Please for those who want to play something that isnt "Steam Deck Verified", check Proton DB to see if there is a quick and dirty way to get an unverified title running.

Steamdeck rocks and so does this video/channel ❤🎉subbed

Love the channel, dude! I immediately reacted to your content like that 2010 meme of a stereotypical gentleman going like, I see you're a man of culture... That said, consider this comment as a nudge of the destiny saying, go play Neon White, you'll probably like it.

Nice video!

Great review. Looking forward to more of your content.

This deserves more views. I never understood why my elders treated video games like a waste of time, but not movies, books or literally any other form of media. And to add to #1: one of the best lessons I've ever learned from being a Steam user -- _something being on sale is not a good enough reason to buy it._ You have to ask yourself, do I actually want this? Am I actually going to use it? Or is the incredibly low price tag just making me feel FOMO?

All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal Steam Deck is a video game machine JRPG is a video game genre therefore Steam Deck is a JRPG machine

As a trophy hunter with a massive backlog I'm working through I feel like shorter games are becoming my go to. I look at a game that is 100 hours and I know it's going to be great, but I'm going to get exhausted after 50 or 60 usually. I feel 25-35 hours if the perfect length for most games I play these days and only rarely do I think longer than that is going to be worth it. I did play Ys 8 last year and that was 75 hours and I never once felt like "this could have been over 20 hours ago" but those are few and far between.

This is an awesome video with really good points. I used to achievement hunt hard, but now I use it more or less as a "journal" that marks milestones, and that has helped my mentality with my game catalog significantly.

great list, knew all of them except Xanadu Next and I can't believe that flew under my radar.

Just a tip. The blurry intro was offputting and made me wonder if there was a mistake with the video at first.

Lunacid is absolutely incredible. The kings field games were so good, and they nailed the esthetic with this one. For a single dev, it's really impressive.

What are your thoughts on the FF Pixel remaster ? Worth it for someone who never played 1-5 ?

Hidden on steam deck.... doesn't make sense

Its utterly ridiculous when you look at the SNES, which was the best JRPG Console ever made. And then the followup console the N64 had what, two RPGs, Quest 64 and Aidyn Chronicles? The N64 failed so hard in what the SNES excelled, its ridiculous! Chrono Trigger, Terranigma (Quintet games), Treassure of the Rudras, Secret of Mana's, the FF roaster, Dragon Quest's, Mario RPG, Lufia's and dozens more. The best of the best JRPGs ever made were on the SNES.

I love seeing you continue to enjoy your dungeon crawlers! It's been nice to see more and more come out lately, and they always make me think of your Grimrock streams. I prefer the ones like Etrian Odyssey with interesting puzzles and player mapping tools (as opposed to auto-mapping). Are the DCs you showed similar to that? I also appreciate that EO isn't *too* scary/spooky 😅

I love your sporadic assortment of videos. Whether it be video essays like "Game Localization: Why Everyone is Wrong", shining light on hidden gems like this video or casual life updates and anecdotes like your "collecting games is [REDACTED]" video; your videos always lead me to knowledge which i wouldn't have sought out otherwise. While your channel currently has less than 200 subscribers, I hope you keep this free spirited approach as your channel grows and continue to do what you personally enjoy. I'm certain that I'll be looking back at this channel in a year and, perhaps, it will have amassed houndreds of thousands of subscribers, but I hope that you see this comment before that. Keep doing what you enjoy! I really appreciate your work!

You want an action RPG? Try out the INCREDIBLY underrated CrossCode. One of the best indie games ever made to which I'm surprised as to why not many talked about it

Awesome! I will look more into these for sure. I don't think I'm a good fit for all of them, but a couple caught my eye. Thank you for the detailed and spoiler-free overviews! I would love to see more of this type of content periodically too, as you play and discover more games. Keep up the great work, man! 🙏 Appreciate you!

I absolutely LOVE this reframe. Excellent points made throughout. I particularly adored: "We're built on failure. Failure is the essential nutrient for growth." and of course, "SO GET IN THERE AND FAIL!" 😂 I definitely think that there's a stigma associated with "wasting your time" playing video games, but as you've concluded here, there is genuine value in how games teach us and influence who we become. Particularly salient for me in my work with folks in therapy - I would love to paraphrase some of your verbiage and / or perspectives from this if the situation arises, if that's okay with you. Thank you as always for the great content, homie! 🙏 Keep it up! 💜

me for hidden gems Every Persona game before Persona 5 Released

I've been looking for cool jrpgs so this video was a Godsend, thank you!

The LCD screen is absolute trash, there is literally no comparison….and then there is the battery life.

I have access to multiple gaming PCs and all nearly all consoles. Still, I keep reaching for the Switch and Steam Deck. The ability to sleep quickly is essential for me now. Switch still has the best sleep mode, then Steam Deck, then PS4/5. No suspend for games on PC really stops me from playing unless I have a lot of uninterrupted time.

Well for me, as a console player, the Deck has all the thing i don't like about PC, and it lacks the thing i like the most on console, buying my games physical.

Also great for playing PS1 games. I'm absolutely loving it so far, finally finishing off my second play through of Threads of Fate.

got one to play all the Trails games, love my switch but the lag is getting to me even with a QLED and mclassic its just time to get something that runs games more smoothly. so i will be busy knocking out ALOT of jrpgs cant wait =)

I bought steamdeck when it launched.. 3 months later i had to order another for my girlfriend (that had never played on pc) because i rarely got to play it my self. she got kickstarted by steam familyshare testing games from my 250 steam games. now she already has like 40 games on her account (damn sales) But atleast i get to play my own deck now lol.

what the heck is “onnie may” 1:00

Your voice is very soothing

As an Adult: Factorio or games like that, helped me develop the ability to be as efficient as possible or try to optimize things. Other games like Portal got me to think outside of the box since I usually think inside the box (now getting into Entropy Centre to break the inside the box thinking again). Cod or shooters and Beat Saber definitely help me with reaction time and I mainly play controller, so that's another thing to get used to (my dad and uncle tried to play a game using a controller and it was funny to see them try using 2 thumbsticks at the same time😅). As a child: I remember playing Spider-Man 1 on PS1 and how challenging it was, but fun to keep pushing through the game. Then much later Minecraft hooked me and getting into the creative side and thanks to my dad playing games too, he loved NFS Most Wanted and that's where I learned to do races. He also played Hitman Silent Assassin, but we weren't aloud to play if he is not there, so when he did play I watched and listened to his strategy in the missions (got me to like games with different ways to play). So, I will say that games got me to develop skills and I am now away from competitive games since I was starting to not make it fun.

There's definitely a lot focus on demanding AAA gaming when it comes to the Steam Deck here on KZfaq. Personally I don't get it, because that's not really what PC gaming is about, we don't have "generations" and games don't have "due dates" (I also find most modern AAA games bland and uninteresting... having mass appeal but never taking creative risks anymore). For me it's more about playing all the good games I have missed out on over the years. Even though I have had Steam for 20+ years I seldomly find the time and dedication to startup longer gaming sessions on my gaming PC, or even worse, shorter bursts of gaming. On the Steam Deck however, with its sleep mode, I'm playing in small bursts ALL the time, taking shorter breaks throughout the day and get 10-20 minutes further into a game. It has made me play games like never before. And that's not because I am ecstatic about new hardware either. I pre-ordered a 64GB model back in 2021, and was lucky to receive one from the second batch in Q2 2022. It has been a FANTASTIC machine and I am still using it daily. Honestly, even if a Steam Deck 2 comes out down the line. I will probably just be happy with the one I have... I want to play games. not be in a constant hunt for new hardware.

Steam Deck verification often isn't a good way of determining if a game will work on the Steam Deck. ProtonDB is a much better source, especially if the game does require some tinkering (in my experience for JRPGs, very few do). Use the ProtonDB Badges extension from Decky Loader to see community ratings on each game.

I am an all jrpg player as well, went from switch to steam deck lcd but I find myself back on a switch oled, it's just so much smaller to hold, carry, feels less awkward to have out around people than the steam behemoth

Great points! As I get older and think about video games, I liken them more and more to books. The experiences we get out of the stories can have so much power and potential; we have the opportunity to immerse ourselves into another character's role and situation and consider how we as the player can relate (and if not, consider why we can't relate). Love seeing all these clips of the old RPGs - I still think fondly about the platforming puzzles of Valkyrie Profile. I always enjoyed that they gave me time to experiment and play around with that ice skill while not stressing much about time or enemies for the most part. Solving the puzzles felt so rewarding!

Subscribed before this channel gets huge.

Yes, I sold all my Xbox Series X and the games and never looked back.

solid

I remember when I played Person 5 Royal on the PS4 it took me over 100hrs to complete one because of the puzzles and the other is figuring out what is needed to defeat the final boss during the true ending route. I beat Persona 4 Golden several times and racked up over 230hrs on my PSTV back before Persona 5 was released. With shorter RPGs like the older Dragon Quest titles for example I like to grind enough lvls to make the games easier. Yeah I can see why Elden Ring is a time sinker being a Souls and an RPG at the same time you really need to grind to make your character stronger to make the game easier.

What I hate about some Localizations is where they drop the honorifics because it loses the cultural significance of where it came from. I love the honorific system. However there is one form of media where I will give it a pass and it is the Phoenix Wright games because the Localization it more geared to America rather than Japan. Also with some localizations and translations the translation is so wrong that's is borderline disrespectful. Look at the Anime Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid the translators made up their own translation. With me as long as the translator sticks to the original source material as best they can when translating on top of putting their own personal spin on it I can get behind that.

I played and completed a NG+ Run of Tokyo Xanadu EX+ on my Deck and it was awesome. Don't remember what deck setting I used.

Im new to jrpg .. so i wanna ask u whats the 1# game to go with ???

I've had the Deck since it launched and did the upgrade to the OLED model. I just love it. It's so flexible, you can play almost everything. The only titles I've been unable to play are multiplayer competitive games with anti-cheat mechanisms. So I encourage you to try and play even the most obscure games, there's always a workaround. Oh! and don't forget about emulation, so many JRPGs would be lost without it.

don't have the steam deck but I find it cool! People tend to compare the 2 a lot but I think having either the switch or steam deck basically as being a comfy portable jrpg machine has really made it easier to actually get through games instead of needing to play it at home

Very underrated channel imo. you're definitely going places man keep up the great work!

I've never heard anyone pernounce anime like that 😂

...and the thousands of PS1 and PS2 JRPGs you can emulate that the Switch simply can't 🤣

Don’t let an unsupported tag stop you from getting a game on steam deck. The more accurate rating is by protondb which rates games from platinum (works flawlessly) to borked (unplayable) with ratings in between on how difficult it is to get a game running on the deck. Installing proton is simple and opens up lots of games marked as unsupported by Steam.

"...liberal and full of life over technically accurate..." Agreed. There's always going to be something lost in translation. I like hearing and seeing how something in a game would've been translated differently in different hands. Especially when lore is involved. Great vid - nice to see it from a translator/localizer's POV. I think some people forget that deadlines exist and in the end, the company is there to make money.

There's the FreeLoader Decky plugin that notifies you about free games and don't feel guilty about Epic, their practices are predatory.