Thanks for teleporting me to an alternate reality where i'm sitting back at home as a kid watching toonami meets G4TV. Great vibes as always my guyyy~

I think Grandia 3 would also fit this list. This was the first game to have the protagonist's mom be a playable character and it baffles me that they axed her and another character on the 10 hour gameplay mark. The decision was so bad because those 2 had way more personalities and acted as both a parent and mentor figure to our main leads to only be replaced with even more bland and uninteresting party members. You could also feel the tonal shift once you reach that point and the plot just takes a nose dive to being awful. It was obvious that the game was rushed as they were remnants of areas that were meant to be explored and more mini games you could participate in to get valuable goodies. If there were an alternate universe I wish the devs were able to remake this game and fix some of the low points I mentioned above. It's such a shame because we got a really good entry for Grandia 2 only to be followed up with this shallow game.

Totally agree about the story in Final Fantasy XV. I didn’t really care about Noctis’s dad or Lunafreya dying because he only has like one scene with both of them! The vibe of being on a road trip with the bros really carried the game for me though.

I still haven't forgiven Konami for putting Suikoden I-IV on PSN and giving up at the last second. You could argue that Suikoden IV being digitally relased on the PS3 in 2016 There was little financial incentive to put the remaining two games on there. Konami had no issue of putting completely untranslated Turbo Grafx 16 JRPGs on the Wii U Virtual Console in 2017. That is one aspect of crackhead business choices by Konami that never gets brought up.

The Last Remnant is honestly one of my most fav games of all time. The unique battle and party member systems were so addictive for me once I got the hang of it and knew how to strategize team formations and positions and trigger specific options of command, there are many optional unique playable characters that have their own special abilities and synergies too. But I could see why it's complex and niche and feels kinda random as there're not a lot of in-game manuals and clues for players to maximize/optimize what you can do, optional monsters and weapon upgrades are a challenge too, it's definitely complex and a learning curve that requires some time and patience unless one decides to just use a guide, so casual players who don't really care about optional stuff wouldn't really resonate well with this game I suppose. I'd like to play a game with such battle and party systems more, where it's a mini-war moving as units that take positioning and quick-time-actions into considerations instead of 3-6 individual party members making moves individually in turns, SaGa series is similar in some aspects but overall it's not really that similar too, I can't think of any game with this style of gameplay systems... Really wish there'll be prequel sequel or successor to this game, or original games that take inspirations from this concept.

The Look of The Last Remnant always reminds me to FF 12. Never played The Last Remnant but have it on my wishlist for the switch.

Another absolute banger. I always get very strong Toonami vibes from your videos. The music, the intro/intermission/outro is such a nice touch and provides a chill vibe you don't really see on youtube. Great work!

I actually played Wild Arms 4 a month ago during my marathon of the seires, and in all honestly I actually really enjoy it. I personally wasn't really bothered by the visual novel cutscenes, and I actually think both the localization and presentation are way better than in Wild Arm 3 IMO. I also really enjoyed the cast as well as the HEX System being introduced and even including platforming. But for me what made me really love this title was it's themes centered around a post-World War and the struggles of living in it. such as how many of the adults believe that humankind is doomed and is predisposed to war and should embrace it as a fact of life. While the younger people such as our main characters don’t want to believe that humans crave for war or destruction and that they can strive towards peace and it’s their child-like innocence that prevents them from lying like most adults due and they see the beauty of the world for what it is and they hope to create a better future where they could all live in. And I love this because almost all of these themes are within my book that I'm trying to write, so it was neat seeing a game that was trying to deliver the exact same message like in my story. Sure I wouldn't say the game is completely perfect. I feel some of the villain characters could have been fleshed out, the game runs a little short, and there is no real overworld map, but overall I found AW4 to be a really underrated title and one I'm glad to have played.

Dude I think your channel is going to explode in the next 12 months. Your content is so on point, and your intro is absolutely fantastic. Reminds me of that Toonami commercial that combined various scenes from anime shows like Gundam Wing and Rurouni Kenshin

Nothing like kicking back on a sunday and watching a Gaming Broductions video, intro is my favourite intro on YT easily another great video guys 🙌🏾

Definitely need a part 2 to this video, and excellent job as usual dudes!

Awesome upload at the perfect time!!!! Appreciate the hard work fellas!

Great video. One recommended topic for you to cover might include spiritual successors to JRPGs made by the original game creators. So, for example, you might compare Suikoden and Eiyuden Chronicles when it comes out to see if there were any improvements or if it missed the mark. You could do something similar comparing Final Fantasy to The Last Story.

The thing about the Last Remnant that always stuck with me is The Conqueror, the final boss. In a game of large-party battles, this guy can and will fight you on his own in a fight where you're likely often on the backfoot, and if you failed to capture the two strongest summons in the game, he will have them on his side. The entire game has played him up to be a nigh-unstoppable threat, and when you face him in the final battle, he fully delivers on that.

My first PS game was Granstream Saga, and I found it quite enjoyable. The gameplay offers a moderate level of difficulty, the story isn't too lengthy, and it's easy to understand without being overly complex. Additionally, the cutscenes were surprisingly well done.

Love your videos so much, immaculate vibes

I loved The Last Remnant. Hearing it brought up always makes me pretty excited. The game had some issues, especially with scaling. But the world was incredibly cool, and the battle system was incredibly epic and fun once you learn it. To enjoy it, you really have to embrace that you're a commander and not a micromanager. You can strategically pair and level up your units, but you have to have to trust them once you're actually on the battlefield. Each character makes their own decisions, so you end up reacting to your own units as much as you react to your enemies. That said, they'll usually be pretty smart about things too, like trying to heal at low health or buff themselves while out of danger. By the end of the game, I could pretty much predict what would happen for each team's turn. At the same time, you can definitely remove a lot of that randomness by theming each team to focus on attack, magic, defense, healing, etc. I specifically had a dedicated speed team and a healing team, which allowed me to almost always intercept dangerous enemies or land huge heals reliably. Meanwhile, my attack and magic teams would do most of the fighting. So there's a lot of depth and once you start to think about teambuilding and combat from a macro perspective. Unfortunately, the tutorials don't convey that very well. Naturally, it's not for everyone. If you feel the need to micromanage every attack in a game, The Last Remnant might not be enjoyable. There's also a lot of murkiness when it comes to turn order, since you'll have to estimate how teams will move and clash. But for a squad-based RPG war game, there's really nothing else like it that I'm aware of. It really made me feel like a commander, forcing me to balance variables and take calculated risks with each turn. It's one of the most memorable games I've played, and I only tried it a decade after its original release.

Great video! As a huge fan of JRPG's in general, it does help to be able to reference these kinds of lists before starting to invest 40+ hours into my next gaming adventure :)

Great video really cool to learn about some of these games

Just always immaculate vibes on this channel, truly appreciate it.

Definitely would love to see a part 2, my pick would be 7th Saga, had some good ideas and an interesting story but the difficulty ruined it. Heard it was better in Japanese.

Hoshigami is the dark souls of tactical RPG. If you just push and accept the grind it's actually pretty good. There are branching story line, and depending the choices you make, certain party members can be recruited and I think the story also change.

Thank you so much for jogging my memory with Granstream Saga - I rented it back in the day and thought it was okay but then never could remember it’s name

Oh good, I was needing a Gaming Broductions fix! The only game in this list I've played was Final Fantasy XV and you're pretty on point with it. I'm pretty stoked for Eiyuden Chronicle though! I'm glad I pledged to it on Kickstarter. What are some other upcoming jrpgs are you looking forward to? Did you play Sea of Stars? I'm also looking forward to a game called Full Circle that's in the works.

Great vid dude! Man I never knew they strayed from the wild west setting with Wild Arms 4. That's the kind of random, out of pocket stuff that (temporarily) kills a series. Kind of like what happened with Breath of Fire as well. Damn, now I'm sad lol.

goodness, that intro track is cold!! Hell yeah wit the vibes!!

Awesome video! Definitely gonna sit here and watch the whole thing through while sipping on some cold Sprite. 😮‍💨 Nothing beats that feeling. Also, totally unrelated but are you ever gonna make Atlus in the 2000s? 😅😅 I was a huge fan of the previous one in the 90s, but I understand the 2000s one is probably going to be a huge project. 🤣😂😅💀 No worries if it takes a while. It’s worth the wait. ☺️😊😁

Great video, as always

3:12 I was not ready for the sound of his little pitter patter foot steps😂😂 another banger of a video💜👍

Part 2 please! Loved it!

Another banger of a video, fellas! Most of these were games I remember thinking LOOKED dope, but I never picked up. Hoshigami's reviews really bummed me out back in the day.

I quite liked The Granstream Saga. The faceless characters have always been off-putting but I really loved the animated scenes. I remember it being quite fun to play but as you said, the lack of a traditional level-up system imo doesnt do it any favors but not a deal breaker. I should play it again before the SO2 remake drops.

I love the video format with the amazing intro and almost 30 minute run time. It reminds me of a 2000s TV show, but better cause it's all about jrpgs

Some time ago you made an interesting video about dialogue boxes. On that same line of topics of "technical details rarely analyzed on the rpg scene" have you thought of exploring the evolution of user interfaces in rpgs? Battle mode interfaces and maybe others too. From the clunkiness of Nes and Snes games to the optimized later designs.

Ready for part 2!

I know one of these days that Legend of Legaia retrospective is gonna drop and I can't wait

Awwwwww yeah, I love getting a notification from you guys. this should be fun

I see a new Gaming Broductions video, I watch.

Dope ass intro, man

I played most of these games back in my day but never got to finish them because I lost interest. Thank you for making this video, it feels kind of nostalgic that someone actually also played all of them and also reviewed them.

What's the song in the intermission? It slaps so hard

Suikoden V came out pretty late in the PS2 lifecycle I believe so many might have skipped over it. As for Suikoden IV the biggest issue with that game was the high combat encounter rate by far (also the 4 character party limit). Glad you mentioned Granstream Saga, I actually really liked that game.

Oh yeah also the shinining series one of the games, maybe shining the holy ark 2 and 3 or was it shining wisdom? Which never came out in USA, the one with Galm as a side dark bad/good guy, and it was a strategy turn based overhead view.

I remember getting Hoshigami back when it came out and barely playing it. Seemed so up my alley. I actually really enjoyed Granstream. I too had a save file right before the first scene that I kept for longer than I'm comfortable admitting. But I was like 13 when it came out. But the same itself I enjoyed quite a bit. Loved the way you got new equipment.

What are the games in the Intro?

Spectral Force 3 was graphically a generation behind and had several game-breaking bugs that were never patched. However, it was one of my favorite TRPGs outside of those facets and the general concepts and battle system had massive potential. I mean, you can conquer a cat kingdom and recruit their officers |-)

I'm still bitter over how dirty they did FFXV. It has a BEAUTIFUL story. With everything that makes it beautiful not inside the main game itself.

Still trying to push myself to finish the remastered remake of Star Ocean before starting the one that came out yesterday.

What is the first game at the start of the video where the character is talking to the old man?

Popolocrois, I didn't know of its existence until the PSP, I enjoyed it when I got to play it though, but I hardly ever see anyone mention it

Hahah you touched up on so many of my favorites. To this day im a defender of suikoden 4 for reasons and while wild arms 4 was a downgrade from its previous titles, it was a nice little game with an emotional ending. Havent finished golden sun series but now u got me about to buy grandstream saga lol. Nothing beats those old crisp anime cutscenesm thank you and yes please do a part 2 that outro was amazing haha

I really emjoyed The Last Remnant. It haunts me though becuase I soft locked myself with an insanely hard boss. now i cant finish it and im roughly 30/40 hours in too. lol

Your FF15 is so in line with mine - it was SO CLOSE to true greatness. It's worth playing if only to imagine what it could have been, and even still it makes me cry everytime.

Never heard of hoshigami. I'll have to check that 1 out. Thx

what the game at 0:08, 0:09 ?

Couldn't agree more about FFXV. Of course part of the reason why the story feels incomplete is because it literally was incomplete. It got pushed out the door before it could be finished. I remember characters and story arcs in the Appendix (or whatever it was called in the game, it's been a while) being mentioned that didn't appear in the game at all :O

Good video would want to see part 2, my picks would be dragon force 2, alundra 2, threads of fate, legend of dragon !, dark cloud, xenosaga 2,

Wild Arms 4 really suffered a severe case of the generic 00s anime as much as I love the battle system with all my heart. Seriously all I remember about the game is Raquel being the best character in writing and gameplay, a former bad guy punching a missile, and the main villain's sexy secretary being a Whitney's Miltank/Ultra Necrozma level roadblock due to guide dang it shenanigans in a mostly simple game.

@0:08 Que jogo é esse?

"like making a dragon quest not based on medieval european fantasy" DQMJ3: hello

@GamingBroductions what is this game? 0:10

Great video. I would like to add different way of looking at this. Jrpgs are often part of a series. Despite that it is rare for developers to focus on fixing badly implemented ideas or even reuse great ideas in another games. why do you thunk that is?

Granstream Saga had this side quest where you had to collect a bunch of random cards and give them to an old man. During the course of the game, i never found a single card, and I'm very thorough. I have no idea where these cards are hidden.

Even though I absolutely love games like FFT or Tactics Ogre, I could not get into Hoshigami. I only tried it a bit, but my mom (RIP 2016) liked it and has to be the only one I knew that played that game to the end. We usually did not put a game up for trade until both of us either passed or completed a game individually and that was one of the few where I passed. For example, we both ended up completing FFT and Suikoden 1/2. Our games got so much mileage because she played the game while I was at school, out elsewhere or not currently playing games.

Gotta' snag a copy of Granstream Saga. Looks so interesting.

Suikoden 4 and Last Remnant are great picks for this topic. Enjoyed both quite a bit but they could have been so much better. I think Black Sigil and Suikoden Tierkreis would also have been good picks. (as it is I actually think Tierkreis is slightly above Suikoden 4 over all)

If i can suggest a topic, I would love to see you making a video about western style rpgs someday.

can anyone tell what the first game at 0:00 is? Love the style

I never heard of a few of these. I am also surprised that Robotrek is not mentioned, as that is the QUINTETsential game with untapped potential. It is loved by many even with its flaws, myself included. If I could, I would gladly try to get rights to develop another game.

Man I never heard of hoshigami, looks mad goood but rip its trash. Great stuff guys!always hitting it right snd I love the outro song. The editing magic on the intro is fire. Lol I love the bros editing magic, he's gotten more creative with stuff that's for sure!

I still have Hoshigami on disc, bought it after loving FFT and REALLY wanted it to be good and tried so hard to love it.

Waiiit a minute.. What're the games at 0:08 & 0:32 ? Think i might know, but don't quite recognize the spritework. Great list, btw!

0:08 From what game is this scene?

hey here's a video idea: Great JRPGs with smaller casts for people with FOMO.

How about a video on how you feel about the fifth breath of fire game?

i remember that hoshigami game , i gamesharked that game , its so hard.

I have to agree with all of these, not bad games, but certainly not as good as they could have been. Hope for more videos like this in the future!

I think Magna Carta was also one of them

Go into The Last Remnant like a Saga game and it will begin to make sense. I wish we could directly control our units though..

Rogue Galaxy. It was a game with alot of potential - great characters, unique setting - but just didn't seem to get much attention. Another "JRPG" I thought was very good but was largely ignored was Earthlock. I suspect it's because it wasn't made in Japan even though it was made in a JRPG style. It absolutely exceeded my expectations, but few JRPG fans seem to know about it.

Congrats on reaching 50K subs, guys. It's well-deserved. Don't think I've mentioned it yet but damn is your newer intro a vibe!

I totally agree with last remnant. I think I understand the gameplay a little more than you explained here, you are the battles general, eg the top guy of the entire army, so your commands "attack" "attack with mystic arts!" "attact with combat arts!" "play it by ear" is what you are telling one union to do, not the individual characters, so with that idea, it works alot better. Later you say grinding early hinders you later on, is kinda true but not quite true. you level up in 2 different ways and this is the main probalem in my opinion, you have Battle Rank and you have stats and they level independantly. I suffered with this myself, and at end game, in the Ancient ruins, I could not up my stats anymore as my BR was too high, and I could not get past the Ancient dragon, but I stuck it out and had probably my personal best gaming moment ever where I went over 50 rounds against the dragon to finally beat it, I only managed this because the ancient dragons AoE attack killed some of my characters in each union. this is good as Union HP is collective, which inturn means that AoE hits less but still the same HP, then when instructing a union to heal, I prevent reviving characters! it was indeed an epic fight. In addition the final battle gets increasingly difficult depending on what additional content you did, meaning the final boss battle is the hardest battle in the game --> I love this idea a lot, I highly recommend this game, as long as you understand what it is and not what you want it to be.

what anime is that in the intermission? or game

Did Alucard's OG EN voice voice Star Ocean's narrator?

no mention of Disgaea 6? Was a great JRPG but fell short between carnage/rakshasa post-game areas.

Dark Dawn is the poster child of missed potential

I always found it funny that the protagonist of suikoden 4 looked weirdly a lot like Orphen, just with short shorts and neater hair.

I loved star ocean 1 on sfc. I ordered a English repro just to play it awhile back (before I had an fxpackpro) I’m probably one of the few people that prefer it over 2. Idk why it clicked with me so much 😂

I wanna ask ... the game at 00:09 ... what game is that????

I would add Dragon Quest 6 to this list. A lot of people don't realize this game was cannibalized by Chrono Trigger, compare the MC and Ashlynn/Barbara to Crono and Marle and you'll find they're very similar with some changes in hair color (even by Toriyama's standards of character reuse). The dream/real world system was also meant to be a time travelling feature (remnants of this are still apparent in the Amor vignette) where doing things in the past affects the present but that was given to Chrono Trigger instead and fully expanded there. There's also some hints, like Ashlynn's fire resistance and datamined references about the Gold Dragon that shows unused storylines. Its why 6 (my personal favorite) is often kind of an underdog among Dragon Quest fans from its apparent lack of polish, but you appreciate it a bit more when you realize why it feels unfinished.

I don't know if you're gonna notice this comment, but the Hoshigami section got me stuck in the Hoshigami pits again. I don't like the game at all beyond the character and generic unit designs, but after seeing you (or whomever recorded the footage) use magic in the game, I gave reading the Coin and Seal guide on GFAQs another go. I finally sort of understand the Coinfeigm system after trying to read the GameFAQs guide on it again, because as a SaGa and Star Ocean fan I am cursed to forever be addicted to stupid systems in RPGs. Again, I don't like this game, it's just kinda fascinating. Don't worry I'm currently playing like way too many JRPGs + 3(?) WRPGs so. It's fine. +1 for the Star Ocean segment, your videos that touched on SO1 were very on point, despite me loving that game. I do wanna play Wild Arms 4, but it does seem to be The Weird One.

Suikoden 4 is great. Hell, 1-5 are pretty good too. Also, one id add here is Summon Night. I've played twin age and though it was pretty good, and considering it was one of the games that got released overseas, im surprised its not that well known.

I always thought I was the only person who played Granstream Saga. I just love that game❤️

For me it was Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter. I though I'd finally get to the surface and there'd be at least another half of the game in story and finally some exploration up there, but alas... game finishes before you get to experience it :( I remember I was so mad I wanted to break my PS2 afterwards lol

I don't mind the lax leveling/combat system in Granstream Saga. Fun for the kids, but the grownups with a tight schedule can skip as much combat to push the story! Kind of nice for the busy gamer who wants an RPG honestly.

OMG! Someone talking about Granstream SaGa. I thought it was so lost that nobody had played it

Tbh for Star Ocean 1 I think you aren't right. the second title isn't such a big improvement to the first one AND that is because the first one already is GREAT I don't think it's overrated, but underrated.

Back as a child I really liked Granstream Saga. If I remember correctly, then the story got quite a bit of drama towards the end, having an Ending close top Terranigma. Maybe its time for a replay .

I wanted to love The Last Remnant so badly. The game just constantly freezing and crashing on me when it came out though. Gave up after a few times. Need to go back to it at some point, but just never have. I enjoyed what I did get to play of it at least

I feel the SNES Tales of Phantasia also fits in here. The PS1 version highly improves on the battle system but the random battle dungeons are still an issue.