List of JRPGs I've FINISHED More Than Once
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- Here is my own personal list of JRPGs I've beaten more than once in my life, as of April 10, 2023.
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me with the trails of cold steel series. I've replayed all four games so many times. i love them.
They take so much time, did you have time to eat and sleep? 😂
Only beaten the first two Cold Steel games multiple times, along with Tokyo Xanadu.
As an adult i don't have time to replay games, unless is my top 3 of all time(you will see on the list).
Persona 5 - 2 times
Star Ocean 2 - 2 times
Final Fantasy - 2 times
Kingdom Hearts - 5 times
Kingdom Hearts - 5 times
Final Fantasy 10 - 6 times
Final Fantasy 9 - 8 times
Final Fantasy 7 - 9 times
Final Fantasy 8 - every year since 1999 with the exception of 2010
Here’s mine:
Devil survivor 1 and 2 (still missing the extra stuff from record breaker)
SMT 3 (with true ending)
SMT 4
FE:3H (all endings)
Ys Origin (all 3 routes)
Definitely a smaller list, but I’m not really into replaying games all that much anyways.
I don't think I have ever completely replayed a single jrpg. There are a few that I've restarted (FFX, Lost Odyssey, Dragon Quest VIII), but never finished a second time. Why? When I got into jrpgs I picked up every one I could find (amongst other genres) and quickly built up a large backlog, which has only grown larger each year. So even though there are jrpgs I'd love to play through again, if I ever want to get through my backlog (which looks impossible at this point even though I haven't been buying too much lately) I need to move forward not backwards.
Fire emblem path of radiance played it 21 times mostly on hard mode before my gamecube died than played it a handful of times on emulator 😊
There is no way the game is good enough for that many playthroughs. 😅
@Eric P it was the only game other than smash bros that I owned for it
@@eliotwildermann that's crazy. Too bad it's out of my price range. Lol
You sir are a genuine JRPG Ambassador. I love JRPG but I just don’t have the time. At best I only have maybe 3 jrpg a year. Currently playing Utawareru (first one). Thanks for the recommendation!
Persona 5 I finished it over 4th times and I don’t regret it
Holy cow, Radiata Stories made the cut! I nearly forgot about that game. My cousin and I went to grab a random game and he chose that.
Didn't really thought of it much until the story got good in the middle. Jack was such a lovable character, and Ridley was totally his foil.
I played that game over a dozen times because I thought there was a perfect ending hidden somewhere if I managed to fill my Friend Roster.
But nope. There was only two.
Xenogear is definitely my heart's favorite. With its story, mechanics and world building, it was a gemstone for sure.
Then there was Suikoden 2. I was too young to understand what happened in 1, but 2 made me a fan of the franchise.
I also moved a lot when I was young and that game was the only thing that got me going. I played 2,3,4,5 and the surprisingly good one on the DS.
Then there's FF9. One of the few Final Fantasy whose story I can somehow keep up. And I know the feeling of the discs.
After that first semi-fight with Kuja on disc 1, disc 2 couldn't be read for some reason. Had to redo it over and over till i got lucky.
My other cousin broke disc 3 and I was pissed! Got it on an emulator sometime later, and played it again for nostalgia.
Getting a new set of that game was expensive.
Then there was Disgaea, 1-4.
Odin Sphere and Odin Sphere something something. Does that count as an RPG?
Devil Survivor on the DS, played the newer version on the 3DS. Got all the darn endings. 200 hours put into that monster. NO regrets.
As I got older, Dragon's Dogma became my next repetitive RPG. I was hoping for a different ending, but it was just a loop story.
There are so many more I wish to add but your list alone is impressive.
Terranigma, Chrono Trigger and FF8 I've played through at least 5+ times each, especially FF8 as it's my favourite game in the franchise and I've owned it on essentially every platform it's been released on.
On a slightly unrelated note, Killer 7 is a yearly title for me. Absolutely love that game and it's a quick play through specially when you're that familiar with the title.. Vanquish is another one, can finish that in about 5-6 hours so it's an easy afternooner.
I really have to say, I was very curious to see what a fellow jrpg gamer had under his belt! I have always admired you for your incredible collections and dedication to gaming in general but I never knew what games you actually enjoyed enough to complete even just once! Thanks for the insight!
Valkyrie profile is an amazing game and one that you just cant help but play multiple times because the game is so satisfying.
Fantastic gameplay and progression but way too short, I had to beat the game 3 times just to feel like I got my moneys worth
love that you have playthroughs on the channel!!
I love that you put Nier Gestalt on the list. I went through and got all 3 endings. Although the delete save file thing is true but it's a very clear decision you make. If you liked Neir, that ending is worth it
I've beaten most RPGs that I like more than once and some of my long-time favorites I have beaten so many times that I've lost count. I wouldn't be surprised if I've finished Phantasy Star IV even 100 times since I first played it in 1995. Making a list of RPGs that I like that I haven't finished at least twice would be a shorter and easier list to make. But people have their own approaches and habits to playing games and maybe I'm the oddball here for replaying games that I like. I don't know what "normal" gaming habits are, I'm just familiar with my own.
This is a cool idea. I'll give listing mine a shot too.
The ones I think I've beaten multiple times are: Pokemon RBY, GSC, RSE, DP, BW, XY, FRLG, Pokemon Colosseum, Pokemon XD, Paper Mario, Custom Robo, Paper Mario TTYD, Digimon World 4, Beyblade G Revolution, Custom Robo Arena, Phantasy Star Zero, Final Fantasy XIII, and Crisis Core FFVII. Surprisingly few (18), honestly, and most are due to being handheld games and/or games I grew up with. Wild.
Super Mario RPG was one I finished a lot of times as well. The game is so much fun and has a ton of replay value! Some tales games I also have replayed a lot cause the grade shop adds a lot of replay value to them.
Tales of Symphonia (at least 4 times), Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga (at least 4 times), The Legend of Dragoon (twice), Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (twice), Chrono Chross (twice), Megaman Battle Network (twice), Kingdom hearts 1 (twice), Kingdom hearts 2 (dozens of times), most mainline pokemon titles (at least twice). I'm sure there are others that im not thinking of but those are what come to mind. Love interesting unique lists like this and its cool to see which ones you enjoyed enough to replay
My list are Suikoden 1 and 2 finished multiple times and cannot remember how many, i always finish these two every year.
Suikoden IV and V
Legend of Dragoon
Dragon Quest VIII
Persona 3,4,5 doing all endings
Xenogears
Final Fantasy IV and VII
Shadow Hearts 1 2 and 3
Trails of Cold Steel 1-4
Wild Arms 2 and Alter code F
Valkyrie profile 2
Tales Of Eternia and Abyss
Star Ocean Till the End of Time
SMT 3 and 5
I always go back to this game after at least a year :)
The only jrpg i've finished more than once is probably final fantasy XII, over the span of around 10 years: once for the vanilla version, once for the japanese only international job system version, and once on the zodiac age version on pc (modded with struggle for freedom). Planning to do another modded playthrough next year
good choice !
Me too
My favorite game! Over 10 times in different platforms)
My first final fantasy but I couldn’t beat it as a kid
Beaten a lot twice, but the one ive replayed the most times over the years is chrono cross and nothing else even comes close. A work of art. Blew me away on ps1.
I’ve beaten every Tales game and Final Fantasy game at least 3 times each. Love them.
That's impressive, the only JRPG's I finished more than once are Super Mario RPG, Pokemon Blue, Gold and Diamond; and Final Fantasy XV mostly because I love the sniper rifle even if is weak
Thanks for the share
Very very few as there are still lots going back to SNES and PS1 days I still want to play once. Only two that come to mind are FFVII (well over 20 times not sure exactly how many as stopped counting a while back but its usually at least once a year playthrough for me) Valkyria Chronicles I think was 4 times as loved it. There may be more but these 2 immediately sprung to mind.
Once a year i have to replay Chrono Cross. It's therapeutic
I'm pretty certain that you can count Hexyz Force in the list. Your two protagonists meet near the end of the game and your two parties combine to take on the final dungeon. The ending does not change based on what main character you choose to play with.
Very cool idea for a video! This is very interesting. Its a big undertaking to beat rpg's, and to beat 50 more than once!!!
Shining Force 1+2, D+D Warriors of the Eternal Sun, Phantasy Star 4, FF6, 7, 9, 10 and Tactics, BoF 3+4, Suikoden 1+Tactics, Kouldelka, Parasite Eve, Arc the Lad 1-Twilight, Chrono Trigger Battlechasers, and Cold Steel 1-4. Zero and Azure coming up soon.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
To me, the list is shorter:
-Super Mario RPG
-Final fantasy 3 (not VI)
-Final fantasy 4
-Chrono Trigger
-Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga
-Etrian Odyssey 4
-Shin Megami Tensei : Strange Journey
-Legend of Grimrock
-Advance Wars Days of Ruin
-Advance Wars Dual strike
-To the moon
-Mother 3
Cool! I normally don't replay a lot of games unless there's like new game plus with branching paths or something, notable exceptions are classic gems like suikoden or ffx.
In my book, NieR (Gestalt, Replicant and even Automata) does not even count as "beating it" unless you get all endings. The game is meant for you to get all endings, and subsequent playthroughs are actually different each time and you don't really conclude the story if you don't get the last ending.
I've beat tales of vesperia 4 or 5 times, ironically I never beat it once on the recent definitive edition remaster
I play every game at least twice but I usually play a few times more than that owning multiple copies of the trails games I've played a few times each at least 3 times for playing on multiple difficultys played cold steel 1 an 2 on the ps3 ps4 vita and pc
For me- CT, ShForce 1&2, Phantasy Star 4, Vay, Lunar 2, Dragon Force, FFT, FF4. FF5, FF9 & FFX. Legend of Dragoon. Grandia 2. Disgaea 1, Front Mission 3. Lost Dimension. All played through at least 2 times. Feel like I'm missing one or 2...
Awesome!
My favorite JRPG I have beaten 12 times. 6 of those playthroughs where back to back with only a few days between finishing a playthrough and begining a new one.
I don't know if I'd be able to make a huge list of ones I've been twice or more, but I could come up with a list of ones that I never finished.
Mana khemia 2, you have to beat the game with both characters to unlock a final dungeon in which you can pick your party members from both groups. The dungeon obviously is a lot harder than any of the mainline ones but definitely not as hard as the hidden extra dungeon in Mana Khemia 1! But if you choose to play as Ulrika in the final segment, keep in mind if you go to do jobs to earn more money the game will freeze and you'll have to reset. With Raze it doesn't freeze but his jobs are different. The very final boss in the extra dungeon is the light Mana you see all throughout the game and he's no pushover. He's tough as hell. But then after beating him is when you get the true ending and it's definitely a lot of work doing all of that but the game is absolutely amazing and one of my favorite games of all time! 😊
Breath of Fire 3/4, Golden Sun 1/2, VP 1/2, FFT, Tactics Ogre, Brandish, Lufia 2, TOP, and of Course Chrono Trigger
The games I beat more than once that I can remember are Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy Tactics and FFT Advance, Earthbound, some Pokémon games... Everything else was just a one time play if I ever finished them 🤣
I should note that I have restarted some Trails Of games because I forgot what to do after long breaks
I only know a few of the ones on here but I definitely remember Hexyz Force for the PSP (still own it) so I can tell you a bit more about the endings.
The game has three endings: good, neutral, and bad. There are two different paths you can take with the main female or male protagonist each with their own bosses and side of the story until a point where they will all come together.
Now the endings are where it becomes a bit weird...Essentially, if you win enough battles with party members fainting, your "score" drops. If it drops enough, you'll hit the neutral ending. Further and you hit the bad ending (this is a lot harder then it sounds).
The issue is that it's very difficult to get anything but the light ending! So unless you intentionally are winning battles with unconscious allies to lower your "score", you'll never see the other two endings. You can play the game once and obtain the light ending without needing to repeat play.
Maybe you played it twice to see both sides though?
I've beaten the following more than once but mostly because they were re-released on more modern consoles after I've beaten them on original consoles -- Final Fantasy 1-7, Tactics, & Mystic Quest; Dragon Quest 1-5, 7, & 8 (all but 5 on original console release then the DS/3DS ports) and the "Heroes" spinoffs; Wild Arms (Original and Alter Code F), Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Trials of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 1 (GB "FF Adventure" and remakes), Most Zelda games, including Zelda 2 (arguably the most RPG of them all), Dragon Quest Monsters, AD&D Pool of Radiance (PC and NES ports), AD&D Eye of the Beholder, Breath of Fire 1-2, Parasite Eve, Star Ocean 2, Dragon View (SNES and now on Evercade), Simon's Quest (it should count as an action plaforming RPG), and Ys 8 & Oath of Felgaia (will play Ys IX again soon).
Games I have in my backlog that I've already beaten but released on the Switch include Legend of Mana, Chrono Cross, Dragon Quest 1-3, Dragon Quest XI, Mary Skelter, and I have FF Pixel Remastered 1-6 ordered from Play-Asia. I heard Bravely Default might get remastered and if so I'll be getting that. I loved both games in the original series.
Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Vesperia , FF VII, FF X, Persona 5, Chrono Trigger , Pokémon Ruby , & Pokémon Fire Red are mines. Some of them I’ve beaten 3 or 4 times lol.
RPG I beat multiple times:
Gungnir - 9 times and I actually forget how many
Etrian Odyssey 4 - 5 times
Etrian Odyssey 5 - 4 times replayed it more but I didn't do superboss on 5th and so on.
Pokemon Emerald - 3 times
Pokemon FRLG - 4 times
Riviera - 8 times I think
Yggdra Union - 5 times and I am so gonna replay it again once I get it on steam
Devil Survivor Overclocked - 4 times
SMT4 - 4 times
Gloria Union - 2 times
Knights in the Nightmare - 6 times. Not sure if I should list this game here
Summon Night Swordcraft Story 2 - 3 times.
I envy the time you have to beat jrpg more than once and play all the others you present.
I've only finished more than once: Shining Force 1 (2), Chrono Trigger (3), Chrono Cross (3), Xenogears (2), Disgaea 3 (1 on ps3 and 1 on ps vita)
The only one I for sure completed multiple times (3+) is Super Mario RPG. I am currently focusing on my backlog (playing Trails in the Sky now), but I do wanna replay super Mario rpg, chrono trigger, and Earthbound+Mother3 sometime
I could put down more but that's 25 years of games and way to many I'd be here for hours 😩 😕
Eternal Sonata, Star Ocean 2, FF Crisis Core and Final Fantasy X remember I finished twice.. sad that Grandia 3 is only PS3 and lot of players dont know that gem.. I really want to see remasters of Eternal Sonata and Grandia 3 games as we see Crisis Core great remaster too..
my list: Final Fantasy X, Dragon Quest 8, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Fire Emblem: three houses, Persona 5, Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts 2, Kingdom Hearts BBS, Kindom Hearts DDD
Dragon Quest XI (2 times), Final Fantasy 7 (2), Final Fantasy 9 (3), Tales of Vesperia (3), Tales of Berseria (2), Tales of Hearts R (2), Persona 4 (2), Trails in the Sky FC (2), Trails in the Sky SC (2), Fire Emblem Awakening (2), Valkyria Chronicles (2). There are a few more games i plan to finish for a second time, like Utawarerumono, Estella Glow or Lost Odyssey. And if i have time i want to play Persona 4 for the third time.
My list of beaten RPGs once is less than your beaten twice. Generally if I get near the end I am okay. FF6, CT, and Suikoden 1/2 are the only games I can say I have beaten more than once.
Now maybe I am only counting completing 100%. Also FF7, but I hacked to get to the end to beat the final Sep while doing 0 damage.
The RPG I've played the most?
I guess it could be Riviera The Promised Land on the PSP emulator. I can easily mention 6 playthroughs to get all the endings but I just lack one that is Rose's normal ending.. also some items left but I lost the savefile so meh.
The other one could be Persona 3 Portable.. like 5th playthroughs to get both endings (male and female character) and also to get ALL social links.
My favorite JRPG FF6 Ive only beated it twice on the GBA emulator.. yeah, it sucks to live on Argentina.
My dream is to play entirely the MASS EFFECT trilogy some day.. it is my favorite trilogy of all time. Ive only Managed to play one and beated it three times. I watched the main story of the whole trilogy and felt really in love with the franchise.
i certainly replayed my favorites namely vagrant Story and Suikoden 2
ok, let me see:
Final Fantasy 8, second time on PC and a No Level Up challenge. Tried No Junction, got stuck on disk 2.
A second playthrough of Valkyrie Profile is pretty much mandatory, unless you know how to do the true ending beforehand
Debatably, Front Mission 3, since it has two paths so you kinda have to play it twice
Do remakes/remasters count? If so,
- the original Lunar on PS1 and Silver Star Harmony on PSP.
- Tales of Phantasia SNES and PS1
- Final Fantasy IV SNES and PSP
- Star Ocean SNES and First Departure on PSP
- FFI on NES and GBA
- FFVI on SNES and GBA
So far as I know, there's no True Ending for beating both characters in Kartia.
FF4 and Phantasy Star 4 easily lead the pack in # of playthroughs.
And below that is Wasteland, the Shining Force games, other Golden Era Square-Enix games, pretty much every version of Langrisser 1 and 2, Uncharted Waters 2, and Genesis Shadowrun.
Final Fantasy Tactics count: 50x or more, becuz i'm one of the people who are making my own MOD using FF hacktics tools, and this requires me to play it again and again too experience the changes. (Fun fact, never get boring)
Mine is:
-Ff xii (too many i cant count, but in 2022 i manage 100℅ save)
-growlanser iv
-breath of fire iv
3 of them i really enjoy and never get bored of it
Edit:
Almost forget , p3 and p4 too
The only game I finished multiple times was .hack gu. When I was a kid my parents wouldn’t be me any new games so I played that over and over again. Nowadays I don’t even have time to replay games.
My list:
Grandia
Suikoden 1 & 2
Every mainline Pokémon game (and remakes) prior to Gen 7
Trails in the Sky FC and SC
Trails of Cold Steel 1&2
Final Fantasy 8
Chrono Trigger
Radiant Historia
Fire Emblem - Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance, Awakening, Fates, and Three Houses
Paper Mario
Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door
Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
Kingdom Hearts 1&2 and Chain of Memories
Octopath Traveler 1
Honestly was shorter than I thought it was. Way more games I've played just one time or played multiple times but didn't finish
Kingdom hearts 2 I stopped counting at 120 destroyed an entire ps2 with that game 2006 played that game for 100s of hours each month that year
Every modern ys and trails games since i platinumed it on ps4 for retro ones there are a lot ff series, suikoden series, breath of fire series etc.
mine :
RPG's I finished multiple times :
Pokémon Fire Red : 3 times (with each starter) but i discovered some places on the post-game islands only the third time I played.
Pokemon Yellow : probably 3 or 4 times
Pokemon mystery dungeon : Red exploration team : 2 times
Disgaea 1 : enough times to see all endings
Disgaea 2 : Enough times to see all endings
Disgaea infinite : Enough times to ...(guess what follows)
Dark Souls : 2 times
Dark Souls 2 : 2 times
Dark Souls 3 : 3 times
Dragon age origins : 2 times
Dragon age 2 : 2 times
There are other games but they aren't RPG's.
Hmm. Let's see. . When I was a kid, I beat ff7 and ff8 twice. I also beat Digimon World 3 twice.
I beat P3P twice and P5R 3 times, not to mention It was a very long journey lol.
FFXV and FFVIIR as well because I like them and they're honestly short like 30-40ish hr per playthrough and I have a lot of time when I played those.
Edit: can't believe I forgot Nier with that multiple endings lol
About 20 or so.
Some - like Legend of Mana or Chrono Cross about 4 times, but not in just one seat, I just return to my favorite games from time to time.
5:48 Shadow Hearts: You fool! You beat the first game and get the bad ending. Then you beat Covenant with the good ending. Then you go back and beat the first game again for the good ending. This is the Way!
For me it'd be:
-Tokyo Xanadu: 2x
-Radiata Stories: 2x
-Scarlet Nexus: 2x
-Tales of Xillia: 2x
-Tales of Legendia: 2 or 3x (can't remember if I beat it 2x and on the 3rd or if I beat it 3x and on my 4th run now)
-Ys Origin: 3x (1 run per character)
-Trials of Mana Remake: 6x (one for each character)
-Tales of Vesperia Xbox 360: 8 times (on 9th via Switch version...didn't finish that version due to the fact that when I was playing it on release the game had crashing issues so I dropped dropped it with the intention to play again once patches came out...never got around to going back to it yet)
-Tales of the Abyss: 10 times (also have a run in progress on 3DS)
-Tales of Symphonia: 15 times on GC, have a run in progress on PS3 that I was playing co-op with my bro but who knows fi we'll ever finish it...I intend to buy the Switch version once it gets updated to fix some of it's glaring issues and the price drops as $40 is too high for the game when you consider PC has had it at $20 since it's release...may pull out the PS3 version whenever I want to replay Dawn again)...to this day it is still my favorite game of all time.
There might be more but these are the only ones I can think of right now.
And while it's my second favorite series I have yet to actually go back and replay to completion any Trails game so far...I did start a new run with CS1 but am only on about chapter 2 or so there and if I do do a 2nd run it'll likely be the Zero and Azure Switch versions that I've yet to play as I already beat a fan sub of them back before CS3 came out in order to be up to date on Crossbell events for CS3 and 4 so since I bought the games I need to beat them at least 1x.
Other games I intend to play/am on a second run:
-pretty much all Tales games again as it's my favorite series even the ones I mentioned above but especially the more recent ones that I've only done 1x ONLY due to the fact that my days of replaying older games like Vesperia, Abyss, and especially Symphonia have left me with a lot of games in the backlog from that era I've yet to actually finish as I dropped them when I was in the mood to play one of those 3 Tales games...Berseria, Arise, Xillia 2, Hearts R, and Graces F in particular I want to do another few times once I catch up on some more games I'm on (Bersy, Xillia 2, and Hearts R I'm actually in the middle of a second run for each game and Graces F I gotta start from scratch again as my sister overwrote my only save file 10 years ago shortly after my first run and I've yet to go back to it...was pissed due to that so couldn't get back into the game for a while...due to that I started having multiple save files and always have at least 3 to 4 extra files just in case of that or data corruption occurs on one of my saves).
-All Trails games I want to get a second run though...in particular I'm in the mood to re-play Sky 1 and 2 (3's not bad but wasn't as good as those 2 imo so may not re-run it tbh) and of course my Switch Crossbell runs.
-Ys games besides Ys 1, 2, and 6 (didn't like those 3 much tbh).
-all of Vanillaware's beat em up jrpgs and 13 Sentinels
-Sakura Wars 2020 (only got 1 run, will probably aim for 1 run per heroine
-Shining Resonance is also one I want to put in at least 2 more runs for the blond elf and black haired chick (did brown haired elf run)
-Valkyria Chronicles 1 and 4 at least 1 more time, probably Revolution too as I didn't hate it like most people
And probably a bunch of other games I'm forgetting that I finished at least 1x before...granted still got 1st runs for a lot of games though that I never finished due to said Tales binge period I had in the GC/PS2 into the PS3 era (I just love the feel of Tales combat too much with how close to a fighting game it can get).
List of JRPGs I myself finished more than once...
Super Mario RPG - 7 times
Ranma RPG - 7 times
Tenchi Muyo! RPG - 7 times
Dual Orb 2 - 7 times
Breath of Fire 1 - 7 times
Breath of fire 2 - 7 times
Chrono Trigger - 7 times
FF6 - 7 times
Terranigma - 7 times
Sailor Moon Another Story - 7 times
Phantasy Star 2 - 7 times
Phantasy Star 4 - 7 times
Lufia 2 - 7 times
Secret of Mana - 7 times
Trials of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3) - 7 times
Trials of Mana Remake - 6 times
Tales of Phantasia - 7 times
Star Ocean 1 - 7 times
Treasure of the Rudras - 7 times
Romancing Saga 3 - 8 times
FF10 - 7 times
FF10-2 - 3 times
FF12 - 3 times
Tales of Zestiria - 3 times
Tales of Berseria - 3 times
Tales of Arise - 4 times
Scarlet Nexus - 7 times
Trails of Cold Steel 1 - 5 times
Trails of Cold Steel 2 - 4 times
Ys Memories of Celceta - 3 times
Ys 8 Lacrimosa of Dana - 3 times
Ys 9 Monstrum Nox - 3 times
Have only replayed FF VIII and nearly every other year
Persona 4, Odin Sphere, FF8, FFXII,Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve 1 and 2.
I'm always conflicted about finishing games. Seems like I got eyeballs that the void uses to see what the void can't otherwise see themselves without me. So if I finish a game, then that means the void also has no need to purchase the game themselves, since they consider it already finished, vicariously through me - therefore, the game developer suffers from reduced consumer investment - all because I looked. It's like I'm only allowed in the lobby of the video game industry - and any further would spell curse and disaster in an attempt to condition me to never ruin games or to rip out my own eye balls. i.e.: metroid dread, not killing the chozo scientist. okami - not entering into the city. ffix - never leaving alexandria. ffviii - never entering ifrit's fire cavern. bayonetta - never leaving the train station. ruiner - don't kill the cigarette boss. zelda ocarina of time - don't enter into the deku tree dungeon. zelda twilight princess - don't leave link's hut.
anyhow... it was worth it.
... that, though. no that wasn't worth it. must have been theirs.
Chrono Trigger and Suikoden 2 countless times. Also Skies of Arcadia and Paper Mario ttyd also.
Did I miss it or hasn't Chrono Trigger been mentioned? No Secret Of Mana-title either? Terranigma? Lufia? Hoh boy. Still, some good titles in there, like it!
I only beat Fire Emblem Awakening, Tokyo Xanadu, Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel I & II more than once. There aren’t any other games, JRPGs or otherwise, that I’ve beaten.
Not necessarily just RPGs but:
LoZ: Link's Awakening 3x
Pokemon Red: 6x
Pokemon Blue: 4x
Pokemon Yellow: 2x
LoZ: Oracle of Seasons 2x
TWEWY: 2x (one without eating the food for stats cause I didn't know it boosted up stats permanently)
I believe all of my other games I only finished once 😂
Yoo erick, ever thought about making a guide on how to go through our JRPG backlogs? I'm having problems finishing a lot of them and usually just jump to other titles once a game that i'm playing becomes too grindy
What I normally do is commit to 1 modern title and 1 retro title. For example, I play Radiant Dawn during daytime and play Xenoblade Chronicles 3 at night. And then I throw in 1 mobile game. In my case, it's HI3, cause I've been playing that game for like 4 years already. I hope this helps you the same way it did for me. As you can see, I play games with different gameplay mechanics. I do this in order to avoid being too burnt out of the genre. Keeps things fresh.
@@RR-ho3td Maybe that might work for me; im trying to finish 4 vanillaware games at the same time, maybe it's too similar for me to push through them and need to switch things up, thanks for the tip
I can't play a game unless it is grindy, there's nothing more I dislike than a game claiming to be a RPG without grinding, I love the idea of the power fantasy, starting out as a generic weak character and building him up my way with my build and becoming so powerful I can one shot the final boss
I think he did before. I think what I got from it was: always put it on easy mode at first, but if you love the battles then up it a notch; and be honest with yourself, if it is or becomes not your thing, drop it. Cheers!
It depends on the person. For me personally, it took me a while to realize this, but I tend to play JRPGs in short play sessions, which agrees really well with portable gaming. Steamlink, playstation Remote Play (to my Vita), and the Steamdeck have all been absolutely killer tools for me to knock out more of my backlog, and the ability to pause / suspend games has been crazy useful for me, personally. You may also want to experiment with android tablets if this appeals to you, though they will be limited to retro games for the less technically inclined.
Alternatively, some people psychologically have difficulty when given a lot of choices, and literally just need to uninstall every game but the one they want to play.
Some people just need to take a break from gaming for a while until they actually really want to game.
Some people need to play in specific ways in order to enjoy it, like achievement hunting, or speedrunning.
Some people just need to set the game to easy, because that's what they enjoy, or to the hardest setting because it forces them to immerse themselves and engage with all the systems in the game.
It's touch to say, but just try a few things and you'll eventually find what works for you.
Whilst i a few games i've completed more than once, i've only played a couple of jrpgs that i completed more than once, Phantasy Star Online Episodes 1 & 2 multiple times single player and online many times also. Recently i completed Ys Origin for a 3rd time to get the true ending, once with Yunica,once with Hugo and the unlockable character for the true ending, it's slightly harder particularly the endgame boss but i enjoy the story more with the unlockable character.
I am old gen, so i played more than 6 time Tales of destiny 2, cause we played multipler with friends, valkyrie profile lenneth i finished 4 times, one for each difficult to see al the dungeons and one for the mastery over the game, star ocean the second i finished over 5 time with the last one being universe difficult with scripted ending, vandal hearts over 4 times,last with everyone lv 45+, was way more difficult than i expected. legend of mana over 3 times, FF& lost count, FF9 2 times, thanks Steiner! FF tactics cant compute, mana khemia 1 for each character own endings, so over 5 times, ar tonelico 1 and 2 over 3 times for endings, and so on.
Make a list of games you finished proud with it as they were legendary difficult, like i finished beyond the beyond on psx
FF1, FF6, FFX, FFX-2, FFXII, Earthbound, Dragon Quest 8, Valkyria Cronicles, Dragons Dogma.
My most played games are:
Persona 3 (finished >10 times)
Devil Summoner Raidou 2 (6 times)
Tales of Xillia (5 times)
Tales of Xillia 2 (5 times)
Persona 4 (4 times)
Persona 5 (4 times)
SMT Nocturne (3 times)
Digimon World 3 (3 times)
My list - Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy VI - that is all. Actually I think I got all characters in Chrono Cross ps1 so maybe that one too?
Baten Kaitos getting an HD release? 😲
Might and magic isles of tera. I lost the count of how many times I beat it.
Ys book 1&2 for Turbograx16 cd 4x for the last 20 years.😅
I think for me only Suikoden II
I al most always play jrpg fully guided, so i dont feel need to replay it
And since im not trophy hunter, i just pick route I wanted if it had multiple endings
Could you do a video on why so many JRPGs insist on a "bad" or "true" ending? Claiming one set of actions is the "correct" one seems kinda browbeaty and writers are missing an easy trick by not showing the circular nature of history
While I LOVE JRPG's (have beat tons of them), the only ones I've beaten more than once are a few of the older FF games. Anything after XII was a 1 and done
Now you can beat Persona 3 2 more times! With the upscaled version on switch/ps4 and the just leaked remake!
For me it would be Dragon Quest 8 & 11. 8 I think I've played through 3 times, and 11 twice, I love these games so much. Also I think I'm about to do another rerun of them soon XD.
PS I passed Grandia 3 twice, the first time soon after it came out, but I just couldn't really remember how it went, so I recently replayed it again. I can tell you why it's underrated - it's the story. Just look at G1&2. The first was a masterpiece and the second, while a bit weaker, was still very good. G3 though? Jesus Christ the story there is a putrid mess. Everything starts going downhill once you escort the heroine to the temple. From that point, the story gets dumber and dumber, there are a ton of plot holes, there's even one villain whose sole purpose is to die at the end without doing anything, he just literally exists to die (the weirdo in the beret). The game force feeds the word "love" down your throat like your'e a goose bred for foie gras. Graphics and battle system? Awesome. Just skip the story amd enjoy the battles, you're going to come out of this game with more IQ points than I did after I replayed it.
I am in the middle of yet another DQ8 run, just opened the casino in Baccarat, I'm having a blast, again.
DQ11 might be my favorite RPG of all time. I haven't started a new run on it yet, been playing other stuff. But it will make it onto the "cycle" with a few others like Ogre Battle, PTO 4, a couple FF entries, and some other SNES classics and a couple PSX games. DQ11 was just such a satisfying game to play.
The only 2 rpgs ive finished twice were Theads of Fate, and Tales of Symphonia.
Every pre PS3 Final Fantasy main series game except for III and XI.
Robotrek
Earthbound
Ogre Battle March if the Black Queen,
Summon Knight Swordcraft Story II
Tactics Ogre (Both Let Us Cling Together and Knight of Lodis)
Shining Soul II
Front Mission 3 and 4
Dark Cloud 2,
Super Mario RPG
Crystalis
Final Fantasy Adventure, Sword of Mana and Secret of Mana,
all five Suikodens
Dragon Quest I through VI and VIII
Shining Force I. II, and Sword of Hyjara
Breath of Fire I and II
Final Fantasy Legend/Saga I through III
Phantasy Star I through IV,
Both Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross,
Zelda II
Valkyria Chronicles
Xenosaga I and III
Infinite Space
Lufia II and The Legend Returns
All three Golden Sun games
Persona 2: EP, 3, 4, and 5.
And there are many I know I started a second playthrough off but I'm not sure if I finished it.
Final fantasy Mystic Quest (twice)
Chrono Trigger (twice)
Final Fantasy 7 (like 8 or 10 times!)
Final Fantasy 6 (twice)
Final Fantasy 7 Remake (twice)
In the future, I will play and finish these games for the second time:
Tales of Berseria
Ara Fell
Dragon Quest XI
Yakuza Like a Dragon
Some JRPGs I hated and stopped playing before finishing them:
Nier Automata
Ni No Kuni 2
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 9
Chrono Cross
I almost always play RPGs and JRPGs through more than once right away.
Radiata stories needs a remaster!!
What about the leaked video from the persona 3 remake , have you watched it?
Hope it isn't fake...
Wow, no Ys. Surprising seeing how big a fan you are of it.
Anyways, my most played through (barring Pokemon) is probably Persona 3 FES. Played through it way too many times to count lol (even beat The Answer 3 times already believe it or not).
Persona 5 also if you count the original and Royal to be basically the same game (would be 4 times in total).
Basically every game in the Ys series (8, Seven, Oath, Napish especially) I've beaten multiple times.
And also Shining Resonance Refrain like 3 times. Got me into the action JRPG genre, so I like to replay it from time to time.
Other than that though, I don't really replay RPGs these days, eh.
PS 1:
Breath Of Fire 4
Legend Of Legaia
Grandia
Chrono Cross
Genso Suikoden 2
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy Tactic
PS 2:
Only Final Fantasy X
PSP:
Spectral Soul Tactic
Trail In The Sky chapter 1 and 2 Only .
I play like a 4 times i loved this series so much .
FF Tactics, Chrono Cross, FF8 beat multiple times for me
I play games constantly but weirdly enough I don't think there's a JRPG that I can say I finished more than once. I HAVE replayed quite a few of them mostly because when I played them initially I wasn't able to beat them hence why I came back to actually finish them. I recently just "replayed" Hack//G.U. because I played that game from Vol 1 to the middle of Vol 3 but never actually finished it.
I don't count Pokemon as a JRPG but if someone does, then I guess that's one since I played Gen1 and Gen2 far too many times than I can bother to remember. Brigandine is a tactics RPG, does that also count as JRPG? If so then yeah Brigandine I also finished quite a number of times. Castlevania I beat multiple times each, SOTN and the GBA ones specifically.
I recently replayed FFV but didn't actually finish it on my 2nd playthrough. So yeah I don't think I've actually beat any JRPG twice since the ones I actually did beat more than once I don't think counts as a JRPG? *shrugs*
I have an unfair advantage as I started playing with an NES in 1990.
FF series: all of them except 2 and 3. 4 and 7 only twice. 6 like 12 times. Oh, and none of the 13's, because I hate them. 15 i did not do complete playthrough for the second round, loaded a save from before a certain point in the game to do more side quest stuff.
Chrono trigger like 5 times
Breath of fire 3 and 4 a couple times
Ogre Battle like 20 times
FF Tactics 3 times(with lvl 99 characters and all sub quests lol)
Tactics ogre twice
Tales of Destiny. Other's in the series I have done once. Newer titles have an extensive new game+ settings so i will be back to them later.
Legend of Dragoon
Star Ocean 2, and 4
Dragons Crown
Persona 5
odin Sphere
Secret of mana like 8 times
Legend of mana a couple times
Granstream Saga
Shining Force
Front Mission 3 and 4
I feel like I am missing something on the SNES.
I am sure I missed a PSX game or five. I would have to go look at the library.