Here is part 2, ten more of the hardest JRPGs I've ever beaten! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtmnhNikytOaj2w.html

Top 10 jrpg’s with the best post game.

"He kicked my ass several times, so I gave up". That sounds way too familiar, as in half the games I've played.

Absolutely LOVE your top 10s. You are such a funny man. Cheers Eric

Love how most of the footage from Code Vein was the Cathedral of Sacred Blood, the worst area of the game.

I always considered games that require grinding to be poorly designed. If all you need to do is be a high enough level to do enough damage to the enemy or withstand their attacks; that's not very intelligent or thoughtful design. You're simply setting a bar and telling the player to reach that bar or die. It's not challenging, it's difficult. There's a difference.

For anyone struggling with Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor, it is all about not getting attached to the demons on your team because you need to change to better versions as you level up and unlock more. You have to pay close attention to their unique abilities based on their type and switch for example to the high movement demons when trying to escort weaklings that are far away. Also, you have to make sure to constantly target the enemies to learn their abilities because some of them make certain levels way easier.

props on beating code vein. that boss you had on twice, and for extra time at the end, that's what did it for me. that was the rage quit moment. the goddamn cathedral level with the teleporting angels, and then that massive-aoe monstrosity in a pin-size area with nowhere to dodge. it was too much. many claps for getting past that and finishing it off.

Weird timing; I just beat Devil Survivor for the first time last night. I almost wanted to cry when it was over because it was so hard

Erick is not only a client he is also the president of the hair pullers club of RPG gamers.

The stages of RPG gaming Running When you’re outclassed (wrong place?) Struggling When you’re underleved (it will pass) Grinding When you’re even leveled (because reasons?) Stomping When you’re overleved (backtracking/farming?) Where do these games put you ? XD

Disgeae games are made for grinding. Those games make grinding an art. But I always thought that the first game was the easiest because of how early you can pluck out the legendary Longinus from the castle.

loved this video XD love hearing your rage voice as always XD keep it up Erick

Great video, thank you for your share and passion on those titles ;)

“If you can’t figure that out. Forget it, you’re fucked.” Wise words!! 🤣🤣🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The narration of each difficulty is hilarious because I know the feeling lolol.

Thanks for sharing Erick Landon! I love your passion for RPGs man. Awesome video! :) I've been able to conquer Disgaea 2 and Final Fantasy XII and FFXII is certainly one of the more difficult ones out there. Funny enough, the part of the game where you HAVE to summon the correct being in order to open the gate completely stumped me for weeks. How cryptic was that point in the game? Final Fantasy IV for the DS and Dragon Quest II for the NES are certainly two of the most difficult ones I have EVER played. No matter how much you level up, you can still lose...easily (*shivers* as I think of the Rhone Cave in DQII).

This video brings back memories.... Damn. Love your videos my man

I saw that General Billford in your TearRing Saga footage. Excellent choice.

I always get shocked when your music intro starts, maybe reduce the volume of it ;) Besides that, an amazing video :)

Patience @12:55 lol. Love this video Erick.

literally every rpg on the NES/FAMICOM

I love games like Devil Survivor and the first three days I’ve found enjoyable, but I’ve already found that it’s so difficult. You just get so overwhelmed by enemies that constantly heal each other and I’ve heard it only gets harder from there. Maybe one day I’ll pick it up again possibly on easy, but I’m not sure if I can be bothered to go back and try

Congrats on your 40subs

Hey Erick, cool video! I got a question for you: what are you favorite least grindy (as in, that require the least amount of grinding to get through the story) RPGs/JRPGs/Action RPGs?

You must've been doing something wrong if you had problems leveling in Octopath.

So if I'm looking for a challenge similar to devil Survivor, growlancer 4 is the way to go? I mean it in the sense that there's good difficulty (where its about strategy) and then there's bad difficulty (making the level caps higher so you have to grind a lot). So if I consider Devil Survivor good difficulty, any other games like it?

damn that devil survivor is really spot on even though i played the overclock one

"Escalating like goats on a mountain!" Haha

Chrono Cross is my favorite RPG of all time!!! It's not hard, but it's also not that easy. Taking in consideration the fact that has no levelling system, all you have to do is choose your favorite characters and go on deep in this masterpiece!!!! The only freaking hell battle that made me hate myself and wanted to die was Dario, and even so, I love it.

I love valkyrie profile 2. But the ability to split your party up in battle seems to serve little purpose. Has anyone made good use of that mechanic other than a niche use for 1 or 2 bosses?

You made me feel so much better about Final Fantasy XII. I thought I was the only one struggling with it because I see so much praise and very little talk about the difficulty of this frustrating yet fantastic game. If I didn't love the story and the lore of the game I would've given up.

'Arc Rise Fucktasia' - Erick Landon RPG, 2020 :D Keep up the good work and the good puns, Erick!

I loved Arc Rise Fantasia, glad you covered it. Some fights were stupidly hard, especially the bonus bosses, but I never got frustrated because the battle system was so tight. The Defend action actually did something for once in an RPG and it was crucial to properly balance defending and attacking to not get one-shot but also maintain enough AP for the next turn. I never really needed to grind tbh. Very sad the battle system will never get re-used because of the poor reception.

And the cool rank of this channel reaches higher, true legend!

Not that it is very difficult, but I was wondering if you have played Ring of Red for the PS2? If so, what did you think? I thought it was an interesting mech based alternative-history quasi-strategy or tactical style game. Pretty good too for an early PS2 title.

Eric for octopath you just need to grind in that one cave with the fat cats and use the dancing girls xp buff I love that game I put over 100 hours also thanks for the videos theirs rpgs I’ve never heard about like arc rise or exist archive

If you want a hard JRPG, try Vagrant Story. You have to learn the mechanics in that game or it will punish you later on. It's a hidden gem for sure.

The one I could not beat the final boss was Shadow Hearts for PS2 :(

Where will you put Trails of Sky?

have you played the psx tactics ogre

The secret witch boss in the post game of octopath traveler scared me so much and beat me so bad I haven't turned that game back on.

You should try Vestaria Saga. I want to say I was starting to have problems at this chapter where you have to navigate an entire city with a low turn count. Not even sure how I beat that stupid map. Probably a mix of luck, a distant ancestor sacrificing something, and a whole lot of headache medication.

I was surprised you included Code Vein. Frankly since it is a SoulsBorne Game so I expected that you'll make no mention of the obvious or at most as Honorable Mention. Damn it is so entertaining though. I love how you react to these hard as balls games.

did you play Vagrant Story?

Amazing Video as always. But Erick u gotta complete Xenogears!!! u will love it, it will change ur life.

I haven't played many tough RPGs. I think the one with the most perfectly balanced difficulty curve would be Wild Arms. Never was there a point where I felt overleveled, yet at the same time I never felt like I was consistently struggling. The game is very well balanced to give magic, physical attacks, and weapons a purpose, and the Force meter makes it satisfying to come back from tough spots. It rewards your patience. I love Wild Arms so much. I want to play it again.

The two games in this video I've beaten are Octopath Traveler and Fire Emblem Thracia 776. Octopath wasn't too hard until the post-game final boss. Beating that boss felt sooo satisfying. And I've beaten Thracia 776 a few times. The first time I played it I used savestates, but after that I didn't. I had a lot more fun on the subsequent playthroughs since I knew what I was doing. I think the hardest jrpg I've beaten is probably Phantasy Star 2 because the dungeons in that game are so confusing! I was playing blind and only looked at a guide a handful of times when I got *really* stuck.

My #1 would have to be Natural Doctrine, but Devil Survivor MIGHT be #2. Some of those maps were just absurd.

Dude I think devil survivor was the toughest game I've ever encountered for DS i literally gave up and never came back.

Nice fire emblem music at the end

is devil survivor on nintendo ds is that hard?

Valkyrie profile 2 is great, but man did I struggle with that one!

What's the game on 0:36? It looks interesting

Awesome thumbnail

Disgaea isn't hard, if you know how to exploit the levelling system. You don't need to grind the way you do in a normal game. You can overpower a character so that it can fight mobs twice or three times its level, jack up the experience, go kill one screen of mobs and jump from lvl 10 to lvl 15 in one swing. I know you've got a low opinion of the game and the grind, but learning HOW to grind is so much fun that if you're like most people you have so much fun grinding that the actual story becomes an afterthought. So if you google for "Disgaea 2 Leveling Guide" you can learn all the tricks to jack up weapon stats, character stats, etc. You pretty quickly find that you need to increase the difficulty in order for the game to remain challenging through the story mode.

have you tried MS Saga? It's fun and hard as heck despite turn based !!

I haven't played Tear Ring or Thracia 776, but does anyone know from experience if it is really harder than FE Fates: Conquest on Lunatic Classic mode? I find that hard to believe, but let me know.

Did you play suidoken ?

I love Resonance of Fate but still didn't beat it until today, 52 hours if I remember, I spent so much time on placing color hex for multiply EXP grinding.

Name of game at 0:27? Is a game of ys franchise ?

Arc Rise Fantasia was one of my favorite games on the Wii. There weren’t many good RPGs on the Wii. I didn’t beat it. I want to go to it again. I just cracked open my WiiU to play Pikmin 3 because I wasn’t about to buy a new one on the Switch.

About Devil Survivor: I know Midori could be very anoying xD but later, she got into my main team like a magic offense character. Yuzu as my healer, the protagonist like physical and Amane as the other magic offense character. I ended all the routes, but It was imposible to me to defeat the hidden boss, I mean Lucifer (I dont remember his name). The worst part of the original Ds game its imposible to grew up your demons for a long time. Its just a miracle to got a 99 level demon in that game, and Lucifer is at 99 level, so, you will die for sure. But its an incredible game, i love it. Love its history and its characters.

I've just recently picked up Exist Archive and Code Vein but I've yet to play them yet. Hoping I enjoy them and I can get through them.

I remember the A.I. in devil survivor. Many ...many hours lost 😂

I beat Arc Rise Fantasia today (I postponed watching this video until after finishing it). The difficulty wasn't so bad since I never lost a boss fight more than once. The hardest JRPG I've ever beaten was The 7th Saga on SNES.

I had a very nice time playing Final Fantasy XII. Yes, I grinded it to almost the full potential of every party member, but the skill-license system was nice once you get used to it. Long story short: I invested a lot of time in that game, and loved it through and through. All said, thanks Mr. Landon for all your vids and top 10s. Stay safe!

I started Devil Survovor (DS version) a few days ago and already feel the pain.

The final optional boss in Octopath Traveler is the hardest thing I've ever done in an RPG. And trust me, I've played a ton of them!

12:44 I think the issue is that you have to use specific demons that have either that fly skill tha allows to fly over obstacles thus earning extra movement or other demons that have high range of movement and those are not always the best for battle. Bless Cerberus tought :3

I have half of those games. I guess I need to get the other half and try them.

Ever play SMT Nocturne? All I got to say is hard mode true demon ending.

I gave up on Tear Ring Saga. Kaga was over-doing it.

I remember my PS2 FF12 I got hardlock in a boss battle and I can’t go back to grind when I lost (Now I know to have multiple save file mostly due to SMT game and Fire Emblem

7th saga for Super Nintendo was next level hard

I actually haven’t had trouble with Arc Rise Fantasia. I’ve played for around 16 hours, and haven’t even gotten a game over yet. I guess because I grind a lot anyway.

Yea octopath is just psychopath vs traveler until i know where to grind much faster, but i still love it for such a beautiful game.

13:31 "the only reason I included it was so that I could bitch about again" 😂 that's dedication.

Damn the amount of experience you have with RPG's is insane lol, I dunno how much time you've spent on them...

For Disgaea, Valkyrie Profile 2, and FFXII, I found that going without your full party is easier. You get more XP, and it just works out better in the long run. In FFXII using just one character was basically just cast instant death on anything that moves for 90% of the game, and I had very little trouble with it. I think I got to level 80 something by the end without even grinding or doing any sidequests. VP2 is even easier with just one party member. You're a smaller target so it's easier to avoid enemy attacks. Most bosses I was able to just stay behind and slap around without fear of reprisal. Most Disgaea games I wind up using less than five characters, only using the rest of the team as fodder for throwing geo blocks or something. It keeps them more focused and bottlenecks the enemies more. I dunno why, it just works better for me than trying to manage a huge group.

Devil Survivor and Strange Journey were the hardest ones for me. I managed to beat Devil Survivor but I am really struggling with Strange Journey

Growlanser 4 isn't hard if you have one amazing skill: Dirty Trick. Get it as soon as you control Remus freely. Getting advanced spell stones early is almost gamebreaking

How about "Top 10 Easiest JRPGs I've Ever Beaten"? New subscriber here btw

Devil Survivor was a nightmare. I beat the final boss by a hair with the last character with no mana and a sliver of health. Super memorable moment, but damn that game was hard

Valkryie profile silmeria is fun game for me, i got the tips from my brother when he finished the game, when in battle dont use dash just walk slowly to the enemy area even just a tip you can attack the enemy : ) its still grinding feast but its fun one, i never tired see nibelung valesti especialy when the three valkyrie sister together.

hmmm FFXII or Valkyrie Profile 2... which should i play next?

I found Valkyria chronicles 2 to be pretty difficult too....but can't recall if it was the difficulty curve or more so some of the frustrating game mechanics (especially the level up system)

Im fine with hard games being challenging or being grindy, but what i hate the most was the cryptic things that you gotta be a fortune teller to know where to go.

The only game I've played on your list is Exist Archive and I just couldn't get into it. I'll probably go back and try it, but it never got my attention.

Ok, you made me sympathize and laugh at the same time😂, great content 9:12

I'd be interested in seeing the JRPGs you never finished because too hard but you'd do it in the future ;)

Thank you for the video

I do have an advise for people who want play Growlanser IV as someone who finished it, use everything in your arsenal. All your knacks, all your buffs, all your items, all your spell stones, all your money, do not be stingy. You'll need to be aggressive with your resources to give just small enough chance to actually succeed. Also learn how to use every characters, some characters make the game easier and others harder for certain missions.

surprised there was no Etrian Odyssey despite from my personal experience it was harder than most of the ones listed here

yeah, alphan's 2nd chapter was tough for me, but my strat for the entire game was to buff cyrus and him spam magic

I played Devil Survivor 2 on ds, and couldn't even get past the 10 hour or so mark. Probably the hardest jrpg i've ever played

My hardest is probably Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen. It's not only difficult, but its systems actively discourage grinding. Kill an enemy you out-level and the killer's alignment drops. Liberate towns with a low alignment character and your reputation drops. But if you kill all the enemy units in each mission you're guaranteed to out-level the enemy as well as have a very expensive army that will probably put you at a deficit of money each day. Zero in on the enemy base and neglect to finish off enemy divisions, and you quickly find they can restore themselves to full strength instantly by returning to their home base. Then you have the final mission, where enemy troops are literally infinite. Most hero recruits and special items require a guide to get. I suppose it would probably be easier to grind up, destroy your reputation and earn one of the bad endings where you go evil at the end... but that's no victory.

"escalating like goats on a mountain" LOL that is a beautiful analogy. Also I've been playing SMT4 Apocalypse on and off for like 4 years now. I got stuck on a boss that can inflict a lot of status ailments, and rather than go try to find demons that are immune I just decided to brute force it with sheer grinding. I think I'm like 30-40 levels above it now, so hopefully I should be able to coast through the game for a while.

Digimon World 1 needs to be on this list!

I'd say Covenant of the white plume was a pretty hard game to get through... And I played it the wrong way too. On your first playthrough it is best to sacrifice allies to gain powers for the second playthrough where you can then do it without sacrificing anybody. I didn't do that, tried being a hero right from the start.