Well I know that I can't trust you when it comes to pokemon

Golden Sun and Breath of Fire IV.

FF VI and Xenogears

Secret of Evermore, Terranigma and illusion of Time. Give action RPGs the HD-2D treatment!

FFVI, Chrono Trigger, Lufia 2, Secret of Evermore, Secret of Mana, Earthbound, Illusion of Gaia

Wild Arms 1 and 2 would be great for HD 2D

Need Breath of Fire 4 and and Xenogears in this still!

I think your idea is ok, but limited to tp few ips. Sure everyone knows FF, DQ, crono trigger. But enix is sitting on tons of snes ips. Robotrek, earth bound, 7th saga, brain lord, illusion of Galla. Terranigma. And if i was to do a final fantasy, i would bring final fantasy dimensions to console and pc via 2dhd. As its locked in phones currently. If capcom is fair game, destiny of an emperor and if snk crystalis.

It would be so nice to see Pokémon Black and White in this style. I would love if they added quality of life updates and a way to customize difficulty, with built-in nuzlocke-inspired options. But as you said, this is pure hopium. I'd also give anything to see Dragon Quest Monsters in this style. The Dark Prince was not terrible, but it felt so lifeless, cold, and sterile to me.

Lufia 2 would be excellent

Me. It’s for people like me. Old-school Dragon Quest fans.

I know this is a remake, but I wish they could make the characters visible during fights.

The mix-match look of the graphics is a huge turn off. The character sprites just look awful against those beautiful landscapes. Plus the body type A & B thing, that was the final no go for me.

It's for people who play jrpgs

it's not for me, that I can tell

The dress armor says it's for women but I chose body type A, is that the "woman"?

I'm playing on draconian mode and it's maddening, but fun. Also, I am in complete agreement with you about the music. Hearing these songs lushly orchestrated is magical for me. As a child, I would put my ear up to my Gameboy color and listen to the title theme. Rest in peace to Koichi Sugiyama and Akira Toriyama - and thank you for the short but sweet review!

This game is for people who miss the inherent Wizardry/Ultima (moreso Wizardry) DNA these games used to have.

70 dollars for this is a joke

I still have my GBA cartridge!

Metaphor refantazio was trash. May as well been a visual novel, and phone game ad you one hit everything in the game, or 3 rounds kill all bosses. I expect more from dq3

Great video! I like your angle because I’m still not sure if this is for me. I enjoy old school jrpgs but I’ve played this one before and thought it was just ok, so while I do want to try this pretty new version for myself, the price tag is really hard to swallow. I think I’ll wait for a sale down the road.

This will be my first Dragon Quest 😊

I've already played through the Metaphor demo three times, and I'm scouring KZbin for every video talking about it that I can find because I really REALLY don't wanna ruin the game for myself by level grinding (I've already got a level 21 character! And I've seen the KZbin videos of people stuck in the same dungeon as me, who are level 30+, with all their Archetypes maxed! I don't wanna do a "level 99 in the first dungeon" run for my first playthrough!!), so I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on the demo!

lol you did a god, planet destroying, race wiping skill or combo on the enemy and he’s still standing xD

No mention of the SaGa franchise? It has been carrying the torch of excellent turn-based jrpg goodness for many years. edit: saw you mentioned Emerald Beyond, nice. I'm a huge fan of SaGa, and I no longer call myself a Final Fantasy fan. These days I make it a point to only support Square-Enix's jrpg franchises that stayed completely turn-based, I loathe what FF has become. I don't hate action rpgs, but I did not want FF to become action rpgs. Unless they make a pixel-art 2d turn-based mainline Final Fantasy XVII (which will never happen bc FF has been run by cowardice for many years), i have abandoned that series entirely just as it has abandoned me.

Great video, KZbin put you on my home page. You got my sub! Looking forward to seeing more videos from you!

I know you're talking about JRPGs, but 2023 Game of the Year was ALSO a turn based game. The style is more alive than evar.

I bought way too many games from Steam sales (most being 100 hour games) to ever play them in my lifetime. My choice is to realize money is wasted or to become a hermit that mooches off other people the rest of my life while I play video games all day long.

You know what I liked most about games like FF16 or Stellar Blade? Or the Ryza games? That I could finish them in a weekend or a week or so. Most JRPGs have complex systems and gimmics and a convoluted story with a lot of loose ends and twists waiting to happen until the end. If you don't experience their story continuously and you just hop on and off every few weeks or so, it will have no impact. I am at that point in my life (almost in my 40s) where I only get a bit of time, maybe an extended weekend or so every few months, or a free week, or a quieter period with work and responsibilities when I can dedicate my afternoons for gaming. But these snippets of free time are rare and far in between. I used to love long games when I was in my teenage years and had all the time in the world, but now, games with 100 hours of content and hours long dialogue sections (in RPGs, I have no issue with VNs, I read VNs) kind of drive me away, or I lose interest in them when, for example, I play for a weekend, finish about 1/4 of the game, I drop the game for about two-three weeks, and then when I have an afternoon to play again I need to waste time to remember the gameplay systems and to remember the story (even worse if it has a ton of loose ends). No matter how good the game is, if I have to relearn everything mid-game, I kinda lose interest in playing. So yeah, in this stage of my life, weekend-long games are ideal, anything longer is a bit of a turn off (even though I really want to play them).

I've come to the realization that I prefer 10-30hr main story games. Not only because my job/family/other responsibilities limit the amount of time I can spend gaming, but I also get fatigued after a while and just want to move on to the next thing. I don't mind if they have side-content that extends it to 100+hrs as I usually don't do everything but it is good for other that like to 100% a game. I've been playing Sea of Stars since May of this year and I'm about 27 hours in so I'm close to beating it.(one of my favorite RPGs so far) I beat Xenoblade Chronicles II and I had to take over a year long break about half-way due to it having such a long story (Amazing game though). Live a Live had a great story and perfect length. I highly recommend! I'm about 20 hours into tears of the Kingdom and had to take a break from that too. Want to try Star Ocean Second Story R, and Unicorn Overlord at some point.

100% for shorter games. 60hrs is about the most I want to spend on any given game.

Depend on the game, if both story and gameplay is good, I like it long so the game can be experienced longger. If the gameplay is boring, but story is good, I will just fast forward watch other people's playthrough on youtube. If the story is boring but the gameplay is good, I prefer the game to be short. If story and gameplay both sucks, rather not play it at all.

My opinion to that question? Nope! Give me a long JRPG anyday! I just love em long.

I budgeted one $30 switch game this week. the whole time it was gonna be Yars Rising. I even had it in the shopping cart. a very last second change and I chose this instead. I'm glad I did. Yars will remain on the wish list, but I think I'm enjoying the action of this over the cutesy metroidvanianess of Yars Rising, but I'm still looking forward to playing it. my way of buying and playing games is a mess. I bought Void Bastards two months ago and have yet to even start it. yeah I'm playing this game first? anyways, great video and much appreciated.

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"The future of turn base looks bright" But does future of action rpg looks bright?

If I were to eat a Pokémon it would be a Mr. Mime

Hopalong is incredible he can get increased map movement, is very quick in combat his special stuns everyone on the map and while his weapon is basically short range 1v1 rope it will kill anything.

Cant get over how trash the animation style looks. I know what they were going for but wow does it look janky and bad. Too lazy to animate actual stop motion, just make everything look likr a bad 80s game

I hope no game follows the Sea of Stars example. I found the gameplay and story boring while character dialogue was a little cringe. The only positive thing I found was the art direction and style. I don't understand how SoS got that overwhelmingly positive reception, for me it's a 5.5/10 at max.

There are definitely a good amount of fps roguelites, off the top of my head there’s Gunfire reborn Robo quest Deadlink Golden light Nightmare reaper Otherwise good review.

Strong video bro

The way they can become enemies or pals sounds a lot like what Darkest Dungeon 2 did. Very cool, definitely picking this up after my obsession with Deadlock fades a little.

S tier video

I love your review, I recently find your channel, keep going this wayyy

Thanks for the review

Nice review, and you have a good talking speed 👍 keep it up

Thank you for the review! It’s shocking how few reviews there are for this game. I appreciate you getting this out quickly. Is there meta-progression, anything in-game that carries over from run to run? It sounds like characters might? If this is a straight roguelike like Binding of Isaac, unfortunately it’s probably not for me. Edit: Also, can you save mid-run?

That was a very good review. Thanks man