You are completely wrong about TMS, it is not a proper crossover but it is a very good game that uses elements from both IPs.

“Tokyo Mirage Sessions” was a good JRPG, just not a good FE/SMT crossover. (Plus, I heard intelligent Systems didn’t want them to do an SRPG).

As a Fire Emblem and SMT fan, I still did really enjoy TMS. I guess I just didn't hold on to any specific expectations of the brand names attached. I took it for what was presented to me, and had fun.

I really liked Koudelka, I loved the voice acting and how the characters insult each other haha, but yeah the combat system wasn't that good. I hope star ocean 5 gets a remaster to fix some issues.

Tecmo's Secret of the Stars had enormous potential also. Awesome music. The two party mechanics, if executed correctly, would have made the game incredible. If the translation of the story line was "a lot" better, that would have made the game much better as well. Too bad the end result stunk.

Sure, the idol theme was silly and stupid, but I still very much enjoyed Tokyo Mirage Sessions.

TMS. the game that combined SMT, fire emblem, persona and idols and somehow came out with messy story, random growths, high schoolers and censorship. whoever came up with that is actually worse than designing by throwing darts, seriously wtf.

I went throgh the enterity of Tokyo Mirage Sessions, and honestly i felt (and still feel) like it was the greatest waste of time i've ever experienced. I'm both a fan of SMT, Persona and Fire Emblem, and i used to like idols when i was younger, so i tought it would be a nice ride. I was wrong. To this day, I'm still conviced that they did TMS this way so they could sell CDs and Concerts... well, it didn't go well, right? Since the concert got cancelled because of the Pandemic. So yeah, they got no Idol Money and we got stuck with one of the greatest dissapointments of the story of JRPGs

Tokyo Mirage Sessions was fun but it certainly wasn't smtxfe and I want smtxfe more than anything

Eternal Sonata could’ve been good series if we get more like it.

I didn't think I'd end up liking Tokyo mirage sessions (I don't care for idols), but the peppy pastel rainbow star sweeps and confetti effects and excellent soundtrack won me over. Gameplay is good too. It's a little light unless you play on hard, but that's ok, as there's an even harder difficulty too that forces you to be strategic. SMT games are dark and great, but it's good to have something extremely upbeat in the genre. I love this game 🎉

Tokyo Mirage Sessions is a fantastic RPG experience completely ruined by censorship. That's right, the censorship was its only flaw, and it was a HUGE one.

I have never played Phantasy Star but with 3, as soon as you said 'poor planning and decisions' I nodded my head and said 'yep. Classic Sega'.

I always liked Mystic Quest. I was extremely disappointed by Phantasy Star III, but I've played it again recently and enjoyed it a little more

Sooo other then having idols in it there was nothing wrong with TMS? U know a lot of these "wasted potential" games listed it felt a lot more like "these games where not the way I wanted them to be so they could have been better" more then wasted potential

How could you do Koudelka like this? My favorite and the most memorable PS1 game.

I got a good one: Arc The Lad: End of Darkness. Twilight of the Spirits was a great game. EOD was the opposite. Randomly the audio would just completely stop, for no reason. If they had taken the care to make the game at least finished it could have spawned another Arc the Lad game a couple years after. Sadly, that was pretty much the end of the series, until the mobile game 14 years later.

i rather liked shining resonance. it had issues but i ended up not only beating it but platinuming it. most of my issues with it were involved in maxing trophies, that's where most of the grind and RNG went. if you're not trying to get all the rare treasure chest drops or trigger every last romance quest, it was a lot more accessible. yeah the dragon controls were shit, i just didn't use the dragon, it was not necessary most of the time. (which made one trophy a pain, but i digress.) yeah the couple times they dumped a mandatory battle with crap characters were not fun, but those were one-off issues in a large game. overall i thought it was an above average and enjoyable experience. will say, though: random weather necessary for random rare spawns necessary for random drops are absofuckinglutely satan.

Wild arms XF is a game. I love the music. And I felt the combat wasn’t all that bad. It’s just when you have to do things that don’t work well in the style of game like the stealth sections I hate.

I still enjoyed Star Ocean 5. It had a lot of potential, looked good, and I really loved that they used all party members in combat instead of just hiding them and pushing the I Believe button.

I agree with a lot on this list, however, I really enjoyed Nelke. It was never supposed to be a JRPG, it was always marketed as a sim type game with light RPG elements. Obviously if you went into it expecting a regular atelier game you'll be disappointed, but you can't blame a game for you not realizing what it was before you bought it. Spin-offs exist for a reason.

Got to say, for all it's jankiness, I really enjoyed Koudelka. However I would love to see it remade to expand it's story and improve it's battle system (Judgement Ring please!). But most of all I would love to see the enemies rendered with modern graphics. Some of them are truly gruesome and deranged in design. They really tap into the Lovecraftian "what the f*** is that!?" kind of horror. Unfortunately the PS1 just can't do justice to them. Seeing those designs fully realised in HD would be very cool.

I actually love Tokyo Mirage, i played through both original and encore versions and really enjoyed my time with both

Tokyo Mirage Sessions may not have been what you were after, but it didn't make it a bad game. I really enjoyed it, and the session combat system was fun. But by your metric of 'potential', you're right. I went in knowing nothing about Fire Emblem (and came out much the same way), and only really knowing it was by Atlus. Like I said, I enjoyed it, but it was really not what people thought they'd be getting so I can understand the frustration.

FF7 Remake had the potential to be a good remake,but the devs didn't want that unfortunately.

Monark are perfectly aware of its game mechanics. "Berserk" mode are very powerfull tool. Carefully linking characters with mad+awake produce monstrosity which could destroy enemies in a single turn. When i forced myself to use linking i found myself planing turns for characters to have just right amount of stats to make link+mad+awake combo wombo. You just accepting the rules of a game or be like author of this video.

I liked Mystic Quest. The only thing I had against it, was the _ludicrous_ amounts of enemies they put in the way and how they respawn if you exit an area and re-enter and it takes _hours_ to get through a single dungeon. If it weren't for that, it would be a cool game. That, and they needed to fix the Life and Cure exploits. If they'd done that, then the Dark King would have been one of the hardest final story bosses in the entirety of the FF Franchise.

For me, i fully enjoyed the Shining resonance refrain. Is a very good game for me and i also enjoyed grinding in any JRPG I've played. Being overpowered early it feels good for me. 😆

Considering how many people love and enjoy Tokyo Mirage Session and that the game never tryed to be or was advertised as a gritty or dark game but instead archieves its goal of being just a Fun more light sided game. It is clear to see that the Seething Hate here comes from Personal bias and an opinion of "How games should be in my opinion".

I honestly think Tokyo Mirage Sessions wouldn't be that bad, if it didn't have the worst localization of all time.

I mean , in my opinion , I have not played FE or Persona games but I really enjoyed Tokyo Mirage.

Claiming Mystic Quest's battle system was more intuitive than Nelke's is rather extreme hyperbole. The only hard part in Mystic Quest was finding the earth door... in a zone without random encounters. Nelke's battle system was actually okay IMO. Much better than the standard stuff one finds in a console game prior to Trails of Cold Steel... but the lack of exploration with that auto-walk in Nelke's exploration... x_x

It might sound weird but...I actually found Monark way to easy, and I'm a complete noob at these kind of games, to the point that I once failed the tutorial in Makai Kingdom! I mean, yeah it is hard at the start, but if you start with Lust - which is easy, I did it by pure chance! - and start getting proper Resonance powers that stacks in the entire group - and psy boosters and armor for your fiends - you can pretty much clear enemies in 1-2 hits easy. The extra final boss literally died in 2 hits to me, and I was like "that's it? Boss is dead? Are you kidding me?". And it's not like you need to get 40 hours in to get good stuff: by the 10 hour marker my fiends had some stronger armor because of abusing Lust and the Resonance powers from the MC, and since playing on normal it allows you to get more drops I was filled with armors that were meant to be for like level 20 or 30 xD The only say that I didn't like were the jump in levels after certain chapters, especially when you need to do every character's chapter. They all jump 10 levels or so and it can be a problem. However, because of how easy it is to break the game you can farm super fast a lot of souls and that's kinda what I did. Kinda cheap but hey it's all about being smart and resourceful in these kind of games! And on normal you can still die from bosses even fi you're maxed out so I'd say it kinda balances out...although the MC should really be stronger because that's what killed me the most during my playthrough, since he's the weakest of the roster. Also the whole phone gimmick was annoying and too cryptic at times.

I can kinda agree to Shining Resonance Refrain, the power spikes on some bosses were just ridiculous, you kinda steamroll most bosses then there are a few that make you feel like your like 8 levels under recommended and just wipe your party with one AOE attack, kinda frustrating, and yes pretty grindy. Sad day! Thanks for another fun vid Erick!

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles is a local co-op JRPG that is an action game with novel mechanics that don't quite work and too many menus for a game that tries to minimize menus. Instead of i dunno just being classic-ff-but-coop

It's incredible just how many of these games had their systems ruined by a lack of traditional leveling mechanics, just like the last 3 Paper Marios. To paraphrase Yahtzee: 'it's like if everyone built submarines out of metal and they all worked perfectly fine but then someone went and said 'pah, everyone makes submarines out of metal, I'm gonna make a submarine out of bread!' Sometimes, mechanics are common for a reason- because they work.

The thing about Tokyo Mirage Sessions is; well two things... First, like said; its a Persona game. It SHOULD have been a Fire Emblem game with demons, much like Devil Survivor. Second; I like Persona games but... the skill system is not player friendly. Instead of skills being tied to personas you can switch between; your character learns them from weapons like FF9 and can only remember a few before you have to erase old ones to learn new ones, like pokemon.

SMT Soul Hackers 2

Tokyo Mirage is just for the small minority of people who fantasize about everything they like turning into idols. I would like to play an idol game where they expose the harsh reality of being an idol behind the scenes: sexual abuse, overwork, health deterioration, mental issues, being exploited, losing touch with reality...

Yeah, Shining Resonance Refrain hurt me personally. I was really into it all the way up until the first non-tutorial boss. Holy fuck, the difficulty spike and the extremely slow grinding really pissed me off. I would have actually finished it if there was something like a very easy mode where you can just fly past the difficult parts. As for Tokyo Mirage Sessions, I feel it was something similar to Valkyria Revolution, where a lot of the fans of the original franchise set themselves up for disappointment. If you just go in and take it for what it is, it's not a bad game at all.

I sometimes think it would be great to note all Erik Langdon's rankings and place it one database. And then make it into an Erik-Langdons-one-ranking-to-rule-them-all and see would it stick when thrown at the wall...

I agree on the missed potential in Shining Resonance Refrain. The first time I went into it, things went horrible, just as you explained. My second try I was taking these shortcomings in consideration and things went a lot better and made the game actually fun. Still - Indeed a missed opportunity. I completely agree with MONARK. I gave up after trying several times. It's a shame, because with some tweaking of the game mechanics it could have been a great game. And Nelke... What the hell where they thinking with this game? It's the only game in the Atelier franchise I will probably never buy - Enough said about that. And Tokyo Mirage Sessions... I have played for a while. What can I say about it? I went in without not expecting to have a SMT or Fire Emblem connection (not that strange, because I am a PC gamer and have little or no connection with these franchises), and it actually was a fun game to play. I think the reputation of this game (deserved or not) is too much hung up to that perceived SMT/FE connection. Without that distraction it suddenly becomes a game that you actually can enjoy. I would even go so far that a port to the PC (where a LOT less people have a connection with SMT and Fire Emblem), could actually be successful. But that's a personal opinion, and I think not everybody will agree... 😋

What is the theme playing during the Monarch part?

Grandia 3, Legaia 2, Suikoden Tactics.

14:40 It's more JPop than idol, tbh.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was my introduction to RPG's as a 16 year old in 1993. Went on to play FF4 (packaged as Final Fantasy 2 in the US) and fell in love with the genre.

I haven't played all of these games, but what I've gathered from the video is that, "Wasted potential" = "not what I was expecting".

I disagree on Koudelka. I played it way after release, so I won't say I'm nostalgia blinded, and I didn't have any of your issues. Graphics were fine, just the right amount of dark and bleak, and I have never been opposed to neither tank controls nor random encounters in any game. Wanna play a game that thinks that being 99% dark equals automatically being scary? Play Apsulov, a first person horror game made by a Swedish studio, which blends sci-fi with norse mythology. A brilliant concept and I love many aspects of the game, but not only does the game not get fun until the 3rd act where you learn to recharge on the fly by absorbing the souls of the dead, but you have this "visor" that let's you see certain unseen things... AND functions like the world's shittiest "flashlight" in that it slightly enlightens your immediate surroundings. The game is already 99% dark and with this visor becomes 89% dark... until you need to recharge it (which is thankfully fast and automatic). But I'm like, why the fuck make the game so dark in the first place when you are gonna make our only portable source of light an infinitely rechargable visor?? Then why not just make the game 20% brighter??

I have beaten Tokyo mirage sessions. It's actually what GOT me into smt and persona.

I had a great time with Star Ocean 5 overall, I'd probably even pick it up again if it got a PC port. Definitely agree with your points though, super wasted potential, and I really can't get over wondering what the heck they were thinking with the lack of cutscenes. The way important dialogue just sorta happened while you were standing there, or worse, cutting off conversations by running too close to a different area... Awful decision, and a damn shame too because it looked great, had okay crafting and (imo) pretty fun combat.

I completely understand that the standard Mario voices could be too high pitched or goofy for a full length movie, but man Chris Pratt just doesn't sound like Mario with that deadpan voice. The rest of it I'm fine with and think it works.

The only thing i don't like about Shining Resonance is how stupid the teammate AI is, sometimes they just stand still doing nothing and that's the reason why they always get killed

The first Blue Reflection. I played the demo of the second one & loved it. I bought the 1st BR and super disappointed that it wasn’t no where as fun as the second. The battle system is completely different

Agreed about Dawn of Mana. The idea of using a physics engine sounded cool but the controls ruined for me as well.

I am guilty of liking Dawn of Mana. I admit its far for being a great game, but I still appreciated it for the unique gameplay that using physics in a way that was extremely rare for games that era. The OST also carried it hard for me. It was the typical comfy Mana soundtrack that I loved since Legend of Mana. Fools Dance is still one of my favorite boss themes in PS2 era rpgs. Also Tokyo Mirage Sessions is definitely a joke, but if you ignore the fact that its nothing like SMT or Fire Emblem, its actually a decent jrpg. I finished it because Persona 5 wasnt out yet lol

Gotta agree with you with Monark. Bought it since it sounds interesting, the concept is interesting, and I enjoy trapped-in-a-school scenarios, enjoyed it for a few hours then something clicked on me like my brain saying, "something isn't right here", I just abused the system and always ganged up on 1 enemy to double attack but the thing is, there is a sub objective where you need to finish the battle in x number of turns for an enormous boost in grade and exp, you can give an extra turn to your allies but at the cost of sanity for that ally which is vital where once it reaches 100%, your character either goes berserk or gets kicked out of the dungeon/floor. I really want to enjoy it, I do but such a wasted potential. Shining Resonance Refrain, only bought it because of that black-haired girl and action fantasy JRPGs are my thing. Dropped it because something didn't feel right.

one i tried but quit pretty quickly on psp. i think it was Hexyz Force. if i remember correctly, every action you take drains an AP meter from each character, and that meter almost never recovers outside of leveling up or going back to town. which makes it feel like a bad Pokemon clone where the number of attacks you have are really abysmal until you get to higher levels. in the beginning it's not so bad since you tend to level pretty quickly in starting dungeons, letting you stay on the field that much longer. but once the grind sets in, your party will be just close enough for a much needed level to recover their AP, but have no AP to speak of in order to even attack. which makes you have to run all the way back to a rest spot, and hope to hell the game doesn't kick your ass when you can't even defend yourself

Mystic Quest worked for me. Generated a love for the genre and opened the door for me to try out so many great games afterwards.

even if as nothing to do with the video, do you have a ps5? can you advice on jrpg on that?

Erick landon please help me! I can't save my arc the lad 1 on my ps3.... It tries to read the memory card but then fails to find it... I guess you can't save on this console??? I bought it off the playstation store too sucha bummer!

I still say FFMQ needs a remastered version. Or an HD version.

The number one game wasn’t that bad I didn’t know it was based on those but going in blind so it’s decent. But I can’t wait to see a part 2 if you plan to do one. Also I love your content you’ve opened up so many rpgs and jrpgs that I would have never thought of. Thank you for doing what you do and can’t wait to see the next video.

I didn't mind FF Mystic Quest. I am not into idol culture at all, but I loved TMS. It was super fun and the battle system made up for the idol stuff.

> Wild Arms XF on the thumbnail I'm crying I know I know it's one of my favorite games but I understand your point

Phantasy Star III had a twist that blew my mind back in my youth with how it tied into Phantasy Star II. I actually love the full premise of PSIII, but it is in desperate need of a remake.

I'm surprised Final Fantasy XV isn't on this list, from what the devs said it's only 25% of what it could've been

I got stuck in shining resonance refrain in the desert against some wormy boss. Tried so many times that I just gave up :(

My gripe with star ocean 5 was the camera was so nauseating. The perpetually rotating camera during battle and the camera shifts when walking. The camera shifts so bad for every bump in the road.

So all I took from this is that you hate Idol music. Number 1 is a perfectly fine game. Solid game play and everything. Your just saying it's missed potential because you don't like Idol stuff and you think it's disrespectful to the series fans. As someone who loves Fire Emblem and most of the SMT side of things namely everything that's not the main series I can actively say I love Tokyo Mirage Sessions. Could they have just done it as a stand alone rpg? Sure. Does them not doing so make the game bad? No because it plays perfectly fine and has a decent to average story.

because it's the designer's job to be creative. it's the player's job to be murderhobos until everything is dead like what happened with the ultima series.

Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom - Masterpeace☝️🔥😍

Normally I don't like videos that just focus on the negatives but these feel relatable, like you wish for more from a game but it just didn't do it. The potential was there in each case.

That last one, was probably thought up cause of Persona's "Dancin All Night" games.... There was the SMT Persona hell of spinoff games.... some decent.... others..... we don't talk about those. A better idol themed RPG is Omega Quintet tbh.... Or Ar Tonelico Qoga if you're really trying to stretch what's "idols"

Funny enough, Dawn of Mana for me personally is a great entry to Mana series. It’s simplistic enough but still carry the heavy tone and managed to showcase the manas as well. It actually introduced me to the Mana series (as well as accepting the missed potential mentioned haha) And yep, can’t blame people for getting frustrated with Tokyo Mirage Sessions. And the fact that it’s a solid JRPG made it worse lol

Rhapsody: a musical Adventure. It feels more a draft of an Amazing JRPG than a full game. It Is a Pity. I love koudelka, but I am well aware of its limits, but I Also think that It Is way Better than the way more polished parasite Eve. My list could go on Forever, but I don't have the energies to' think about It

Shining Resonance strong selling point was that there were no other jrpgs released at the time from what I remember. It felt quite niche and stuck in previous generations era. Star Ocean 5 on the other hand, I've really enjoyed it, far more than 4. Having so many characters active at a time was a blast. It did suffer from the same problem most of these games suffer though, repetitive corridor like dungeons.

Umm Tokyo Mirage Sessions is one of my favourite JRPGs. But I love idol culture and P4G is right up there too. I’d really love to try Koldelka - it’s about £40 - do you think it’s worth it given I don’t mind the foibles of the ps1 era? I low-key loved Wild Arms XF. It is kinda hard and ironically I enjoyed the maps so grinding never felt like a chore. I get how it’s an acquired taste mind you and definitely suffers a bit from over-experimentation with systems galore. I also love Nelke for the nostalgia (and I like town builder games) and Shining Resonance Refrain. Though I for sure agree with all your points yet still have a massive soft spot for the game. So much so I bought it recently for my Switch collection to play through again even though I got it digitally on PS4 (for like ten bucks in a sale, so I figured I owe the devs and bought physical for switch).

Sadly some games come out like this and it sucks because they end up wasting good potential! I liked Wild Arms XF on PSP. I enjoyed the story and wish they'd made a sequel.

I really feel the sadness when you talk about Nelke. I wanted to like the game, but its the only Atelier-ish game I've barely touched.

Honestly, to me a lot of Atlus recent outings have been suffering from this one way or the other with various levels of severity. Some were good enough but just didn't reach the heights they could have, while others were downright disgusting disappointments. And then some others that fall somewhere in-between those two.

And yet no mention of Tales of Zestiria? I had to slog through that game for so many months to beat it I didn't even bother with the dlc story. I F'in hate that games mechanics. The idea sounds cool, raising stats and stuff through different equipment matches and skills on them but the execution was terrible! It didn't help that it didn't have the best story for a Tales game, in fact the story was kinda short if I think about it. It wasn't a bad story just wasn't my favorite.

Worst Part they even censored Tokyo Mirage Sessions via "Localizations". So what's the point of JP Idol culture being mixed in?

TMS Censorship ruined any hype I had for it.

Probably most if not all SMT games before III and IV are this kind of deal: great soundtracks, interesting plots involving transgressive representations of real-life religion deities, curiously creative demon artwork, deep fusion system among other things... all married with obsolete dungeon crawling, frustrating encounter rate, excessive enemy numbers during encounters, confusing fusion requirements, obscure alignment system, rng negotiations and, difficulty needing the player to grind itself to dust to keep up with most of the boss battles. If it wasn't for the Persona games hitting the mainstream: this franchise would probably still be an acquired taste.

Doesn't quite fit the criteria, but if not because of the gacha, Mobius FF would've been one of the greatest Jrpg of all time, story and gameplay wise.

I was super disappointed that Tokyo Mirage Sessions was not a Strategy RPG like other Fire emblem games.

If you hated the way experience was handled in Monark, then I strongly urge you to never play the game "The Dark Spire" for the Nintendo DS. Not only does it handle XP the same way, it's also modeled after the Wizardry series of games. And if you've ever played any of those titles, you know exactly the kind of hell that awaits you.

I know its Nostalgia, but i still love Mystic Quest . We disnt get many rpgs in Germany back then, and This and Secretnof Mana were my entry point into jrpg's.

He's the angry RPG video game nerrrrdddd.

Ah, PS3, My guilty plesure. But I agree with your opinion. Great video as always. I followed your videos ages ago, but this is my first coment: Your opinions are very elaborates and the videos very enjoyable. Sorry for my bad english.

Damned idol culture ruining games...It's a bloody cancer... Reminds me of when they thought idol crap was a good idea in FFX2...that intro 🤮

On this list WA:CF is the only one I played but didn't finish it. I forgot the reason I dropped it, although I still have my save.

Mystic Quest is actually a SaGa game. It just uses the Final Fantasy name like the 3 on the Gameboy. When compared to those, you can see how they tried something new with the world and attempted to simplify combat/character growth.

Erick Landon RPG, I was going to add "Tokyo Mirage Sessions: FE Encore" to my Nintendo Switch. But now that I've seen your video, I'd like to additionally ask you please as to what the game mechanics are like during gameplay and overall story in the game as to why you feel this game isn't worth the $59.99 in buying it as I was intending so? At least you may've saved me from adding a possible bad apple game to my Switch Library that every game I have(20 so far in aiming for 24) being Platinum-worthy! The four games I'll be adding are of Persona 4 Golden, Bravely Default II, Shin Megami Tensei V, and eventually Genshin Impact. In case you might suggest Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I already have a farming simulation game with Rune Factory 5.

Tokyo Mirrage Session is a decent game, the type you'll give the average 7.5/10 by the end of it. The game doesn't have frustrating gameplay that is literally some broken mess of shit that made no sense compared to other game in this list (Nelke has its problematic level design). But how the hell FE and SMT marriage become Idol Persona is a mystery for anyone who knows about both sides of the game. FE is always War-political story and SMT is apocalyptic survival game with biblical story, most of time. Imagine everyone's confusion at the end result being TMS which is just SMT but written from the back. It isn't like I don't understand their sentiment, mind you. I think both sides didn't want to make some big hard game that is all serious like their mainline title. But their marketing flopped at that and the disappointment meter at the mere decision was high at the time. It is only lately that people start giving the game a chance and play it beyond its initial marketing hype. So, in a way it is indeed a game with 'wasted potential' since it took them forever until people play it beyond its cover.

I actually beat Shining Resonance Refrain last night and am now one trophy away from the platinum! It's.... Decent. It ain't great but it ain't bad either, kinda just mid. I enjoyed the grind loops and the combat was honestly fairly decent, but my God the story was so boring and only a handful of characters felt noteworthy. Definitely a JPRG to beat when you get through all your good ones and just want more, not a bad experience, but I can't call it a great one either. 64/100 was my rating for it.

man i really wanted to like wild arms xf but i got stuck in progress

If you play star ocean faithlessness and integrity. Again just spam the green hair girl attack that she jumps in the air. She gets away with a lot. But yeah that game is so boring and felt incomplete honestly. But I finished it years later.

Monster Hunter Stories is a waste of potential, they tried to copy something like pokemon and I feel like it "almost" works, but the biggest problem for me about that game is that while the battle is simple enough, using a paper rock scissors style, the problem lies in the amount of memorization you need to do. Each monsters can have 2 or 3 type of attack and you need to learn "if they stance is like this they gonna use this attack" for all of them. I get if it's your 1st encounter so you won't know what stance is what type of attack, but at least put in some kind of a memo system, I'll even take something like in P5 where your party member yell "this enemy is weak to this attack" after you've found their weakness

i wonder if mirage was done by someone like nippon ichi, if it wouldnt actually been an amazing comedy with dark undertones rpg.