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Speaking of remakes, how about a list of RPG rereleases/remakes that greatly improved upon the original release? Or conversely, that failed to be as good as the original?

I don't know where you find the time to play all these RPGs, but we certain love your lists!

This is a nice change of things. Video in the morning and one late tonight. Great list always appreciate your taste on them.

SMT Devil Survivor Overclocked on 3DS ate up 100 hours of my life. Still my most played 3DS game! I love the 3DS, it has such an awesome RPG catelog, especially considering you can play all those DS games.

The majority of mobile games are micro transaction cancer

The 3DS is just a magical RPG machine, I remember playing the demo of Stella Glow the first time and just captured my heart. Alliance Alive is high on my must-play list, definitely grabbing the Switch/PS4 Remaster when it comes out

Fantastic list! You should do lists with just ports and remakes.

I don't have and never had a 3rd but I still watched the video,cos I enjoy your content;nice work man

Etrian Odyssey 4 introduced me to what is now my favourite RPG series, so I'd say that's my favourite on the 3DS, though the first Untold is very close. Disappointed it didn't get an honorable mention at least

"Aloha region" huh? :P

GREAT taste! Alliance Alive is so underrated, and it’s nice to see Legend of Legacy and 7th Dragon get some love at the end there. Awesome list.

I may miss the lives but I love watching these great videos before bed 😍🥰

Great to see your list, that top choice sounds very intriguing!!

Now that I just got to a 3DS XL I had to revisit this videos because I have the same taste as you in games. Especially turn based strategy is one of my favorites. You steered me right so many times in the past half the games I have on multiple systems are because of you and your stellar advice.

The thing that made the bravely default games so fun for me were all the options. Don't like battling or grinding? You don't have to! Want to level up faster, get more gold? Here you go! Something too hard, or too easy? Adjust the difficulty! It's so much fun to finally be free of everything that makes rpg games feel like a chore! I put 120 hours in both, and I haven't even finished the urinal dungeons!

Nice surprise to see Alliance Alive at #1. Was my game of the year upon release. I just love it. Great story, great music, great battle, and tons of charm. Probably my favorite game on portables in general.

Fantasy Life, Ever Oasis and Popolocrois were my favorite game on the 3DS. I hope we get good RPG games on the switch.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see "Stella Glow" on this list. The game was a diamond in the rough find for me, I found the game very enjoyable and would replay it just so I can unlock the endings of not just the heroines but also the male characters as well (few as they are). It saddens me that it won't get a sequel of some kind, it may have been interesting to see what would have been.

I play Fantasy Life now, and it's phenomenal. The crafting side of World of Warcraft is front and center in this game. So good.

Ayyy:D That Alliance Alive pick was solid:D

I am always amazed at how many RPGs you played! Great selection! I personnaly find Bravely Default better than the sequel whose story was a bit disapointing (especially, all the bad guys from the first game becoming good ones).

Wow i thought you would miss 7th dragon, but you go for everything.

Love that youre giving the SaGa-esque games a shout out. SaGa is my favourite series. Love your work. 😘

The 3DS was a JRPG powerhouse! Really loved Bravely Default, Dragon Quest VII, Pokemon X and Fire Emblem. Still loving and playing my 3DS. The Alliance Alive, Stella Glow and especially Bravely Second are very high on my to-play list.

I love seeing a Yokai Watch game on this list, totally underrated in the west imo. Maybe I need to give Stella Glow another try. I’m spoiled by snappy FE gameplay.

Broooo. Bravely Second is my favorite game ever, perioddd. Its so good!

Thanks for a great video, definitely getting Alliance Alive for Switch once it hits!

The Alliance Alive is definitely on my radar. It's on everyone's top ten 3DS Rpg list

I loved Stella Glow. I just wish it had more replayabilty. Once you beat NG+, you have seen it all. Still my #1 fav game on N3DS

According to a Wikipedia the Alliance Alive is also going to be be on PC the Switch.

Fantasy Life is in my top 3 games of all time, with Blue Dragon and Ni No Kuni.

Hi David! Just watched this now and coincidentally just finished Poplocrois. I enjoyed it alot and only used the farming to raise a ton of money for weapons etc. Its weird that your numbers 10, 9, 8 and 5 are ones I have actually finished. I spent more time in Fantasy Life than any other game I think, maxing out all professions. I have the others in my backlog except Yokai 3. Alliance Alive is still shrink wrapped... I gave up opening new purchases unless I could play it immediately. Trying to get through Trails of Cold Steel before Animal Crossing hits but I doubt I'll make it. Oh well! Loved your choices - thanks!

Rune Factory 4? I haven't played it, but I need to

That alliance give me golden sun vibe.

STELLA GLOW + FANTASY LIFE! Two of my all-time favorite games on the Nintendo 3DS. MONSTER HUNTER 4: ULTIMATE is my ultimate game in the system though.

As much as a yo Kai watch fan I am, I surprisingly started to get bored at 3! Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fun ride, but I felt that it was too heavy on pointless side quests for story progression. But as long as you get through those like I did YW3 is definitely the best the franchise has to offer. Also on a side note YW Blasters is a spin-off game of the Yo Kai Watch series that focuses on the Blasters side-games from the main games. And while in those games Blasters had little depth and was only somewhat interesting in multiplayer, when given a full fledged game Blasters really shines. It’s sorta structured like a monster hunter game with an emphasis on fighting big bosses (mainly after the story campaign), and getting drops to craft new and powerful equipment for your yo kai. This system works in the games favor when combined with the 4 main classes of yo kai (fighter, ranger, tank, healer) carried over from previous iterations and the already charming visual style and characters. If there’s one flaw I could list it’s that the main currency of the game is also what you use to level up characters, which isn’t a perfect balance but you can still get loads of it through boss missions. With the amount of recruitable yo kai in the game your also free to find a play style that suits you even within the 4 major roles. Overall YW Blasters is an excellent game that you check out for yourself if your a YW fan, even if the game is unfair at times.

Fun fact: Yoshitaka Murayama (writer/creator of Suikoden) wrote The Alliance Alive. Another fun fact: Murayama is gonna have another game in 3 years called Eiyuuden Chronicles which is a spiritual successor to Suikoden. Hope you guys support it when it comes out :)

I think Ever Oasis was really nice

Good list 👌👍

Does any one know a game like Fantasy Life? It was my favorite on the 3DS and I've never seen any game like this ever again help please

For my fave rpg + farm/craft/marry etc is rune factory 4. I loved bravely too and mario& Luigi, zelda etc but rune factory won my heart. Play the 3rd in emulation and love it so much that i ended buying 4 when i bought my 3ds. The history is amazing, i love every person in Selphia. I even cried with the history and still played after 6 years 💕 For me is my favourite Rpg in the 3ds💕💕 (My honor mention is a ds game that i wish would release a new game and is solatorobo, i really enjoy that game and fall in love with the cast💕)

I'm glad to find other people who enjoy the alliance Alive. It's a great game and i loved the pre-order bonuses the game came with

I'm a little bit disappointed that Rune Factory 4 didn't make the list, but I do want to play through Poporocrois: Story of Seasons. I bought it really cheap when it was on sale on the eshop, so I'll definitely play through it once I've finished it's predecessor on PSP.

I gotta say DQ7 was pretty awesome as well and had a decent amount of content to really get your money’s worth. I watched this because I need to decide on what rpg to buy next lol :P

I got to the end of Stella Glow and my units weren't high enough level or something so I just never got to finish it. :(

Favorite 3ds rpg? Shin megami tensei 4. Next to it is etrian odyssey 4

My favorite 3ds JRPG is Etrian Odyssey Nexus . I've sunk over 150 hours on that diamond , and as soon as I finished it , I started a new playthrough on it all over again . If you haven't checked it out , you definitely should Just heads up : the game is difficult

谢谢啦让我了解了很多之前不知道的好游戏。

I guess I'm not the only one who likes SMT IV Apocalypse. Also, I can't wait to play the Alliance Alive on the Switch! But what I do wish got an HD port is 7th Dragon Code VFD.

I have not played them yet. I do want to play them someday.

rune factory 4 is my favorite game in the history of entertainment.

So far, my favourite 3DS turn-based RPGs, except Fantasy Life which is action RPG, are: Dragon Quest XI (Japan exclusive) Fantasy Life Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3 + Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3 Professional (both Japan exclusive) Youkai Watch Return to Popolocrois (I didn't know they localised it.)

Alliance Alive remastered is out in October. As if I didn’t have enough on my wishlist. Now as it stands Final Fantasy 8 remastered Pokemon Shield Dragon Quest XI S Ni no Kuni (getting both versions) Digimon Story Complete Alliance Alive And that’s just this year. Next year we have Final Fantasy 7 Remake Persona 5 the Royal Tales of Arise Digimon Survive Yokai Watch 1 remastered Cris Tales And I really want to play Grandia remastered at some point too. We may have had a JRPG drought most of this year but we are about to start hitting the jackpot. And I can’t wait. I’ve already started with the DQXI S demo. But I’m hoping to get the full game at Christmas. FF8 remastered though is when my drought will officially end.

Yo kai watch 3 comes out the day before my birthday. I know what I'm asking for 😁

Dark Cloud, Best RPG of all time for me, I love that game!

While I love Bravely Second, I don't think the new cast additions were too great (love what they did with the old cast tho) and the story overall was kinda...less epic/engaging? The ending of Bravely Default is something truly special to me, as are your party members in it, maybe that's why I just felt kinda really disappointed by the ending of bravely second, both in terms of difficulty and it not feeling as impactful of a finale as Bravely Default's ending fights.

Seeing bravely second I got to ask David: was it you who complained about bravely second pacing issues in another video?

8:35 I think you meant to say 2 years, not 20 lol

This is a port free video, but I just _have_ to recommend Devil Survivor: Overclocked. It's easily become my favorite Shin Megami Tensei game of the bunch, and I consider it pretty accessible to people new to the series (as well as a good game to pick up if you've only played Persona - the story mixes the best of Persona and SMT perfectly.)

I tried Alliance Alive, but I hit a brick wall early on and never actually went back to it.. Maybe I'll give it another shot since it's out on the Switch now.

small nitpick, Pokemon gen 7 is in the Alola region not Aloha...easy slip up though given that you mention the Hawaiian inspiration. and for a neat little fun fact, FE's casual mode ( which I too just love as I also hate permadeath....though I may be in a very small minority as a fan of Fates's phoenix mode ) actually debuted in the Mystery of the Emblem remake on DS that stupidly only released in Japan. Dream Team was pretty good, especially the new characters and the hilarious story. But omfg the forced gyro bs killed my interest in a second playthrough ( not to mention the incredibly awkward "3D" attacks that I rarely manage to dodge... ) I also need to give Ever Oasis a shoutout here. It's one of the best RPGs on the system and a severely underrated gem. Sadly yet another example of Nintendo bringing out a new IP and too many people ignoring it :/

I'm playing Radiant Historia and Fantasy Life on 3DS. The other games I wanna get are Rune Factory 4, The Alliance Alive, Ever Oasis, Monster Hunter Stories, and Heroes of Ruin (diablo like)

well since you asked...two of my favorites (that weren't mentioned in this video) are: 1)Project X Zone 1/2: okay this one has a number of issues....fairly shallow battle system, limited item/money balance, battles that'll go on for like 20 minutes before piling on literally dozens more enemies (and doing this multiple times in the same battle, even), but i loooove it....such fan service. And the second one lets you equip Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey as a single support unit!

Fantasy Life is seriously my favorite game of all time next to okami

Wait a moment. At the beginning of the video you said you're not going to add ports or remakes but you added Pokémon Ultra Sun/Moon into the list. They are remakes of the original 2. Actually Bravely Default is not the first game of the series. That is Final Fantasy The 4 Heroes of Light. I LOVE Fire Emblem Awakening. Finally doing a Lunatic Classic playthrough at the moment. It's still my absolute favorite in the series, though Fire Emblem Fates is also good as well.

My issue I have most of these and struggling to find the time between my 3ds, GameCube and modded snes mini 😅🤣🙈

I would assume the main reason there isn't same sex marriage in FE Awakening is because marriage is just a game mechanic to produce children that are the combination of abilities of both parents first, and character development second.

Yooooo I did not no popolocrois was on the 3ds.

being Team Luigi, i of course love Dream Team

I love The Alliance Alive, but I guess my expectation was to big. This game have 5 small towns, a lot of characters are underdeveloped (specialy the vilains), the final boss and the last part of the game is boring. But the soundtrack is really good and I love to build my little team on my ship. 😁

I've never played a SMT game, can I play 4 without being completely lost?

My top 5 no ports/remakes one per franchise 5 The Legend of Legacy 4 Bravely Default 3 Fire Emblem Awakening 2 Shin Megami Tensei IV 1 7th Dragon Code VFD Haven't played enough of Bravely Second,Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse,or The Alliance Alive to put them on here.

Not too bad of a list honestly. I'm surprised that someone else besides me likes the Pokemon Ultra games though XD

Thanks to this vídeo I got almost all of the ones on this list that a didn't get before . (Ps:Just now I see I only had all ports of smt.)

I'm with u completely on the perma death, the stress of a party member not making it to the end is a deal-breaker. It's nothing I'm proud of and effects even traditional RPGs. If I finish a boss, but one party member didn't make it? Nope. Restart. Either everyone makes it or no one does.

As far as I know, you could improve relationships in Fire Emblem as far back as Genealogy of the Holy War. On the Super Famicom. Not just the newer ones. Loved Luminous Arc though and Roland influenced a Magus I made for a short lived Pathfinder game. I'll check out Stella Glow. I loved both Bravely games but I wasn't happy the Spell Fencer was removed in Second and a fair amount of the music was really meh. Not all but much of it, ESPECIALLY the special themes, all sounding so similar and underwhelming. Like, they couldn't have got Revo to do just two more special themes for Yew and Magnolia?

I just purchased a 3DS and I've never played any of the games. I love RPGs, so I'll be looking to pick up 3 to 5 games. Who can guide me in the right direction? I like games like Final Fantasy, Wild Arms, Shinning Force, Zelda, Metal Gear Solid, The Legend of Dragoon, Lunar and Crono Trigger. I'd appreciate some suggestions from other RPG addicts like myself. Thanks!

i loved imageepoch so much rip : (

still waiting for bravely third, it's been said on record it is coming, just a shame now it seems there's no point in saving saved data for second for a future release.

do you beat all the games you review

I was lucky enough to actually have a physical copy of Yo Kai Watch 3.

Davidvinc: Portable gaming is dead Nintendo: Hold my sake'

no clue if either of these meet your criteria, but... Radiant Historia... Time travel done right; I felt like I was playing Steins gate level of time travel usage. Loved the short and sweet story and it was only as hard as you wanted it to be (at least my pre-ordered copy was maybe normal version did not have the exp boost items). If this is a remake or what have you my bad but I don't think it is. Octopath traveler (I think this was switch alone but if I am wrong and it counts then it should of been on the list).

Woohoo! Fire Emblem finally made the list :D

I love Bravely Default, it's so charming and beautifully crafted. Great list, but it needs more Shin Megami Tensei

Alliance Alive. Never heard of it. Perhaps I should check it out. If I had to pick a Fire Emblem, I'd pick Fire Emblem: Conquest over Awakening any day. But as you can imagine, I'm not someone who plays on Phoenix Mode. But hey, that's fine. I just like my Fire Emblems hard. :) Pokémon USUM are definitely miles above SuMo. I just wished I had never played SuMo before... As for Apocalypse, I really want to play it, but I feel I should finish all the routes in regular IV first and that takes a while haha. Bravery Default and Second are definitely amazing. The Job system is great and it allows for so many customizations, it's really cool. Great list. :)

Good list but I thought you said no remakes but Ultra Sun/Moon are remakes as you stated in the video. Oh and many seem to praise FE: Awakening but I absolutely loved Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright myself.

David do I have to play 4 before I play apocalypse or does it not matter??

I just did a google search for alliance alive and looks that it will be ported to the Switch

Am a big fan of Animal Crossing, have spent more than 1400 hours at New Leaf and last week I purchased Fantasy Life, totally love it everything cause is so damn cute, from this list I got the digital version of Stella Glow, a physical copy of Mario and Luigi: Dream Team, Bravely Default: End Layer and Alliance Alive and it seems that I'll get ASAP my copy of Return to PoPoLoCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale

You forgot to mention the Alliance Alive was made by Team Suikoden.

Why is gamigami like a lovable dr robotnik

whats the game in the intro?

I think I have more than 300 hours on Yokai Watch 3 and Fantasy Life (Best 3DS Rpg).

There are alot of great RPGs on 3DS. However, my personal favorite is *Final Fantasy Explorers* yup you heard right. At first, I hated the game. But after a bit of playing...I loved it.

To each their own I loved Stick Star!!!

I saw Popo LaCroix but honestly the fact that it wasn't SoS at all really is why I didn't want it. I was hoping for something like a more SoS style Rune Factory... I thought about getting Stella Glow once. Fantasy Life was my jam friend! DLC was worth it too. I only have one of the first Yokai Watch. Also a kitten named Yokai. Befriending Yokai irl here lol. I have the Persona 2&3 game. Awakening is a fun game. Don't they have kids though, which is a big part of getting people married? To get new units. Or am I mixing it up with a different one? I can't believe you showed classmating from Conception II at the start. Naughty. Lol. Don't ask how I know what it is though.

No remakes huh... so why is ultra sun/moon on here if there are no remakes?

I heavily disagree with Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon being the definitive versions considering how badly they ruined Lilly, Lusamine, and Galdion's character development, for the sake of replacing it with a generic stop the evil legendary plot.