Top 10 BEST Stories in JRPGs
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- This video goes through my Top 10 JRPG stories of all time. If you're like me and enjoy a JRPG with an amazing story then this video is for you. Let me know in the comments below what your favorite JRPGs are and why you liked the story.
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0:00 - Intro
0:41 - Octo
2:11 - Trails
3:56 - Aegis Rim
5:30 - Remake
7:04 - Reload
8:33 - DQ
10:32 - Xenoblade
12:14 - Ni No Kuni
13:57 - Star Ocean
15:50 - More Trails
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The Trails series is like the One Piece of JRPGs. Immaculate world building and adventure. Both are super intimidating to get into because they’re so big, but both are worth the investment.
I'm kind of glad I played Trails in the Sky while being ignorant of the rest of the Trails games because I probably would have been too intimidated to start the series if I had know the trilogy I was starting was really a 13+ game series that is still on going.
Its kind of funny I got in to Trails in the Sky because I heard the battle theme in some other random video and I found the game on steam and it was 50% off (10$) when I found it on steam. I was completely clueless to the massive, but fantastic rabbit hole that silly little 10$ rpg I bought on a whim would take me down.
Definitely intimidating. Trying Trails into Reverie and spent 3+ hours lost in the enormous city of Crossbell after the intro with no clue what to do.
I am a little surprised that FInal Fantasy X was not on this list.
Great list! The Trails series is peak JRPG storytelling.
I think the more recent Yakuza/Like a Dragon games deserve to be on here even though they both start kinda slow. Ichiban is an absolute joy to play as.
13 Sentinels blew me out of the water with its story! I still wish it had won the Game Award for Best Narrative in 2020. FYI, did you know the lengths English VAs had to go through to record their lines for the game? They had to record at home and the audio quality they managed to pull off is amazing, you'd think they recorded in an actual studio.
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is the reason I ended up getting a PS3 lol. I did get it again on the PS4 too, love it that much. I knew with Studio Ghibli involved in this game, the story would be charming and amazing. Playing this game is what got me to try Pokemon for the first time lol.
My 2 fav JRPG stories though come from my 2 fav games. Even though Eternal Sonata IS my fav game and I loved the story it was telling, I do think Grandia 2's story is better because it flips the script more AND it turned me into a better person. Both games though make you THINK.
Dragon Quest XI is truly a masterpiece. Great video!
Yes it
Is. Its a very well timed modernist rpg😊
For me the Trails series are for my the best JPRG series of all time
I started playing the trails series last year and it was probably the best choice I made, videogame-wise, it quickly became my fav jrpg series of all times
Such an amazing series!
I enjoy your narration and point of view!!! Great video!!
One of the best choices in JRPGs was when Trails in the Sky decided to have Olivier and Zin as 2 of the 8 party members. Everyone else, Estelle, Joshua, Tita, Agate, Schera, and Kloe, were all either natives of Liberl or had lived in Liberl for a long time. Zin and Olivier were foreigners to Liberl who join the main party and become key parts of the story. That's one of the reasons why it feels like everything in trails was already there with Sky FC. Unlike every other JRPG, Sky FC teases you about the great world outside, with Olivier serving as our first look into Erebonia and Zin serving as our look into Calvard. The fact that we hear so much about the two super-powers and yet in the entire Sky trilogy, we never visit Calvard and only briefly visit Erebonia (in the ending of Sky SC) leaves so much mystery to everything. At the end of the Sky trilogy, we know these two giant super-powers are out there, and we've felt how they have affected every single aspect of our protagonist's lives, and when we finish it, we can't wait to get out there and go to these nations.
I agree, also starting from the point of view of 16-year-olds on the cusp of adulthood, about to have their eyes opened to what the world is really like - it really works to draw you in to that sense of a great drama unfolding in front of you
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I forgot Zin was a Calvardian and thought him being in Kuro/Daybreak wwas just "Oh, hes just doin stuff in Calvard I guess"
Great video! The story and characters are always the most important part to me.
Some of my favorite stories in jrpgs huh? In no particular order, here's some of my favorites. Suikoden 5, Fire Emblem Awakening, Fire Emblem Path of Radiance, Ys 9, Persona 3 Reload, Persona 4
Speaking of Falcom, I'd recommend giving the Ys series a shot. It's an action RPG starring a red haired silent protagonist: Adol. You can start almost anywhere in the series, and play through without context from other games in the series, so I can recommend starting with Ys: The Oath in Felghana or Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana for one of the best experiences you can get.
Fantastic List. Sky sc and Azure are easily the 2 best trails games imo. Love the sky trilogy and crossbell arc way more than the cold steel arc personally.
Yea I am at the beginning of the Cold Steel arc and it’s gonna be really hard to top azure I think.
Nice list! I know ultimately everyone got their own preferences.
Me personally, I always enjoy story with deep personal stake a lot more than "you need to save the world" where the MC just kinda stumble upon it.
Dragon Quest V, Star Ocean 2, Persona 4, Final Fantasy IV, Sukoden V, Xenogears, Legend of Hero: Trails of Cold Steel, Tales of Berseria, Radiant Historia, Lunar Silver Star Story, and Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War.
Not FFIV
Trails!!! I'm glad it's getting more love now. Cold Steel definitely brought it out of obscurity. I can't say much there as CS1 was what got me into the series, but I went back after the second CS game and played all the Sky games and then when Zero finally released for English speakers properly and not just a patch on the computer, I played that. I did get distracted unfortunately while playing to Azure, but I plan to return to it in the near future. I've been playing the mobile game too recently and seeing all of my favorite characters is so much fun.
Azure is so good! One of my favorites in the series.
You have great taste brother! I enjoyed the stores in all these games that I've actually played a ton! The rest are still in my backlog lol
Thank you!!
Dragon Quest XI is my favorite game of all time. Final Fantasy VII Remake is in my top 6 games of all time.
My first experience with Star Ocean was Second Evolution on PSP. I loved that game so much that after finishing it the first time, I got the official guide used so I could find out about secrets and also enjoy the extra art that they do for official guides. I also played it multiple times.
Definitely the trails series for me too, you know a story grip you good if u wished u could replay it blind
Une vidéo de toi sur The Last Story is all I need in my life
No Xenogears no video
came here to say that too. xenogears is head-and-shoulders above any other rpg for story and themes and im not even big on scifi
Trails is PERFECT! 🤩
Cannot w8 for Daybreak!!!!
Ni No Kuni really took me by surprise. I didn't really pay attention to the game in the beginning and just wrote it off as a "little kid game." I was so bored with games and needed something, so I just decided to try it. I couldn't believe how sucked into the game I was and how much it affected me. The story, the world, the characters, the combat, the familiars, everything was so interesting and fun. It's one of my favorite games of all time.
You need to play xenogears, the best story for a game in all past and future.
I've added Ni No Kuni to the backlog! Thanks Man - haven't played a single game on this list, got my work cut out for me haha
Ni no Kuni is the only one I’ve played so far 😅
Play Trails too, they’re so good!
Then you are very lucky, as most of these games are the best of the best💎
You will love Ni no kuni 😊
No No Kuni is a great game. I really enjoy the sequel as well.
I think ff6 and dq11 are true masterpieces.
Radiant Historia is the best story game for me, adult story and time traveling genre like chrono triggers was really great
You should give props to Tales of Berseria, it was a great game about revenge.
You'll probably have to wait for them to remaster or redo unless you have a PS2 or 3DS but my favorite JRPG story is Tales of the Abyss. Story and Character arcs abound.
I love your inclusion of FF7 Remake here as your thoughts mirrored mine exactly. I'm new to your channel so don't know your stance on the FF MMOs but FFXIV Shadowbringers is just an incredible story within the greater FFXIV narrative.
I love the MMOs. I have had hundreds of hours of fun with 14. Welcome to the channel!!
List is definitely missing Nier Automata in my opinion, but great list nonetheless. Happy to see you highlight smaller franchises that don’t get enough love.
Nier Automata is incredible. There’s a lot of games that could’ve made the list and Nier is definitely one of them.
Nier ain't an rpg really . More action adventure imo
My favorite is shin megami tensei 4 and devil survivor. They just stuck w me
good video! I think we'd have a lot of the same choices.
13 Sentinels (for my money the best video game story ever told)
Undertale (if it counts. not far off 13S)
Mother 3 (can't mention UT without this one. oof.)
Xenoblade (I put the entire series here but if I have to pick one, yeah 1 is winning. I know others are going to say Xenogears but it just does not do it for me.)
Trails in the Sky FC/SC/3rd (unpopular opinion: this is the only Trails game going here. but damn does it deserve it)
Suikoden (the entire series but largely 2)
Radiant Historia (time-travel perfection)
Final Fantasy 6/7 (6 is my personal fave but I've been thinking a lot about 7 thanks to the remake... I am extremely unhappy with the ending of Rebirth but we'll see where they take it)
Tales of the Abyss (I feel like it's a more flawed story than most here but it's a personal choice, it stuck with me)
Bravely Default (this is the DEFINITION of "peaks and valleys" but when it hits, oh man it hits!!!!! best villain reveal of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Valkyrie Profile (not much to say here. it's just a really good story.)
Chained Echoes (brought down a bit by how much I hate Kylian. felt like a bad parody of like "morally gray" characters. the ending really annoyed me for reasons you can probably guess. go away Kylian. but yes otherwise fantastic)
Danganronpa (not a JRPG technically but amazing at what it does while also being completely stupid. god bless.)
DQ11 is probably my favorite game ever but I am not sure if I'd put it on a list of best stories. I think the overall effect is really good and the halfway (third of the way?) twist is nuts and I loved it though. Octopath II had fantastic individual stories, but once you take a step back and look at the picture as a whole, the number of DRAMATIC BETRAYALS starts straining your sense of disbelief quite hard lol
SOSS/SOSSR - completely falls apart in the second half. P3R - yeah probably should have been on this list, this or P5R. NNK - honestly I dislike this game so much I don't really like the story either. I feel like it runs really hard off Ghibli aesthetics and a dead mom.
Great list of games right there. DQ11 is really just so good. I also love Danganronpa.
Radiant História!!
Wow - no Tales games listed - Tales of Berseria is the most memorable game I have ever played and the only one that ever made me actually cry. Tales of Symphonia on Gamecube was the first JRPG I ever played and I have loved them since. Another game where the story stayed with me was Shadowhearts Covenant from the New World.
Berseria didn’t hit with me the first time I tried playing it but I went back recently and it is really an all around amazing game. It actually made another list of mine recently.
i like berseria but i curious which part can made you cry?
@@boeta9778 If I had to guess, it's when Laphicet finally yelled at Velvet when she was at her lowest.
Act. Like. A. Dove.
I have so many to play and finish 😂😭
Lost Odyssey is a good one
Well for me. It would have to be persona 5 or persona 3 reload or final fantasy vii or whatever. Maybe if you wanted to add a pokemon platinum quarter or A super mario rpg or too for 25 of 10 storylines or more 😊
For me I enjoy Rean’s story more than Lloyd’s. I don’t know maybe it’s the giant robots. No comment on Sky, it could possibly be better, but I’ve never played it.
I have Xenoblade 2, Dragon Quest 11, KH2, among others.
Luckily Trails Daybreak will be an amazing jumping on point for new comers
Releasing in less than three weeks! Can't wait!
@@SuperSupersoda I can’t wait either, it feels similar to Tales of Xillia that I adored
Don't fool yourself Sky is and will always be the best entry point but if you really can't deal with the graphics (which I'd argue have a lot of charm) then Daybreak is fine to start with I guess
I guarantee the franchise won't hit the same when starting with daybreak though
@@rannel7644 does it really matter tho? By having such a long “you must play x first” will in the end stagnant the fanbase
@@neoandroid8586 There is that, and I agree with you that starting with Daybreak is fine, however, the one thing about high barriers to entry is that it keeps the normies out. Every other dev is bending over backwards to get more normies (and their money) into their products. It's nice that one thing out there doesn't seem to care. If trails ever tried to cater to normies, it wouldn't be trails anymore.
Give some love to Suikoden hehe
Especially Suikoden 2
Star Ocean? Interesting. I heard a lot of people saying that the game had pretty weak story
I'm a big fan of that Star Ocean story. It's not that the story is bad or even weak. It's that lots of the character moments that happen especially with secondary characters are done via the private actions and so people don't view that as part of the story even though there is clear character development happening in those that helps explain certain actions taken by characters. If you skip the private actions, there are bits missing outside of the main two characters.
I'm surprised you didn't have any tales games on here my list would be pretty similar with more trails games swirch ff7r for ff9
I would put Tales of the Abyss
@@pedrobeckup456 that's my personal favorite
@@jaysonking4055 Nice taste! It is one of my favorite RPGs
13 Sentinels dont get discussed enough
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IMO Suikoden 2 and Dragon Quest has the best story ❤️
Kinda bummed that Chrono Trigger isn’t on here but to each their own
No Xenogears? Come on....
This 100%
As far as pure narrative ambition and boldness, XG is on a mountaintop alongside a select few games of any genre. We’re taking single digits here.
Xenogears’ story is epic, but falls way short on story telling. The pacing was horrible, and it was terrible at keeping you immersed and engaged throughout all the twists and turns. As a result most of the later game plot points and revelations fell flat. It is definitely a story that deserves a second chance to be retold, but as it is it’s hard to call it a great story
@@anthonyduff957 way short? It’s critically acclaimed from the day it dropped to today 😂. Stop rehashing what you see on some losers RUclips review. This games script touches topics that movies don’t even approach anymore. It’s banned in Europe because of its script lol. No one craps on Gears that actually played it 🤷
@@user-mt2cb3zb2n don’t get me wrong it’s a great game, and I remember purchasing it when it came out and replayed it multiple times. I’m not arguing the story has the potential to be great, I’m arguing it fails on story telling. It’s told in a way that’s very hard for casual gamers to follow, which is why on its own the story fails in its medium as a game. Even on a recent playthrough I had to watch numerous RUclips videos to help me understand the story as it was too difficult to capture the immensity through just the dialogue.
no Xenogears makes me sad T-T
Xenogears
No Final Fantasy IX, no Final Fantasy VI, no Xenogears? I easily drop Final fantasy VII for these games taking into consideration plot as a main argument.
Thank you! It's not just me. While the writing in many on this list is okay, they definitely wouldn't be as popular without the modern day graphics.
All of the FF games that predated the PS2 were great because of the writing, music, and graphics which were cutting edge for their time, but still hold up today.
@@davidmckenzie3608 Many on the list seem recent too, with the exception of Ni No Kuni. Trails could have been added due to curiosity of older games since it is a continuous series. I'm guessing there is a lot of recency bias in play here. For example, how did Chrono Trigger not make the list?
@@MattAlchemy I know! I'm also annoyed that none of the Wild Arms or Suikoden titles didn't make the list
chrono trigger? chained echoes?
valkyria chronicle 3? odin sphere leifthtlrasir? suikoden 2?
No vagrant story or ff tatics ?
Was looking for someone to mention Tactics.
This is hard, I'm not sure what JRPG stories really stood out to me. Most of them follow tried & true tropes, though they'll put their own spin on them.
Here's my list (in no order):
1. Xenoblade Chronicles DE
2. Xenoblade Chronicles 3
3. Octopath Traveler 2
4. Persona 5 Royal
5. Persona 3 Reload
6. Star Ocean Second Story R
7. Trials of Mana
8. Chained Echoes
9. Dragon Quest XI-S
10. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Aside from Xenoblade, I'd say none of those games have extremely unique stories, just good ones with enjoyable characters.
Dude. While I respect your opinion a lot. I might gonna have to disagree a little bit more because I think saying this is a one piece series amount of games considering the amount of characters change within each series is a major understatement for me
so there's no Suikoden II after all
Trails to Azure is a masterpiece! The Trails series will go down as the greatest JRPG series once it's all done, if not so already. No one comes close, especially the overrated FF series.
Final Fantasy VI? Legend of Dragoon?
Kingdom hearts?
Final Fantasy X is not only the best jrpg story but one of the best stories in the medium of gaming and fiction as a whole. List is automatically disqualified lmaooo
fire emblem 3 houses
The thing about Trails games to me is the combat is just not very fun
I think it's fun, though it can get a little redundant at times. Every basic enemy battle can be nuked the same way, and most boss battles can be won with the same strategy.
Play on hard mode; it'll make you think about how you go about combat, and make you care how you set up your orbments. Providing some challenge may make the combat more fun, but then you'll find that the pacing will drag due to needing to grind a bit more. I do like my story, but I'm not about to drop the difficulty just to rush through the series while getting bored by easy encounters.
(The prologue boss in Sky SC is a stupid case where it almost feels hopeless to beat on hard mode due to minimal party members, and barely any skills/orbment configurations. Besides that though, a lot of the bosses were relatively fun and challenging.)
Each game is different with combat. Newer ones are obviously better, but the old ones have their charm too.
Fuckin' kids. Where's FFVI?
I would definitely recommend the .hack GU series. The story is fantastic can captivating.
Trails turned into generic shonen manga in Cold Steel, what a shame
DQ11 story is so freaking boring and cliché. Loved the game for everything else but the story. I think FF9 or FF6 should be in his place, or even DQ5. People are talking about Xenogears, but it's an unfinished game.
No Shin megami tensei but Persona wow that's offensive
Xenogears > Xenoblade
I prefer Xenoblade for a lot of reasons, but I agree that in general the story of Xenogears deserves better
Why do people always say "best" when they actually mean "favorite"?
So we all can enjoy the unavoidable comments such as these
No Xenosaga? Shame
If you haven't, pleeeease play Xenogears
As far as stories go Dragon Quest has done better
This is a...... not good list. Xenogears is the best story in all of video games. The octopath traveller games have exceptionally poor stories.
Thank you for sharing. 🙄
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