I grew up with The Faery Tale Adventure on Genesis. My mom was so into it she made hand drawn maps of the world and kept them in the case with the manual.

I love Phantasy Star 4, such a masterpiece.

Shining Force 2 forever in my heart.

great games , some of my favorites, Warsong is defiantly worth adding

Wow sega made way more rpgs than I thought some of them look amazing too it's a shame they only got released in japan

I played Shining in the Darkness, Shining Force, Shining Force 2, Story of Thor, Phantasy Star IV, Gauntlet 4, Light Crusader, Landstalker, and Soleil so much as a kid.

So many unreleased outside Japan! Being Shining Force II the best RPG in the system. Good that you included Pier Solar :)

Thank you so much good sir 😄 I used to play Feng Shen Ying Jie Chuan on a knock off psp kinda console (which was fully in Japanese and I just memorized what buttons did what) I've been searching for that gem for so long, glad I came across this video!

Came here expecting to find that one forgotten sega game I never got to finish because back then I was a little kid that didn't understand the english language, it was Crusader of Centy, thank you very much for this video, very useful.

Thanks for showing both exploration and combat for each game. Well done

What a great list. I didn't even know about the Simulation RPGs. Thanks!

Where is "Gemfire", "Warsong"? Bro, It's a brillants of RPG on Genesis!

I have no idea for how many years I replayed over and over King's Bounty! Great list!

Landstalker ..the best

Video with fantastic quality. Thanks!

Trivia: Sorcerian is actually the subtitle so to say, " _Dragon Slayer V: Sorcerian_ " is what it's lesser known as, as it is a part of the Dragon Slayer series. The very same series that one can say that Adol Christin was inspired by as a child ( _in-universe_ ) to become the red headed adventurer we know him today as ( _Ys series_ ).

Thank you for this video , for some reason Fairy Tale Adventure pooped in my head, I couldn’t remember the name and it was driving me nuts lol

Omg that's the best video I seen ever for knowledge of rpg games for the genesis I have just seen so many new games that I would like to play now

thank you for this list! I've been looking for Cadash for years but couldn't remember the name

I know it's the nostalgia talking but I love Sword of Vermilion I got it with my Genesis as a kid (along with Mortal Kombat and Thunder Force II). It's a game you can switch your brain off and have a bunch of fun with. P.S. I love Shining in the Darkness too...it makes you hurt so good.

I have been looking so long for the name of Exile. I was typing in fighting ants Sega game bugs. All kinds of random stuff lol thanks for this!

Long life to the Shining Force!!! XD

Master of Monsters had RPG/strategy elements to it. And it is criminally overlooked.

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First of all, I must say that this is a fantastic list overall. I think you got every Genesis rpg in here for sure, and from every region of the world. I believe you meant to call your action/adventure section action/rpg, but you did actually have a few action/adventure games in there, so I'm a bit confused. That particular section also had a few games that should have been in your simulation/other section, which really should have been called simulation/strategy. But category issues aside, I'd definitely recommend this to anyone wondering what all rpgs the Genesis had on it.

we've had some translation releases for games like Star Odyssey, Brave Battle Saga and the like. Would be wonderful to get some English physical releases for titles like Surging Aura and Dragon Slayer!

Fantastic list. Thanks

shining force 2 is still the best game i've played in that genre. the recent xcom games were good, i'm currently playing mario rabbids...after that i have fire emblem (which i think is the same genre). i remember jeanne darc being pretty fun but nothing has the abilities, the secrets, even the whacky story of shining force 2. it reminds me a lot of diablo 2...how the fuck can no one even rip it off properly to make a game, at least on the same level, all these years later. then there was shining force 3 which no one in the west got to play, after which they turned the series into anime nonsense no one wants to play. depressing.

Surging aura parece ser muito foda

Rent a Hero! Made that English translated cartridge as my first EPROM I programmed, soldered, and made label for! Luckily there is a fully complete, albeit unreleased English sequel on the OG Xbox I am playing also, it was released officially on Dreamcast in Japan only besides this one.

Shining Force Saga, Warsong, Phantasy Star Saga and a lot of chinese RPGs.

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One came out on psp as a part of the mega drive collection and I used to love it but I can't remember what it was called or what it looked like but phantasy Star 2 looks familiar

Mano muito obrigado gracias a muito que procurava este jogo "Traysia" the best game!!

Right? I had no idea half of these existed. I own about 7 of the titles but gladly would have collected others given the chance.

Great list. What about Buck Rodgers?

Phantasy Star 2 was by far the best due to the high level of monster difficulty and hard to navigate buildings. Big problem with Phantasy Star 2 is that you can have a high experience level and still hardly put a dent on a monster or robot. Even Dark Force was hard to beat.

Phantasy Star 1 is really a Master System game though I guess they did re-release subversion for mega drive later.. also I think some of these unlicensed Chinese games were actually released much later than 1996

There are a few Taiwanese games from 3:30 that look absolutely amazing!

Shining in the Darkness and Sword of Vermillion are the best ❤❤❤❤

Great video 👍👍

Imagine if even 2 of those unlocalized turn based ones got a port It would've changed the perception of the Mega Drive as console with not many JRPGs to one with a competitive amount Aw well

Great video ! Some games i had never heard about :)

Pier Solar phantasy star is the best and lufia too.....

That’s a lot of games! Ps: Tony’s chocolonely ftw!

Such a shame that the Surging Aura translations keep stalling near the finish line.

Muchas Gracias

amazing list.. I just missed Vixen 357 tatical RPG

9:23 the best!

Fun Fact: Braver Battle Saga is a bootleg game that reuses graphics from Romancing SaGa 3, such as the fairy village and the holy temple's entrance. Yeah, a game with Saga in the title reuses graphics from a SaGa game, crazy huh? Well, even more crazy is the reuse of Kefka's sprites, no joke they just reuse his sprites for a character. Tu Shi Tian Di, Wu Kong Wai Shuan, Ya Se Chuan Shuo and Beggar Prince (I ain't typing the chinese name, fuck off) are also unlicensed and made by similar creators, though they remain untranslated.

Exile's music was awesome

There's a reason why Phantasy Star is first

you've got the original phantasy star release year wrong. Dec 1987 in Japan

Awesome!!!

Might & Magic III: Isles of Terra was not released for Mega Drive / Genesis. Battle Golfer Yui is missing, a great golf-RPG! Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor is also missing.

Phantasy Star was released in 1994, and the sequel was released in 1989? Woah.

Nice list. Not sure i'd call Pirates an rpg though :)

3:16 is a great game but full of battle take some time

ótimo vídeo manin. ..amazing video

langrisser 1 and 2 best tbrpg on sega

6:58 is Landstalker isometric Alundra?

OMG.. Some of the Japanese exclusive games (such as the ones that look like Phantasy Start and Shinning Force clones) look like games I would have loved to have if they had a US release.

I know it hurts (me, more than you) but we must admit, after this video, that the snes had better rpgs. Wonderboy series, and phantasy star series excluded

you missed langrisser 1 and 2 and vixen 357 in there big dawg

I would still play 90% of these today...well maybe 75-80%. I knew Japan was hoarding many games also

Holy shyt@2:16 That music is intense af.

I really loved play shining in the darkness i end this game reting this cartridge .

Is there any way to get some of these English patched?

If these were out here in the west back in the day. The Sega Genesis would have better rival SNES in the rpg category tbh

Where's Warsong?

(Phantasy Star was a Master System title.)

right off the bat you show the title screen for Phantasy Star with the 1987 copyright.. and you have it as a 1994 release.

So many Japanese games I'd love to play. Really wish there were translation speedrunners like there use to be. If you're smart enough to play an RPG then you're smart enough to play a badly translated game that's maybe only half translated but still know what's going on and what to do. Like if you're translating menus and stats and all that, most stuff in there is obvious to a player even if it is Japanese text. Instead translate parts an english speaker wouldn't get then stop work on menus and focus your time on rushing through some other aspect of the game. Once the game is out in a playable 0.01 version, you can go back and clean things up for the next patch. Like a while ago I finish that game there called Star Odyssey. I played an old translation that was very primitive but was just fine. Dialogue was short and very to the point in a broken english sort of way. Later I found a new translation of the same game and tried it. The new one was just too wordy. Old translations get a point across in one short sentence, while more polished translations use several paragraphs to make the same point. It's a waste of time, in my opinion. I would be satisfied if there was a translator out there who just black out dialogue boxes entirely. You talk to an NPC, an ugly black box pops up on screen, and the text written is the most basic font, an the most rushed dialogue. Speedwrite it. Just get it done. Spelling and grammar mistakes? As a NES fanboy, even officially translated games that we got back in the day were filled with those. Then when you speedtranslate other games, use the same method. Same black box, same basic text, speed is key. You go fast enough you can translate any RPG on this list in less than a month, instead of the usual time which is several years. I mean, a while ago I played a game for Amiga called Evil's Doom. Recommended if you like dungeon crawlers. But the amount of spelling errors and grammar mistakes on every page is absolutely absurd. Just go play it. I mean, every single sentence in the entire game, and I mean every sentence, has at least one mistake. No, at least two mistakes. But I played it just fine. No confusion from me. In fact, broken english has an otherworldly, alien feel to it, like you really are being transported somewhere else. Another thing I always wished for were bilingual KZfaqrs who could just longplay Japanese language RPGs but speak the words out loud in english. Never watched a longplay in my life but I'd watch that. I'd also like to see more 3-D games translated. My advice for that is not even bother with audio. That slows the process down too much. Subtitles are more than fine. Voice acting usually sucks which is why undubs are popular now, so it might be a plus to just scrap any voice acting.

You could count Corporation as it has a story and items etc, unlike Gauntlet...

Landstalker was the shit back then. Best game in genesis.

How did you forget Warsong/Langrisser and Langrisser 2? Also Vixen 357....

There is many games that i have never known. Mostly japanesse games.

Gracias, estaba buscando un nombre de un juego!!

el uno es de sega master si po?

I wish someone did a Fan Translation for Dragon Slayer genesis or snes, I know this game is in English on another system but genesis and snes are more accessible

Phantasy Star 1 was the master system wasn't it?

Não sabia que phantasy star original havia saído para o mwga drive

Man, if they only released the other RPGs from Japan, I might have gone Genesis instead of the SNES, that was the main reason: RPGs.

Faltou um que eu joguei na infância, não acho em lugar algum, rpg de turno feudal se samurais só tem no Japão.

Eai professor e o matheus do 8K por pouco tempo

A surprising number of Chinese titles, it seems...

Nope. The first Phantasy Star was on the Master System. Great game but not on the Genesis.

With all those Chinese game titles and mostly missing indicators of the year of publication I highly doubt that this list is legitimate.

Syndicate

Would be interesting to try the Chinese games but, only I can’t read any of it.

Muito bom cara!

Crusader of centy best of the game

Fantasy Star 1 release date 1994??

Langrisser series? Vixen?

Light crudader, Story of thor best adventure

i like the compile rpg

With the exception of PS4 and shining force, most of all othe other games looks like shovelware

ahhh buck rogers

worst thing about phantasy star is the sound

i got to take some time out to play some of these already bought games, I played Cadash great game best version, played light crusader hard as balls, and played Arcus odyssey it is much better version than the snes!