You know what's criminally underrated? This channel.

Eternal sonata was such a masterpiece

Yeah I definitely wish more people would talk about Folklore and Eternal Sonata. Excellent games.

Eternal Sonata, Tales Of Graces and Star Ocean The Last Hope are 3 of my most precious JRPGs I spent many fantastic hours with. So yeah, absolutely agree with your list. Still have to check on White Knight Chronicles though.

The titles system in Tales of Graces f is my favorite mechanic in any Tales game so far.

lots of games I love in this list. Star Ocean 4, White Knight 2, and Eternal Sonata are the most epic grinds out there. And Eternal Sonata has my favorite graphics of all PS3 games.

Eternal Sonata is my favorite game of all time. There is no other game like it.

Finally i see someone talking about graces F god damn

Your writing and narration has gotten much better. Keep up the good work

I love Star Ocean The Last Hope, Tales of Grace's F. I consider these 2 a couple of my favorite games of those series.

Eternal sonata was a great game

Love your channel bro! You have great tastes in rpgs! 😁 I also love the entire Atelier series on all consoles! Including Mana Khemia 1 and especially 2! Lol. That one was absolutely hilarious! And Folklore was the very first PS3 game I've ever played! Love it!

Not gonna lie, I loved Eternal Sonata.

Graces F is the goat jrpg battle system.

Graces F may not be my favorite Tales game, but it was my first in the series & has gotten me to play so many other games in the series after so I have good memories of it

Graces F was my first Tales game and I've been looking for one as good ever since. And D2 was the best Disgaea game, hands down, in my opinion.

I love SO4: The Last Hope! :-) And ES is one of my favourite RPGs!

You should talk about Resonance of Faith, that game has much more to offer than people think

really enjoyed this video Erick, take good care!

The Japanese audio with Eng subs is the way to go with Star Ocean and it really brings up the rating for me of SO4. Folklore such an interesting game and as a die-hard Disgaea fan, I have no clue why no one seemed to play it, its a solid story. Great list as always.

Good video as always, Erick. I am currently playing "Atelier Shallie" after many years of waiting. XD. Now, of the 10 games you mentioned, I want to say that at least half of them I have been able to enjoy and the other half is either on hold, or in plans to be achieved. Especially if the rumor of the closing of servers for PS3 turns out to be true, which leaves many games without updates, especially if we talk about Drakengard 3 that has a fatal error on the disk and needs that update on day 1 to be able to install.

Erick Landon RPG, thank you so much for your amazing content!

Great list, thank you. I'd say that Tears to Tiara II, Trinity Souls of Zill O'll, Ar noSurge, Lost Dimension, Trinity Universe, Fairy Fencer F and Agarest 2 are also pretty underrated. It always baffles me when people say that PS3 didn't have any good JRPGs when in actuality there were quite a lot of them. Just makes you wonder if those people really owned the console.

I like how you ended the video with trails of cold steel battle theme you should make a video about top 5 ps3 jrpgs only on ps3

This intro was always epic you should bring it back !

Eternal Sonata is the game I try my best to get everyone to play. Crazy underrated. Amazing music, great battle systems, if you love music it's even a added bonus. It's amazes me how basicly no one talks about this amazing gift of a Rpg.

good video man next do best ps3 digital only jrpgs so I can pick them up before the store shuts down

Eternal Sonata is another game that made me cry so much at the end! It's a truly beautiful story, I really recommend it to anyone who still has their 360 or PS3 (I have the 360 version). Tales of Graces F is a fairly good entry in the Tales of series, it's not in my top 3, but I definitely enjoyed playing it, and I really liked Sophie and Pascal! I actually wasn't so keen on Asbel as a protagonist, but he's not bad.

Yes! Watching the video, I kept telling myself I hope Eternal Sonata makes the list and it did! Such a masterpiece of a game. Thanks and keep up the great work.

Erick thanks for this Needed a good list of games to make sure i get before they aregone

I love your enthusiasm

Folklore, ninja gaiden sigma and dark sector were my first games when I got my first ps3. Great games

Finally graces getting the love it deserves

I loved White knight chronicle, game was ahead of his time. Folklore was my older brother favorite game ever since he played the demo but at the time online purchase wasn't as common as it is now and getting a physical copy was a nightmare until I checked the game store at the mall and omg here it is I remember begging my mother because I knew how rare it was and how much my brother would love it. (I might be lucky now that I think about it I once found a special edition of Pandora's tower JRPG on WII during a local event and also got my hands on a Fire emblem IF/FATEs special edition on a gamestore page even though it was worse than getting a ps5 at a regular price)

SO4 is actually my favorite in the series. I'm very glad it was ported to pc a few years ago.

I never owned a PS3 or PS4, and I'm always amazed when I see screen shots of games from both systems. They look so similar, and I wouldn't be surprised if most PS4 games could have been released on the PS3. I had heard that the PS4 was minimally more powerful than the PS3 and it definitely shows. To be fair to the PS4, it has an amazing library of games regardless of it's hardware weakness. PS5 is a big step up in terms of hardware quality, and I really hope that some JRPGs are in development for it.

Tales of graces is quite famous for being the best battle system of the series. It does have some hard fights, but I would say Xillia 2 is the hardest one by a mile :p

Always happy to see folklore love

tx m8 loking for this

Never realized that DD2 was underrated in the series. Shame too, since the attack animations and even the cut-in animations are probably the best in the series, what with how punchy and... animated- they are.

Nice list. I've played a few of them, while others I either have on my shelf or planned on buying. WKC was decent, but then it just ends right as it starts getting really interesting. I have yet to play the sequel. Folklore was great, even with the terrible motion controls being forced on you. Eternal Sonata was pretty entertaining. I think I got all achievements for it on 360.

Thank you! I'll check them out :)

I don't think Disgaea D2 is that unknown or underrated. Every time discussions about other games in the series pop up on Steam, people mention it. Every single time. That's how I came to know of it.

Hey everyone. More then a year ago I bought Eternal Sonata on the PS3 just purely on Erick’s recommendation. He is right. The game is a masterpiece with its JRPG game design. The difficulty was tough but fair and there are lots of opportunities to grind if you need to. The battle system is very addicting as well. I loved the battles in this game. They are a lot of fun. Honestly the story was interesting but I really can’t say that aspect of it was top notch. But what is told to the player with the story was decent enough to keep me interested all the way to the end. The characters are also quite charming. You will easily form an attachment to them because of how they are written. And the music is some of the best I’ve experienced in any JRPG I have played. Erick made me a fan of this game and now I too can’t promote enough about how great it is. If you are a JRPG fan with a PS3, this one is easily a must own!

You are correct that some of the criticisms against Star Ocean the Last Hope are exaggerated. A few days ago on the JRPG subreddit I saw a person say that the cutscenes were too long. While story, gameplay,music and characters are all subjective...time is objective. Star Ocean The Last Hope is one of the few non handheld HD era JRPGs that respect your time. Remember back in the PS1 era when 30 minute long cutscenes were saved for the ending? Now it's just Tuesday. Maybe since they hated the characters the cutscenes seemed to be longer than they really were.

Love the list. So tired of all the same old boring lists of every "popular" top 10. This was a refreshing lost and almost half of these titles I didn't know about. So u gave me some nice "new" titles for me to check out. Thanks bro!

Hi Erick, can you do in the near future a top ten personal favourite genres besides jrpg and even western rpg's. In my case besides jrpgs I like survival horror a lot, but also racing, exactly almost every genre has it charme, depending on your mood. Mainstream or hidden gems, underrated bla bla, I don't care, it is all about what you enjoy!

I wanted white knight chronicles to test the online a few years back but never bought it. It’s crazy nearly most of these games I’ve almost bought when they were dirt cheap at GameStop around 2014

Nice vídeo!! Make a top 10 for xbox 360 ;)

You look like the Mandalorian, THATS AWESOME

So many rpgs, im just on the ps2 era of my backlog and the switch just joined

PSA to everyone here: PICK THESE GAMES UP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In all seriousness, I have seen prices for PS3 games start to creep up and I highly encourage everyone here to pick up any PS3 titles they have been eyeing NOW while they are still reasonably priced.

Star Ocean is my favorite serie, and I love last hope, combats and characters are awsome, I want to play it once again! (So2 is my favorite of all time!)

Great list! I have most of the games from this list so I think I have a pretty no-mainstream taste for RPGs hahaha. As someone who played the entire Tales of Series I can safely say that the most difficult games are Tales of Destiny 2 and Tales of Rebirth for the PS2. Those came out only in Japan and are really brutal.

Nice work as usual. Which Atelier game has the best story /characters between those 2: Escha & Logy or Shallie ?

I finished Eternal Sonata just yesterday after years of keeping it on the shelf cause I found it too difficult (i suck at games, imma be honest) but I can confirm, it is a great game. I definitely was missing out and I'm so glad my better judgement led me to never trade it or sell it. I knew what I had in my hands was not easy to find (never seen it in any store before or since i bought it, and also never seen anyone sell it second hand in my country). It is beautiful, the characters are all charming in their own way. I think the only thing i can't find here that I can find on like any Tales games, are more in-depth character interactions. But besides that, great visuals, the difficulty in the end just adds to the experience, and the battle system is really enjoyable when you get used to it. I also like how the party level up doesn't only come with benefits but also more challenge. Especially the last level. It makes you a little OP but at a fair price. SPOILER ALERT I really don't understand why they have you know that Viola has feelings for Jazz, to never touch on the topic again. Also, while I did ship Allegretto and Polka during gameplay, I feel like there was not enough build up to the ending. Like, yeah, they have a couple of slightly cute interactions but not enough to lead me where it ended up going at the very last moment. Also, the Villain is pretty basic. Evil for the sake of it lol.

I played the five Star Ocean games. Last Hope is my favorite, followed by 1, 2, 3 and 5.

Can we consider Folklore a spiritual successor or something linked to the Shadow Hearts series T__T

Star Ocean the last hope is one of my best rpg of all time, loved it so much.

Sorry about the store closing for PS3 and Vita... Now go out there and buy those PS5 Digital Only consoles!

I didn't play Eternal Sontata because it is not available on the PS store, and I failed to find a physical copy. I played the demo of Folklor and I like it, but at that time I already moved to the PS4 & forgot about it.

One of my main reasons for getting a ps3 was for the Atelier games since I loved Atelier Iris and Mana Khemia on ps2. But then I got Rorona? Arland? Can't remember and ran into that time limit that turned me off hard. I tried again with Atelier Ayesha and was once again disappointed with the time limit. Most recently I did grab Ryza and give it a trial run, but I eventually figured out I didn't like the new combat system. Instead during the PS3 era I mainly got into the Tales games with Graces F becoming my all time favorite.

As an underrated JRPG, I also think of the first two "Trails On Cold Steel" originally released on PS3 which are absolutely brilliant. One of the best gaming experiences of my life. Thank you for your list, I agree (almost) on everything ;)

I have played Eternal Sonata, it's one of the best games out there.

I was going to ask you about Resonance of Fate then I saw you did an old video on it.. so there's that 👀

The lack of jrpgs on the Xbox is to thanks for me playing the greatness that is eternal sonata

Atelier Escha is very expensive to get lately for those who will try and find a copy.

Agreed that Eternal Sonata is a great game, but the difficulty on the PS3 version is crazy compared to the Xbox 360 version. I've been replaying it recently (originally played on the 360), and have been surprised at how difficult it is.

I knew I should have grabbed White Knight Chronicles...I remember looking at it for awhile haha Ar Tonelico Qoga I was playing when my PS3 broke down. I ran out and bought a new one just to continue playing it lol

I'm so happy to see Star Ocean 4 on this list, but my major gripe with the game is that the grinding is slow and tough starting out, and I'm playing the ps4 remaster. Maybe the original ps3 version will be better. Luckily I own the ps3 version but sadly no ps3 console. I love star ocean so much I just had to have it though

FF 13-2 is criminally underrated and gets a lot of hate. Great list as always.

Thank you for that I am currently playing eternal sonata now PS3 version I am level 25 just got through the wah lava sequence now I am battling the guy with the long blade I have died several times man he is tough either that or I suck lol

I tried to play the two atelier games escha logy and Aisha on PS now but PS now kept crashing and I can never get to a point where I can save so I think I'm going to buy these too for the PS4

I played Eternal Sonata and its one of the beat jrpg for the xbox360 and ps3

Sony should make all PS3 exclusive games into 5USD before closing down the store (closing sale or something)...

Cool shirt. NIN are amazing 👍🏻

Star oceant 4 was so good!!!and yes it has the best system in the series, resenanace of fate should be in the list too...,damn i dont know why people hate this game so much🙁

One reason reason D2 gets over looks is because many of us keep calling Disgaea 2 D2 for years and still do. D1, D2, D3, D4, D5 and now waiting on D6 it also has some side games.

I fell out with Atelier games during jump to ps3 due to the time limit in Rorona I think. It would be handy to know which ones don't have it so I could give em a go. Also Eternal sonata was great. Lost Odyssey should be here too

I love Disgaea D2

I need to finish Eternal Sonata

I wish Graces was on the Switch.

I did not even know that Disgaea game to this day!!! But Tales of Graces and Eternal Sonata totally deserve it. I just wish Eternal Sonata had trophies too.

Wow eternal sonata is one of my all time favorite games!

I kinda slept through the PS3 era, to be honest. My brother is the only one who would turn it on to play, in fact. And he wouldn't play any RPGs on it. I tried the SO The Last Hope Steam port but no matter how much I forced myself to push through the starting area I couldn't. I've mentioned this in some of your other videos but the only titles from the series I adore is the fan translated one for the SNES (I don't like the PSP remaster) and Till the End of Time. My only regret was that I never played Demon's Souls but I'm not gonna miss out on it thanks to the remake.

I have that same shirt

I remember I really disliked Eternal Sonata the first time I played it, and it was the first game I ever returned for a trade-in at Gamestop. But then years later, I remembered that I did have fun with it and the story was melodramatic but it was also very sincere. I realized that I actually did like the game without realizing so I bought it again. I always laugh when I remember that it's the only game where the characters literally give you, the player, real-life advice when the credits roll. "Don't make the same mistakes that I did." I won't Claves. Thanks.

Eternal Sonata is probably the best JRPG I've played on PS3. Folklore is also really great, really loved it for the art style and atmosphere and music.

Where you from Erick? I love your accent.

I had to sell my copy of eternal sonata alongside some other games because money was short back then, it's the one game i regret selling :/

Can anyone remember what was the name of that strategy jrpg where you get to play across five different generations of characters?

I played White Knicht Chronicles 1 + 2 and in several situations it was cleared, the game was more made for multiplayer than solo play. Eternal Sonata - I am happy i played it, because first i thought the graphics are too childish. The gameplay is pretty good tho.

I thought white Knight chronicles 1 and 2 were awesome but the online mode being no longer available is like having half of the game. The online part was what kept me playing for a long time after the story. Ar tonelico qoga was cool too, eternal sonata was just amazing, the music, the battle system, the world, the anime graphics were all great, I just can't understand why people didn't love this game. Drakengard 3 not having a physical release (UK) probably hurt it, the first two were great games but were a relatively unknown series over here so I can see why they chose not to make a physical release for the third one.

Tales of Graces is an awesome game, I think that is best than Xillia 1 and 2! What do u think about Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes on ps3?

Ow boi how I love Disgaea D2, it's the only Disgaea game I played till the end game, now I actually wanna fire it up again after seeing this. Really not sure why it's so under the radar, maybe that it is exclusive to PS3, maybe it was released when other more popular games came out too, no idea honestly. Was always wondering about that myself.

I don't know why, but something tells me that the dark-haired shallie is your waifu from Atelier series. (Interestingly, the green-haired shallie is more popular) I've seen that in some parts, they give bad reviews to drakengard 3, I like that game. I see you recommend a lot of eternal sonata, but I always overlooked it.

If I may make a suggestion, please have a tag or headline somewhere that has the title of the game you are currently talking about, please and thank you.

White Knight Chronicles was good. But it got hurt by the delays. If it had come out as a launch title as planned it would have been a well known game.

I am so suprised they have not released Eternal Sonata for the ps4 yet as it is by far one of THE best RPGs ever made what a fantastic game 😁👌🏻

I couldn't agree more Eternal Sonata is an awesome game.