My backlog is too big that i don't play through any game i beat anyway

Drakengard 3 is one of the most gratifying RPGs ever made. Absolute masterclass.

Dragon Quest XI "post-game" isn't really a post-game. It's like Nier Automata route C, the game just continues with more game and story to a better ending. Most reference it as Act 3. It's also not true ending "nonsense", at least not to me. That nonsense (in other games) is generally having to meet extremely narrow criteria during a play-through (FFX-2 I'm looking at you!) But Dragon Quest XI's Act 3 just continues the story, automatically and naturally, no finagling required. I thought it was great.

Man, legend of Dragoon is my personal favourite JRPG of all time that I complete it 8 TIMES! including the Japanese version because I memorised where to go and what to do. The only grinding you have to is level up additions.

I already played Dragon Quest XI twice with my friend. We played it to 100% both times. I loved it both times. I mainly played it the 2nd time for the bonus classic dungeon

Dragon Quest XI's "post game" isn't really post game but just the continuation of the main game and its story with new areas,characters and enemies. Similarly to Dragon's Dogma and unlike other post game contents you can't say you have beaten DQXI unless you have beaten the "post game" so as long as someone enjoys the game i don't get why that would be reason enough to not want to play it again someday.

Star Ocean 3 is my best game. I beat it like, 5 times and got all the Freya 4D trophies and before, so I consider myself done with the game but I still love it so much. Same with LoD, I would do casual replays of both someday but yeah, the backlog

8:45 LOL The trail-off... I love your style.

Ah yes. The combat of Star Ocean 3 was a pain. Characters died once the mana hit 0. Never knew if that was a bug or not, but damn it was annoying.

Legend of Dragoon was one of my first video games. I loved it so much that I replayed multiple times and would miss stages of attacks on purpose so I could figure out exact enemy HP and also record how their tactics change at 1/2 HP.

DQ 11 doesn’t have a post game. It just keeps going. I only won’t go back to it because of how long it is. All totally worth it though.

That part about Rose and your dad was incredible! Amazing sense of humor. Instant sub. Thanks for the laugh!

Wild arms 3 is another cup of tea . It's so hard that you can't finish it without a guide.

Drakengard 3 is actually pretty great emulated! You can crank the resolution to 1440p/4k and there’s an fps patch that lets the game run up to 120 fps! Plays and controls way better that way

Keep up the awesome content Erick, your video's are the main source of information that let's me know what rpg's and jrpg's are out there 👍

As a recent fan of Atelier, your take on the series is spot on. They do a pretty good job making endless fetch quests entertaining and there's always the item-finding aspect to make things interesting, but I doubt I'd replay any of the ones I've finished. I'm spending time with Lulua right now, so maybe I'll go back to the other Arland games to see some of the lore I'm missing. Edit: Thx for the DQXI spoiler alert. Much appreciated. :) This one has been on my backlog for eons.

As a rule of thumb, i only ever clear games once for the sake of the story. If the ending is satisfactory, i call it a day, and the game has concluded for me. However, if something i did not like happens, and i can change it, i may go out of my way to play it again like the character that dies in dragon quest while i haven't played the game yet if i find the character interesting i may go out of my way to save it otherwise they will remain gone in my story conclusion

Xenoblade 2 imo has wayyyyy better exploration than 1 and 3. In XC1 you move ridiculously slow in massive areas, and in XC3 the areas are three times the size of XC1. XC2 gives you permanent movement speed increases periodically throughout the game which makes it much easier to get around. This coupled with the fact the areas are notably smaller, but just much more dense in content and collectibles makes it a much better expereince exploration wise imo.

Have you ever done a list like “10 games I don’t want to beat again” where you can have examples like Undertales pacifist ending some NieR like games final ending where you delete your save for the final ending and help other players. Game endings where you don’t want to ruin a happily ever after?

To Xenoblade 2: the "Map System" got a huge Rework with a Patch. Its pretty easy to find your Quest now

Bro Legend of Dragoon ans Star Ocean 3 are just amazing. The combat system for SO is also pretty simple so it's easy to learn

Funny enough, I’m gearing up to replay DQXI S a second time sometime this year. To keep from getting burnt out and to also getting something else done, I’ll be alternating every week between it and my first playthrough of Persona 5 Royal, which is what I did in 2020-21 with my first XI S playthrough and Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition.

I laughed so hard when you just straight out skipped Time and Eternity for the PS3. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I’ve been a long time sub but have t play a jrpg in over 10 years or more Just a got a steam deck and it’s time to start again. Your channel is always great Thanks man Some of these one so. This list are my all time favs especially start ocean till the end of time Might have to do it again 😂

Ive replayed SO3 at least 6 times already, it's definitely one of my favorite rpgs of all time and i'm hoping for a remake of it. I agree with you about phantasia, then again the only tales games I keep coming back to are Abyss, and symphonia.😅

Atelier games are like fast food, probably not good for you but really enjoyable. I'd replay almost every Atelier game that's on the Switch except Firis.

Which version of Dragon Quest XI did you play? I have the Nintendo Switch version.

DQXI isn't that much of a grindfest if you farm metal slimes/hands at the islands. Should only take like 2 hours to go up around 20-25 levels and each battle is only a few seconds long.

I'm hoping that they'll remaster/ remake LoD and Drakengard 3. With lots of QoL updates, because the stories were good and deserve to be seen by future generations.

4:40 LOL A lovely airhead. :)

legit had the same reason i never played more than 10 hours of xenoblade chronicals 2 because i Knew that the exploration would annoy me too much

Star Ocean 3 is still my favourite SO game. Would be cool to have a good remaster of it tho.

Drakengard 3 is one my favorite games.

9:46 i feel you. Couldn't finish the game. Just... didn't want to and couldn't.

Tales of Arise at the start left me hoping for something, but it didn't make the list. Sigh of relief. I love that game and already replayed twice. Dragon Quest XI, though, how dare they? The game is wonderful and starts with some "this is just some confort food jrpg, chosen one and all", but then they kill Veronica very tastefully and do a kick ass Serena thing. (got a thing for short haired women too, sooooo...). Oh, that thing I liked, about confort food turning into not so dark but really heartfelt story with ups and downs? No, I get to use time travel to UNDO EVERY STORY BEAT I WORKED FOR because of a DATED HARDCORE GAMER GRINDFEST! Anyway, back to Baldur's Gate 3. I know it's not japanese, but I'd like a fellow latino guy as yourself to do a video on it, put it in a top 10 or something. It's wonderful and I'm almost clocking 300h

Getting to Drakengard 3 last boss was one thing, but beating it was a goddamn mess and a half. I loved that jank mess of a game but that true last boss was ONE AND DONE for me, never again. :D

With a few exceptions, the defense-heal feature of Dragoon made the game too easy. I was able to breeze through the final boss without transforming (although having a certain piece of equipment helped)

I loved xenoblade chronicles 2 so much. The music is so good. Definitely agree with the exploration issues.

I totally forgot all about Stella Deus until just now, and I played that!?

NGL your thoughts on Atelier Ryza is exactly how I feel towards Animal Crossing New Leaf, the only AC game I've played. I enjoyed my time with it but I don't find myself going back to it and it seems like if you played one game, you played all of the games.

Tales of Phantasia moria mines is pure suffering. Even worse in snes version with horrible high encounter rate.I sure love exploring a multi level huge dungeon and get attacked every few steps. Especially since it got lots of dead ends so enjoy fighting a lot just to get back to the path split.

I can only think of maybe a few JRPG’s that I’ll probably never replay again, but I’ll just list one of them, that being 7th Dragon iii code vfd. I enjoyed the game, the OST is still one of my favorite’s, But at the same time thinking about ever replaying it is giving me flash backs to the hard dragon boss fights you go through and the grindy nature of the game, game is strangely hard even on normal mode when it comes to facing those Dragon bosses.

Interesting DQ11 being your number 1, I just started it, first DQ game I've played since my NES days. I am curious why it was such a problem to play again

8:25 such a good game. Haven’t really played anything like Legends of Dragoon. Surprised it didn’t get a sequel.

Nooooo way lmao, I always go back to beat legend of dragoon. It's my best RPG of all time. I've probably beat it over 10 times already. Not grindy at all either! Super enjoyable to go through. Take my word for it. It's one of the best jrpgs of ALL TIME

After you are over leveled in Stella deus....you pass the final battles like a god! But that's just to play it once really.the grinding is everything here

I need to finish dq one day....

I agree about Legend of Dragoon. I beat it back when it came out and while I enjoyed it more or less, I was glad to be finished and I had zero interest in ever playing it again. I kind of thought that it stood somewhere between Shadow Madness on the one hand and Final Fantasy 7 or 9 on the other. More competent that the former but not able to to compete with the latter.

The thing about the Altelier games is that they're all the same, and that's why they work and why people love them. They're JRPG comfort food, and in a real world that's gone mad, they provide an increasingly cozy experience where nothing scary happens. They are 100% escapist entertainment, and there is a huge market for that these days.

Cry Machina looks like a futuristic version of the Soulsbourne franchise.

I'm surprised you didn't put Beyond the Beyond on this list.

I’m surprised Xenoblade Chronicles 2 made it on your list. This is my favorite of the three. I liked all of them but this was what made me a hard core fan of the franchise. To this day I have more game time on this than any other game on my switch. This is #1 on my list of games I want to replay.

Ah Zestiria...... i was near the end, just before battling the final boss.....and i gave up on it....i have the feeling that it's a rpg who is so far away in terms of everything than Vesperia !

Star Ocean 3 is honestly my favorite of the Star Ocean games mainly for the combat and post game. The puzzles though... yeah that bloody flute can shove it xD I don't bother doing the 'true ending' for Dragon Quest 11 on new playthroughs as I don't like where the story goes. I think the main story was great so I just stop after beating the main story final boss

Didn’t xenoblade 2 have an update where they fixed the map when looking for something? Made it way easier

I love dq 11 i beat twice including post game content bosses etc and i can say if not one of the most grinding games if kinda normal for jrpg, you wanna see a grindfest disgaea series and smt dds 1 and 2 that i just beat.

can i recommend the Dusk series for Atelier

I almost never play anything more than once. The most recent game I went back to was Ys VIII, and it'll probably stay that way for years. Games are too long now, and my backlog is way too deep to go back to something that takes more than a day or two.

I actually played through the 4D mode of star ocean back in the days. Like easily 15y ago. Replayed it last year. And while I did enjoy it I clearly forgot these archaic dungeon designs. In short. It's a great game. But many aspect really didn't age well at all

Tbf to some of them there’s so many games that replaying almost feels like wasting vital free time

How tf do you get lost in XBC 2? The landscape talks to you by itself, and you have the visual guide of how many steps you have left until the next load screen…

I don't know how do you have so much time to beat all this RPG, less to play any other twice, I probably coud do a list abot RPG I'd might play twice

Thoughts on dragoneers aria for psp?

I would love HD remasters of Atelier Iris 1-3 and Mana Khemia 1-2.

surprised you didnt add the 7th saga to this list lol

For me, personally, Persona 3. I thought i hated repetitive dungeons or dungeon crawling stuff, until i played Silent hope and had a lot of fun. Tiresome dungeon and annoyingly and unnecessary long last boss. I do understand tough why there was only one dungeon with hundreds of floors due to story reasons, but still once is enough.

As for SO3 I love taking on Vox, as it just feels good to put such a goon down who had gotten drunk on power.

Try to get this guy over 100K subs!!

I didn’t know that there was another ending to Dragon Quest XI 😭 I didn’t really like the game that much anyway but that’s very saddening for me to hear

The post game for DQXI can be beaten just fine without any grinding at all. If you hit a wall you need to change tactics and/or go finish some side content you haven't done yet instead. That said the game could really do for a lower level difficulty for anybody who just wants to breeze through it. Never hurts to have more choices.

On top of my head the only game i won't ever play again(not even boot the dang thing) is Star Ocean: The Last Hope International, the game is really dope but getting all battle trophies was a hellish nightmare, In college I almost failed my thesis because of it xD

11:05 - As bad as the puzzles are in Star Ocean 3, it's the least of what's wrong with the game. The MP system while sounding good on paper had one major flaw. It disinclined you from ever using your special attacks. You won't want to use your MP consuming moves, because if an enemy attacks your MP, then you risk them one-shotting your character. So by the end of the game, you'll have this list of awesome moves, that you'll never use because most of the enemies in the late game do large amounts of MP damage. And you also have to manually control certain characters so their AI doesn't flush their own MP. So you're constantly micromanaging in order to treat this. I just want to play the freaking game. Also filling the map is a pain in the butt, because the game is so specific with what it considers to be 100 percent on a map, to the point where you'll have 99 percent and you'll be looking at the map half the time and have no clue where that last 1 percent is. So you go around hugging every wall to get it to 100 percent. And these maps aren't exactly small either. And let's not forget about the Disintegrator. Indisputably the single worst thing to ever plague the Star Ocean series, yet the one tool the franchise kept insisting on bringing back. Two words define this item. Artificial padding. You'll be in a dungeon that will be quite long with a ton of enemies everywhere, and then you'll realize your Disintegrator is out of juice. So you have to drop everything and leave the dungeon and go to one of the precious few places in the world that can recharge the thing. Then when you get back, you'd better remember which objects you destroyed previously, because if you don't, you'll likely have to do this multiple times per dungeon. This didn't just stop me from playing Star Ocean 3 again. It stopped me from playing multiple Star Ocean games again. I was so happy when their brain finally turned on and they removed this thing in later entries. Don't shove a stupid mechanic into your game that is designed to just pad it out. You just piss people off that way. Finally, the infamous plot twist. Again, this is an issue with the writing and not the twist itself, as well as what it did to the franchise going forward. The scene reveals a life-changing truth for your characters and their universe, and their response is the same kind of response that one would give if they were asked to go out and buy some groceries. It's shoddy writing that makes what should be a dramatic and world-shattering scene into something that's more of a laughable sequence because of how ridiculous the dialogue is in it. And let's not forget that this twist is the reason why the fourth game ended up being a huge retcon of years worth of storylines. Every game after that one was more/less based in the timeline it set up.

This is every game for me.

DQ11 “post game” really was that hard or long.

Stella Deus my favorite JRPG on the PS2

That spoiler in dq11 was a big deal to me as well

Dq 11 i beat 3 times except for that damn casino quest 😅

Yep, Atelier Ryza is a game that you do not wanna play a second run. Personaly, I enjoyed the game, but after beating the secret bosses it was enough for me

I'd put any jrpg with random encounters... Sincerely, this mechanic needs to stay in the past.

Whenever the fan translation of the psp version of phantasia is done you might. :)

While I enjoyed Xenoblade Chronicles, I get the feeling it would be hard for me to pick up and play it a second time.

Pretty good vid

When I was a kid I beat multiple games multiple times because It be a while before I get a new game. Now video games are more expensive but I still get new games much quicker. Most games now I beat only once and move on

ToP actually has been remastered on psp, but yeah only in japan

If i finish it once thats it for me since i dont have the same time i have during my youth except when im doing platinum runs though i only do it on trails games these days and ys

I disagree on DQ11. Here's why 1. It's not really an post game. Just more of an continuation of the story and there are plot points that was mentioned in previous acts, but never brought up all it's answered in the last story segment like Calasmos, the floating sanctuary in the sky, the Watchers, Veronica's cursed, Erdrick's past and why he was chosen, the mysterious gypsy woman, etc. All that was answered and makes the journey worth it. Yeah. It sucks that we have to time travel and losing to the side characters depths that we help out. But it's for the best and we still can get there problems solved at the last act anyway if you so decided to do so. It's more so of what would've happened if Yggsdrasil hasn't been destroyed and we have an bigger threat that was the caused of all this since the beginning. I am aware it's diverse. But I personally don't mind. 2. The difficulty in the last main story isn't that hard. Yes. It can be repetitive of going through stuff again we've already been through. But it had an purpose and it's optional if you wonna makes things better and get stronger. Plus there are new areas to explore like Drustan's Trial & others and there are easy ways to level up your characters faster like hunting any Metal Slime monsters and use an Critical Hit move. I never died once in any of the last main story. So really. There is no difficulty spikes. No offense. But you aren't playing the game hard enough.

I've already played through XBC2 twice and Star Ocean 3 3 times....but oh damn, I agree with D11.

For me it was Final Fantasy VII Remake on PS4. Most of the new story elements/mechanics don't gel well with the original story, and I felt like I was playing a slightly less crappy version of FF13/FF15 with the flayed corpse of FF7 over the top. I was p!ssed off with the game by the time I got to the end of it, and when I discovered that the full weapons upgrade system is only available on Hard Mode (unlocked after beating the game on normal), I had a few choice expletives and swore I'd never touch this game again, which I've never done with any other FF game. Given that SQEX released the sequel on a different platform that I don't own I think I made the right decision. 4:22 - A minor point for anyone who is curious: Atelier Marie actually has a PS4 release as well, although you need to import an Asian-region or Korean copy if you want a physical version. Not sure how it compares to its previous iterations though.

The original xc1 and xc x have the same exploration problem as xc2, though, so saying it's the only game in the series with this problem is underselling it imo. The XC:DE version (which came out 3 years after 2) and 3 kinda learn from this mistake and gave you a dotted line to follow eventually.

For me, it's Tales of Beseria. Felt no need to revisit that game at all.

Hard agree on DQ11's post-game. I LOVED the game initially, but the post-game largely feels like a cheap add-on if I'm being honest. I'm also largely against the whole trope of bringing characters back to life, because it kind of cheapens their death in the first place.

I have beaten two RPGs : Octopath Traveler and NiNo Kuni. They were both great. Drink one for me, Erick😊

Number 5: Drakenguard 3 Review: TO HELL WITH THIS GAME! Number 4: "Falling Stars" Review: Continues tearing down Drakenguard 3.

Agree with you on Legend of Dragoon. That game drags on too long.

For me the game I will never beat again is probably Grandia. It was a great game but (SPOILER AHEAD) having Sue leave your party and then the unbearable end game dungeon grind just drained any motivation I have to go back.

Legend of Dragoon aged like fine wine, imo it aged better than every ps1 jrpg except Final Fantasy Tactics.

All this is telling me is that Crymachina is on the same level as Star ocean 3 and legend of dragoon.

I get you with DQ11 as it happened to me too. I played the vanilla game once and as soon as I got to the "post game" I just coudn't be bothered to go on, because it feels like you basically play the same half or so again. With the S version I finished everything and got the platinum, but it felt tedious.

drakengard 3 i finished the last fight using a youtube video to clear the timing boss O.O

My issue with Atelia Ryza is the censored thighs.