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JRPG Thread: We're All Delayed Until November 29
SilverWind
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New JRPG thread time!
On the docket of upcoming releases, we have games such as Persona 5 and the perpetually in development FFXV, the latter of which is apparently finally coming out September!
Additionally, there are quite a few JRPGs coming out for re-release soon, such as Valkyria Chronicles HD, and Dragon Quests VI and VII.
Newly released JRPGs include Bravely Second, Fire Emblem Fates, and FF9 (now on Steam).
If it's from Japan and is an RPG, you can talk about it here.
Maybe you have a favorite not on this list. We can talk about that too!
Enjoy!
On the docket of upcoming releases, we have games such as Persona 5 and the perpetually in development FFXV, the latter of which is apparently finally coming out September!
Additionally, there are quite a few JRPGs coming out for re-release soon, such as Valkyria Chronicles HD, and Dragon Quests VI and VII.
Newly released JRPGs include Bravely Second, Fire Emblem Fates, and FF9 (now on Steam).
If it's from Japan and is an RPG, you can talk about it here.
Maybe you have a favorite not on this list. We can talk about that too!
Enjoy!
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I'd offer to help but I'd only drag you further down with me.
Rune Factory 4
Dragon Quest IV
Dragon Quest V
Dragon Quest VI
Dragon Quest IX
Pokemon Alpha Sapphire
Bravely Default
Bravely Second
Fire Emblem (GBA)
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Fire Emblem: Birthright
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
Then there's stuff I've technically beaten but still wanna go through
Kingdom Hearts 2.5
Final Fantasy IX iOS (this is a nice port but I may wait and see if a PS4 version happens rather than finish this one)
Then there's ones coming out that I'm gonna get
Valkyria Chronicles Remastered
Dragon Quest VII
Dragon Quest VIII
I feel like I should probably just pick an RPG and give myself a month or so to beat it and move on to the next
I'd say devote a month to each on your backlog, and if you really don't feel like finishing a game, don't feel obligated to do so.
Oh, if/when you get to Fire Emblem (GBA) we should really set up a Lets Play Together (many people expressed some interest in doing FE7 or FE8 (Sacred Stones) together, after the recent crush of games has died down and people have settled down from playing Fates).
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Fascinating. And yet, I'm still behind SilverWind in FFIX.
It's interesting that most FF9 guides are broken down by disc. Obviously, there's no indication of such in the Steam version, so on reading about Treno auction items I was surprised to find that yes, I have progressed to Disc 2! Wooo.
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Immediately disappointed when I looked up the differences and saw that Japan got Durarara download characters that we obviously did not
I find it odd that there's no indication
In the FFVII PS4 port, when there would be a disc change, you get an "End of Part 1 or 2" screen that has some of the nice CG artwork from the manual
Having disc one of FFIX end where it does (with Beatrix decimating your team) is a really neat moment
Loved it but never finished it. I always made it until yo had to use an item or something to make a bridge to an island to clear Samson's curse but I could never figure it out
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I got to near the very end where you recruit a secret character, murdered him instead, someone told me about it at school the next day, so I had to replay the entire game over again.
Bravely Default has a job system, eh
Job systems always make me feel super anxious, I always feel like I'll fall down the hole of having a fucked-up configuration and will end up in some shit situation later on because of it
Well if it makes you feel any better you won't just feel like it, because you will, because late game stuff is some brave/default abuse bullshit that funnels you into particular setups or the fights take a damn eternity.
On the plus side there is at least a few so there is a chance you'll luck out and draw the right straws.
Good luck!
You can change jobs and skills freely. You literally cannot fuck yourself up because if one job isn't working for you feel free to swap to another one. They don't give out stats on level-up either, but bake it into the job. So even if you level 50 times as a Freelancer (the base job) when you swap to Swordmaster your stats will shift accordingly. There's also no limit to what you can equip by either skills or weapons. When you pick a job you can set a second sub-job that won't earn EXP but you can use all the abilities you've learned on it. You also have a set pool of skill points (that can also be swapped at will), depending on where you are in the story, to equip skills that further enhance your ability like +10% Physical Attack or Natural Ability.
The system is made to let you experiment with a bunch of different jobs. You can't get fucked over just because you decided to level up Black Mage to 10 before anything else.
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Well, the game gives you ample opportunity to grind for job points, and the design kind of encourages you to play around with different jobs, so you're never really "locked in" to a specific configuration. You can and should change jobs on a regular basis. There are some jobs you'll end up grinding everyone multiple levels into to get a single passive ability or something.
Eh, some of the insane combinations are basically "Okay, this ability seems really crazy... oh wait there's this drawback... now how do I negate it?".
My beat-everything-without-taking-damage combo:
The key thing is the ability to stop all damage period for 3 turns... you want the turn order to go Party>Spiritmaster>Enemies. As long as you can haste/slow/etc your way to that you cannot be killed (barring mass stone/death which you should have something for by this point...). Party members unload 4 BP each, Spiritmaster trades 3 BP to 3 turns of nobody can deal damage... except your party already did and it expires between turns, so....
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By chapter 5 you can pretty easily put together builds that will let you level a job up to 9 (the "soft cap") in a matter of minutes.
I died in my first battle in the starting caves they told me to go to
It's really not. The demo is meant to show off some jobs and how they interact, but the ones you get are some of the more advanced ones story-wise. Once you get a handle on what jobs synergize well with each other, and that won't take long, everything turns to dust in that demo when you mosey onto the scene.
Which I haven't yet, have now died twice, because even when I try braving it takes seven attacks to kill one of those kobold motherfuckers
Changing jobs is useless because nobody has any skills yet because they don't have any job points yet
EDIT: I'm just remembering, this is made by the FFT guys, right? Another game where I wasn't able to get past the first random battle
EDIT: Also please tell me in the full game there is a way to not have the cursor set to memory, that drives me insane
Tried tooling around with the brave/default system and hey, there are enemies that can stop you from doing that, which is like the key feature of your whole game, that doesn't sound annoying at all
The pacing of it just feels insanely slow to me, if I'm spending more than a minute in a random battle in your JRPG (or, maybe more aptly, if I'm noticing how long things are taking), you have fucked up your JRPG
I'll probably put this down and move on to one of the DQs
Takes a little bit to get going to that point. And depending on the fight it may not even take that.
Random encounter in Second that's all the same enemy? Summon Needle.
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....Pretty painful that Zidane's group doesn't have a healer, though. Can't wait for the teams to join back up...
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there might be some Baals that do it too, but with no Wifi on my 3DS when I played it they never came into effect
demo must be pretty crazy
The demo was made to have some meat to it, not be something to tear through like a paper doll.
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this is
the cutest thing
it is now my most favourite thing ever
edit: it's like a ditto hitched a ride on a cute muk and now they're on an adventure!!!
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I beat I and II years ago (got the 2-in-1 GBC cart), and am now preparing for the final dungeon in III. I think the designers work on the assumption that players are supposed to wander around looking for stuff and getting into extra random battles, so using walkthroughs and maps has left me feeling underleveled frequently. Fortunately the fights around Zoma's castle give out lots of experience, mostly thanks to the Salamanders, who can do big part-wide damage but make up for by giving about ~1,000 exp each. So I'm up to level 39 now, figure I'll try a run and see how it goes.
4 I got stuck the first time when you get the boat. That was years ago. I got the phone version and was making good progress, but then I replaced my phone and couldn't get the game save to copy over. Now I've restarted again, and I'm on Taloom's chapter, which was hard enough to force myself through the last time. I will beat this game (since now my saves are on the cloud, hooray!). Then I might go back and get 3 for the phone and finally beat that one, too.
I have literally never played a DQ after 4, which kind of makes me sad. I think one or two of those are also on the phone, so maybe I'll do those after 3?
I need this game right the hell now
It'll probably be localized by 8-4, too.
Geeze, it feels like like Nier and Revengeance had a baby.
You just know there's going to be swears. All the swears. The best swears.
Why I fear the ocean.