The General Purpose Japanese Games Thread!

I always quit Tales Of games around half way or at best 3/4 (Symphonia, Vesperia, Abyss, Eternia). I think a lot of these games have these really slow points during the story and backtracking that burn me out. I also still cant love the combat after trying 6 different games.

I think I saw news on it a while back (and possibly 'acquired' the PC version( but I had forgotten about it. Might have to check it out if on Android.

Price seems reasonable at under a fiver so may bite even though I rarely buy mobile stuff...

Never mind Elden Ring, probably my most anticipated game coming out in the next few months is The Cruel King and the Great Hero for PS4 and Switch in March



That art style 😍 like a children's book come to life. Gameplay looks to be pretty standard 2d turn-based fare, which is fine by me

I enjoyed Blind Prince so will likely preorder this too. At least we have physicals in Europe this time.

The Yomawari games were cool too (in the niche NISA games).

Hadn't really heard of it, but I've been craving a JRPG on the PS5, so I'll check it out. Thanks for the headsup.
Does look a bit like a Persona clone though, doesn't it? Which reminds me, I have The Caligula Effect to play through.

Playing the demo, but I don't think it's for me. For one, I'm kind of tired of all these high school based JRPGs, which is kind of all we're getting outside Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Tales. And secondly, I'm not a big fan of the combat either. It reminds me of Vagrant Story, where you run around with the analog stick then press X to select a target to attack, but it doesn't have VS' specific body part selection which gave it some depth.

Superficially, it's a PS5 game that looks like it came out of the early 2000s. The graphics look like a Dreamcast game emulated/upscaled to 4K.

It'll probably find an audience though, as it doesn't seem so much bad as just not for me.

Did you know that Square Enix actually published Final Fantasy VIII on a PS4 disc? I didn't. It's rather affordable too, and despite owing the original since the 2000s I'd never even booted it up.

All on a single disc, slightly spruced up, what could go wrong?

Why couldn't Final Fantasy IX have got the disc release? This has to be one of the most intolerable PS1 JRPGs I've ever played, I'd rather play Beyond the Beyond. The World doesn't need more copies of this game, the millions they printed for the PS1 were more than adequate.

At the time I said VIII, but VII really does hold up the best. If it's not my favorite game of all time, it's definitely top 3. A Link to the Past is for sure the other big contender, then I'd have to sit and a think for the third option. What I'd have said 10 or 20 years ago was surely different than it'd be today. But FFVII and LoZ:ALTTP are all time classics.

It's quite a different game but if you get the chance Xanadu Next is really good. They did a great job in the port with mostly porting a mouse and keyboard game to gamepad controls. Very different to Tokyo Xanadu though!

I find that Falcom stuff does tend to go on sale with the big sales but they kind of hit a certain point and then take a long while to come down further. I'll probably pick up Ys 9 when my Steam Deck arrives, but I'm not discounting getting 8 as well as I actually like that game more.

I checked after uiriki's post and it's not available on PS4 or Vita. Assuming he meant for Steam then. I might check it out after I play through Tokyo.

Sorry, I assumed when you said “sale” you meant a Steam sale as that’s the usual default.

I like the look of the setting but will wait for reviews for the full game. I have downloaded the prequel to play when I get a chance though.

I started Zero on PC after finishing 3rd. Not got hugely far into it so may have to decide on a console version and this theoretically should run nicely on Switch unlike the later Cold Steels (where I went PS4 but may double dip on PC if Steam Deck can handle them nicely). Enjoyed what I played of Zero though.

Van is basically a more competent Rean with a less nasal voice and Kuro was a much better game in spite of its… technical challenges. Looking forward to seeing how that story goes on; they did a good job with the “this threat is done and there’s a proper emotional climax but you’d better strap in because it’s going to get crazy” type ending. Hopefully they don’t scuff it but let’s face it, previous form shows that they absolutely will.

I’m at the point where I’m saving up JRPGs for when I get my Steam Deck. Blue Reflection, the new Atelier, and I’m really looking forward to having Soul Hackers for it.