I loved the gameplay of Rudra no Hihou

On paper TOTR's magic system sounds cool, but in practice you're just filling out the same spell list across all 3 parties, and it becomes really bland. It's a good concept with bad execution, and it sacrificed things like a job system or at least character-specific abilities that could've made the characters feel like something besides sacks of HP/MP. Wild Arms did a better version of this in its first game.

honestly too experimental. I love the bouncer and all the saga frontier games but they sold like crap in the states and even the remasters didnt get much popularity

@@attackofthecopyrightbots Yeah. Going overboard on the experimental stuff really killed the old Squaresoft (well, that and the movies). But I miss the days when the big studios made it a thing to make budget games where they could let newer teams just make weird ass games with completely experimental systems and ideas and see what sticks.

There is also some like Treasure Hunter G which are less interesting in term of story. It has lot times it tried to be humorous and emotional but sadly not really being memorable. The combat system is on other cases,it was much very much polished and fun, G is a tactics game, played out on small environments with different starting condition. Also the overworld area and dungeon stage is identical to Chrono Trigger with enemies leaping out from bush and stuff. In battle phase, the grid that affects your move range and action points(such as using item,throwing it to enemy or friend) Different enemies cost your characters more AP to attack than others. So you'll find yourself switching up combat strategies frequently. Characters use different weapons and have different magical abilities. So Red fight style is different than Blue,Rain(healer and magician)or Pongo. And you can change weapon during battle, devise strat using traps, or just throw anything at the enemy(Blue) Rudras has better story wise but Treasure Hunter G was more fun to play.

I logged in just to +1 your post. Radiant Historia should definitely be in this list.

Radiant Historia definitely does a time travel plot extremely competently. I'm not as sold on the combat system though, there's not much more to squeeze out of that.

Combat system can be better, but the storyline and the time travel aspect of it is just amazing. Words can't begin to describe

I remember this game but I never beat it. I loved it so much, but my 3ds got stolen before I could finish :(

Hell yes, the whole metawriting of "yeah the story is already written, here's the book, you just have to correct it" is great.

Grandia 2's combat is way too easy. you can just skip all of the complexities of the system by using area of effect magic to finish every encounter in the first turn. What grandia 2 does best is party dynamics. The main party constantly banters with one another which makes them a whole lot of fun to adventure with.

The Grandia mainline series is my favorite of all time. Their battle system is solid. Lunar feels like a precursor system to Grandia’s and is also solid.

​@@dangox3370 that's an issue of balance then, not the mechanics

​@@KugutsuYushiro you do have a point. Only in boss battles does the gimmick of delaying enemy attacks come into play. But even then, it rarely does any good.

Ever

I agree in the sense that it's not about the destination, but the journey. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and kind words, I appreciate it.

I totally agree. It's such a fun and unique game, glad I got it!

It's ugly. so I won't play it.

​@@phi9387no one cares 😊

It was the only one on the list I hadn't already played or at least heard of.

lol Thank you, I appreciate it

I've always had a dream of a Legacy of Kain remade in a soulslike fashion, all with the same voice actors. Obviously that would never happen, as I'm sure we couldn't get many of the voice actors again, but its just something cool to imagine.

@@Slunked man that would be amazing

Soul Reaver was sick

Problem is with the VAs is Tony Jay is dead. So the Old One will be hard to replace.

​@@Slunked man that would be dope af

I def had a hard time trying to get through Dragon Quarter 😅 But I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, thank you.

Totally agree! Dragon Quarter was a Great Game with a lot of originale Idea, a cool plot, and with a lot of very good scene!

I really couldn't stand BoFDQ when I first played it. But I went back to it and tried to understand it and play it like it asked instead of how I demanded and really enjoyed it. It really does have a lot going for it and encourages failing and trying again, which is admirable.

I adored DQ. It forces the player to give their entire attention to each battle, so it's by default less boring than about any other JRPG. It's so difficult that unless you stop to think, you're gonna be filled with anxiety and fear. Wonderful game

Dragon Quarter has the most developed pre-battle tactical play, with only literal wargames and trap-based games like Deception or Orcs Must Die even close to competing. The impact of your surroundings limiting movement combined with control over various baits and bombs makes enemy positioning huge, and the game is primarily limited by bad controls, old ps2 physics, and an incomplete implementation of everything else. Even so, it made players really look at the world around them from a tactical perspective, allowing the claustrophobic and worn down post-apoc world to sell itself with little effort. The combo system also had a lot of potential beyond damage optimization, had they cleaned up stat debuffing, used more balanced status ailments, provided actually useful descriptions for skill combos, and simply had the budget to make and animate more diverse skills.

Thanks for watching, I appreciate it.

Pretty sure final fantasy 13 does this as well

Valkyrie profile is absolutely fantastic. There is a cheap way to cheese a lot of it, but the atmosphere is great. A great “twist” and out of the box thinking.

a pity getting the best ending is completely unintuitive; you have to sabotage your recruitment and then send a specific character to Valhalla at a specific time and then do specific things with no indication of any of it

@@ChibiKami it was at the tail end of the supremely frustrating "moon logic" era. That sounds just like some early 90s Sierra adventue game lol. I appreciate well conceived puzzles but when the player cannot find the solution using logic or in-game hints, that just really hurts the game's reputation. I'm glad that it's still being given a chance though; like in my first comment, the game has some really neat features that deserve some love. Sorry if my grammar is not perfect.

Thank you!

Love me some Lufia and I love the puzzles in 2. Good call!

Lufia 2 is one of the best unpopular games from the SNES era. It'll never supplant FF6 as my favorite RPG, but it definitely makes the list

Thank you very much, I appreciate it!

Yeah, SO2R, November 2nd. I liked the QoL improvements playing the demo, though all the battle enhancements made combat too easy, will def have to play on the tougher difficulty. I really enjoyed The Divine Force as well. I still need the VP DS game, it sounds rad, the little you described. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Not entirely sure I'd call it similar. It's a strategy RPG where you get the classic VP combat when you picka fight, but you can only use the characters who are in range for that combat. Aside from that, the balance can be a bit wonky with the multiple endings, with the game wanting you to carry over skills from the other playthroughs in order to be able to beat the best ending's boss, but those skills making the rest of the game before it a breeze. Also, always keep the skill that gives you extra movement handy. Not only are the maps large, but they love their snow terrain way too much, which means that as you spend half your turns getting from one fight to another, your movement is capped to around two squares per turn. Those extra bits of movement that ignore terrain costs are a lifesaver.

I kinda disagree with squareenix being lazy. They may be doing lots of remakes but this year we got two games, octopath 2 and FF16, that can be called anything but lazy. And we had a Valkyrie profile kinda-sequel last year. Valkyrie Elysium.

@@diersteinjulien6773 They don't do the remakes justice though. Everything is gutted and dumbed down, or they just do a full emulated port and charge like $40 for what should be a $20 experience. I liked Octopath Traveler 1, but it was over-hyped. The game had ZERO balace, magic flat out broke the game, and was required to finish it, because the Bosses were all bullet sponges. The story was kind of padded with stereotypical plot devices, too. I'm definitely not getting the second game, or into the Brave series, because of it. Star Ocean 2R came out, and I am having fun with it, but it's had a lot of the main features that made the game memorable for me dumbed down, or flat out removed. They made a lot of wanted improvements, but got rid of the iconic Killer Move leveling system, and replaced it with a point system, that only allowed attacks to go up to 3 ranks. Doing this gutted DOZENS of animations from the game. Along with some other mindless crap. Imagine if they did this to all of the Tales games, which are known for pioneering that kind of battle system? I hated FF13 to the point that I couldn't bother finishing Disc 2, didn't understand the love for FF14's linear combat, heard mixed things about FF15 (which honestly looks like a button mash fest, apparently you need to buy a separate movie to understand the plot?), and FF16 didn't look interesting at all (basically looks like a medieval take on FF14 with Devil May Cry thrown in). The FF7 Remake was split into several different games, and padded out the butt with pointless content, and battle look padded out the butt with HP Sponges. Most of their modern games are riddled with microtransactions. So yeah. I think SquareEnix is lazy. The days of their revolutionary games they used to release from our childhood are long over. Their mostly a publisher these days, and their no even good at that. Maybe I'm bias and have an overnegative take, but I've watched them devolved over the years, and as someone's who first game was basically Final Fantasy 1 on the NES, I'm disappointed at what they've become.

The game definitely deserves more recognition. 👍

I'm definitely going to check it out.

Ok that's your opinion but not everyone likes games like that.

I appreciate your nice words, thank you for watching.

I just beat it, everything was so seemless. Kinda wish the script was abit cleaned up, the dialogue wasn't as good as the plot, but still very enjoyable and I really enjoyed the exploration even when I usually hate exploring.

I need to get me a Saturn. Thanks for you sharing your thoughts.

My pleasure 👍

Thank you!

My pleasure 👍

Thanks, dude. I appreciate all your support.

Thanks dude, I appreciate it

Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts, I appreciate it. 🙂

Yes I when played 13-2 was like "this feels better than 13-1", from what I remember it time travel was more of what I call "an x,y axis map" since you were traveling on time (x axis) and alternate dimensions (y axis), kind of how it was on Chrono Cross.

Thank you for your kind words, I appreciate it.

Same! Great vid. Subbed!

@@IKilledYourDude thank you, I appreciate it 👍

Thank you, I appreciate it.

That's awesome! I hope you enjoy it!

Thank you, I appreciate it

Thank you very much, I appreciate it.

Right on, thank you! Love me some Crystal Project 👍

Thank you, I appreciate it 👍

Thank you so much, I appreciate it 💪

Only RPG to nail the feeling of looking for a rest stop on a road trip while someone in the car needs to poop.

looks a Final Fantasy and Xenogears inspired game but with a hint of increased difficulty. my kinda thing where you actually use your head to strategize things

Hell yeah! If you play'em, I hope you enjoy'em. 👍

It's a great game, imo, jumped into my top 10 after I played it. I hope you check it out. Thanks for the kinds words, I appreciate it.

Definitely a top 10 RPG for me as well

And it was made by 1 person

it would have been more popular had they made the char designs a bit nicer, I'd say.. there's really no particularly great artist behind it - and it's a small thing to do to hire a popular artist and goes a long way.

@@julz19 I mean I want to say you’re right about the one person, but he definitely hired someone else to do the music and that person hired 20 people to be musicians and singers. Easy to see during the credit scroll. But that does not take away from the fact that one man wrote an implemented the entire scenario

Thank you so much I appreciate it. And I do have Feed & Hunger on my radar!

Thanks, dude!

Agreed 👍

My pleasure 👊

Thank you so much for the kind words. I hope when you play Valkyrie Profile that you enjoy it.

@@35infinite You're welcome. Hopefully I find and play it the beginning of next year. Thank you. ^_^

@35infinite follow up video!

I've never played it but I always remember the cover art. Appreciate you watching.

A game largely hindered by slow animations, obtuse gem upgrades not elaborated ingame, and painful xp loss if your puppets die. You could do a lot more with it today. Human characters with gem-cost skills, more varied puppet movement and passives, etc.

I haven't played Mystic Quest in so long, I think about it some times. I always remember using the claw hookshot to traverse, that kind of stuff was fun for me.

My first RPG

No problemo 👍

Chained Echoes would totally be worth your time 👍

I def recommend both. You can still pre order a physical of Chained Echoes on First Press. Crystal Project was a random surprise. Always browse all the categories on Steam! Lol and thank you

@@35infinite i may do that or use my ps cards. And gonna have to keep an eye on steam a lot more

Thank you so much, I appreciate it.

My pleasure, and thank you, I appreciate it.

I'll def research it! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

I need to actually finish that game, I enjoyed what I played. Good suggestion 👍

valkyrie profile is the game keep coming back to my mind after playing it like 18-20years ago

@@lucaslui9665 Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it. You should def play it again!

I love Octopath 2, good choice 👍

You're right! In Xenoblade X, you can fly around in a mech and explore a huge 3D world.

Right on, I hope your next campaign is bitchin 👍

@@35infinite thanks ☺️. some of these ideas i never would have thought of lol.

Appreciate it. I just finished Sea of Stars last night. First Press still has physical Chained Echoes up for preorder, fyi. Thanks for watching!

@@35infinite thanks man. They only have the pc version available. I’ll just check in daily. Thks again!

Right on! I hope you enjoy it 👍

Thanks

I'll look it up, thanks for the suggestion. 👍

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

Hell yeah 👍

It's def a good one more people should play

I'm so glad I found that game, glad there are so many others that like it as well.

Nemesis system is dope. I can imagine it in a Star Wars game where some random bounty hunter you bested comes back for revenge.

I really enjoyed how different it was fo sho