If there is anything you want to add about your favorite JRPG franchise feel free to do so below! Part 1 with all the other series: czcams.com/video/J-DJG5uv8ds/video.htmlsi=nrDI80wnyeZXO5A8
I'm surprised you never mentioned Grandia. You also forgot to mention Super Mario RPG as the first Mario RPG before Paper Mario. There's also Lunar, and Lufia I can think of that could be added to this list.
I am entertained that the Drakengard series is starting to be seen as the offshoot of NieR instead of the other way around. My other fun fact about that series is that Yoko Taro claims everything he's written for it is cannon. Which includes Tokyo Musical Theatre, and that time 2B and 9S teamed up with Final Fantasy's Warrior of Light and some random dwarves to save another world through a showdown against the Watchers in a digital recreation of Tokyo.
And one could argue that the Final Fantasy XIV x YoRHa crossover directly leads into Drakengard 3, as the teleportation of Norvrandt's digital recration of Tokyo might actually become the Cathedral City in Drakengard. As we saw in NieR Re[in]carnation, the Moon Server has some data from Final Fantasy XIV's world, which could only come from the City that was sent from FFXIV's world to another one at the end of the crossover.
@@dimas-dvdru Lelouch from Code Geass, Subaru from Re:Zero, Rika from Higurashi too are canon to the NieR Universe thanks to SINoALICE (canon to NieR thanks to Re[in]carnation)
Don't forget Mega Man Battle Network/Starforce, Super Mario RPG, Crystar, Cristales, Rouge Galaxy, Dark Cloud, Black Rose Valkyrie, The World Ends With You, and Eternal Sonata. That and a flash/steam game known as Crystal Story.
I always miss Inazuma Eleven on lists like these. It's a very different JRPG centering about soccer but that makes it so great. Not all games are amazing but the sheer amount of characters in each game is just enough to spent hours on hours in this game
You are going to keep getting more recommendations for additional JRPGs to cover, so of course I'm going to contribute a few as well! Ar Tonelico (and Ar No surge) - The three games of Ar Tonelico all are part of a connected storyline, focusing on a different miles-tall tower after a world destroying calamity. There is a heavy visual novel style focus on the inner emotional struggles of the magic wielding heroines, called Reyvateil. Ar Nosurge is more of a spiritual sequel with an unconnected storyline, but may be a prequel to the original trilogy. Neptunia (five mainline games, over a dozen spinoffs) - A fictionalized telling of the Console Wars era of real world gaming, featuring a protagonist based on a never-completed Sega console called the Neptune. The franchise as a whole focuses more on metatextual jokes about video games and RPGs than on any deep narrative through line.
great vid good pacing, you hit the outline w o lingering too long, no filler or nonsense, all useful info, got what i expected - a brief story synopsis and gameplay overview thanks
such a good list! would love to see an equivalent for more obscure franchises at some point (like dept. heaven, utawarerumono, summon night, sakura wars, growlanser)
Disappointed that SaGa is not included because that franchise deserves its flowers for being one of the earliest JRPGs to have a non linear gameplay structure. SaGa was THE original JRPG with multiple protags with Romancing Saga long before Octopath was a thing. It is still doing well since Romancing SaGa 2 is getting a 3D remake soon and SaGa Emerald Beyond just came out too.
I will always recommend the shadow hearts series, especially the second game. Such memorable JRPGs. The settings and music are both gorgeous and haunting.
Breath of Fire I, Ii and III are direct sequels. 4 is to believed a prequel while 5 is also somehow connected. So yeah, they are connected (specially I and II and the Nina in two meets her grandmother who is the Nina from I)
Chrono Trigger will probably always be my favorite game of all time, no other game gave me the same enjoyment and feels like it did, like when we first get to Zeal, a whole group of floating continents from 12,000 B.C, and then hearing corridors of time, that moment is still stuck in my head, or when we first get to the overworld of 600 ad and hear wind scene, or when Frog (my favorite character in the game) split a mountain in half. Honestly I just love this game, from the idea of time travel and how well they utilized it, to the amazing soundtracks, to the characters, just everything about it honestly
If you do a next part I'd suggest adding God Eater. Similar to monster hunter although smaller in scale but it serves as an option with a legitimate series tag with 3 games all relatively solid
Phantasy Star has a feeling I miss. It is false science fiction like star wars and they managed to balance it pretty well back in the day. I am not a fan of hard core science fiction and the type of threats it brings. It is science fantasy and you get to travel in space and go in villages that aren't filled with futuristic stuff that can have problems with the dark magician that obeys a new dark religion. That is very unique and every people who experience PSIV fall in love with the game
Don’t forget the “Mario+Rabbids” series, a genuinely great tactical game for stretching the old brain muscle! Also, the second game actually managed to make Rabbids not annoying! I’m so glad it found its audience after its uncertain release! ☺️
I disagree about Breath of Fire. BoF3 is not unanimously consedered the best. The community is split between 3 and 4 as the best game. Here a few ideas for part 3: Grandia, Earthbound/Mother, Bravely Default,
Wow, thanks for the reminder! I haven't thought about the Grandia series in over a decade! Now I'm curious if I have any of those games in my old collection anymore.
Here’s a list of my favorite JRPGs 1. Legend of Dragoon 2. Tales of Berseria 3. Tales of Arise 4. Final Fantasy X 5. Final Fantasy 15 6. Final Fantasy 16 7. Dragon’s Dogma 1 8. Dragon’s Dogma 2 9. White Knight Chronicles 1 10. White Knight Chronicles 2
if your going to make a next one think about adding the metal max and front mission saga this 2 needs more recognition especially metal max that the main series had never leave japon but can be play thanks to fan translations.
Just a slight correction with Phantasy star, the last subseries is actually PSO2, nova is a spinoff game set in the PSO2 universe, same as idola phantasy star saga and NGS.
I guess others will give recommendations for the 'normal' JRPGs. So I will give the 18+ JRPGs version then. Battle Goddess series from Eushully and the many spin offs from that title. Well, basically all games from Eushully are in the 18+ RPG genre. Rance series from Alicesoft with the most known title of the series: sengoku rance. And then lastly, There's Muv Luv series which I also only heard of existence but never play. I guess that's all lmao
I really like the concept of suikoden but I really wish it had an actual gameplay. I tried many times to get into it because it used to be my ex gf's favorite series but the gameplay always makes me feel like i don't know why im playing a game that plays itself.
Suikoden series have three main gameplay, first, basic turn based rpg based on spd stats, second, army battle, real time strategy( rts),third, one on one battle, rock, papper, scissor, most notebly battle luca blight for the third or last time. After that there are several mini games gameplay, such as,headquarters 108 star of destiny Collect, tai ho iron chef, yam ko rolling dice, Clive eliza scenario,farmer whack the mole,dancing,etc I recommends play Suikoden 2 first, then 1,3,5,&last 4,but humbely i think that turn based six man party,or auto play is for fully utilized 108+ character, gameplay, there is rune( magic), combo play, with another player, etc, is common in that jrpg time era, or Play Station 1 time.like dragon Quest, wild arms,chrono cross and trigger, etc Suikoden in my humble opinion, is having most grounded storyline, war, frindship, betreyal, sibling, by blood or not, like riou and nanami, and genkaku, hatred, revenge, adventure,true runes, kingdom succesor ( power struggle), fantasy political world peace dream, where human, elf, wolfkind, kobold, winged man, dwarf, Griffin, unicorn, krakken, Squirrel, from East to west, from every country and race, white, black( hauser), yellow(wakaba), etc,every job, inventor( meg), ninja( kasumi), warior,libraryan,blacksmith, bathtub artisan, singer band, dancer, farmer, sheep breader(yuzu),dectective(richmond)etc, so its like to want to unite the world, with grounded story that can resonance to everyone heart, because it has all character and personality, that you can choose to play, it warms the hearts if you can see the ending, that begin with riou and jowy friendship, then came nanami, and all it begin the epic journey, i truly hope you can find one gameplay that can hook you into playing Suikoden with love...
Get your facts straight, Monster Hunter isn't an RPG bro. And maybe think of calling your video something different because you didn't explain every RPG franchise in 15 minutes or 18 minutes, maybe you might attempt to explain every RPG franchise, but I'm certain you won't. You going to explain about Far East of Eden or many other franchises that have never made their way west at all?
Pokemon was in the first video, and as noted in that one, there really isn't much to say about it in this format. Basically everyone who has had spent more than a couple days on the internet and/or had some part of their childhood land somewhere in the past 25+ years probably has a passable enough understanding of Pokemon to make talking about in this minute or less quick overview style completely moot. I would *love* to see a dedicated video on the games/franchise at-large from someone who loves JRPGs but isn't fully inside the Pokemon content creator bubble though, since nearly everything Pokemon-related on here seems to come from channels almost solely dedicated to the series.
If there is anything you want to add about your favorite JRPG franchise feel free to do so below!
Part 1 with all the other series: czcams.com/video/J-DJG5uv8ds/video.htmlsi=nrDI80wnyeZXO5A8
How about the Lunar series?
Can you please add Summon Night series as well? :)
I'm surprised you never mentioned Grandia. You also forgot to mention Super Mario RPG as the first Mario RPG before Paper Mario. There's also Lunar, and Lufia I can think of that could be added to this list.
Man, did you seriously forgot the best-selling ever Jrpg Pokemon ???
@@Rogerioapsandradeit was in the part 1 video very briefly
I am entertained that the Drakengard series is starting to be seen as the offshoot of NieR instead of the other way around. My other fun fact about that series is that Yoko Taro claims everything he's written for it is cannon. Which includes Tokyo Musical Theatre, and that time 2B and 9S teamed up with Final Fantasy's Warrior of Light and some random dwarves to save another world through a showdown against the Watchers in a digital recreation of Tokyo.
And one could argue that the Final Fantasy XIV x YoRHa crossover directly leads into Drakengard 3, as the teleportation of Norvrandt's digital recration of Tokyo might actually become the Cathedral City in Drakengard. As we saw in NieR Re[in]carnation, the Moon Server has some data from Final Fantasy XIV's world, which could only come from the City that was sent from FFXIV's world to another one at the end of the crossover.
Joker from Persona 5 is canon NieR character btw
@@dimas-dvdru Lelouch from Code Geass, Subaru from Re:Zero, Rika from Higurashi too are canon to the NieR Universe thanks to SINoALICE (canon to NieR thanks to Re[in]carnation)
@@tylorhobbs8920 isn't it kinda like how Shin Megami Tensei is being seen as an offshoot as Persona just because Persona is more popular.
Earthbound, Rune Factory, Yokai Watch, Bravely Default, Digimon, blue reflection, Mario Rabbids
Don't forget Mega Man Battle Network/Starforce, Super Mario RPG, Crystar, Cristales, Rouge Galaxy, Dark Cloud, Black Rose Valkyrie, The World Ends With You, and Eternal Sonata. That and a flash/steam game known as Crystal Story.
Came here to point out Rune Factory, so I'm glad I'm not the only one. Lol
Mario AND Rabbids is a strategy series NOT a rpg series.
@@sperryyoungerjr.3985Megaman Battle Network/Starforce are action/card games, and NOT rpgs.
I wouldn't say Mario plus rabbits is a rpg.
Next pls add: Grandia series, Legaia series, dark cloud / rogue galaxy, Lufia series
Let's not forget Lunar!
I'm glad you added a part 2!
I always miss Inazuma Eleven on lists like these. It's a very different JRPG centering about soccer but that makes it so great. Not all games are amazing but the sheer amount of characters in each game is just enough to spent hours on hours in this game
Oh wow, this turned out so well 💯
You really snapped on the editing of this one
Bro, I love how you get straight to it. This channel respects its viewers' time lol
Thank you for the kind words, glad you’re enjoying the content!
You are going to keep getting more recommendations for additional JRPGs to cover, so of course I'm going to contribute a few as well!
Ar Tonelico (and Ar No surge) - The three games of Ar Tonelico all are part of a connected storyline, focusing on a different miles-tall tower after a world destroying calamity. There is a heavy visual novel style focus on the inner emotional struggles of the magic wielding heroines, called Reyvateil. Ar Nosurge is more of a spiritual sequel with an unconnected storyline, but may be a prequel to the original trilogy.
Neptunia (five mainline games, over a dozen spinoffs) - A fictionalized telling of the Console Wars era of real world gaming, featuring a protagonist based on a never-completed Sega console called the Neptune. The franchise as a whole focuses more on metatextual jokes about video games and RPGs than on any deep narrative through line.
great vid
good pacing, you hit the outline w o lingering too long, no filler or nonsense, all useful info, got what i expected - a brief story synopsis and gameplay overview
thanks
such a good list! would love to see an equivalent for more obscure franchises at some point (like dept. heaven, utawarerumono, summon night, sakura wars, growlanser)
Glad you followed up on the first one and added the series we pointed out! Great videos
It’s time! I been waiting on this
Yessssir! Had to double back and finish up the other franchises
You missed Summon Night, Langrisser, Lufia, Neptunia, Utwarerumono, Valkyrie Profile, Department of Heaven, Mother, Ar Tonelica
Thanks for the wild arms update!!!!
If you do part 3, please add the Valkyrie Profile series. I love that series.
But there's only 1 Valkyrie Profile.
@@tylorhobbs8920 4 actually.
@@MarkSeinIII I dunno, I've heard fever dreams of a PS2 game about Silmeria and a DS game about Some Random Mortal. But those Do. Not. Exist.
Mary Skelter, Legend of Legaia, Dark Cloud, Rune Factory, etc. you're still missing a lot of JRPGs, we need a part 3 of this!!
Disappointed that SaGa is not included because that franchise deserves its flowers for being one of the earliest JRPGs to have a non linear gameplay structure. SaGa was THE original JRPG with multiple protags with Romancing Saga long before Octopath was a thing. It is still doing well since Romancing SaGa 2 is getting a 3D remake soon and SaGa Emerald Beyond just came out too.
It's in the first list
Do we have part 3? I was hoping to include the Valkyrie series (Valkyrie Profile)
Dont forget the Shining, Baten Kaitos, Grandia, Arc the Lad, Lunar, and Zwei series!
Fun Fact: Akria Toymyia was involved in character design in Crono Trigger
I will always recommend the shadow hearts series, especially the second game. Such memorable JRPGs. The settings and music are both gorgeous and haunting.
This video is really informative and well done!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for supporting the channel
SOO CLOSE TO 20K
We’ll hit it soon! So close though
Keep them coming bro!
My favs, Mario RPG, Yakuza, Mana, Octopath traveler, Monster Hunter, Ni no Kuni, Nier Automata.
What about God Eater and Bravely default.
6:35 sorry to be that guy, but nier replicant happens around the year 3000 while automata happens in 11000 🤓
Great video anyway!
I dont blame anyone because drakennier lore is huuuuge lol
If you're not into its easy to get lost
Good catch! No worries and thanks for doing it in a nice way haha
Breath of Fire I, Ii and III are direct sequels. 4 is to believed a prequel while 5 is also somehow connected. So yeah, they are connected (specially I and II and the Nina in two meets her grandmother who is the Nina from I)
wow straight to info, thanku (y) love ur videos
U forgot "fuga : melodies of steel!!!"
Chrono Trigger will probably always be my favorite game of all time, no other game gave me the same enjoyment and feels like it did, like when we first get to Zeal, a whole group of floating continents from 12,000 B.C, and then hearing corridors of time, that moment is still stuck in my head, or when we first get to the overworld of 600 ad and hear wind scene, or when Frog (my favorite character in the game) split a mountain in half.
Honestly I just love this game, from the idea of time travel and how well they utilized it, to the amazing soundtracks, to the characters, just everything about it honestly
If you do a next part I'd suggest adding God Eater. Similar to monster hunter although smaller in scale but it serves as an option with a legitimate series tag with 3 games all relatively solid
Needed jrpg series that can easy get into
For part 3, consider the Mother series
If there is a part 3 for this series, can you give an in-depth explanation of the Pokemon series?
Phantasy Star has a feeling I miss.
It is false science fiction like star wars and they managed to balance it pretty well back in the day.
I am not a fan of hard core science fiction and the type of threats it brings.
It is science fantasy and you get to travel in space and go in villages that aren't filled with futuristic stuff that can have problems with the dark magician that obeys a new dark religion.
That is very unique and every people who experience PSIV fall in love with the game
Can you do Dark Cloud?
Wheres neptunia? It IS a solid series, despite naysayers
Don’t forget the “Mario+Rabbids” series, a genuinely great tactical game for stretching the old brain muscle! Also, the second game actually managed to make Rabbids not annoying! I’m so glad it found its audience after its uncertain release! ☺️
mother series (earthbound), parasite eve 1, skies of arcadia, baten kaito, blue dragon
add Blue Dragon in part 3 if u could
Nier automata is set several thousand years after Nier
What about shining series?
Describing Breath of Fire 3 as "unanimously considered the best game in the series" is absolutely hilarious to me.
Excellent taste as always king
Nice video, I hope we'll get a part 3 with Mother, Dark Souls (Elden Ring & Bloodborne too), Rhapsody and others
Does Mega Man Battle Network count?
Technically yes
thanks for covering the niche titles!
I disagree about Breath of Fire. BoF3 is not unanimously consedered the best. The community is split between 3 and 4 as the best game.
Here a few ideas for part 3: Grandia, Earthbound/Mother, Bravely Default,
Wow, thanks for the reminder! I haven't thought about the Grandia series in over a decade! Now I'm curious if I have any of those games in my old collection anymore.
Here’s a list of my favorite JRPGs
1. Legend of Dragoon
2. Tales of Berseria
3. Tales of Arise
4. Final Fantasy X
5. Final Fantasy 15
6. Final Fantasy 16
7. Dragon’s Dogma 1
8. Dragon’s Dogma 2
9. White Knight Chronicles 1
10. White Knight Chronicles 2
Rance?
how bout Valkyrie Profile
if your going to make a next one think about adding the metal max and front mission saga this 2 needs more recognition especially metal max that the main series had never leave japon but can be play thanks to fan translations.
We love TWEWY in this house
Just a slight correction with Phantasy star, the last subseries is actually PSO2, nova is a spinoff game set in the PSO2 universe, same as idola phantasy star saga and NGS.
Great content!
Hell ya I love this
I guess others will give recommendations for the 'normal' JRPGs. So I will give the 18+ JRPGs version then.
Battle Goddess series from Eushully and the many spin offs from that title. Well, basically all games from Eushully are in the 18+ RPG genre.
Rance series from Alicesoft with the most known title of the series: sengoku rance.
And then lastly, There's Muv Luv series which I also only heard of existence but never play.
I guess that's all lmao
No mana khemia, ar tonelico and atelier series?
atelier is on the first part
@@rexmon2592 ohh thank you mate i did not notice the part
Based as hell for putting BOF in here cause 3 and 4 are mad good
I'm one of the weird people that don't consider monster hunter a R.PG, I've been playing It since freedom Unite the stories are definitely connected.
Can i add Megaman legends 1 & 2,eiyuu densetsu, trails of,eiyuden chronicles rising & hundred heroes
Can you please talk about Solatorobo and the Fuga games (same universe) their really underated for how interesting the story's are
I am missing the Shining Force saga.
Shining games.
may i add Shining Force & Langrisser?
What about Mother/Earthbound?
No Digimon?
Super Robot Wars for part 3
No Earthbound AGAIN?!
I need the artist name for this vid BGM never knew this iteration of I Wonder existed.
I'm more familiar with part 2
Might I mention Yo kai watch?
Good.
I really like the concept of suikoden but I really wish it had an actual gameplay. I tried many times to get into it because it used to be my ex gf's favorite series but the gameplay always makes me feel like i don't know why im playing a game that plays itself.
Suikoden series have three main gameplay, first, basic turn based rpg based on spd stats, second, army battle, real time strategy( rts),third, one on one battle, rock, papper, scissor, most notebly battle luca blight for the third or last time.
After that there are several mini games gameplay, such as,headquarters 108 star of destiny Collect, tai ho iron chef, yam ko rolling dice, Clive eliza scenario,farmer whack the mole,dancing,etc
I recommends play Suikoden 2 first, then 1,3,5,&last 4,but humbely i think that turn based six man party,or auto play is for fully utilized 108+ character, gameplay, there is rune( magic), combo play, with another player, etc, is common in that jrpg time era, or Play Station 1 time.like dragon Quest, wild arms,chrono cross and trigger, etc
Suikoden in my humble opinion, is having most grounded storyline, war, frindship, betreyal, sibling, by blood or not, like riou and nanami, and genkaku, hatred, revenge, adventure,true runes, kingdom succesor ( power struggle), fantasy political world peace dream, where human, elf, wolfkind, kobold, winged man, dwarf, Griffin, unicorn, krakken, Squirrel, from East to west, from every country and race, white, black( hauser), yellow(wakaba), etc,every job, inventor( meg), ninja( kasumi), warior,libraryan,blacksmith, bathtub artisan, singer band, dancer, farmer, sheep breader(yuzu),dectective(richmond)etc, so its like to want to unite the world, with grounded story that can resonance to everyone heart, because it has all character and personality, that you can choose to play, it warms the hearts if you can see the ending, that begin with riou and jowy friendship, then came nanami, and all it begin the epic journey, i truly hope you can find one gameplay that can hook you into playing Suikoden with love...
Where the hell is Grandia?
Where Neptunia??? 😢
Where is the world ends with you?
Isn't this 36 minutes now?
It's weird the absence of the best-seller, by far the successul ever Jrpg , Pokemon
MH is an action rpg, not a jrpg
Can be both. Genres are very vague anyway.
It’s the same genre😭😭😭
@@dimas-dvdru If it was the same it would have the same name
@@Riccardo-ej8cd ok, not exactly the same, but jrpg literally means “rpg from Japan”, so it can be action rpg
@@dimas-dvdru jrpg doesn't mean rpg from japan
Get your facts straight, Monster Hunter isn't an RPG bro. And maybe think of calling your video something different because you didn't explain every RPG franchise in 15 minutes or 18 minutes, maybe you might attempt to explain every RPG franchise, but I'm certain you won't. You going to explain about Far East of Eden or many other franchises that have never made their way west at all?
Nier automata is almost 7000yeard after original nier not 100
Wow making two videos and then still ignoring one of the biggest series. So where is Pokemon
Pokemon was in the first video, and as noted in that one, there really isn't much to say about it in this format. Basically everyone who has had spent more than a couple days on the internet and/or had some part of their childhood land somewhere in the past 25+ years probably has a passable enough understanding of Pokemon to make talking about in this minute or less quick overview style completely moot.
I would *love* to see a dedicated video on the games/franchise at-large from someone who loves JRPGs but isn't fully inside the Pokemon content creator bubble though, since nearly everything Pokemon-related on here seems to come from channels almost solely dedicated to the series.
But Chrono Cross is much better than any other Rpg whilst Trigger is like any other SNES Rpg just slightly better. Justice for Cross.
Cross is a good game but trigger was revolutionary for its time just think that the fathers of the jrpg work on it
Whoa. I love Cross (obvi) and it's my all-time favorite game, but I wouldn't say it's actually objectively better than Trigger.
You’re entitled to your opinion, and I respect that, no matter how wrong 😂
Lol, no.
I love Chrono Cross, but Trigger is not just like any other SNES rpg "slighty better", have you played it?
Wait, Nier isn't just about big booty waifus? 😂
dark souls, elden ring, bloodborne, demon souls?