My next game i start will be Star Ocean First Departure R. And if i finsih that game fast enough i probably play either Persona 4 Golden or a rerun of Nier Replicant.
I also still play Final Fantasy XVI and Soulhackers 2 occasionally, because it’s hard for me to finish these game.
Last month in only finisehd redemption reapers.
What do you intend to play?
I started Xenosaga Episode 1 about a week ago, so I guess Ill count that as October. Never played it before, but so far its a very rough experience. The story is interesting, but I’ve had to resort to save states due to how often long cutscenes occur and how often game-overs will force you to rewatch all those cutscenes.
Regarding games I have finished, none of them were JRPGs.
Update (two weeks after this post was made): I have now quit XenoSaga. The gameplay is bad. DOMO carrier fight sucked, but the Gargoyle is where I draw the line.
I’m on disc 3 of Final Fantasy 9 and struggling to keep playing. The insane high rate of encounters is finally wearing me down.
Also playing Skies of Arcadia for the first time.
i think i played it maybe 8 years ago, so i can’t remember if it was that high. Keep in mind to have fun when playing games. Often i stuggle to play a game i don’t enjoy just to finish it (maybe soulhackers 2 and ff16).
FF9 probably has the highest encounter rate out of the first ten games. I’d say it’s even worse than FF1. The battles and the AP/equipment systems are excellent though. Good story too.
When you don’t need AP to gain any skills you really notice battles starting every four steps. It takes forever to get anywhere in a dungeon.
The was the first Final Fantasy I had to hate-play to finish. Between the encounter rate, 20 second load times to get into said encounters (I hope you’re playing a quicker version), and the brutally sluggish pace in combat, I had a really rough time with it.
On the plus side, FF9 got me to finally start looking at JRPGs not made by Square, and I discovered Suikoden II and Valkyrie Profile soon after.
I’m going to play Bravely Default. Again.
Do you know if the Bravely games (Default, Default II and second) are connected or seperate games? I’m just curious if i find time for one game, i’m eager to play all of them because of a connected story or if i’m not trapped in that.
Last month, I finally got around to playing SaGa Frontier. It’s been in my Steam Library for some time, but I was busy with several other games (mostly Metroidvanias). Overall, SaGa Frontier is my 4th favorite SaGa game. I didn’t find the individual storylines in the game to be as compelling as Romancing SaGa 2 and 3, and the graphics weren’t that great in my opinion (much prefer the graphics in SaGa Scarlet Grace).
For this month, I’m replaying Trials of Mana. Gonna try out some different party combinations that I did not try the last time I played the game, which was about a year ago.