For a better navigation between the titles : 0:00 Radiata Stories 1:28 The legend of heroes - Trails in the sky 1 & 2 3:10 I am Setsuna 4:27 Wild Arms 2 5:50 Tales of Graces f 7:11 Arc The Lad 8:20 Arc The Lad 2 9:31 Lufia 2 Rise of the Sinistrals 10:56 Valkyria Revolution 12:14 Lunar Silver Star Harmony 13:35 Project X Zone 1 & 2 14:56 Baten Kaitos 1 & 2 16:20 Eternal Sonata 17:56 Tales of Symphonia - Dawn of the new world 19:23 Vandal Hearts 20:48 Breath of fire 21:56 Soul Hackers 2 23:16 Phantasy Star Portable 1 & 2 24:45 Wild Arms 5 26:29 Grandia 3 28:03 Star Ocean - The last hope 29:07 Ogre Battle - March of the Black Queen 30:17 Fate Extra 31:40 Utawarerumono 33:38 Legend of LEGAIA 35:14 Lost Dimension 36:25 Suikoden Tierkreis 37:54 Ys 9 - Monstrum Nox 39:06 Tales of Legendia 40:43 Lunar 2 - Eternal Blue 42:06 The Alliance Alive 43:00 Growlanser - Wayfarer of time 44:32 Drakengard 3 45:52 Arc The Lad - Twilight of the spirits 47:12 Shadow Hearts 1 & 2 48:47 Code Vein 50:03 Fire Emblem - Radiant Dawn 51:27 Infinite Undiscovery 52:50 The Legend of Heroes - Trails into reverie 54:47 Shining Force - Resurection of the dark dragon 56:00 The DioField Chronicles 57:09 Star Ocean - The Divine force 58:26 SMT Devil Survivor Overclocked Thanks for the amazing list. They're some I need to try myself now !

i wish shadow hearts 1&2 would be ported on newer consoles, sadly iirc the rights of the series are scattererd nowadays...

Wow, that sure is a comprehensive list! 👏 The first two Trails in the Sky games do indeed deserve more recognition!🎉

How does Erick not have a million subs. By a mile, he's the most knowledgeable RPGer

Literally opening with Radiata Stories. A man of culture I see.

Awesome list, man. Will definitely try some of these. Thanks for the effort putting these big lists together!

forever my fave youtuber because you introduced me to Trails series which became my fave series ever ❤

This is like a backlog of games I’m probably gonna find myself playing when I retire. It won’t be unusual finding a bunch of really old gamers still playing games in retirement homes! XD So most of these are going on my “Games I Must Play Before I Die” list! So thanks! ;)

Great video, congrats on 100k dude!

Why does no one ever talk about the Metal Max/Saga games? They're so unique

Speaking Tri-Ace, Exist Archive the spiritual successor of Valkyrie Profile is definitely under rated alongside KRPG Magna Carta 1&2.

Thank you for mentioning infinite undiscovery. I wish it could have the chance to be on modern consoles. As well as eternal sonata. Great list

Damn, was hoping to see Digital Devil Saga 1+2 on here

i think Trails in the Sky is like a spiritual sucessor of Grandia. the graphics are very similar, and the battle use the same sort of active battle with turns and strategir placement. the only difference is the looooong dialogues in Trails. but it's one of the best dialogues in any rpg ever.

Radiata stories is awesome! Such a great time back in the day.. i remember when i unlocked valkyrie, the same from valkyrie profile, it was amazing!

tales of graces f was the first game in a long time that I was excited to come home from work to play

Radiant Dawn was my introduction into RPGs back in 2013. Was introduced into it by Ike's appearance in Super Smash Bros Brawl. Found randomly a copy at Gamestop for only 30 €. It's my most played video game of all time for many good reasons - among others best gameplay of all Fire Emblem games as a whole for me.

Nail on the head with these. Easily some of the most compelling and memorable characters, villains, plot twists, endings, and soundtracks in all of gaming.

I definitely agree with Eternal Sonata, to this day that is still my favourite jrpg of all time.

Bruh, I was literally thinking Radiata Stories right before clicking into this video

Kicking the video off with Radiata Stories Earns an instant sub.

Radiata stories is still one of my favorite ps2 game that totally deserves a remake and honestly they may be doing just that secretly with the jack and ridley figurines in SO 6

This is a great list. Most of them are remakes/remasters that need to happen.

I Will use this vídeo a lot in the future.

Radiata Stories is one of my favorite games PERIOD!! There's a point in the game where you have to pick sides, which drastically changes things in the story and the characters you can recruit. You can pick fights with pretty much every NPC in the game. And the best thing to me, you can recruit Lenneth Valkyrie!

7:00 I love the jpop aesthetic of this game

I am a huge advocate of Soul Hackers 2 as well. Such an incredible JRPG in my opinion. Definitely on the easier side like you said but the mechanics were a ton of fun.

Every time I hear someone talk about Lufia 2, I instantly stop what I’m doing. One of the best games of all time right there.

Eric have you ever heard of Sol Trigger on psp? This game was never released in english but it got a patch on the net. I've done it and it's incredible. Also, I don't think I ever heard you talk about Grand Knights History (psp) and Grand Kingdom (ps4). These game are sooo underated and obscure but so good!

Legend of kartia is a truly under rated game,one of my fave ps1 games and no one ever talks about it!! And I'm shocked our guy Eric didn't spotlight eternal poison in this vid.

The Shining Force series really needs a revival.

100% agree with ToL. It was my first Tales game and I love it so much

I regret not playing Ark the lad collection. Not finishing Radiata Stories as well.

Book Marked. Great vid!

Great list of games 😊

Legend of legaia was the first 3D jrpg I ever played and still one of the best combat systems of any game on the ps1

Soul hackers 2 mentioned! Loved that game lol

star ocean the last hope is still my favorite star ocean game to this day

Also, note that if you play Radiata Stories Undub (which is much better). The VA for the main protagonist is Naruto.

yo devil survivor overclocked is fire. this list has some bangers

Thank you Erick! I've got physical copies of Radiata Stories and Tales of Legendia! Bumping it up on my playlist thanks to you! Also you got me in into the Trails of Cold Steel series, on 2. Man they are awesome!

I played & still have my original copies of Tales of Graces F & Baten Kaitos. I also had Tales of Symphonia DotNW at 1 point, as the only Wii game I owned when I didn't have a Wii. And I completely agree that those games are all criminally underrated. The Shadow Hearts games & Koudelka also deserve some love these days. I would say that Unchained Blades & maybe Infinite Undiscovery deserve a spot on the list too. Unchained Blades because it's probably the best modern dungeon crawler I ever played, even if the Judgment Battles are a royal pain every time. Infinite Undiscovery because I feel that it ended up overshadowed by Lost Odyssey as an Xbox 360 exclusive JRPG.

Arc Rise Fantasia: Seems like an awesome Wii game that I'm sure will get better once I finally beat the first actual boss. Operation Darkness: A fun romp through supernaturally infused World War 2, that's only slightly less difficult than being under constant fire from an enemy force. Any game where the tutorial mission can, and will, kill you and then kick you back to the main menu is a keeper. Though it was released exclusively on Xbox 360. Seven Pirates Hyper: A very simplistic game on Switch, but it has tons of large, fun, bouncy... personality. Ephemeral Fantasia: Not sure how this PS2 classic could have missed this list, but don't worry. I got you covered.

Glad to see Wild arms here ... the best one is 3, but 4 and 5 have a special place in my heart

Trails in the Sky was localized outside japan as early as 2006 (all for east asian countries though)

A friend of mine is a big fan of the Trails series and so after Eiyuden Chronicle I wasn't sure what game I wanted to play, with my game prior to Eiyuden being The Thaumaturge. When I said I was near done with Eiyuden, my friend threw me the first the Trails games! Trails in the Sky, Trails in the SKy SC and Trails in the Sky 3rd... So... I have over 100 hours to play now. I asked him about it as there were so many and he was a fan. Didn't expect it, but not I have no reason to skip them. xD

I agree with all of the games I have played on this list and I recognize that I am part of the problem in them being underrated for the games I haven't played. What happened to Soul Hackers 2 is disgusting and is an example of toxic gamer behavior where people jump on a hate train in an attempt to get attention can ruin a game's financial prospects and cause it to fail in sale numbers. Soul Hackers 2 was something special to me and we won't get a Soul Hackers 3 because of horrible people trying to cheaply do something they think will benefit themselves.

I hate how Graces f and Xillia 1 and 2 are stuck on the ps3. They need to make a remaster for current gen consoles and PC

The ending for Tails in the Sky part 1 was depressing. I lost my save file so i dont think i wanna do it again even though i own 2/3

I still want Bandai Namco to release all the Tales games on modern consoles/PC. Too many of them are trapped in the past.

i loved radiata back then, there was a manga and i think anime. played it and enjoyed

JRPG time

Oh Eternal Sonata that one hurts. I really hope they make the ps3 version remade on pc or nintendo or anywhere eventually. x,.x

Alot of outstanding games

I want to play the Utawarerumono games so badly, but for some reason, they stopped giving decent discounts about two years ago, and now you have to pay for one game what you would have paid for the entire trilogy a while back. Feels like the Dark souls situation all over again.

No intro no bs just qaulity content. Very few creatora like you.

Radiata stories, breath of fire and lufia 2 are my favourites on this list. I can't bother with much more modern games than radiata stories 2. Radiata stories is the big exception in terms of modern games I loved. Maybe the best and most underrated game ever in terms of jrpgs.

I do wish you would state if it is only NA or not. Im fron the EU and radiant historia is not available here.

Tales of graces f for me is the best of the series. Just a hd port for switch would be enough for me to buy this thing again

Trails in the sky 1 +2 are excellent. I took my time put about 70 hours in each. I love the stories and the characters. It's so good.

Trails in the Sky for PSP, I have it on my PSvita &..... I just could not figure out WTH it wanted me to do (still in tutorial) with the damn gemstones?!?!?! I really wanted to play it because I loved trails of cold steel on the vita and it was one of the first games that I had after memories of Celcetta, and everybody told me I should play it and so I did.... Was frustrated about an hour and a half or less, into the game.... any help would be appreciated. Maybe it's something I'm looking at the wrong way.?

Shining Force remake is a must have for fans. It's much better and easier to get into than the original. Arc the Lad 4 is ps2 gem. Ps2 is a JRPG treasure box.

Vandal hearts soundtrack is in my top 5 ever!

Yeah I played cold steel Zero and Azure and now Reverie but still no sky

That’s right

I'd love to play PSPortable, man. It's too hard to get access to them. PSO/PS in general deserves more single player RPGs. The more modern mechanics would make a cool as heck ARPG. LOVE Star Ocean 6. The main characters are remarkably well expressed. It's reasonable to argue Star Ocean 4 battle system is slightly more clear than 6, even if 6 adds more, but they're both worth playing. What's interesting is how the stories of these two games actually play off each other a bit, and dialogue in late SO6 acknowledges this (mostly because of who you're talking to at the time. If you know, you know). Such as it is, Star Ocean 4 could reasonably have its subtitle be The Satanic Force. :D I've always had issues with Graces' combat, but I can't look at the best freaking title screen and NOT want to play it. :D The trouble is actually similar to many Tales games pre-Arise where the game just doesn't seem to understand how to explain its own combat system. One example is how dodging works. It's programmed to rely on direction, while most games use contact-based systems. If there's one thing I've seen consistently from every game that uses directional dodging, it's the complete lack of awareness that SO many other games use a system that works opposite to theirs. Even Zelda fails to explain this correctly only directing the player to use both dodges without explaining the reason behind it. (Just the other day I told someone who was having trouble this and they had never realized it worked that way before despite being a huge fan.) Other notes about Graces: Future Arc ROCKS and end-of-battle skits have extreme variety and high quality. :D As many issues as I have with DonW, I still find it to at least be worth playing. At least the one game that let you tame Tales monsters had the COOLEST regular enemy in the series and I'm mad that enemy type wasn't used in other Tales games when they reuse ALL of the other enemy rigs pretty much. XD Lloyd wasn't the issue for the returning characters actually. Some of their portrayals just leaned a bit too hard on memey stuff about them. Subtlety isn't exactly Namco's strong suit, but more importantly, some of the old MCs are just badly served in how they play, missing critical moves and often moving way slower than Emil and Marta.

I'd say Shining Force CD deserves a nod. It's both Game Gear games (which are better than the Genesis games) plus extra. I really feel it should be considered the pinnacle of the series and got overlooked solely because of the system it's on.

I know you hate Pokémon, but I definitely recommend that you try Pokémon.Conquest. It is not your average Pokémon.Game it is a strategy r p g. I think the best way to describe it for a person like you would be similar to SMT Devil Survivor with some Nobunagas Ambition taking place in feudal Japan. I gotta feeling that it will be the only Pokémon game that you'll like.

Bam and you just start. Awesome 😂 I am playing Breath of Fire at the moment, and it is fun but DID age poorly. I really dislike looking up stuff, usually there is an NPC that sends you in the right direction, but not here. The hints are very criptic and dont tell you where to head to exactly. The random encounters are way too much, like way too much. It is not super hard, but it feels tedious at times. Trails in the sky is on steam so it is on modern systems.

I highly recommend Jrpg game Recettear an item shop Tale Happy go lucky action rpg while run shop Only on PC ( Steam and GOG )

*This man is on that SH2 hill and I respect that; I don't agree, but heck if yah know how tah plant yourself and not budge.*

I like most of the games mentioned in the video. I would consider Wild Arms is just under rated, now the later ones should maybe get some hate. Lufia 1 is criminally underrated, more people talk about number 2. Project X Zone might have had issues due to some of the character models (they tried to sale the games based on those models), also the storry is not really coherent. Star Ocean: Last Hope, my biggest issue with it was the achievements (I do not want to do 10k dodges or run 100km in battles). This is the game that made me not care about 100% achievements anymore, when I did before. Y's 9 > 8, change my mind. To be fair 9 is the first one I actually liked. I am sad we have not seen a direction/button combo system since Legend of Legia and Xenogears in a turn-based game. Yes, maybe modernize it a bit with showing a easy, mid and hard ones that your characters have already done after just one entry. Now my highly over rated RPGs. All the Trails (besides the two you mentioned), Persona (besides 1), and most of the Tails games.

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I enjoyed the Divine Force

Regarding the "The Legend of Heroes" saga, if I want to start with the saga, would you recommend I start with "The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak"?... which is coming out this July for Switch? Or does this game also require having played the previous games?

How could you skip any of the Front Mission games?

Most of Sony's RPG are shut down now, Arc the Lad, Alundra Wild Arms, Legaia. dunno, maybe the direction Sony takes on graphical console seems left these awesome series. not even a remaster or ports are seem planned for these games :(

Wild Arms 2 is superior in every way to 1 in my oppinion

Trails in the sky isnt readily available like Cold Steel you need a psp,vita, or a pc to play it

drakengard mentioned

No poplocrois?

Please can someone tell him was being unterrated actually means Trails series may not be the most known series, but unterrated? EVERYONE loves that series. That goes for many of the games in this video. Shadow Hearts? One of the most recommended series on the PS2. When ever you ask someone for hidden gems on the PS2, Shadows Hearts will be dropped. Being less known =/= unterrated. That's not the same thing.

Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits is such a good game. One of my top ten. Shame it was followed up by one of the worst games I ever played in End of Darkness. So bad it killed the series. What a shame. I Am Setsuna was really good too but Lost Sphear is all that but better. Like the Suikoden II to I Am Setsuna's Suikoden. Devil Survivor 3 needs to happen now. I heard that SeGa wanted to do "Persona" games every year and I really hope they meant "SMT" games in general. In-between SMT 6 and Persona 6 they could do Devil Survivor 3, DDS remakes/ports and/or revive some of the other spin offs like Devil Children to fill in the gap years between the two main franchises. I'd like to add a few instead of going on about any of the others you listed. MS Saga: A New Dawn for the PS2. Fully turn based Mobile Suit based RPG. Game was amazing. It's also quite pricey now. You can mix and match parts between your mobile suits and you have a limited space for weapons loadout. Each pilot has different stats you'll want to take advantage of with what mobile suit you give them and how you customize it. Megaman X: Command Mission for the PS2 and Gamecube. Fully turn based Megaman X based RPG. Game was amazing. Pretty basic RPG for the most part but it's really well done. Yu Gi Oh: The Falsebound Kingdom for the Gamecube. No it's not card based. It's a RTS tower defense mixed with a turn based RPG. You move your characters across a map similar to Growlanser but instead of battles taking place on that map in real time, they switch to a 3 vs 3 turn based battle and the amount of moves your monsters have are dictated by the star level it has. They gain exp and level up stats and increase their star levels. It has two and a half stories that converge into one and lets you carry over your progress between the stories as you'll need to in order to recruit some monsters. It's a virtual world story and the cards are monsters and the characters are marshals of up to three monsters at a time acting kinda like a cross between and Pokemon trainer/Digimon tamer and a demon summoner from the SMT series. The marshals each have "colors" and they work best with monsters of the same color but you can influence these colors to change over time. The marshals can also gain levels and sometimes have abilities that add buffs to the monsters for battle. The monsters can carry up to three items at a time that can range from healing items, armor, weapons and items to fuse with other monsters. Some monsters have special items that only they can use that boost their powers significantly or give them special attacks. Some can even perform unite attacks like in Suikoden. Battles are a bit weird though as there's a point system involved. So you can "win" by killing two of the three monsters and sustaining little damage but the points can sometimes be in the opponent's favor based on a few different things and you'll actually end up losing the battle. When you take over a "tower", you can then purchase up to two different facilities there. Extra healing, defensive barriers, defensive cannons, stores and a few other things. You'll have to open the store in order to purchase the items. You'll have to go out of your way to take over certain "towers" then open their store in order to get the best items. At any time on the map, you can enter the Konami Code to get a bunch of money. You'll have to do it multiple times as it's only like 10K each use or something and you'll need a ton more than that to get the good stuff and money isn't easy to come by otherwise. If a team other than the main hero and boss of the map is fully defeated, they will slowly be able to respawn so you can grind. However some maps are timed so you can't always do this. There's also secret spots along some maps so if you walk over a spot or occupy a "tower" with a certain Marshal or have a certain monster in your team, you might trigger more monsters to join you. Or it can be an extra battle against wild monsters that you can recruit if you beat them. You can also upgrade certain monsters with special items but you'll lose that first monster until you go back through that storyline again and re-recruit the base monster. It's slow and plodding and perhaps a bit boring and less flashy compared to other games but I found it to be very fun. You don't need to know anything about the series either.

I prefer Lunar 2 over Lunar 1.

Where's Guardians Crusade?

If anyone decides to play trails, for the love of Adios do not skip trails in the Sky 3rd. If you fall in love with trails lore, 3rd is perhaps the most important game in the series as it sets up so much in future games. Yes it's different but it's also fantastic and a great continuation of the characters stories from 1st and 2nd chapter.

Only games Erick Landon doesn't like Soulsborne games Elden Ring

Diofield is a cool concept, but it’s WAY too easy and the writing is lackluster.

Radiata is great till the part when you have to choose a side, then the game looks like is rushed and the previous great story goes away!

Suikoden tierkreis …. If you can ignore some of the worst voice acting from a main character ever…. And constant back tracking then I can recommend it to you

Yeah Soul Hackers 2 deserved better and main character Ringo deserved even more.

I like the list but Soul Hackers 2 is not good at all. I agree with all the ones you mentioned that I played except that.

If nobody plays anything else in this list, play Tales of Legendia and Growlanser 4. You will thank me later.

Ogre battle issint underrated game...

Trails in the sky FC is 40hs like you say But…. Trails in the sky SC is like 100 hours !! Having played all the Trails series, Sky SC is one of the best in the series!

Project X Zone 1 and 2 are trash strategy games. Great fan service, graphics and OST but ZERO strategies involved. Every map is the same thing, you fight some dudes and when they are almost dead, a bunch of new ennemies appear. That happens in every single map. Terrible strategy games.

Radiata Stories wasn’t good … not memorable

Symphonia 2 is perfectly rated. It's a disrespect to it's prequel and a very mediocre tales game. Legendia is even worse imo but the music is amazing.

Most people talk positively about Eternal Sonata, Star Ocean 4 and Star Ocean Divine Force, so I don't know why you've put it on an underrated list. I've played all the way through Tales of Symphonia 2, it's not underrated, it's reputation is largely deserved, it's a bit of a cheap cash in on the success of the first game, story is coherent but nothing memorable, they didn't do the new male protagonist any favours with the meek sounding voice, combat is nothing new, that's been done better in a number of other JRPG's, the cast from the first game feel like they are there, purely just to be able to put Symphonia in the title of the game, they add little to the story overall, I don't think it's a bad game, but overall it's just meh at best and belongs near the bottom of the Tales tier list.

You created a video called "The Most underrated JRPGs Ever Made," but you mostly fill it with games that have a pretty sizable cult following? Why? This feels like really bad clickbait.