JRPGs

  • Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!



    Go here and give us your nominations!
    Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Xexx

Xexx

Vyemm Raider
7,746
1,811
I missed out on alot of RPGs in general due to being a late bloomer to the genre - However i did like JRPGs enough to plow through the majority of what came out afterwards. Super Mario RPG was something i enjoyed quite a bit back in the days. Now it seems for somethin fresh and new i have to wait on that dark horse coming out in 2025.

 
  • 2Like
Reactions: 1 users
Siliconemelons

Siliconemelons

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
11,915
17,890
That French RPG looks good until the "system" - I am still an old fuddy duddy wanting a turn based RPG of olden times... so old games I just play or replay.
 
Needless

Needless

Toe Sucker
<Silver Donator>
9,404
3,427


Free DLC for Sea of Stars in march is kinda sick, definitely hinting at suplexing a train lmao
 
  • 2Like
Reactions: 1 users
Aazrael

Aazrael

Golden Baronet of the Realm
3,285
12,381
I really like Chained Echoes. Still in the intro part and learning how the overdrive system works, mess up a lot. But I guess it gets easier to manage with more skills and more party members.

I love that you refill HP and TP between fights. I hope that stays through the game.

Any tips on good party members to aim for or are all needed/used? I assume you get a few extras as you can switch during fights.
 
Rajaah

Rajaah

Honorable Member
<Gold Donor>
12,564
16,611
I tried to start SMT3: Nocturne last week. Did the first dungeon and first boss. What an insanely bland game, with waaaay too much talking. I just want a Persona-like centered around dungeon crawling, where the demons are your party members instead of just move summons. The first dungeon was so sterile and boring that it pretty much made me uninterested in continuing. Maybe it gets better, or maybe SMT4 would be more my style? I liked the couple hours I played of SMT5 a lot.

Siliconemelons said:
My switch is failing me… chrono …cross? Ahh
Click to expand...

CC is a quasi-sequel to CT. It's pretty interesting for its time, but wasn't well received because it wasn't much like CT and was barely a real sequel.

I've got zero trouble saying that CC has the best soundtrack I've ever heard to this day though.
 
  • 2Like
Reactions: 1 users
Siliconemelons

Siliconemelons

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
11,915
17,890
Rajaah said:
CC is a quasi-sequel to CT. It's pretty interesting for its time, but wasn't well received because it wasn't much like CT and was barely a real sequel.

I've got zero trouble saying that CC has the best soundtrack I've ever heard to this day though.
Click to expand...


Honestly its reputation proceeds it… however, what I do know is yes… banging soundtrack as that is all I know of it.

It may be the same as WildArms 2… it go blasted, never played it till years later, wasn’t as bad as its rep.

May give CC a shot
 
Gavinmad

Gavinmad

Mr. Poopybutthole
43,786
52,402
I confess to also relying on triple raid a lot when I first played through but Robo is actually a pretty terrible character before multiple NG+ runs because of how terrible his speed stat is. You'll do more damage spamming strong dual techs than waiting around to triple tech with Robo. It is possible to rotate x-strike and triple raid but its better to either have a real healer like Marle or access to Lucca's fire magic for the fight against Magus.
 
Hateyou

Hateyou

Not Great, Not Terrible
<Bronze Donator>
16,712
43,636
Aazrael said:
I really like Chained Echoes. Still in the intro part and learning how the overdrive system works, mess up a lot. But I guess it gets easier to manage with more skills and more party members.

I love that you refill HP and TP between fights. I hope that stays through the game.

Any tips on good party members to aim for or are all needed/used? I assume you get a few extras as you can switch during fights.
Click to expand...
You will need them all during the course of the game as party makeups will change, and mid game you will be using all eight when people get knocked out or you want to use certain openings into other skills. As you get more powerful you need to rotate less, so really just figure out which openings/characters you like. Some can be pretty powerful compared to others which you’ll naturally figure out as you go.
 
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 user
CaughtCross

CaughtCross

Ahn'Qiraj Raider
2,940
5,715
Xexx said:
I missed out on alot of RPGs in general due to being a late bloomer to the genre - However i did like JRPGs enough to plow through the majority of what came out afterwards. Super Mario RPG was something i enjoyed quite a bit back in the days. Now it seems for somethin fresh and new i have to wait on that dark horse coming out in 2025.

Click to expand...


New gameplay footage. It does look interesting.

 
  • 2Like
Reactions: 1 users
Derkon

Derkon

Blackwing Lair Raider
2,517
1,270
Rajaah said:
I tried to start SMT3: Nocturne last week. Did the first dungeon and first boss. What an insanely bland game, with waaaay too much talking. I just want a Persona-like centered around dungeon crawling, where the demons are your party members instead of just move summons. The first dungeon was so sterile and boring that it pretty much made me uninterested in continuing. Maybe it gets better, or maybe SMT4 would be more my style? I liked the couple hours I played of SMT5 a lot.



CC is a quasi-sequel to CT. It's pretty interesting for its time, but wasn't well received because it wasn't much like CT and was barely a real sequel.

I've got zero trouble saying that CC has the best soundtrack I've ever heard to this day though.
Click to expand...

SMT3 first dungeon is basically a tutorial, the dungeons have more puzzles and difficulty later on.

Like any RPG there is going to be a lot of talking early on to set the stage a bit, never felt SMT3 was big on talking though. There are some short cutscenes that establish the various alignments later on but they are usually visually striking(again, for a PS2 game).

But yeah summons are basically like pokemon, they don't talk to you or anything if that's what you were expecting.
 
spronk

spronk

FPS noob
23,375
27,261


visions of mana releasing today but apparently NetEase (china) has decided to pull back its investment in japanese dev companies. I'd assume the massive success of Wukong has them realizing they can develop the talent in china instead and get a much, much larger local playerbase
 
Malakriss

Malakriss

Golden Baronet of the Realm
12,666
11,976
Essentially the company made the decision back in Spring and cut all the staff down months ago, only keeping what they needed to finish their commitments. The decision was made before Wukong even came out. Guarantees VoM isn't going to have any extra DLC.
 
Lumi

Lumi

Vyemm Raider
4,322
3,052
Caeden said:
Is VoM good? Reviews from places I trust have been all over the place.
Click to expand...
Just buy on steam and play the f out of it for like 115 minutes and if it ain't good by then just return it imo.
 
  • 2Like
Reactions: 1 users
Rajaah

Rajaah

Honorable Member
<Gold Donor>
12,564
16,611
Caeden said:
Is VoM good? Reviews from places I trust have been all over the place.
Click to expand...

From what I hear it captures quite a bit of the Secret of Mana energy.

There was another indy-made game last year that was also supposed to be an SoM homage and was well-recieved. Trinity Trigger, I think? It basically vanished from internet discussion within a week, despite being a good game. Never got around to taking a real look at it.
 
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 user
You must log in or register to reply here.