10 - Granstream Saga 9 - Saga Frontier 2 8 - Brigandine 7 - Thousand Arms 6 - Jade Cocoon 5 - Guardians Crusade 4 - Saiyuki Journey West 3 - Dragon Valor 2 - Kartia 1 - Vandal Hearts

I love this guy! He shares my love for RPGs and always have nice new ones that I didn't play on their time but will definitively play now.

I remember playing the hell out of dragon valor as a kid

Cool video, and yes i still have all of them, too. The Sound from Valkyre Profile in the Background is also nice Brave Fencer Musashi, i missed a bit

I've played all these games and have some of them, too. GamePro, EGM, Tips&Tricks, ExpertGamer and all sorts of 90s and early 2000s gaming magazines were my insiders to JRPGs.

Thanks for showing those great jrpg's. You deserve a very big PP!

Love your videos man! Definitely keep doing what you're doing. Definitely underrated

When I saw you started your list with Granstream Saga, I realized your list whould be good. And now, after seeing till the end, this list also be my favorites too.. Thnx!!

If i wasn't already subscribed to your channel i would have clicked it as soon as i saw vandal hearts 1 ..it was my fav game on ps1 until i played suikoden and i replayed it so many times that game was tough but fun it really made you decide what was the best way to attack your enemies so you could beat each stage especially that arena stage ..man so many memories good and bad.

Guardian's Crusade was my first PS1 game (I was 30 at the time) and I LOVE that game so much that I have played it (finished) about 5 times since them.

Oh man, very good! Congratulations for video. I know 8/10 these games and I like to tips. Thank you!

so many good strategy RPGs at PS1. vandal hearts, front mission 3, FF tactics. good storyline ,characters and battle systems.

LOVED Vandal Hearts back in the day!

Perfekt. The exact type of video I was looking for.

It's good to see Saiyuki make your list and Vandal Hearts is very under appreciated.

I like saga frontier and saga frontier 2. Glad you mention Kartia, I found that game was quite charming, and the concept was very interesting, alas, the mechanic was quite awkward. I played both of the scenarios because the story was quite intriguing.

I love Thousand Arms!

De Brigandine hay una version exlusiva para japon llamada Brigandine: Grand Edition que agrega un Boss final, varios personajes y monstruos, escenas de anime (por cierto muy buenas). Si la juegan en emulador hay Patch con traduccion completa a ingles. There's a japanese limited edition of Brigandine : The Legend of Forsena called Brigandine: Grand Edition. It adds a final boss, new recruits and monsters, anime scenes. If you play it on a emulator theres a full english patch.

Guardian's Crusade brings back memories, I'd be sitting there playing it while having case of poweraide in a can lol

This was a legit list! Brought back a ton of good memories, great video bro🙌

I played Brigandine after watching your video. It was really good. What a great game.

Vandal Hearts 1 is indeed awesome

Jade Cocoon is my fav game of all time and hugely underrated IMO, kinda like Pokemon with a merging/fusion system that combines stats/magic/skills and even looks of the minions you merge together, pretty good voice acting and story too.

I bought saga frontier 2 just based on the cover and I couldn't put it down. My brother played it and got a different path it was really awesome.

Thank you God, someone finally mentioned Saga Frontier 2. Great music, interesting story, compelling plot, hard as nails.

Thumbs up just for using Valkyrie Profile 2 music. Now that is an underrated ps2 game, it has it's own thing compared to the first one

I have no problem about the video, and I have played some of those games. The thing SaGa Frontier has than the second are; Robots, Mystics, Morphing Monsters, a literal NEET, Cosplaying Chick, an OP Mage, and a Superhero. You can pick anyone in any order, whoever you pick changes the playing field The skills are so many ranging from physical, ranged, magic. Which you can combo for 5 times. For such an old game there are tons to explore, skills to experiment, and heck, whoever names a skill “Million Dollers”?

Thousand Arms was my first non-Pokemon JRPG. I freaking love that game.

awesome video!!!

Vandal Hearts 2 is one of the best stories ive ever experienced. I had to just sit and take in several story beats cause they were so heavy.

Omg yes! Brigandine! That is one of my favorite games even today. I went into this video expecting not to see that on the list and having to leave an angry comment. Im so impressed that it made the list. If anyone hasnt played it, I highly recommend it! If you can, the grand edition is slightly better.

Your video brings me sad nostalgic of my childhood. I miss those RPGs. T__T

The Granstream Saga Brigandine Saiyuki Journey West The Legend of Kartia Those are nice games!! Brings back good childhood memories. Thank you!

love your list. all are fun to play. some minor things. loved playing thousand arms, just the ending is ugh. jade cocoon > pokemon dragon valor, so much replay value vandal hearts and kartia; amazing series

Did you find out about Vandal Hearts from the back cover of Suikoden? I did back in 96 and couldn't wait for Vandal Hearts and it soon became a favorite. Love your channel!

Guardian's Crusade (if I don't count Megaman Legends--this is debatable) was the game that got me into RPGs (and one of my favorite games of all time). I bought the game from a Babbages at a local mall (I am pretty sure I bought it with birthday money) for $39.99. When I was in the car and I was looking at the back of the game, I had a realization that made me wonder if I'd like the game or not--it had turn-based combat. Fortunately, I ended up enjoying the combat system significantly more than I thought I would. I played this game for MANY hours (I am sure that I have done at least a dozen playthroughs) and even played it some in my adulthood. After Guardian's Crusade, I started buying rpgs like crazy. One of them was Granstream saga (which I purchased from a local pawn shop). I never beat the game (I think I got stuck somewhere) but I did really enjoy the part that I played through. I rented Saga Frontier 2 from Blockbuster video. I enjoyed the game, but I never could find a purchasable copy. I played Dragon Valor as well. I enjoyed the graphics and combat system, but for some reason I never really stuck with it. It may have been something to do with the story.

that soundtrack though, TO MY SIDE MY NOBLE EINHERJAR !

Nice to see Vandal Hearts making the top. It's a realy great tactic RPG :)

Wow someone finally recommend thousand arms, guardian crusade and jade cocoon

I loved Saga Frontier 1! Never got into the second one.

I played Granstream saga on a whim and it ended up being one of my favorite (although a bit frustrating at the time) games on the PSX. Thousand arms as well.

Brigandine feels like a spiritual successor to Dark Wizard on the Sega CD. Two good games.

Thousand Arms was the shit

vanguard bandits = masterpiece

Guardians Crusade is amazing with the doll system and soundtrack and Jade Cocoon is the most underrated RPG ever.

Jade cocoon never gets enough lovr. You can literally Fusion monsters and they will look crazy af, depending how many types and races you breed. I think imma get it naow xD

Brigandine is an awesome game, one of the best game that I had play

I love Vandal Hearts. The second one I couldnt get into. Played the third one for 360 and it was decent

Brigandine manages to kick my ass in so many different ways...

If you ever get a chance. I recommend you try rhapsody a musical adventure. Its on the ps1 and ds. I would get the ps1 version as its better. Its a fun little game with a great sense of humor. Also im so glad you mentioned thousand arms. That game is very underrated

I played most of the games in the list and it reminds me of my childhood..haha

I am very interested in checking some of the top 5, especially Guardian's crusade and the Number 2 (Kartia), I knee about Vandal Hearts, but never has the chance to play it, and I guess most of them are not available in PSN....right? The only game in the list I have played was Thousand Arms. Good game, but I agree, it becomes very repetiitive.

Erick :"I bet you dont know all of the following title im gonna show you today." Me sadly : "I know all of them."

Dragon Valor!, remembered last year, finally found it.

Don't know all of them? Heck I've played all of it and still have the physical copies to this day. Oh memory lane you so nostalgic!

0:35 Disturb The Doubtful Sleep from Valkyrie Profile 2 Silmeria 4:39 Fighting the Shadowy Gods from Valkyrie Profile 1

I beat this game recently. It is really good. Fun to play and great story.

Nr1 (9:32) was sooo much fun, and totally unknown even back then.

I ordered my physical copy of Chrono cross last night and I will probably play it on my PS2 because I have three PS1 memory cards still. I think one of them still has the game save file on it.

I love thousand arms! ❤️

Yess vandal hearts

Thanks for this!

Vandal Hearts II is one of my all time favorite games

Azure dreams

You should try Tear Ring Saga you'll love it. I have played all the games here and they're great. Great vid.

I've always search for jade coocon I find one in ps2 only I wish I played that day wow amazing review thanks

What about Thread of fate?

The Granstream Saga and its flat faces!!! One of the PSone's most representative images. It's awesome to fear when you are a child.

Guardian's Crusade - would like to play it again. Sayuki: Journey West - it was really great experience back in the day, but of course not so good as Final Fantasy Tactics. Dragon Valor - this one was kinda repetetive, I've got tired at some point of longrun and quitted. Great list, actually never heard of some games.

Saiyuki Journey West, Guardians Crusade, Dragon Valor, Kartia are all great games. My hidden gems would be Legend of Legaia & Rhapsody A Musical Adventure. I never hear anyone talking about these. I also enjoyed Alundra 2, but not really sure how well known it is.

Knew, played and finished all of them back in the day lol Had to import a lot of them from the US back then, cause they never released in Germany.

Back in those ps1 days, most of those games didn't reached Mexico in the legal way, but i ended up playing 8 out of this 10 games. They are good fun.

guardian crusade 😌 👍remembering me in 2000

I did know of all the games. And Vandal Hearts one and two are great

I miss those games. I wish they could be on the psn

Brigandine, thousand arms, saiyuki!! U can add front mission 3,hoshigami,koudelka,grandia,digimon world series to list

How about Front Mission 3? No one ever seems to talk about that one.

You didn't even sell Dragon Valor very well, come on man! What about the huge storyline divergence based on who you marry in the beginning? Totally changes who you play next in your family line through multiple generations. What weapons you get. What dragons you fight. What dungeons you do. Everything. Insane amounts of replayability when you figure out you don't have to open that door in the beginning. ;)

As a closing thought after watching this like 10 times lol. I hope modern fans realize the world doesn't just revolve around "Final Fantasy" there are so many great classic epics out there that deserve that recognition and playablity. I realize mainstream folks are always going to gravitate more towards stuff that is remade in some fashion or ported to modern hardware, but serously, as you have played FF VII remake and grown to enjoy the original Final Fantasy games as im seeing a massive influx now on twitch. Take some time and really check out some quality works of art that arn't just FF. There is alot of amazing adventures and fantasy worlds to explore on this great 32-bit system.

Thousand arms is good, cool graphic, decent soundtrack, and interesting system. The only downside is the battle system which only allow the frontliner to do the damage, while some enemy could damage the entire party.

Dragon Valor!

omg!!!! i still hav all the game

Kartia. Loved that game back when.

I love Guardians Crusade. Back when i was little i rented it over and over. And today i just wish i had bought it. It has become quite rare over here :/

Funny enough I had all of these in my PS1 liibrary. I only finished Brigandine and Vandal Hearts though.

i like thousand arms a lot surprised no one mentions Breath of Fire 3 or 4 i kind of grew up with them and when i got a chance played tales of destiny which to me was pretty decent helps to play older games earlier on though then it can only get better.

Anyone know the song at 0:35? I've heard that one somewhere else too but can't place it either.

thousand arms and vanguard bandits

i'd really like to check the ps3 store for some of these games but either my ps3 or my wifi are acting up and i can't connect on my ps3. i'm using it on my phone as i write this comment, so the wifi is working, just not on my ps3 for the past few days for some reason.

Refusing to consider Zelda a RPG is a hill I'm willing to die on.

Saga frontier 1 is amazing, i actually didn't like saga frontier 2... one was much better IMO.

I like suikoden 2 most....it had greatest story in psx game...

after 20 yrs just watching this video makes me realized that Im so nerd finishing all these games.

If you really liked Vandal Hearts and SaGa Frontier 2, try Vanguard Bandits. Very similar.

Hey can someone help me find my game? Idk what game it was but i will describe it the best i can I played a ps1 demo of it, at the start i think there was a burning village with a winged human and you wake up with 2 friend i think in a area with grass, the demo let me roam around a little and ended in a cave after fighting a big snake boss. I thought it was final Fantasy but i've been searching videos and can't find that scene anywhere and i was too young to remember all the details so if what i described made you think of some mission or boss of a turn based game like final Fantasy or similar please tell me i've been searching everywhere :(

I played and beat Guardian's Crusade. I played it for the pink hippo

Ragnarok Tactics music in beginning of video

still need to do Thousand Arms

Vandal Hearts is my top1 SRPG.

The greatest RPG's of all time were made for the PS1. The "Golden Age of RPG's" me and my brother call it. So many fantastic stories that were not only engaging, but innovative. The variety was quite amazing as well. From the popular ones like Final Fantasy VII and Dragon Quest VII to the lesser known but equally as good (if not better) gems like Suikoden and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue (Grandia, Legend of Legaia, Alundra, Brave Fencer Musashi, Jade Cocoon, Tales Series, Threads of Fate, Dragon Valor. I could go on and on). That system's RPG's were the pinnacle of narrative, character development, game play mechanics and style. Back before graphics were so good that they all looked the same; these games relied on differentiating visual styles! From the smooth realistic graphics of a Parasite Eve to the masterfully pixelated anime inspired "gundam" suits of Vanguard Bandits. It truly was a treasure trove of entertaining and enthralling games. Playable movies is a better label for them. If you enjoy RPG's but haven't played the NUMEROUS great titles from that era than you are missing out. Great videos, Erick!