Top 10 Underrated JRPGs for Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 22 янв 2024
- These 10 JRPGs are not only underrated but also perfect for beginners. They're also great to get you back into RPGs.
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I remember asking him about noob friendly RPGs last stream. Glad to know he made this video XD
It would be nice to get a Tales of Eternia remake for the Switch
It would be EVEN nicer to get Tales of Destiny 2 (the one with Kyle) and Tales of Destiny Remake, remastered for Switch😄
i would love all tales game on the switch
I would LOVE to see so many of these games on Steam somehow, including the classics such as FF Tactics and the Dragon Quest saga too, that would be amazing tbh.
Yeah it's ridiculous how the best versions of FFT and most Dragon Quest games are on PHONES. And it's EASY to port from Android to PC and consoles, no reason to not have WOTL iOS version on modern systems.
You always pick the best girls for thumbnail.
Man of culture. This is why we love jrpg
Haven't watched a new vid in a while Erick. Always love your content because it's honestly and proudly JUST YOUR opinion. You dont dig too much into critical reception, sales, etc. Really refreshing man. Thank you for all the work 😊
In regards to Tales games, I'm playing through Eternia myself, and... I can't recommend it for beginners for one simple reason. The overworld that doesn't have a proper map. The game asks you to backtrack on occasion, but your actual maps do not update in any way. So if it tells you to go back to a place that isn't a town and you don't remember where it is... Yeah, good luck. Time to use Google. I think personally, if you want to recommend a retro style Tales game, I recommend Destiny DC on the PS2. The last dungeon is rough, but you never get lost on the world map because it has an actual good map system that lists everywhere you've been, it has a synopsis so you can hop right back in after taking a long break, it has navigational skits that are actually helpful, and Holy Bottles actually prevent encounters.
Riding Dragon Strike!!!!
Soul Hackers 2 is also a great bridge for people who started with Persona to get deeper into the greater SMT franchise
more easy than atelier sophie and ryza? instant win for me. the alchemist system from sophy and ryza feel like a university course of engineering for me lol
Yeah I really tried to like Atelier but the crafting is a little too involved for me.
Don't forget the underrated "Destiny Connect" on PS4 and Switch. A perfect beginners JRPG. And very beautiful and unique.
Two games I thought were good for beginners were Lunar: Silver Star Story for the PS1 & Breath of Fire 3, also for the PS1. I remember them being quite good, and really easy to pick up. Lunar had AWESOME music, especially pumping through the stereo speakers we had set up for the TV. Lol.
I think I have to disagree with Star Ocean. That first boss in the caves has an INSANE difficulty spike. I think that’ll turn some beginners away
Would love to see an Alter Code F-style remake of Wild Arms 2. One of its biggest flaws was just a hilariously poor translation, especially whenever Liz and Ard are around.
tales of eternia was my first TALES GAME i love it
Your getting better and better, brah.
What a coincidence, Im literally just playing sakura wars in this same moment, ending chapter 3. Great game.
If someone is interest in sakura wars, there are a fan translation for the original 1996 for sega saturn. The first game is more simple in mechanics, wich is more accesible for beginners.Also, because is the first one you don't any aditionai information, just play and enjoy
This was a great video! Thanks for making it and sharing your recommendations! I also would like a Tales Of Eternia remaster, hopefully in a style similar to the recent Star Ocean 2.
Divine force is so fun! World exploration and gameplay are so good!
Soul Hackers 2 and Star Ocean 6 might both be games worth playing but only if you have very good eyes. Both are prime examples of what a developer should never do: make the text so small that it's almost impossible to read. I've played them both but stopped because it's not fun, if I can't follow the non-voiced story or even adjust my characters properly.
I agree with star ocean you are so right
I played 20 hours to Soul Hackers 2, and then watched the ending on youtube, no way im gonna grind 15h or more to see the ending. While it is great and the characters are nice it becomes very repetitive with the dungeons and everything. Sadly i dont even remember the soundtrack which is very important in this kind of games.
Even if it is now patched so you can even speed up the game and battle, the story is probably the best part of the game. Seeing Ringo moving so slow on this video was making me cry.
Complain complain 😅
You are almost there, 100Ks! 😮Wow! The Pokemon-games are great for beginners, I feel. Great video, Erick!
I would add Final Fantasy X, great game, good story, well paced, simple but beautiful combat
Sakura Wars is absolutely fantastic
First 2 RPGs i got for switch os I am satsuna and Lost Sphere both really good tribute to classic RPGs
I noticed that Chrono Cross Reference at 8:51
Don’t know if it’s me but soul hackers 2 was tough 30hr in but yes definitely easier in the smt series
Casette Beasts. Open world, gentle difficulty curve, amazing monster designs, modern setting, a simple combat system that manages to keep surprising you hours in, and some really crazy moments in what is otherwise a thin plot
I really enjoyed Star Ocean the divine force I would give it at least a 8 out of ten if trying to not be biased when I really would say it's a nine out of ten. 100% met and surpassed my expectations.
I just up to Soul hackers 2 of the video part. I gotta say. I really love Ringo. English Dub voice actress doing an amazing job on voicing Ringo's role. some part in japanese voice sound very tempting and english dub too. So cute. I normally don't really care about side quest. but this game really made me to do side quest in order to fulfill the requirement for true ending.
Sakura Wars is such a gem, always glad to see more love thrown its way
I actually loved Sakura wars I wish they would remaster the ones on Sega Saturn
That video was great. I appreciate the effort
Another day another JRPG
I let my 10 year old daughter dig through my DS games. She loves My World, My Way. It is also easy enough for a younger gamer to beat.
My unopened copy of ys seven on psp says it all. I love it. But yeah I just love ys. Dana my love forever.
I think ys 6 is the easiest in the series but I thought ys 7 wasn’t that much harder honestly. 6 I felt like was because of a skill gap where as 7 can be hard because of a level gap
Wow, i never expected hack g.u. to be on the list.. just finished that one, and it was indeed awesome!
Very curious about i am setsuna.
Thanks for the vid!
I disagree that I am setsuna is a beginner RPG. It's pretty unforgiving of mistakes, even if you gain extra levels and gear. I never made sense of the skill augment system either.
Might I suggest Rhapsody instead? It's accessible, has great art direction, a screwball sense of humor, and it's very very easy
I’d recommend Tokyo Mirage Session. I swear if it wasn’t for the terrible marketing this game could have been another persona franchise for Atlus. The plot, the characters and of course, the music were top tier. It was also pretty balanced in terms of difficulty. I highly recommend it for beginners.
Totally agree, Tokyo Mirage Session is incredible!
I have every one of these. Would be nice for the ones that aren’t already on modern systems to be ported over.
Id buy sakura wars if i could find it. It wss luck to find tales of arise last year.
Id love to see a lot more fe and tales of games ported forward
That you can still find around in shops, I got mine last year
@@davidebertolotto7337 not every shop is the same. Thanks for proving my point
Sometimes, i just want an easy to get into, story based experience.
The end of the video reminded me that Soul Hackers 2 is also pretty beginner friendly and overhated tbh. It's got fluid combat and fun characters. And the dungeons are better than Persona 4 and Nocturne.
I played all of these, good games. The ONLY thing I'd change is, I'd leap forward on the Atlier Iris series to game 2. Game one has some wonky presentation(What's given away on the back of the box is treated by the game as a MAJOR revelation, and later on, something that's a major revelation is just kind of flopped onto the table and barely discussed).
Game TWO on the other hand is a far more traditional JRPG, with a dual mode gameplay, as you follow two Alchemists, one being the usual JRPG hero type, with a magical sword of miraculous power, while the other is the more typical protagonist for an Atlier game, female, wearing heavy clothing, and extremely skilled at alchemy.
In two, the plot progresses at a good pace, the characters are a bit better fleshed out, and compared to game one, where the alchemy items are OP as heck(since only one guy can use them), in game two, the items, gear, and skills are actually fairly balanced, with each one feeding into the other to create a powerful party that can take on some tough challenges.
Should also be noted that after this, alchemy items become less and less impactful, as Skills start to take over the series, and have remained the go to option for OP until midway through the Arland trilogy, where the focus balanced again, before shifting towards Gear as your big power ups. And then the Mysterious series just included an easy mode where everything dies in one hit(Not really, but it feels that way sometimes)...but dumped English voice acting at that point too, which is bleh.
I Am Setsuna or more like it's longer and more polished version in Lost Sphear and Arc The Lad: Twilight of the Spirits are two of my favorite games. I put both Lost Sphear and Twilight of the Spirits in my top ten.
Conversely, Tales of Eternia ("Destiny 2") is one of my least favorite. I was meaning to get it on the PSP to give it another try but never did. I had the PS1 version with the strategy guide up until I sold it a few years back for a VERY nice profit. Only ever tried it the once though. Don't remember what it was specifically I didn't enjoy, I just remember that I didn't like it. It left quite the lingering dislike with me too if I can still say I don't like it but don't know exactly why anymore after a quarter century.
Arc the Lad: End of Darkness can go along with Tales of Eternia as one of my least favorite.
And just to balance it all out, Tales of Destiny is another in my top ten. So I have one "Tales of" and one Arc the Lad game each in my top ten and bottom ten lol. That takes some doing from a company to do something like that. Well...I guess Final Fantasy also pulled it off with VI being a top ten and III being a bottom ten but we're more used to that series being so very polarizing.
Grandia 1-2, great stories and battle system, easy to play
This. Only one problem they will spoil you with quality writing and combat system so going back to any Final Fantasy before 13 will be major shock factor at how simple they are in comparison.
@@KasumiRINA I’m a complete moron for JRPG games and if I can play Grandia games and finish them anyone can, I’ve tried to play other JRPGs and couldn’t understand what the heck I was doing lol.
Tales of Eternial is recomedable to beginner and old fox of JRPGs. To me is a great jrpg
Tales of eternia...such a hard last boss. Never cleared the game. 9999dmg every time on all team members (when the boss has little health left). And no items on me that i can equip with revive. Just dont understand how i should clear it. Without back tracking and get those equip items with revival. And what i understand, the drop rate for those are not that good either.
So anyone start playing that game. Hold on to those, if you get one...your going to need it.
Tales of Destiny 2/Eternia is the best jrpg on ps1, definitely underrated. Truly a masterpiece 😍
Also Atelier Iris series needs a remaster!!
Problem is that if you are a JRPG beginner you are most likely in your teens or early 20s and young people today very rarely are willing to even try an older game.
Fr all they play is fortnite
Great video bro. I see many great jrpgs on this list. For example Arc the Lad. But can't agree with the opinion about Ys SEVEN. It's not really easy for beginners. I think Ys VIII is easier.
Sakura Wars would have been an easy 8/10 if the combat/action wasn't so piss
Star ocean divine force I liked but they text was crazy small 😂
I’m playing soul hackers 2 rn
Its so fun 🎉🎉
Wow, Wild Arms 2 is such a graphical jump over 1, which looked somehow even worse than FF7, which is an achievement in a wrong way
Finally, someone giving Eternia some praise. It was my first Tales and I'm not gonna lie, I prefer it over the more beloved titles. I still like it over Abyss, Vesperia or Arise.
Soul Hackers 2, I keep wondering if I should play it, but unless it IS a masterpiece, I dont feel like caving in and paying full price for it. Not to mention dlcs. That makes me angry. And I'm even angrier when I realize I'm still gonna pay for Metaphor.
However... as much as I wanted to like it, I couldnt care about Star Ocean the Divine Force. Its not just that it was quite ugly (Reshade was salvaging it a little, but not much) but the story didnt grab me. It was just... nothingburger.
Just asking does your modern console PS5 have backwards compatibility sinced you gonna buy a new set of physical copies to be release for coming new gaming titles?
99% of PS4 games are backward compatible and yes you can use the physical discs.
and there are a hand full of PS1/2 and PSP games you can get online.
@@domfabio8850 thanks for info though is still expensive to buy the console in my country
For backwards compatibility, most PCs, Android phones and even PS3 can emulate first two PlayStations and PSP with no problems now. So cheaper ways to play old games than getting a PS5.
Arc The Lad 4 is so not like most stragy RPGs though, due to how different the mechanics are.
Think the reason .hack does not do well today, is adults just find the adults in the game dumb as fark. The original series in it makes way more sense storyline wise. Also might get lumped in the SoA stuff also.
Eternia is easy to play, hard to master, but the best feature is be able to plug a second controller and play along with friends! human reid and farah kick asses.
Wild arm 2 is good and all, but there is moments were i was completely lost and had to choose brute force, like i had to find a flying garden after half a hour i gave up am just lock the controler in a position it would fly around the world in 1 decree angle , so it would stumble on it eventually. also the female starter girl has the most forgettable name ever.
atelier 1 is solid, and the boss music is rock.
arc spirits is not higher because ARC 2 exist.
Hack GU is great, but be prepared for some long backtracking and a lot, i mean a lot of REN-GEN-KI!! i stole for myself the terror of death in my ragnarok online days.
Persona 5 is good for beginners because it's the easiest Megaten game by far, but obviously it's not underrated.
Ys7 is the best ys Game for me
I really don't agree with Ys 7 being easy for beginners. I'm boy bad at action games at all and I tried it out. Was digging the combat it was real cool and then I got to the first boss the turtle thing. Literally even after grinding a few extra levels I still had to sit there and hit it for like 10 minutes straight while dodging all its attacks to take it down it was way too hard idk. Maybe I accidentally selected a too high difficulty.
I found oath of felghana much easier, although I chose easy difficulty for that.
How about Scarlet Nexus?
What an amazing game
is there any video of JRPG with Female protagonist like atelier ryza or something?
Most Atelier games have female protagonists, and other Gust games like Blue Reflection too... There's Final Fantasy 6, X-2 and 13... Also Tales of Berseria and Arise.
On PC there's also Recettear (absolute gem), Chantelise and Fortune Summoners from the same publisher. And of course, Trails in the Sky trilogy, the main hero is a girl.
@@KasumiRINA thank you very much.. gonna try it later from your recommendation :)
tales of eterniaR for the switch made by GEMDROPS, cmon take my money!
Star Ocean divine force is not open world by the way. but you said it's open world. the area is just large for the sake of it but it's boring environment.
What game was played during the intro?
There are 3 different games if I'm not mistaken :
- Tokyo Xanadu (a very good Action RPG from Falcom)
- Trails in the Sky (there are 3 opus, coukd not remember which one it is from this short excerpt. A very good, story expansive, turn based classic franchise part of the "Trails of" series, also from Falcom)
- Last game should be Granblue Fantasy Versus, a fighting game adapted on console derived from a successful mobile fame I did not play if I'm not mistaken. Another full fledge Action RPG has just been released on console from the same franchise
Soul Hackers 2 isnt exactly beginner friendly bud. The comp/weapon system takes a little getting used to. either that, or im just slow.
edit: its more just like weird than anything lol.
Super Mario RPG is also definitely for beginners
Star Ocean Devine Force? This game has such awful game mechanics. If this would've been my first rpg, it would've been the last one. I better recommend any Mana series (with exception of Legend) entry or Golden Sun on Switch Online, which is the BEST first pick for beginners by far.
I can't judge the Sakura Wars game fairly honestly. The gameplay is ok but IMO inferior to the fifth game, which was a PS2 game and the only other game in the series to reach the US for some reason. And I hate the story because it feels like there's part of it that is IMO little or no benefit to the story and seemed written just to anger those of us who liked the characters from the earlier games (While games I through IV stayed in Japan some of the Mangas and Animes based on the franchise and including the characters from I through IV came out here)
I actually like Atelier Iris 2 the most. Atelier Iris 1 is ok. But i really disliked Atelier Iris 3.
Top 10 repetitive lists that ever repeated
Neptunia rules
Ys7 was too hard. I had to quit
I'm so sorry, but I have to say that iam Setsuna is the worst and most boring RPG I have ever played. I love RPGs, but if it had been my first one, I propably would have never liked the genera.
I'm a JRPG veteran who has been playing .hack//gu last recode for the first time and it is pretty fun. The combat does get repetitive sometimes but I enjoy the characters and story. And I do think it is beginner friendly.
Never played the .hack games, but .hack//sign quickly became one of my favourite anime after watching it around 2 years ago. the soundtrack is absolutely stellar.
ys and .hack
.hack ♥