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When I was a young g teen I had: Grandia, FF7-9, ff anthologies, ff tactics, lunar sss, lunar eb, suikoden 1&2, xenogears, legend of legia, legend of dragoon, star ocean ss, wild arms 1&2, persona, tales of destiny, vagrant story, thousand arms, alundra, and more I can’t recall. I lost all my childhood possessions 18 years ago and man does it pain me. I also had all the resident evils, parasite eve 1&2 and so much more I can’t remember. I beat almost all of these and will forever remember this as the best era in gaming. I think lunar sss and even were my favorites.

I started playing trials of mana recently, and its really a great game, im honestly shocked it flew by my radar for so long. After your review, im really looking forward to picking up visions of mana as it seems to be improving on everything that trials did. Thanks!

I was pretty disappointed by the trials of mana remake, very clunky combat imho and outdated mechanics (played it last year for about 10h and then I gave up). This one looks like it nailed it, I enjoyed the demo and I am looking forward to play the full game

I like to think of myself as a mediocre videogamer, so you saying you had trouble with Tactics Ogre makes me feel good about myself. Thanks, Brandon!

Totally looking forward to this one once I get the PS5!

Its just another hyrule warriors clone....very disappointed

Folklore had such a unique aesthetic and gameplay system, a shame the devs could not refine and explore these ideas further in a sequel before getting shut down. The monster catching combat must have been inspired by Chaos Legion and Castlevania Curse of Darkness which then further influenced the likes of Astral Chain and Bayonetta 3.

Is this the first in a series? Or a sequel? Not too familiar with the Mana series. I like the look of it though!

I also rage quit Star Ocean second story on the PS1 at the same point 😂

Great review

Fast forward a year and the first game in the Sky trilogy got revealed to be getting a massive remaster next year. So everyone can start playing Sky without issues, in the engine and style of the new games.

I vastly prefer the 2D backdrops and 2D visuals in general. There are a handful of small areas in FFX that feature 2D backdrops sort of as an homage to the PS1 days. These are some of the most beautiful visuals I've ever seen in a video game. If the entire game looked like that, I think I'd actually have a hard time playing the game, because I'd be so mesmerized by the visuals.

I can relate to your SMT IV situation. I was playing Inuyasha Secret of the Divine Jewel on the DS. Loved my time with it and then I got lost and couldn't figure out where I was supposed to go. Unfortunately trying to play it now, the rate of encounters is just too much for me to get through the opening hours of the game. Guess it wasn't meant to be. I think I placed Folklore's demo... it looks familiar but definitely didn't stick with me.

I'll def be playing on the easiest mode :D but I'm so excited for it Thursday!

Never trust a free game review

What happened to you with Star Ocean 2 happened to me with the first Mario and Luigi RPG on GBA

For me the last that I dropped is Xenoblade Chronicles 1. I said it in the group therapy

Man chub! I just pre-ordered and it's downloading!

Pre-ordered at GameStop for the STEELBOOK! 🙌🏻

The demo made me order Ys 8 and Ys 9.

Hey Brandon, yeah I understand quite well how sometime final boss that are way to hard can be a show stopper, just thinking at one I did recently, Labyrinth of Galleria, man I am still angry at that boss, but I told myself I be back, just need to grind a lot...

Great review, man. Sounds like a good JRPG

Have to say after playing the demo, it turned me off buying the game. The combat for me felt slow and sluggish and just feels off. After playing the demo for three hours i just didnt love it sadly and i really wanted to. I enjoyed the fast and frenetic pace of trials of mana and was hoping it would feel more like that.

Soooooo excited!!! Pre-ordered this puppy so fast!!! Dang... It has been 25 years though. Sigh. We're old...

Trying to beat the monkey game before this comes out, I am really excited for this one. The plot seems to be similar to FFX (FFX SPOILER AHEAD) with the guardians and sacrificing yourself to summon the final aeon.

Never have any hesitation with dropping a game if I’m not enjoying it. Life is short, there are plenty of other games, and you could always try it again later when you might be more in the mood for it. As for revisiting a game you dropped, it’s a bit of crapshoot. Sometimes you don’t like it any more the second time round, but once in a while you’ll find one of your all time favorite games that way.

Interesting list i can see why you didnt stick with any of them. But of them all folklore is one of my favorite games. Its nastolgic probably cause the combat is similar to lost kingdoms which i also really liked. It was weird and different. My only issues with folklore was the grind, and i never liked waggle controls. Still dont.

I Can't Believe you DROPPED All These JRPGs!

You're not alone on Star Ocean. Star Ocean, for me, is "I desperately want to love this game but it's making it so damn hard for me to love it" the game. I liked Star Ocean 2 back in the day, and dropped it because I just lost interest in dealing with the difficulty spikes. I got nearly to the very end of Star Ocean 3 and dropped it right before the final boss because the game's "twist" annoyed the ever living hell out of me. Fun fact: did you know that every Star Ocean game after Star Ocean 3 (that is, 4, 5, and 6, the divine force) is a prequel to Star Ocean 3? The twist was so bad that it ended the future of the Star Ocean universe and they can only do prequels now, because there is no future for the series past 3. It just annoys me that as I'm playing second story R or Star Ocean the divine force, I'm thinking "Star ocean 3 is this universe's future." Star Ocean 6, the divine force, I got fed up with the insane difficulty spikes that game had and I quit. Seriously, if there's one piece of advice I can give game devs, it's make sure your game has a smooth difficulty curve. Chrono Trigger achieved this in the 90s on the SNES using midi technology, don't tell me for a second that you can't also do it if you wanted to. There are precious few things that make people give up on a game more than the game's difficulty feeling unfair. So, yeah, Star Ocean, I played 2, 3 and 6 before I played Second Story R, and Second Story R was the first Star Ocean game I actually finished. That's got to be a personal record: Star Ocean, the series I quit on three different times before I finally finished one.

Some games just can't hold attention well. I did however really enjoy Folklore and finished it. And actually liked the battle system. Tactics games in general dont hold my interest. Games i own but never finished include Final Fantasy 13-2 and 13-3. Finished the first one barely, but the next two i barely touched.

I never finished the original star ocean 2. Think i've reach the final dungeon but was wipped out so much that I gave up.

Honestly, I dropped Final Fantasy XII after a while just because it became a slog getting anywhere in the story. Your list seems pretty solid, I was very on the fence with Mato Anomalies but just decided that I wasn't going to try it.

First Fantasy Star. I literally kept trying to play it as a kid with no direction and made it to level 32 without leaving the first town until I found talking to the store owner about an object.... This was before Internet.

Every time you say "game too hard" it just makes me appreciate that you're honest. I'm the same way. I was just telling a friend the other day that I'm at the age now where I'll put a game on easy mode as long as I can still enjoy the game. Otherwise I'll drop that game.

I've watched a handful of your videos in the past but the opening 30 seconds was enough for me to sub.

I had difficlty with SMTIV for teh same reason you did. The overworld map was so consusing and it was really diffiuclt to figure out where to go, particulalry later in the game. Apocolypse I played through like four times, but i only beat IV once, I think.

Ok so here are my thoughts on these games:1-Phone game so nope. 2-I'm kinda interested in the remake. 3-I played past the beginning, but dropped it after that might go back later. 4-This is a indie right? Ive heard of it, but don't really care. 5-I have PSP version so I'm not interested in the remastered remake, but I've played the PSP version a bit to chapter 2. 6-Thats a PS2 game right? Yea i don't have a PS2 also doesn't really seem that interesting.

I think it is okay to drop a game if it does not resonate with you. I give a jrpg about 10-12 hrs to hook me in, and if it doesn't, I move on. I really tried to like Octopath Traveler... to the point of giving it 20 hrs. Too grindy and boring to me. I have SMY IV and Folklore on my pile of shame, and your video isn't going move Folklore higher on my list. Now, about this business opportunity I have for you... 🙂

It’s only within the past few years that I’ve been able to DNF books that I actively hate. I think I’ve only stopped one game and that was Final Fantasy 13 due to life events (two very young kids and I had no brains to sort out battle system 😅)

6:03 "If your difficulty spikes are sharp enough to pierce my very soul, then your difficulty spikea are to much. Mhm.. i dunno.. i usually like it when the games throws everything you have learned into your face. Even the stuff you never used be- cause you thought it isn't THAT important because why not~ x'D I had my fair share of soul crushing embodiments of pain.. Some bosses even got me to change the difficulties a little.. Well.. if that is even a option at this point otherwise i just.. have to get creativ and change my entire battleplan.. o.o" But yeah i understand that it feels a bit unfair.. when everything so far was easy and normally beatable suddenly transforms into a giant wall and the game kinda expect you to "grind" it out.. grinding can be fun.. but i prefer to avoid it.. :S

Man I felt the same way with Tactics Ogre Reborn. It wasn't that it was too hard to beat, but it was too hard to enjoy. And took too long for each battle. When you only get an hour a night to play, it makes things go at a snails pace. I was playing along with resonant arc and they were moving way faster than I could keep up too

I can understand those who dropped Tactics Ogre. One website ranked the final boss as a 6/5 difficulty! ... But man, I'm glad I saw it through. It kicked my butt hard, but I never gave up. Now, I can kick the game's butt with an absolutely overpowered Denam, Vyse and Catiua (You can get overpowered by grinding out the green cards that drop. The level cap is no hindrance to becoming overpowered). I even braved the Golyat 3 challenge multiple times and snagged the Byrnhildr Relic and Ambicion. Tactics Ogre turned out to be incredibly rewarding by sticking with it. I see the magic of it, but I'd never diss or fault those who gave up on it.

Hey I love Mato Anomalies but I honestly can't objectively call it a good game. Probably a 6.5/10 tops but I still found the world just interesting and mysterious. It has has a lot of jank and bugs and oddities but I was glad I got invested in it. I played it on hard even because I guess I can be a masochist which probably wasn't a great idea as it is a long game and I was getting sick of it by the end. I still loved it though all things considered.

Resonance Of fate, first battle past the tutorial, it was an over complicated mess

I was so hyped for star ocean 2 when it released on ps1 but I got stuck, didn’t have enough money to help me grind so I had to give up

I also got lost in SMT IV, not at the part you were at though. Something about those types of games just directionally challenges me. Got lost in Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia and Persona 1 also. Hopefully one day I'll go back to SMT IV, but trying to play games on the 3DS just seems a bit antiquated to me now days.

I was so spooked Golden Sun was gonna be on this list! I'm basically watching a horror movie

I feel like OG SO2 expects you to exploit the heck out of the ceafting system by the end of the game, so the final boss is pretty hard. I love SO2R, but I thought it was kinda too easy? And I am with you on tactical RPGs, especially as I've gotten older. I just do not have the attention span for a battle that takes 30 minutes. I keep trying though lol. My two RPGs of shame would be Tales of Berseria and DQ11. Everyone loves them but I could not bring myself to finish either one.

I’m sorry to say but I abandoned FF Rebirth, Eiyuden Chronicles and Trails Azure. I either got burned out or bored. I did go back to Azure and powered through. The last of English voices took away from the story.

For me it was 13 Sentinels unfortunately. I enjoyed the game play but the story just lost me after a while. I do intend to finish it someday.