Looking for JRPG Recommendations

[fluid crescent]

Title says it all. I've played both of the FE games on the Switch, DQ XI, and FF7, and I thoroughly enjoyed all of them, so now I'm looking for more.

[chrome meadow]

I'm currently playing Final Fantasy 9

Persona 5 and Zelda Ocarina of Time are my favourites ever

what a status and profile theme you have

[chrome meadow]

oh you have NSO+?

is that how you played FF7 or did you just emulate

[fluid crescent]

I got FF7 off the switch eshop and played it

[fluid crescent]

I’ve played OoT and thats my favorite zelda game by far (even over BotW and TotK), but I’m really considering getting P5 for the switch

[chrome meadow]

🤝

P5R is super worth its price tag, it even goes on sale from time to time.

130+hrs per playthrough and there's just a lot to do. So much that you would wish the game were longer although I gotta say, there were 2 mediocre arcs but I never felt scammed of my time.

The OST is probably my favourite ever

I personally played it on PC

[fluid crescent]

Never played P5 but I still have some of the OSTs on my playlist it’s so fire

[chrome meadow]

Definitely check out Persona 4 and 3 OSTs too!

Each persona game has its own vocalist(s) and its own style

[fluid crescent]

The only thing about the game that’s kinda turned me off is that all the gameplay I’ve seen makes the fighting and combat seem extremely complicated

[chrome meadow]

Persona 5 combat is actually really simple, more so than Pokemon

[fluid crescent]

Oh shit

[chrome meadow]

it gets really cheesable towards the end of the game too; idk if that's good for you or not

[fluid crescent]

Well I’ve played literally every single Pokemon game

No it’s fine with me to cheese shit

As long as I’m having fun doing it I actually don’t care

[chrome meadow]

there is easy mode, normal mode, hard, and merciless. You choose the difficulty and they can be scaled whenever, not like fire emblem that only scales down

The combat is very visually pleasing. I won't send gifs but yeah

[fluid crescent]

Well for FE I just play casual, I feel like classic is too stressful and I play RPGs to just mindlessly grind or burn a few hours

[fluid crescent]

I love the art style of the game

[chrome meadow]

I waited like a year for the port, I bought it day 1 for full. No regrets even if I could've saved a lot of money after a month or 2

[chrome meadow]

sick

[fluid crescent]

It’s whatever honestly I’ve never played the game so paying full is not like some of the other ports I payed full price for no reason since I already had the game

[chrome meadow]

oh lol

[fluid crescent]

I like the easy RPGs where it’s more focused on gameplay and I don’t need to grind an aggressive amount, but it’s an RPG so obviously some grinding is fine

[chrome meadow]

PC port has more frames and slightly better graphics because yeah PC. P5R does have physical copies so that's nice. I love my games physical

[fluid crescent]

I’d rather play Switch honestly for portability and school and stuff

[chrome meadow]

P5R is for you. Just don't have insane expectations for the plot although the last arc was out of this world. First arc was a hell of an introductory arc too.

[fluid crescent]

Is there a difference between P5 Royal and regular P5

[chrome meadow]

Thing is if you play that game mindlessly, you might quite a number of things. The game is built to be worth playing twice. I will replay the game this summer probably

[chrome meadow]

P5R is better in every way possible. Most notable differences are 1 extra arc, dungeon, and 2 new absolutely amazing characters. I'd like to reiterate that the last arc is by far the best part of the game.

[fluid crescent]

Got it

[chrome meadow]

Just uh be careful because you might get super hooked. A lot of the game is just spending time with cool NPC friends and exploring the little open world Tokyo and you can save the game anywhere unless you're in a dungeon. Insane amounts of QoL has been put into the design of this game.

it's not like Final Fantasy 7 with some terrible save point locations. Love that game tho, it's super special to me.

[orchid thistle]

Octopath Traveler 1 and 2, Persona 5 Royal, Shin Megami Tensei V, Xenoblade series, and Dragon Quest XI

[fluid crescent]

I’ve heard about Xenoblade and I have two questions. How do most people rank them from best to worst and can you play them out of order?

[orchid thistle]

I think most ppl agree that Xeno 3 is the most enjoyable of the series so far but they are all good and people go back and forth. You don’t have to play them in order but I know xeno3 dlc doesn’t make a lot of sense without playing the other games. Just depends I guess, if you want to spend over 200 hours playing the same type of rpg then start with the first one. Otherwise I would play 3.

[chrome meadow]

3>=1>2 probably

but XC1 gameplay is not that good for me