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The WORST JRPGs According to Metacritic
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- Опубликовано: 29 фев 2024
- Today I take a look at every JRPG with a score below 60 on Metacritic and see if they're really THAT bad.
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I think you can't even play Babylon Fall anymore
the reason those older snes games are not on metacritic is they pre-date metacritic. metacritic only started during the ps1 era so a lot of snes games don't have pages.
Mass Effect 3s 59% is for the DLC From Ashes and Not the Main Game.
Star Ocean 5 being on that list kinda annoys me. I really like that game. Cross Edge's score on the other hand is still rated too high. Expecting a Dark Rose Valkyrie style retraction coming for that whenever you actually play this for longer than a couple of hours.
30:58 I played Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity. It's an action RPG which I could consider similar to a Ys game with Ys VI engine. The attacks are somehow based on the attacks from the main games, but it's definitely not as chaotic for the eyes as a bullet hell can be. Actually the gameplay is fun. Only issue is the camera because it's too far away sometimes and so not easy to see the safe spots. Also it's on the short side, but it has replaybility by having two playable characters.
New World, a pseudo sequel, came out last year which has a few gameplay improvements like flesh guard.
I'd rank the first game a 6.5 and the second one 7.5, definitely no bad games, however not recommendable for people who aren't familar with the series.
Criminal Girls and Mega Man Star Force are both way underrated.
I don’t think Criminal Girls is a matter of underrating as much as the controversy with the characters was the issue with its score and reputation.
You, reinvigorate my love for Strategy RPG’s
Time and Eternity, lets GO!
The only game i've played and completed recently was Caligula Effect Overdose, whilst i wouldn't say it was an amazing game, it wasn't as bad as some say. The combat whilst initially looks convuluted, it's actually pretty easy to get to grips with,what you actually do first, you are in essence seeing how the attack may play out, it doesn't always go to plan, but you are essentially just reviewing what will happen with your selection, if you don't like what you are seeing you can alter it. Rinse and repeat with your squad characters then see how it plays out.
This video was a lot of fun to watch! A part 2 with more games would be cool! Maybe not just the worse, but the comparison between the meta scores and your opinion, both for underrated and overrated games!
I was just playing Fate/Extra earlier today lmao.
I got Master of the Monster Lair precisely because of your RPG games for the NDS compilation video and I can only say that I LOVE it. I really got into it and I am still playing it. Awesome game.
Valkyria revolution is a 4/10. So almost accurate.
Never trust the critic score. Only trust user score but actually read the reviews to filter out anything that is irrelevant to your taste.
Obviously playing the game yourself and coming up with your own opinion is ideal, but we don't have infinite time to do everything.
User score is just as bad because to many people only know how to vote 0 or 10.
lol critic score is way more accurate than user. Too much bias and rating games a 10 or 0
Laughing in review bombs. Especially if there's a woman/POC in a game.
Metacritic launched in 2001, and I believe has listings for titles ranked on Gamerankings merged in (launched 99, merged in 2019). So titles earlier than that won't be on there unless they got a re-release.
Yeah Gamerankings was the original site like that and it had very little data on games in the SNES era unless they were insanely noteworthy like say FF VI or Chrono Trigger.
I didn't expect to see Amazing Island here, more for categorical reasons. I feel like Stephenplays' first experience with the game in his Extra Life streams nicely illustrates the insanity of this game. Probably not a blast to play, but definitely a blast to watch someone play. XD
Crystal Chronicles original was pretty unique and very nice, but its hardware gambit made it tough to experience properly, and it had the weirdest quirk where its save system was REALLY hard to remember to use. Like we'd forget to save all the frikkin' time even though generally, I save as often as I can in most games. The newer release had some issues that it really shouldn't have had, from what I've heard.
I don't understand the criticism of metacritic website. They don't make the scores. They just collate the review scores.
That's because the scores means something different for everyone. Some people use 7/10 as average, while others would say 5/10 is average.
So if you put it all together without context then you start getting scores that aren't what they should be.
@@RipVanWinkleXX how else would you do it?
@@RipVanWinkleXXdelulu
I think one of the biggest reasons people have issues with metacritic is because they don’t just collate reviews. Having multiple review score methods isn’t really an issue, you can generally break those down into percentages and find an average. The issue with metacritic is they use a weighted scoring metric. So while they are collating scores from many critics, certain critics are weighted higher meaning their score counts for more. It should just be an average because a review is an opinion and no opinion should be weighted higher than another when it comes to media reviews.
If I’m not mistaken, open critic gives a real average. They don’t weight the reviews that come to their platform. Which should give you a more accurate view compared to metacritic.
Thats the thing. For whatever i want to consume, be it games or movies or whatever, i ALWAYS ONLY look at the audience score and ignore the critics score. So far that hasn't let me down. Would be suprised if that ever changes.
Well, Hyperdimension Neptunia was the FIRST game in the series. The combat was extremely slow, but they learned from it. HN Mk2 (the second) was much better, but still had some flaws....which only got improved in the third game, HN Victory. You can't bash the first game in the series to harshly because, well, it the first game in the series.
Omega Quintet is alright for me...but it's grindy as hell, for Leveling, Material Farming, and, worse of all....Weapon Proficiency (which actually increased the stats of the weapons for that same class.)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered...is bad because it was released on consoles AND Mobile...meaning the console versions were also the MOBILE versions. That's why it's got bad reviews.
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Such an unfortunately terrible name for a game. As long as it's just a name, I guess you could just never say it out loud lol; but if the game has the cutesy stuff that the name would suggest, that alone makes it a pass.
The actual gameplay I've seen doesn't make me any more interested. Triangle strategy got a pass, because although terrible, the name made sense; and although the gameplay got really tedious after awhile, the story was good enough to push through at least once.
UO seems to me, from what I've seen, to be a JRPG, that also has strategy. At least it's not the yawn inducing classic JRPG combat, but there's still too much of the busywork that, to me, drags that entire genre down.
The combat seems decent enough, that maybe if it was ONLY combat with occasional story beats; or, if the story was really good, I could understand the sudden obsession with the game.
But I guess it's just one of those games that I'm never going to understand why it's so beloved.
Idk... There's games that are pretty good, but are way over hyped, with love for the game bordering on obsession: something like Elden Ring; that I'll never understand why people get so obsessed. Solid game, but it's not "the greatest game ever".
But in UO's case, I don't get why it's liked at all. Maybe the full game is way different than the demo... But from the demo alone, I don't get it.
It's not from Japan, but the worst turn-based RPG I played was YIIK. It wasn't even the gameplay that made it the worst, it was the unearned pretentious and tasteless vibes in the writing.
At least it tried in that part
@@DOGEELLL Oh it tried. It was very trying. :p After I finished it, it left a bad taste in my mouth. I feel bad for the creator, as I understand he lost his mother during the game's creation and it heavily influenced the later half the story. I think you can really feel it fall apart then, and it's sad. Hope he's getting on ok.
5:10 Time and Eternity: I actually completed the game on the PS3 and I really liked it! :D The best thing for me was the humor in the game, I often sat there laughing out loud when playing it. :D -- I wish I could play it again, but currently, I cannot connect my PS3. If I ever see it on PSN's game streaming service, I'll play it again from scratch. :)
Planning to buy a Wii, think I'll just skip Valhalla Knights then hahah.
Can someone tell me your fav Wii JRPG? Want to make a list of what to play :)
Sure, I'll start :
- Dokapon Kingdom (if you have friends it is one of the best games for the wii period)
- Xenoblade Chronicles (Though you might want to get the switch version it's more convenient since you can play the trilogy on the same console)
- Pandora's Tower
- Fire Emblem Path of Radiance (Gamecube) and its sequel Radiant Dawn (Wii)
- The Last Story
Anyone else can feel free to add more niche choices.
Arc Rise Fantasia.
@@ZorkasIshmael thanks! I took a look at Pandora's Tower and The Last Story, with the last having something about a Banana Prank, was it? hahah. both look so cool! imma def try both of them.
@@GunarmDyne very colorful, it's my type of game. noted, thx for commenting!
@@lukashenrique4295I've always described it as Luminous Arc meets Tales of Symphonia. The boss fights can be brutal, but it's overall a very fun game.
Stalin vs Martians sounds inspired. Joesef was interesting on The Tick cartoon. He gets around.
Spectral Souls on PSP has one small issue. Depending on PSP you using it might cause LAG issues. Which is funny cause the digital version works perfectly fine. But the UMD if you had 2000 Models it would skip/freeze.
Nice video, Are going to continue to page one?
I liked Falsebound Kingdom. Fun little semi rts game.
Chronus Arc isn't THAT bad when it comes to Kemco's convayer built of tedium. Especially these days when almost every one of their games uses the same Asdivine system. -.- Prolly their best game with the most replayability (as little as that is) is Monochrome Order... their worst... prolly one of their attempts at 3D, which are always SUPER short, even for their standards.
Tao's Adventure is pretty good imo if you like that genre. Kind of the spiritual successor of Azure Dreams.
Metacritic's RPG tag reminds me of Steam's rhythm game tag.
Valkyrie revolution is a 5. Not for gameplay, but because it should be renamed loading screen the game.
MegaMan StarForce 3 is the best one out of the 3 games the 2nd one is not the greatest due to its stupidly High Encounter rate. 3 has better gameplay, story, and mechanics
One Piece romance dawn was ok tier
I loved Mega Man Star Force for DS. It was great. Screw the Metacritic scores.
So what you're saying is these are must plays!. After all if the critics hate it that must mean it's absolute Gem!
what's the best JRPG to learn electric engineering?
Let’s see what Metacritic and Erick have to say
I like content such as these. Who knows, maybe you might discovered a hidden gem 😂
I wanna see you do a tier list of every single jrpg you’ve ever played
Is the first BGM from Legend of Nayuta or Ys?
i think it's from Trials of Mana
@@youness2kThanks! I know I heard it recently but don't remember from where.
Babylon's Fall is completely unplayable
I like Neptunia games. Metacritic doesn't like them.
Then again, Anime Booba is always a big plus for me
Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles remake is *bad* because once you complete a dungeon it kicks out the entire party from multiplayer so you have to Form->Look->GroupUp every single time. No invites, no favorites, no quick rejoins etc.
Also progression is reset for the non-host.
I love fate extra but i would rather give 8 to its sequel, the fact that you cannot save in the dungeon is a serious problem.
Mass Effect review is a mostly a product of the Rushed Ending. They released better endings & more options, but the damage had already been done. The Endings were still problematic, but they werent as bad as before. In general ME3 lost a lot of ME2 writers & the lead writer tried to make the focus on his own plot points, leading to some aspects falling a little flat (villains are a bit one-dimensional etc). I would say that the big problem is the missed potential, because they had an interesting world but they sort of closed that potential with the endings.
Valkyria Revolution was trashed only because this is not like Valkyria Chronicles, even if this game is just a spin-off. And I agree, game is not great, have terrible balance and gameplay issues (grind, difficulty spikes, repetive combat and maps, attack of clones), but story, music and character development in this game is really good. If you play this game more like Visual Novel, it is OK game, just gameplay in this game is not that good. And this is the biggest issue not only this game, but also all games from this genre - Visual Novel RPG's.
A generic harem power fantasy like Asterisk War has an equally mediocre game based on it. Why am I not surprised?
earthlock that low I saw the opposites on other websites and videos, it,s recommended!
the fact that witch and the hundred knight is so low is so annoying, its amazing game, tons of humour and fun gameplay too with its soul fire and stomach systems, its at least 8 out of 10
as for rune factory tides of destiny, it and rf5 are only ones i played but love both, its criminally low, but having to tame monsters to grow crops might cause some headaches to people
WATHK can get very repetitive and is a grind fest eventually. On top of that, the crawling isn't very interesting.
did I saw werewolf the apocalypse earthblood in there? what? that game a jrpg? how?
When you take an average of critics this is what can happen, I think many of the ones they rate low are pretty bad. Like everything critics are not an exact science but overall they are right, you can just point to a handful of rough ratings.
Is there a better alternative to MetaCritic that includes these older games?
Cross Edge was absolute garbage and you’re being too nice. It shouldn’t have gotten more than a 48.
💯 the only game I ever actually returned to GameStop, back in the day.
@@jmccain22090 I wanted to like it so bad and it’s whole design was awful
Babylons fall wasn't that bad, sure it was a platinum game and it could be better, the reason for cheap prices is that they close servers a year ago and it is impossible to play now so don't waste your money as you will not even start the game :p I remember when I was rushing to my platinum because I started playing it 3 weeks before servers been closed haha
Valkyria Revaluation gets too much hate because its not Valkyra Chronicles. Players wanted another Chronicles game, and they got Revaluation. Its as good game, just not what players expected.
But can it be worse than Rebirth?
I'm playing romance dawn right now, and I love it
Arcania is definitely not a bad game. I enjoyed it a lot and have also completed it.
Legacy of Goku wasnt low enough!!!!
很明顯，Metacritic只有很少的亞洲文化受衆。
Mass Effect 3 "59" ahaha )))
JRPG is subjective? I highly disagree. Normally JRPGs are RPGs made in Japan, and those who are inspired by. That's why games such as Final Fantasy XV and XVI appear when you search for JRPGs, even though they are not.
And, I still don't know where those scores come from, but many are more than questionable. You'll find a lot of overrated stuff as well. Like those that just have a big name or company behind it, who probably even pay for better scores.
Omega Quintet is bad? That game is a solid 8!
All "Triple A" corporations pay for their review scores. I always put a game that is going to release or has already released under a microscope and leave the reviews to myself. I do check to see people's opinions, but in the end the choice is mine and mine alone.
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@@ChronicSensei I'm going to add that lately (kinda) the idea that only professional reviews are questionable became problematic to defend. Because of the phenomenon of social media influencers of the gaming scene being approached by companies to promote the new game, sometimes even sponsored content. And that happens in all genres and franchises that have fairly popular content creators.
So that added a layer of complication in reaching "reliable" opinions in the internet. It's no longer about just looking away from the professional reviews. Sometimes the influencer will be biased and not totally honest.
@@ChronicSensei I'm going to add that lately (kinda) the idea that only professional reviews are questionable became problematic to defend. Because of the phenomenon of social media influencers of the gaming scene being approached by companies to promote the new game, sometimes even sponsored content. And that happens in all genres and franchises that have fairly popular content creators.
So that added a layer of complication in reaching "reliable" opinions in the internet. It's no longer about just looking away from the professional reviews. Sometimes the influencer will be biased and not totally honest.
@@carlosaugusto9821 Always go off what you think, not someone else's opinion. That's what I said, You are your own reviewer at the end of the day just like people are with history. History is there to remind us to not make the mistakes made of the past again in the present.
Inu Yasha is DBZ for girls. And instead of constant yelling to raise their Chi, they just all yell "Inu Yasha". ;)
Good games too
You are an easy grader apparently.
Adventures to go is the worst psp rpg ever. It being 58 was way too high for me. I rather play dragoneers aria, Valhalla knights, astonishia story, blade dancer and even knights in the nightmare than adventures to go. Screw that game. It’s a 3.5 at best 😂
Nah, it's far from the worst. This game have many flaws, but combat is OK, as an "rogue-like"'ish customized dungeon.
As for me, its around 6/10.
Your idea of scores is so out of whack saying a game is bad but its a 7 is insanity. 7 is an above average score
Ye. 5/10 means its just mediocre. But he often got bad takes. Especially when he said in another video that jrpgs got better variation that wrpgs, but he never plays wrpgs and only mentioned the most popular ones like witcher 3 and mass effect.
There's an Inuyasha game? lol that show is a soap opera disguised as an anime it is not good jrpg fodder
Your taste in rpgs is atrocious.
Pretty average actually
What a joke video.