome world and 40 different characters you can use, and all the awesome combos people have created on UA-cam. but metaphor: refantazio definitely goes to my second best game of the year. it’s insane both of these games came out in the same year.🤣
Is unicorn overlord really that good? I've put it off because the style doesn't really seem like my cup of tea. But to put it on metaphors level and seeing everyone else's praise has really piqued my interest.
Eiyuden Chronicle is worth is on the other consoles just if anyone is wondering.
i agree..have it on the switch, but the loading times killed it for me so i stopped playing unfortunately..tested it on my brothers ps5 and there were no load times in and out of battle and on menus..i cant justify buying a ps5 yet because there isn't any game that caught my attention 😢
Let's hope suikoden 1 and 2 isnt bad with loading on the switch, or i would really have to buy a ps5 lol..Suikoden 2 is my favorite rpg of all time
@seiya6924 love the Suikoden series. The remaster is a PS4 game I believe so if you have a ps4 should be ok.
@joshuamcneely3028 i just looked at the Konami website. no physical copy for suikoden, only digital for ps4
Like a Dragon, FF7 Rebirth and Beyond Galaxyland are my 3 favourite RPG's this year.
This was a good year. Lot of good games. Think it's good to recognize ones like Granblue that came out much earlier in the year and could easily be lost amidst all the heavy hitters later in the year. That game was fun, had a good story, and had so many characters to enjoy getting a feel for. That was pure excellence.
Visions of Mana was great. That's a beautiful game and such a nice continuation for the franchise. Sucks the studio that made it how things went. But they put together an excellent game. Just good looking and pure mana.
Best one though may have come near the end. Metaphor ReFantazio is freaking amazing. They took all the lessons they learned in making the Persona games and put together this awesome game. The Archetype concept works so well and lets you be incredibly flexible in how you approach things. Just a beautiful game that tells a solid story. Some good twists in there that I didn't expect, but had me engaged with it.
Also, why are we still pretending that FF7R is a remake? Yeah, it's not exactly a 1:1 remake...because it's a sequel! In-universe the original happened and this story is the consequence of time travel. There's a lot of quality put into the game. But let's just take it for what it is. It's not a remake!
pls add chapters to your videos so we can skip games we don't want to get spoiled about :)
Done!
@@TheGamingShelf🫡
I've seen a few videos and posts about Eiyuden Chronicles and learned that the English localization took too much liberties, ultimately taking the charm out of the original story. I haven't played the game, but am disappointed that the translators did such a thing. Though, I did also learn that there's a mod that keeps the dialogue as close as possible to the original Japanese story, but that's only for the PC version.
What? Visions of Mana is already out? How did I miss that O.o
Also, I see Full Metal Hugger is still a staple boss XD
It came out like two month ago. I was honestly disappointed. But don`t let that prevent you from playing it.
You don't have to be a Final Fantasy fan or specifically a Final Fantasy 7 veteran to play Rebirth. It's an incredible game with a huge amount of content and production values, and a very fun combat system. A huge upgrade over Remake part 1.
I agree! It's a huge improvement over the first part.
Ill wait for the expanded version of Metaphor. Knowing Atlus, the current copies will be obsolete in a year or two.
They literally said they are moving away from the “royal edition” type re releases but that’s your choice
@krispybowgod9656 Got a source? I got screwed once too often. MFs released Royal edition and had the balls to release seperate DLC. A year later, they released "definitive" Royal edition. Can't make this shit up.
@ lots of games drop DLc man…. No one is forcing you to buy the game 3 times in a row just to get a bit of extra DLC. If you want to wait 2 years to play the game that’s fine. Just seems like a long wait to get a tiny bit of extra content
@@krispybowgod9656 Ill go off my own experience and not buy the game at launch
Not unless they re-release Persona 3 Reload 1st adding in the Female MC. 😂
Unicorn Overlord, Trails Through Daybreak, and Ys X are my favorite RPGs this year. For awareness I don't have a Playstation so I was a bit limited on RPG options this year
Edit: I played Reynatis and yeah I didn't finish it.
I'm currently conflicted.
There's a Steam Sale going on until February 5th that includes both parts of the FF7 remake that are currently out for $70 total (A bundle), Metaphor ReFantazio for $44 and change, Persona 3 Reload for $35, SMT 5 Vengeance for $36, Eiyuden Chronicle for $25, and I only have $70 to use until my birthday on Feb. 11th.
Any advice? A couple friends recommend getting FF7 Remake Intergrade and Rebirth on sale, while others aren't as big on JRPGs and thus have been little help.
Congrats on putting the most overrated game of the year as the 1st choice!!
Audio issues, a stupidly laid out final boss rush, crappy controlled mini games. Quests so complicated that YT guides are a must. But hey. It's pretty. Ignore that most of the cool animations are skipped or off screen.
Don't forget open world bloat and ubisoft towers. I did not like Rebirth.
FF7: Mario party/lack of monsters in the area🙄
Not jrpgs exclusively 5 games to avoid.
1. Ff7 rebirth these remake games have been awful.
2. Reynats
3. Zenless zone zero
4. Dragons dogma 2
5. Horizon zero remastered, not because it's bad but because a remaster was completely unnecessary and these business practices should not be supported
Again not rpgs expensively but 5 games to get
1. Metaphor
2. eiyuden chronicles
3. Soul reaver 1 and 2 remastered
4. Unicorn overlord
5. Zelda echos of wisdom
Bro eiyuden chronicles... you definitely reaching for that one. You used the only version that has any issues.
Interesting list! If I had to give a recommendation that was not on the list nor in the intro, it would have to be Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven. I don't have anything that I would not recommend that I have played this year.
If you’re a Kingdom Hearts fan, you’ll love Reynatis.
Are we talking fans that love the first 2 and hate wat it's become? 😅 Cuz that's me lol
Nothing wrong with a good shorter game, I honestly wish we got more games that didn't need to last forever.
God... I remember seeing the trailers for Reynatis and thinking, "oh, this looks really cool!"
...and then I found out there wasn't going to be English voice acting and gave it a pass. Apparently, I unintentionally dodged a bullet.
Also, swap out Visions of Mana with Ys X, and the "worth it" list is pretty much the games I also enjoyed this year.
Awesome list here. Sadly I agree that Eiyuden Chronicles for the Switch is a real sore spot for me for those exact mentioned reasons. With that said, all 5 mentioned games worth playing definitely a go! Visions of Mana, Metaphor and Granblue I'll have to save for when a PS5 comes along my way. I got other RPG titles to still cross off my backlog. Still need to complete Trails to Reverie before I can even tough the Trails to Daybreak arcs. So far FF7 Rebirth has won me over this year.
If you can only afford one game, it’s Metaphor. If you can buy more, then Persona 3 Reload , FF7 rebirth, DQ3, Unicorn, and Like a dragon.
I whole heartedly disagree, Metaphor was mid at BEST.
I know this video is recently released but a big recommendation RPG would be *DQ3 HD2D*
Great RPG brought back with Octopath Traveller paint and many quality of life additions
Best time to start a Dragon Quest
Hey could you not use metacritic review scores as a reason for why someone should or shouldn't buy games? I know you have your own reasons for not liking Reynatis, but I wouldn't use the opinions of random strangers from review sites to dictate wheather a game is good or not.
Boy, is it true that trailers always make games look the best they can without spoiling too much. Usually everything they show in a trailer is as much as can be shown without spoiling and the best looking parts.
Lots of games and anime like get overlooked because of the name and it's really unfortunate, it doesn't really have anything to do with presentation or whatever but I'm sure you get what I mean
Nice video, I love FF7 so when I do get a pc or ps5 yea along with Grand Blue Fantasy. Am on NW so I got Eiyuden CHH on sale which I have not started to play as yet as am now playing SMT5-V & That time I got.... I love the anime so I saw the game with is on sale but not for $20 lol I'll still buy it but thanks for the heads up.
FF7 Rebirth: The game was great. Could’ve done without gears and gambits. There wasn’t a ton of bloat, honestly. You don’t have to do everything at all. I wanted to, but I’m not everyone. If you think you are, you haven’t met enough people.
Unicorn Overlord is easy to explain:
Think of Fire Emblem but with teams of up to 5 characters as a single unit
No. Unicorn Overlord is easy to explain. It's Ogre Battle. Comparing it to Fire Emblem it really shoving a square peg in a round hole.
@@DairunCates Jokes on you, I cut the corners of the square peg
I see a bit of The Last Remnant in the squad system.
@@DairunCates what if someone never played that game what will be your explanation then?
That's a pretty bad explanation, as people already pointed out UO is way more Ogre Battle than FE.
I was really looking forward to Visions Of Mana but then I played the demo (PS4) and it didn't leave a good impression the framerate was awful. For those who played the main game on PS4 how did it run?
Awesome video, Taylor! Good assessments on these!!!
Wow, I literally just ordered Sky Oceans on Amazon lol. Well, I'll still try it out and see what happens.
I loved visions of mana. I think it needed a switch version day 1 to help with sales.
There is never going to be a Switch version
its kinda crazy that granblue relink gets ignored a lot by people even tho it was the most successful JRPG launch this year and the only game that broke the +100k concurrent stram players, in a year filled with new entries from the best JRPG franchises relink towers over them all (except rebirth i assume it wouldve done better if we actually have the numbers or if it launched day 1 on steam).
Taylor, I love your videos but not including Trails Through Daybreak in here is criminal... c'mon man, even if you don't like the series, it deserves to be here.
Is second this 😂😂 show trails some love man
I see every1 say metaphor has got better pacing than persona because youre more free to do what you want. And then you come here saying its the opposite. And isnt the game also like 20 hours shorter on average than the persona games? Huh...you got me lost here
I wasn't as enthralled by We Have Persona At Home. It just seemed like it was missing something that I couldn't put my finger on. I still enjoyed it, but I don't think it'll be one of those games that'll stay with me.
TBH, I initially thought that I wouldn’t like Yuffie. In the end, though, I wound up liking her a lot.
The intermission dlc did soooo much for her char development. Not to mention she's the best fighter on hard mode in rebirth imo. Her ability to switch elements to exploit weakness without exhausting mp is so clutch
This year, i played unicorn overload on my own time and currently playing ff7 rebirth
I did also streamed p3r an the dlc, now I'm streaming Metaphor ReFantazio
Interesting list of games 🤔 appreciate you sharing.
I’m actually quite happy with Reynatis myself ❤ I’m having a lot of fun with it.
Personally I find critic reviews to be hogwash💣 I quite paying attention to them a long time ago.
❤100% agreed! Metaphor ReFantasia is my GOTY🎉
I think Mana suffered what a few others did. It felt like ten thousand games came out, and there's only so much money. And short memories about trailers.
Infinite Wealth is my personal GoTY. Romancing SaGa 2 Revenge of the Seven is also epic
Unicorn Overload is practically built for the PC audience, where most western strategy gamers reside. You can tell it'd really work well with a mouse. Gotta love stick in the mud studio management, who were more willing to bail their company out from their own pocket, than to port any games to PC (funny story that).
Yeah, what is doing that type of game on the dumb Switch? It should be ported to PC asap.
I see how you mention eiyuden chronicles and i just want to say I can respect what you say about it. Your just calling out the issue and it sound like for switch it would be a disaster. I have it for the ps5 but i can understand for switch it can be a disaster and it needs to be called out so it can be fixed or notified otherwise it won't be changed so I just wanted to give a friendly shoutout on that :) Also i was bummed about sky ocean as i too was rooting for it but when it came out and i watched people play it and all, i was like sigh nope. Great things you mention :)
i have it for ps5 and agree its great
@@jamesbond99 you mean eiyuden chronicles. yeah it great
I still getting Eiyuden on Switch because Switch2 is backward compatible 🤔 For Reynatis, I know it's not for everyone, but it reminds me of PS2 era RPG, so I'm picking it up for nostalgia..🙄 Thanks for the list though 🙂
Worth it or not, I'm playing Reynatis because I love JRPG.
so many rpgs this yr and i cant believe so many were high quality
I really wanted to like Reynatis, but not being able to fight after blocking is dumb, I do disagree that it looks bad though, it has a cool art style altogether, I'm more mad that there is no english dub at all. Ofcourse FF7 rebirth looks real good. I might give Slime Isekai chronicles a chance I like games with alot of characters, and the gameplay looks fun, and it's cheaper now.
Eiyuden Chronicle is one of the best JRPGs of 2024 for me
Haven't played Metaphor but the games I've liked this year is SMT5V, FF7 Rebirth, Unicorn Overlord, Stellar Blade, & Goblin Slayer nightmare feast
Damn, how can i get sooo many hours in my life to even play these, and i LOVE JRPGs... It's rough... The ones i played and LOVED: Rebirth and Persona 3. I still did buy Daybreak (Played everything till Reverie), YS 10, Unicorn Overlord and Metaphor Re:Fantasio. I am thinking of buying Eyuden Chronicles and Romancing saga 2 for my PS5, still have my doubts for SMT 5 tho... Another game that i absolutly loved this year was Stellar Blade even tho it's not an JRPG, it's still an amazing game!
eyden chroniclels hundred heroes is a great game don't know why he said to avoid it however maybe he didn't try it when it came out for ps4/ps5 and said switch and switch might have a long haul with it but its out for every other system if he is gonna b***h about switch load and the only down side apparently was how long it did releaase and the dlc have been delayed and yes im wondering when dlc is coming out
For me Eyuden is worth it while in contrast Unicorn Overlord is an absolute fail to me. But as always it's getting down on personal preference or at least subjectivity rather than objectivity
FF7R, Granblue Fantasy, Unicorn Overlord, Metaphor Re:Fantazio, Shin Megami Tensei V:V are definitely top 5.
Other games like Paper Mario: TYD, Eiyuden Chronicles (not switch), Yakuza Infinite Wealth, Visions of Mana and Ys X Nordics are worth considering too.
Those games not worth it can be consider as wait-until-big-sale category as those are not too bad but need some improvements.
Congrats the algorithm has shown me your video
What's your beef with 100 heroes that's a good game
I appreciate your honest critiques on the games. Keep it up we need more honest game reviews
I was super into Rebirth at first and don't get me wrong its a really well made game but the constant stop-start nature (be it from mini games or "go detour to hit this switch" or whatever) of it really started to get on my nerves and I honesty had to put it down because of burnout. And I'm not sure I even want to go back.
I played SDS Grand Cross back when it launched. But only for ~half an hour. I just couldn't stomach the boneheaded decision to interrupt the game every other moment with a ~40 second minute download. Several times per chapter.
Would it be too much to ask to at least be able to choose to download the entire chapter's data at once?!
My Top 5 this year:
1.Metaphor
2.Daybreak
3.P3R
4.Rebirth
5.Romancing SaGa 2
This year was definitely the best JRPG year we've ever had
I can vouch for visions of mana it's great fun
Missed opportunity to put Saga Emerald Beyond as NOT WORTH IT, and then Romancing Saga 2 Revenge of the Seven as WORTH IT back to back lol
So true! I should have done that lol.
Granblue has amazing combat, sadly the bosses happen to be reskins with very few changes. And grinding the best weapons is annoying and multiplayer is only mission base
No, it's not.
And Metaphor is 100+ hours for the first run, not counting NG+ (oh, yes, that is a thing.)
It's a real shame what happened with Visions of Mana.
Metaphors a fantastic game it being up for multiple awards at the game awards show how great of a game it is
Hard disagree with the Reynatis take. The game is not any graphics marvel, but the game runs well, its combat is quite fun and the story is pretty good. I feel it received a way harder treatment than deserved specially from the "specialized" press. I mean there are a few points that were hardly criticized in the game that were completely ignored in higher budget titles.
Pretty big focus on action RPGs in this video. Don’t forget like a dragon 8!