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The JRPG Thread
Wyborn
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Hello friends. This is the Jurp thread, where we play and talk about playing Jurps. We takes all comers here, no matter how big or how obscure or even if that shit already has its own thread.
This is a cool space, for cool peeps to talk about cool games.
Except that just clicking this has infected you, and now you have the Jurp disease. The question is, what flavor have you got?
Have you got the Rune Factories, with its dungeon crawling and dating sim elements and also sometimes you do some farming I guess?
Do you have the Xenoblades, where you yell at all of your friends in a faux British accent so you can sound more like your hero, Reyn?
Do you have the Shin Megami Personei, where you and your friends have some kind of fucked up adventure, no one is really sure?
Maybe you have the dread Online Jurp, where you and friends or strangers play Jurps together until you are dead?
Nobody has ever had Tales Disease but I am told it exists. Have you got it?
Or do you have the MUSIC DISEASE?
(credit for this image to deviantart's sandara)
This thread is for all your Jurp needs, all your Jurp desires, and every Jurp you play or want to play. Bring on the Fire Emblems, the Ogre Battles, the Dragon Quests and the Etrian Odysseys and everything else. All are welcome here, no matter how brightly colored or how J-pop the soundtrack.
Ahem
Okay guys speaking seriously for a second:
I got mod approval for this thread, but we cannot let this turn into an anime discussion. We gotta be vigilant with this shit, because if any thread on the forum is in danger of it, it is this one.
More, we need to self-police here if at all possible. So do not complain about how you are being discriminated against as an anime fan. Do not moan about how Jurps are just anime anyway. Do not get sly. Do not get cute. Do not try to get funny about it. We will lose the thread, and that will be a shame.
With that out of the way
Let's talk about some Jurps.
This is a cool space, for cool peeps to talk about cool games.
Except that just clicking this has infected you, and now you have the Jurp disease. The question is, what flavor have you got?
Have you got the Rune Factories, with its dungeon crawling and dating sim elements and also sometimes you do some farming I guess?
Do you have the Xenoblades, where you yell at all of your friends in a faux British accent so you can sound more like your hero, Reyn?
Do you have the Shin Megami Personei, where you and your friends have some kind of fucked up adventure, no one is really sure?
Maybe you have the dread Online Jurp, where you and friends or strangers play Jurps together until you are dead?
Nobody has ever had Tales Disease but I am told it exists. Have you got it?
Or do you have the MUSIC DISEASE?
(credit for this image to deviantart's sandara)
This thread is for all your Jurp needs, all your Jurp desires, and every Jurp you play or want to play. Bring on the Fire Emblems, the Ogre Battles, the Dragon Quests and the Etrian Odysseys and everything else. All are welcome here, no matter how brightly colored or how J-pop the soundtrack.
Ahem
Okay guys speaking seriously for a second:
I got mod approval for this thread, but we cannot let this turn into an anime discussion. We gotta be vigilant with this shit, because if any thread on the forum is in danger of it, it is this one.
More, we need to self-police here if at all possible. So do not complain about how you are being discriminated against as an anime fan. Do not moan about how Jurps are just anime anyway. Do not get sly. Do not get cute. Do not try to get funny about it. We will lose the thread, and that will be a shame.
With that out of the way
Let's talk about some Jurps.
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Talex of Xillia 2 is a sequel to the hit Xillia entry in the Tales series
It features the full cast of the first game returning, as well as a new protagonist.
The game evolves the already great combat of the first entry by adding weapon switching similar to the recent DMC game, and incorporates some Western RPG elements, like moral choices as well as Mass Effect 2-like loyalty missions for each party member that let you delve deeper into their characters.
It also features Rollo, King of Cats, and his quest to find 100 cat friends:
Rollo is possibly my favorite new character of this year, even though he does not speak.
The game is easier if you run away from every encounter and only fight the bosses
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The whole game is built around you using the link artes well
When you start running into some of the bosses later on you will see why they are there
The tales games get genuinely tough and I remember it being the series where like 4 times a game I think "oh, this is one of those fights I'm supposed to lose that JRPGs have sometimes", and nope, its just that hard
I loved this game so damn much when I was a kid. I still have my copy complete with that awesome hard bound instruction booklet. My one regret is that I never got around to playing the sequel.
Lunar is my jam! I just finished another run through the sequel a few months ago.
Three of those I had Ramza master every single job before I left act 1.
I really liked that game. I wish the Advance versions were better.
no
no
It's a JURP about two siblings who are novice monster-hunters and general combat-and-magic-trained problem solvers who wind up finding themselves drawn into some pretty serious shit after their Dad goes away for work and leaves them to take care of his usual jobs around their village.
It's got a pretty great cast, a fun lite-steampunk/fantasy setting, a straightforward (but enjoyable) story, a grid-based turn-based combat system with surprising depth and the localisation team did a stellar job producing what is some of the best dialogue I've seen in a JURP in recent years.
It's also part of this ridiculous, huge series of games known as The Legend of Heroes and technically it's only the first chapter of 3 that has been released in the West so far! Combined, they apparently have a word count (dialogue, in-game books and other sorts of info. basically anything written in the game) that is roughly equal to that of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. If you know of those books, you probably know how many fucking words that is.
I've been having a blast with it so far, though I've been sort of playing it in bursts rather than really regularly. The dialogue is the real charm for me- the characters have just come to life and been incredibly endearing. The combat has been pretty fun, too, and I feel like its just getting more and more depth as I get further into the game.
And I'll probably play Shining Force 2 at some point because somebody told me it's rad
But that shit's on the other side of a lot of Shin Megami Tensei
Speaking of
This game's music is oppressive. It feels like I'm fighting demons in Silent Hill or some shit
On the other side, I want to get the Atelier Plus games for my Vita.
WAS IT ME
If it wasn't, add me to the list
It is still my favorite SRPG. It has weird pieces from a bunch of other games in the genre put together in a way that has never quite been replicated
Nope. It was the best Playstation 1 FF.
I do like FF8 more then a lot of people though.
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Get outta here Chris or I'll come beat you up with a bundle of JRPG manuals.
No, its probably the best one
And its definitely the best one on playstation
It captures a sense of fun and adventure and swashbuckling that is super appealing and also still manages to grapple with stuff like confronting your own mortality and nature vs nurture
Are you saying this because of using magic hurts the stats it's junctioned to?
So maybe don't start that anime thread stuff in here.
No I'm talking about the fact that all enemies scale to your level
I never noticed this very much
They're kind of scaled to be able to take you on with very weak junctioning - if you junction with any degree of skill then you're goign to steamroll enemies regardless of your level
I mean it's not optimum to have a high level
But I think saying the game punishes you for fighting, that's a bit far
Enemies scale to level and monsters scale much better in terms of stats.
I just
I'm glad they're finally having Alvin explain some things; the whole "look I'm obviously untrustworthy and am betraying you at this very moment but it's ok because I'm such a swell guy" thing that the entire party just inexplicably went with was kind of getting on my nerves.
It's also better to wait until late in the game when you get the abilities that give you bonus stats when leveling up, and you can have four of them going at once. You can cap out nearly every stat if you're just a tiny bit clever about it.
I just think its a really bad idea for a JRPG, where grinding things out is kind of a traditional way to surmount things that are giving you a lot of trouble
Alvin continues to get better and is probably my favorite non-cat character in Xillia 2
oh yeah THAT. Man, i have forgotten a lot about Final Fantasy 8, which is kind of appropriate I guess.