Top 25 Japanese based rpg

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10. Dark Souls

That's not an rpg and certainly not a jRPG.

 

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and Lufia 2 is best

 

[Grampy_Bone]

It's like if someone asked an AI bot to compile the most try-hard list of elitist meme games. I refuse to believe anyone puts Dragon Quarter on a top anything list. Even people who like that game admit it sucks.

 

[Nutmeg]

Not yet mentioned: Sweet Home.

 

[Ash]

I am confused by people listing ffx? The exploration sucks and the combat is too easy without any difficulty hacks, which don't exist. Plus, unskippable cutscenes kill replayability.
Am i missing something?

It is simultaneously shit and great. Miscellaneous gameplay (Blitzball is kinda cool), sphere grid gets interesting late game, the music is of course great, combat system isn't bad and relatively fast, though stupidly easy as others mentioned and often overrated...game is decline but still better than a lot of JRPG, as most are trash.
You also criticise the exploration/linearity and while that is one of the game's biggest downfalls, it has just slightly enough engaging level design to not be completely irredeemable. It's linear but throws various puzzles at you, occasional side rooms, hidden interactions and so forth.

That said, there are a lot of votes for this declined game over certain other FF (5/6/7/8/9) and that is just astonishingly retarded.

 

[Machocruz]

Wakka was enough to kill FFX for me. "Machina, ya?" Nah, stfu annoying beach bum idiot

 

[flyingjohn]

Wakka was enough to kill FFX for me. "Machina, ya?" Nah, stfu annoying beach bum idiot

 

[Deuce Traveler]

1. Final Fantasy Tactics
2. Persona 5
3. Sengoku Rance
4. Elden Ring
5. Dark Souls 2
6. Demon's Souls
7. Dark Souls
8. Dark Souls 3
9. Bloodborne
10. Persona 4
11. Persona 3
12. Yakuza: Like a Dragon
13. Kamidori Alchemy Meister
14. Romance of the Three Kingdoms X
15. Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
16. Valkyria Chronicles
17. Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen
18. Shining Force II
19. Shining Force
20. Final Fantasy 6
21. Final Fantasy 8
22. Final Fantasy 7
23 Triangle Strategy
24. Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
25. Jeanne D'Arc

 

[abnaxus]

1. Phantasy Star II (for historical reasons)
2. Bastard!! (better than the manga and animu)
3. Lodoss I (best PC98 rpg game, but PC Engine version is also good)
4. Lodoss II (PC98, PC Engine version is also good)
5. Sword World PC (SNES sequel is also good)
6. Rhapsody of Zephyr (Shina/Kwarea version has superior art)
7. Phantasy Star I
8. Kuro no ken (PC98)
9. Digan no maseki
10. Valkyrie Profile
11. Burai Joukan (PC98, sequel is much better on PC Engine)
12. Suikoden I
13. Libros de Chilam Balam
14. Emerald Dragon (either PC88 or PC Engine)
15. Shinseiki Odysselya II
16. Legend of Dragoon
17. Early Kingdom
18. Wondrous magic
19. Alshark (PC98, PC Engine version also good)
20. Seiya Monogatari (PC Engine)
21. Illusion City (PC98)
22. London Seirei Tanteidan
23. Shinseiki Odysselya I
24. Tenshi no Uta I or II
25. Dragon Knight IV

 

[Nutmeg]

3. Lodoss I (best PC98 rpg game, but PC Engine version is also good)
4. Lodoss II (PC98, PC Engine version is also good)
5. Sword World PC (SNES sequel is also good)

Would you rate the console Lodoss ports (and Sword World 2) just as high?

Also surprised to see Burai that high up.

 

[Inec0rn]

1. Final Fantasy Tactics
2. Persona 5
3. Sengoku Rance
4. Elden Ring
5. Dark Souls 2
6. Demon's Souls
7. Dark Souls
8. Dark Souls 3
9. Bloodborne
10. Persona 4
11. Persona 3
12. Yakuza: Like a Dragon
13. Kamidori Alchemy Meister
14. Romance of the Three Kingdoms X
15. Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
16. Valkyria Chronicles
17. Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen
18. Shining Force II
19. Shining Force
20. Final Fantasy 6
21. Final Fantasy 8
22. Final Fantasy 7
23 Triangle Strategy
24. Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
25. Jeanne D'Arc

More than half your list are action games though?

 

[Deflowerer]

1. Final Fantasy 7
2. Final Fantasy 9
3. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
4. Final Fantasy 6
5. Dark Souls
6. Dark Souls 2
7. Final Fantasy 5
8. Final Fantasy 8
9. Pokemon Gold/Silver
10. Parasite Eve 2
11. Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams
12. Parasite Eve
13. Pokemon Blue/Red
14. Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
15. Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
16. Vagrant Story
17. Golden Sun 2
18. Dark Souls 3
19. Final Fantasy 10 & Final Fantasy 10-2
20. Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
21. Final Fantasy Tactics (Or Advance, both good but not great to me)
22. Golden Sun
23. Koudelka
24. Final Fantasy 12
25. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

90s Final Fantasy is the king of JRPG by a country mile and I am tired of people pretending it's not, despite the clear higher quality in literally every metric. Compared to all the "renowned" godawful JRPGs I've suffered through anyway. The list is not exactly tiny: Suikoden 2, Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Front Mission 3 and 4, Breath of Fire IV GBA, Star Ocean: 2nd Story, 80s and Modern FF (awful!), Dragon Quest 8. Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Lufia 2, and many more. Endless garbage or mediocrity.

No Megami Tensei games on the list, huh?

 

[Sergio]

1. Final Fantasy 7
2. Suikoden 2
3. Xenogears
4. Star Ocean 2
5. Xenoblade Chronicles 3
6. Persona 5
7. Final Fantasy Tactics
8. Final Fantasy 6
9. Chrono Trigger
10. .hack//G.U.
11. Persona 3 Reload
12. Shin Megami Tensei V
13. Breath of Fire 4
14. Suikoden
15. Shin Megami Tensei III
16. Final Fantasy 4
17. Tactics Ogre
18. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
19. Yakuza 0
20. Star Ocean First Departure
21: Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
22. Persona 4
23. Pokemon Black/White
24. Valkyrie Profile
25. Legend of Dragoon

 

[Starner]

Wakka was enough to kill FFX for me. "Machina, ya?" Nah, stfu annoying beach bum idiot

How can you dislike the loveable guy that represents a good portion of the RPG Codex regulars.

 

[Damned Registrations]

guy that represents a good portion of the RPG Codex regulars.

Pretty sure you just answered your own question