
Hey, quick shout-out to all y'all. Been reading along with the archived Q1 2020 thread for Bravely Second and y'all's chronicles are providing some delightful echoes of camaraderie. The notes are reminding me that I've thoroughly over-leveled and that I could stand to be clipping through Chapter 2 a bit quicker. Also, LastSurprise's robust Bravely Default 1 recaps are a tremendous boon in reminding me of character beats I'd long since forgotten.
So, yeah! Thanks to y'all from 3 years ago! Hopefully I'll be able to get this one out of my system in time to hop onto FF9 before Summer.
Sorry to bog up the Club thread, but I couldn't find another JRPG thread....
So I've kind of fallen out of love with JRPGs, but guys, Honkai Star Rail is a really quite great one (though technically not one at all - the devs are Chinese).
Particularly surprising cos it's F2P (but very enjoyable not spending a dang penny on). If you played Genshin Impact, you've got the idea of the aesthetic, progression and tone, but it's swapped out Genshin's real time combat with turn-based JRPG battles. And it works really well. Production values are through the roof, it's comedic tone is goofy but not overdone, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
FYI here is another thread.
Congratulations to Sundown, who becomes 3rd to finish Final Fantasy IX!
Also, I somehow seem to have been left off the leveling list altogether, despite a couple of completions...
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Quest XI (a month past the end date, I think?)
Gosh, I want a remaster or new Ogre Battle entry so bad. I love those games and you can't even play them on a modern system.
Gosh, I want a remaster or new Ogre Battle entry so bad. I love those games and you can't even play them on a modern system.
New one would be great. Wouldn't mind a remaster of the ones still missing from modern-ish platform, but new one would be best.
So I know this is sooo 3 years ago, but I finally got over my personal hangups and got to Chapter 5 of Bravely Second, and I wanted to relay a touch of foolishness:
So I reached the end of Ch. 4 where the Kaiser escapes and damns the timeline of your first save file. As prompted, I then started a New Game +. However, despite the ample hints, I still went through the motions of losing that first Kaiser fight, thinking things would eventually start changing like they did in Bravely Default.
It fortunately wasn't too far down the road (up to beating that 1st Ogre boss in 1 shot) before I had the idea to restart the NG+ and see if the Bravely Second action would work on the Kaiser.
Naturally, it did, and now I'm on track to zip through Chapter 5.
Hopefully I should have BS knocked out by the end of the month so I can use June to clip through FF9.
Thank you! That is quite a few, isn't it? Where has all the time gone?
Awesome theme, this is also what comes to mind when I think about Chrono Trigger music. Maybe it's because 600 AD is where you spend the most time in the overworld, although 1000 AD is pretty close? The others you spend much more time inside areas than on the map. You also revisit 600 AD a lot, and most of the side quests take place there...
Okay, so I finished up Tales of Arise a couple of days ago and have to say, I haven't been this impressed with an RPG in a long time. However, it didn’t start that way. In fact, I may have never experienced such a turnaround in my perspective on a game through the playthrough. I literally hated this game to begin with, no joke. I would have quit on it if I didn’t want to complete it as part of this JRPG Club. I’m going to give some reasons, but as this is my first completed Tales game, let me know how many of my gripes are just typical of this series and I need to get over it.
First, the names are awful. Alphen? Sounds like it should be followed by Simon and Theodore. Balseph? That sounds much too much like… well, you know. And the worst? Zeugles.... ZEUGLES?!?! That sounds like creatures that would terrorize Fraggle Rock. Every time I heard these awful character, city, and creature names, it kicked my immersion right in the teeth.
Second, I really hated Shionne to begin with, and I’m sure that that’s the point, as part of her character progression. But… wow, what a b$%*# she was.
Third, I wish these characters would SHUT UUUUUPPPPP during combat. For crying out loud, sprinking in flavor text can be nice, but at the other end of the spectrum is hearing “Look Sharp! Lightning Tiger Blade!” for the 43 bajillionth time. I’m not even joking when I say that I played this game on mute for everything except the cutscenes, which is frankly a shame.
I have other quibbles, but let’s move on to what I loved. For one thing, the story began trite and simplistic and then morphed into this vast, otherworldly concept that I found fascinating. By the end, the combat offered lots of strategic options, as long as I didn’t have to listen to the battles. Creature designs were phenomenal, especially for the bosses, although I could have done with more variety and less repetition. Emotional progressions for the characters were nicely handled, with interesting conversations spawned from extremely different backgrounds and perspectives for different party members. The large numbers of R1-driven story panel segments were annoying at times, but I still found them to be engaging for the most part.
Anyway, I’m glad this club inspired me to push through and complete this game. I would love some guidance on the next Tales game I should check out, as a newbie.
I've largely stayed out of the conversations in this thread because I didn't want to risk spoilers, but look forward to reading back through it.
Does FF IX go to end of June?
I never really got started after installing mods, but I'd like to still...
Does FF IX go to end of June?
I never really got started after installing mods, but I'd like to still...
FF9 goes until the end of September, I believe.
Aye, the quarter goes 'til the end of June, and threads are active through the following quarter, so FF9 should be open for discussion until the end of September when we're working through whatever awaits us in Q3.
Why are we worried about Final Fantasy XVI? This is the JRPG Club, not the Devil May Cry Club.
In seriousness, though, I'm going to go ahead and drop a nom for Live a Live. It's relatively short, and its first half or so is separated into chapters that can reasonably be completed in one or two sittings, so it would be an easy game to play "around" another big playthrough. The HD remake is readily available on Switch and Steam and is gorgeous. It is turn-based, but its battle system is pretty unique; it's not quite a full-on Final Fantasy Tactics style tactical RPG, but it occupies sort of an interesting middle ground between that and a more basic Final Fantasy / Dragon Quest style "your dudes line up on one side of the screen" combat system.
I will second Live a Live.
For my nomination, I am going to throw Monster Hunter Stories 2 into the ring. I have been very interested in it after the club played 1 awhile ago.
I'll second Monster hunter Stories 2.
I'll try to meet the suggested criteria and nominate something new:Cris Tales. It was given out for free on Epic awhile back, and it's supposed to be a love letter to JRPGs, and it's on just about everything.
Based on the precedent of action-oriented JRPGs showing up in the past (I at least spotted Kingdom Hearts), I'm going to put forth Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen with my nomination.
Part of this is riding the news peg of Dragon's Dogma 2 looming on the horizon, another part is trying to push myself into playing this game that I've started 4 different times and enjoyed each run at it, but never seeing it through. Let us break the chains of the ATB!
I'll second Cosmic Star Heroine. I played it a couple of years ago and thought that a second go on hard mode could be fun, but didn't go back to it. This would be as good an excuse as any.
I'll second Cosmic Star Heroine.
As for my nomination... I'm going to give it some thought.
Cosmic Star Heroine's a good one. I played the Penny Arcade games that Zeboyd made, and they were pretty good, but I thought CSH was even better. More straightforward storywise, less bogged down in needing to be a comedy because of the license, but every bit as mechanically compelling.
I tried Cthulhu Saves the World but bounced off of it; the "lol nerds love Cthulhu" of it was kind of a turnoff to me. I think Zeboyd is better when they're being earnest than ironic.
I’ll second DDog: Dark Arisen
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