My cousin passed away in Jan. 1996 when he was 16. A couple years ago I pulled out his old super Nintendo games and secret of evermore was in there. His save was at the end of the game. He named his dog Killer. I'm sure he would be a huge rpg fan if he was around today.

I would like you to talk about how new gacha and mobile anime games and jrpg are affecting the industry, and how some of them have very quality content at the expense of predatory microtransaction systems

I really love Monark too! I really like the story, the characters, the horror elements, and that we get to choose what the character says time and again. I really like how you get to know so much about the villains and what drove them to make contracts. It really shows that a conflict like this isn't all black and white, it's more like shades of gray. For some of the villains I felt guilty for having to fight against them, they weren't entirely wrong but they weren't entirely right either. Reminds me of what they did for the villains for Caligula Effect Overdose and I liked that. The grinding can really get to you though, but I consider it to be no big deal if the story is good.

Edge of Eternity is one of those "almost there" games. A pretty decent game in its own right but their next game should be quite good if they fix up the issues the game has and the bland open world/side quests. I didn't have any graphical issues on PS5 too.

I hear you about Monark. I just finished Act 1 and it's been rough. I like it a lot though, just have to grind after every half step of the story lol

Is there any way you can list the games you talk about in the description? I always have to go back after you’ve talked about a game to remember the name…

GOD EATER, LETS GOOO!!!! GE is easily one of my favorite series (despite gravely disliking 3 lol) so it's awesome to hear you speak so highly of it. Online with friends is fun when it actually works, you can help a friend progress through the story or vice versa.

I love your videos and because of this, I played through Rise of the Third Power, and OH WOW WHAT A GAME!!! Thank you so much for the amazing recommendation!!!! You are HANDS DOWN my go to for all things JRPG nostalgia and beyond!

Interesting... Edge of Eternity, Rise of the Third Power and Relayer were all on my "backlog" of games to check out some day. Glad to hear your impressions were generally favorable.

very interesting information about translation of PSP Suikouden!

hey Erick RPG love ur channel man, do u have P.O box or somewhere i can send artwork or limited items too. maybe u can showcase them on ur channel cus i have no time and need for em anymore

I’m curious about relayer. Also, I had to log in when I heard xenosaga music. Slightly can’t believe I recognized it since I haven’t played it for 10+ years…

One thing about DQ6. I absolutely LOVE the SNES soundtrack and I think it's just more impactful than the ds version, specially with the overworld, sailing, and pegasus themes.

Relayer looks exactly like the kind of game I would enjoy a lot. I've never played a Super Robot Wars game, but I have played some of the SD Gundam G Generation games (particularly WARS. I love that one!), and it looks a LOT like that kind of game. I don't know why anyone would want to skip the battle-animations, though. Isn't the main appeal in a Mech Strategy RPG the opportunity to see those giant Mechs duke it out with each other?

This video was worth watching just to know there's a new suikoden game I haven't played yet which was fan translated. I definitely need to play this asap!

Hey Erick, can I ask what DS emulator are you using? I really like those smooth DQVI graphics.

I have been interested in Edge Of Eternity for awhile now. It is plain to see that the game does not look flawless, yet something about it captivates me. I am a big fan of the name, it entices me. The game may not be triple a, but it looks fantastical. It’s cool that the devs are based in France. The only off-putting thing I notice for me is the story about brother and sister. I have one sibling that is a sister, and she is the complete opposite of me. We don’t get along. 😆 I would like to try Edge Of Eternity someday. Can anyone vouch for me?

I played the demo of monark and bored me a lot. Same for me, i really want to like this game for the style, but really i can't. What do you think about 13 sentinels?

I played the shit out of Secret of Evermore growing up. Never beat it lol It's not nearly as bad as you say.

Thanks for the video intended story and games

I totally agree with Monark. I was really excited since it got first announced and while I loved the characters, the setting and the horror elements, the massive need of grinding really destroyed it for me.

the only top 10 that we NEED to hear about!

Boy, DQ vi being listed here is a tough pill to swallow for me. Game was fantastic.

Thanks to you I found out the existence of Suikoden for Psp! 🙏🏻

Wow Relayer looks amazing

Is God Eater 1 digital only?

Frequently I don't agree with your difficulty assessments, but I have to concur with Monark. I tried the Monark demo and what put me off the game was that by playing carefully to try to avoid battle casualties, I was penalised by getting fewer spirit points, for not finishing the battle in the specified number of turns. I started to suspect I would be falling further and further behind the enemies' levels. Since I wasn't enjoying the battles anyway I didn't care whether or not a way of grinding was available. Demo deleted.

Yeah I was skeptical about monark because it felt like something was off about the demo. Looks like I was saved by the demo at least. Might get it if it’s under 20

It's nice to see DQH2 get some love.

Secret of evermore.. loved that game back in day

5:38 Every attack in a tactical RPG is a dice roll. They just don't usually show it. I do like the idea of each character having a customizable 'deck' of abilities you draw a random hand from though, similar to Baten Kaitos or the Mega Man Battle Network series. Sometimes I really wonder if excessive grinding is a cultural thing, like maybe Japanese players are just so accustomed to it that they'd consider a game with a more natural difficulty curve they didn't have to spend lots of time grinding levels in to be too easy, yet all my favorite JRPGs are ones you can beat without ever grinding so long as you fight smart.

Hope you are well Erick. Ive been trying to find a good rpg to play lately but i havent had the urge to play anything. What do you do when you feel like me? Any advice?

Monark has levelling areas you can find the number of in the notes you find around the world... Ten minutes in there and you are even over levelled for the next story battle. I wouldn't even call it grinding as those battles are over so quickly and give you so much exp reward. I actually had to stop doing them because I was one-shotting all the story bosses all the time and that was not fun. But yeah I got a lot of friends that had the same opinion as you, as those areas' numbers are "hidden" in a submenu (one in a ""math"" riddle).

If you liked Rise of the Third Power, try Ara Fell, the first game by the same developers. It's full of charm, it has a good story and excellent characters, and a fantastic soundtrack.

For Lost Odyssey I felt the same once I reached the exact same boss. Gave up, restarted the game years later, but this time I realized that I simply needed to equip the correct item (one for protecting from lightning for each of my characters), then the boss was no match. The game basically limit the party levels for each boss encounters. We can't level up no more and need to equip the correct items/learn the correct magic spells. This is the only thing that I hate about this game (remining me in a way FFVIII) as everything else is great, the soundtrack being one of my favourite of all time.

Waiting for a physical release for rise of the third army

Quick suggestion. Toss your list in your description below. I would love to come back to actually try some of these games but would love to look at a list to recall what i watched.

I was playing Edge of Eternity. The beginning was pretty good, but it seems like the writing took a nose dive. I lost interest and just didn't want to push on. I picked up Legrand Legacy, and it's pretty great! Throw back to 90s JRPGs.

As someone that's finishing monark it isn't too bad. Yeah you do have to grind a lot.

Erick Relayer is only on PS5 and PS4

I was thinking about buying Edge of Eternity. Looks very interesting. Maybe I will give it try someday.

If you enjoyed Relayer, then maybe you'll enjoy Super Robot Wars 30 and SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays too... only both of them are PC via Steam btw.

I love Secret of Evermore. I understand why some people dislike it and I'm sure I have nostalgia goggles for it, but I absolutely love the environments/music/feel of the game. The Secret of Mana combat/ring menus are not for everyone and the alchemy system, while very unique, certainly has its flaws. It's just such an atmospheric game, I'd recommend it to anyone who is slightly interested and can handle a few flaws. The composer, Jeremy Soule, went on to do Morrowind, KOTOR, Oblivion and much more

Is Scarlet Nexus worth getting? I never hear anyone talk about it and it seemed to just come and go. The price has dropped a fair bit too.

Relayer is fully dubbed i’m impressed

Very nice 👍

I'd love to watch you play Elden Ring. LOL

Ciel??? Erick, you are a man of culture

I still prefer Super Robot Wars more than Relayer since different mechas from different timelines with some over the top attack animations and simple nostalgia makes it that much better and i prefer animated rather than 3d animations for these type of games

God Eater 3 is the best one. Minus not having as many good outfits

Where’s Waldo/Wally ?

like for ability to create new types of tops!

Word. The combat in secret of evermore is the only thing that game has that makes it better than a cheap secret of mana ripoff. Secret of mana's combat felt amazing at the time when it was new, but objectvely, you just stand away from the enemies until your attack bar charges up, move in, unload, run away, repeat. You do almost no actual dodging or tactical decisions. Sadly this is true for seiken densetsu 3 as well. In Evermore however, the enemies attack in such a way that you do actually actively dodge and weave to avoid attacks instead of just a general "stand away" strategy. Also. Dang you for the random xenosaga BGM, im kinda in the mood to replay that series for like the 4th effing time, but my game backlog is like nooooo dont do it.

I dont remember why I stopped playing secret of evermore, anyway Ill pick it up some time, maybe with the hack of alchemy and combat balance

God eater is good series. The online in GE2 is where most ppl back in the day play. Waiting for GE4 though

Secert of evermore is great

Where's Waldo is the best JRPG.

Edge of eternity is good but it had issues on PS5 as well. Combat is very good. Music-wise it’s far from Mitsuda’s best so far. Will continue my playthrough when the issues are fixed for sure.

So...every criticism of secret of evermore you expressed is true....but i still find it to be in my top 10 snes rpgs. Maybe it is because i grew up with it but i truly love that game

Dragon quest heroes 10/10

Only played a little bit of Edge of Eternity on the PS5, i don't recall their being much technical issues, some jankiness from time to time, but smooth 90% of the time. I enjoyed the combat, but next time i play it i need to remind myself to not play with the god awful english dub. also ordered myself the limited edition of Relayer for PS5 earlier today, game looks fun.

Relayer should have been brought to the Switch, although I don’t like the level up system giving the pilots all of the stats instead of hp being decided by armor like in SRW games.

Xenosaga music!

Since you spoke about Children of Zodiarcs, I have to say I backed this project on Kickstarter. I have yet to receive my copy after so many years - same as so many other backers, and noone from the dev team gets back to us. I'm sorry Cardboard Utopia, but you deserve bad publicity at this point.

monarks menu design also ripoff from nier automata

Si inlove with Secret of evermor!!!! Better than mana!!!

Glad you put on Rise of the Third Power. I loved Ara Fell and can't wait to get this. Relayer looks good. Super Robot Wars had such an ugly map screen it was a waste of money for me. Well more a waste of time wasting 7 weeks for.shippimg getting excited for a huge let down.

I love secret of evermore, youre right though the combat is hot garbage... i usually abuse alchemy when i play cuz the melee hit boxes are terrible.

Rise of the Third Power - MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 7870, or equivalent DX10+ GPU. What!??????

All I'm going to say is a Gameshark or equivalent device or method is one way to turn a bad game into an okay game. While, yes, it's always a debate about which is better, good characters or a good story, let's be honest here...if the core gameplay loop is dogshit, who cares (my poor, poor, .hack franchise...how I weep for you)?

Secret of Evermore is hardest

Ha, I was the 666st to like... Anyway, I really liked Lost Dimension. I think it was the very last game I played on my Ps3 before getting a Ps4. It's too bad Monarch wasn't very good... Oh well, there's always other games to play.

Ufotable has been reuploading God Eater ops recently. Its GE anniv. This time around so, it may hint a new GE game or GE anime season 2

What? Monark is such a easy game. I platinum the game with no difficulty at all.

Zodiarcs was interesting, but had a bad inverse difficulty curve and very degenerate combat by the end. Stacking the MC's extra action symbols just breaks the game.

Ugh the Dragon Quest VI is rather secretly a Demake of the original one. I wish it wasn't. Hard time to shove it in D Tier or very last C Tier below DQII(which is lucky in the bottom of C Tier and not D Tier). Here's five reasons to somehow bring back replayability. Well one, "monster taming" is gone and that would've helped the game if we could have a monster farm or something. However sufferable the vocations are if choose the wrong combination leads to too much of a grind. Two, longer dungeons were too long or weren't necessary compared to fast monster spawns which just have longer dungeons rather then too much spawns. I mean there is a skill for battle quicker. Three, if this was a remake then why is DQIV and DQV have better extra content. Also add some connections rather then just the Fungeon. Four, they could've expand the story(talking about DQVI Manga certain lore) from the very start as a feature for Milly and Carver but mentions more of the past of their story which effects their levels and stats before going in the original gameplay like where it literally started in SNES. This could also have certain places to be spoiled earlier to not confuse a player then from the original game because it does have some lost directions and giving a open memory could help where things are at. Five, make the Fungeon fun because DQIII, DQIV, DQV, and plenty of other DQ Fungeons are more fun then this. I would say one more thing is they'd exchanged a certain enemy(both are the same skin though different color and stats) that wasn't in the original game and I don't know why they did that. Just don't like very limited gameplay rather then not a force of optional choice that doesn't force to be limited. It just suffers the game more. DQVI could have a right push but it leads it hanging from the rest of the main series. Now I am on DWVII(PSX) my personal favorite(this doesn't mean it's #1 in some cases) and not sure every pro and con compare to the 3DS version though both versions aren't DE and I still have this excuse to defend each side of the versions. The debate for that still continues with me because it is the one that brought me here in the very first place, no joke. However looking at DQXOfflineEdition graphics could look good for another remake for DQVII but this time keep some original things and sprites from the PS1/PSX though censor the old OG symbolism because it cannot ever happen unless if it was on PC anyone could have a choice to Mod it in(I wouldn't). Whenever DQVI happens in the topics I have this urge to talk about DQVII as well.

really couldn't get into edge of eternity. I really tried to like it but it's truly awful, it really is.

God Eater Games (and most RPGs IMO) would do so much better if they cut out all the grindy fat. It's boring to me to do the same things over and over and over again.

lol Secret of Evermore "Im not good at the game, therefore it is a bad western rpg"

Developers take note: when Erick, "The RPG Sage", Landon feels your game's combat/levelling system is unfair - well it's safe to say you goofed big-time 🥳

Great video man, i just disagree with monark i mean i hated the game but love the combat lol

I just want to say that Relayer is not on PC (steam or Epic) I would actually love if it was..... Maybe one day it will be ported.

Finished Zodiark - didnt liked it, story was starting to go somewhere and the game ended. Too much RNG - i mean Cards are RNG, damge also RNG.

Edge of Eternity on Xbox Series X was pretty damn good. im thoroughly enjoying it

Erik you talk about all the games you already talked about, again and again and again, but good video

Monark clearly takes from the Lost Dimension battle system but feels like a downgrade everywhere else, Himeno had more personality than all the cast here.

not interested in any of these

no don't you talk to much but say very little