8 Great JRPGs To Play During The Summer!

[@vel2118]

The way you’ve described the setting of Final Fantasy X was so precise and on point it’s crazy refreshing to hear someone say all those good things about it.

[@mimmikibilly]

One game that makes me think of summer is Magna Carta. The characters are all dressed like they live somewhere tropical and the lighting in many areas makes me think of hot, humid summer days.

[@GamingBroductions]

I've actually never played the first Magna Carta game, might have to go back and play it. I've only played the second one which isn't a bad game. I don't think I ever beat it, but remember having a decent time with it for awhile

[@Vessol]

I consider the Suikoden games summer games as well for the same reason, I got to play both games during summer break as a kid. Still try to replay them every few years. One game I also consider a summer game is Earthbound. The first time I fully played it as a kid was during summer and I try to regularly replay it when it needs my summer birthday. Summers / Scarabia especially have a great summer aesthetic.

[@GamingBroductions]

The Suikoden games are great to replay due to their short length. Well, the first two at least. I could see how Earthbound would be another good one with its aesthetic. Tbh I have fairly little experience with it as I’ve only played through it once many years ago and for whatever reason I know I didn’t give it the proper attention it deserved at the time. It’s one I’ve been meaning to go back and revisit for awhile now, the channel might be a good excuse to do that

[@SlyHikari03]

For me, Summon Night Twin Age is a pretty good Summery JRPG, considering that one of the places you start out is a beach like place, i would put it here.

[@dariohernandez674]

Awesome man!! We need more of that combat formula . I enjoyed it a lot. Another turn-based fighting formula that caught my attention was that of Valkyrie Profile .That is a niche combat style that needs to be exploited even more.

[@dannysimion]

Great list!! I am actually on Grandia I (just downloaded it on sale from E-shop) and its fun! I am also set to finish Tales of Vesperia and I am also in the middle of Trails of Cold Steel IV. Summer is shaping up to be an enjoyable one! If I have time I have to finish or at least put in time on two other RPG titles I have on backlog that I took a break on - Dragon Quest XI and Trials of Mana. PS. I wanna download Legends of Mana, as well.

[@GamingBroductions]

Looks like you're in the midst of some great games! I still need to catch up on the later Cold Steel games, I've only beaten the first two at this point. Speaking of Tales of Vesperia, I'll be playing a few games in the Tales series and releasing retrospectives on them over the coming months in preparation for the Tales of Arise release. Be on the lookout for those!

[@dannysimion]

@@GamingBroductions Nice! I actually like watching gameplays as well as retrospective reviews on video games. Keep up the great work. PS. I just found out for a short time YS 8 is on sale on E-shop for $20 bucks...oh man! Gotta get it!!

[@Densetsu13]

Y'all just got yourself a new Patreon. You've quickly become one of my favourite channels. I legit get excited whenever there's a new upload haha! Keep up the great work, high production quality (especially considering how new and small your channel currently is), and unique video subjects. Cheers from Canada! 🇨🇦🙋🏾‍♂️

[@GamingBroductions]

Ah thank you so much! For all the kind words and for donating to our Patreon. Hearing stuff like that makes it all worth it, I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying the content so much. We’ll be sure to keep the videos coming!

[@MarcusD]

yo no way!! thanks for the shout out! started FFX in Dec, and probably going to finish it in July thanks because of this vid. Love these videos, keep up the good work!!

[@GamingBroductions]

No prob dude! We’ve both been big fans of your music for some years now, it’s the least we could do for providing all these chill tunes. You helped me get into jazz rap and lofi tbh so keep doing your thing as well. Appreciate it, will do! 💯

[@christianwise4227]

Very nice video :)

[@GamingBroductions]

Thank you 😌

[@javigomez1697]

Chrono Cross ❤️❤️❤️

[@javigomez1697]

Best OST in a game ever.

[@GamingBroductions]

@@javigomez1697 It really is. It’s the first OST I would show to my non-gamer friends if I was trying to prove the point of how amazing video game music can be

[@javigomez1697]

@@GamingBroductions It was the first game OST CDs (3) I bought in 2001, had a hard time finding it, living in a small village in Spain without an Internet connection, but it was worth every telephone call to every import store I could find.

[@kocokan]

Suikoden II *tears*

[@GamingBroductions]

Such an amazing game. Sadly it’s the only one in the series I don’t physically own, for obvious reasons

[@JamesDavis-nu5lx]

Personally I think Pokemon Sun and Moon and Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are 'tropical and summery' RPGs to play since they are monster collecting games most JRPG fans might be a little bit put off by the genre of the game in general but honestly I love Pokemon and many other monster collecting RPGs so there's nothing to hate about it.

[@GamingBroductions]

Totally hear ya there, those ones are obvious choices when it comes to setting. Like you mentioned though, I know there's a good amount of people who don't consider Pokemon 'true JRPGs' in the same vein as others due to the monster collecting/building aspect so I decided to leave them out due to that reason. I do love Pokemon myself though even if I haven't played Sword/Shield yet. Moon was the last one I played actually, I had fun with it. Super random but if you like monster collecting RPGs you might look into checking out Monster Rancher 2 sometime, it's not an RPG and is more of a raising sim but it's a lot of fun I think

[@premlaseraphim1115]

When talking about summer and coziness, I think Atelier Ryza is suitable to put in the list. Anyway, excellent list. Thank you for making video like this.

[@GamingBroductions]

Besides a couple of the Atelier Iris games, the Atelier series is one I haven’t gotten into too much actually. Been curious about some of the newer games though so maybe I’ll get around to it eventually, I have heard they’re very cozy. No problem at all and thanks for watching!

[@guardianrandy]

Wild Arms 5 ended up being one of my favorite entries in the series, right behind 2 (which REALLY needs a retranslation). If nothing else, Wild Arms 5 was fun to play through to encounter all the cameos from past Wild Arms characters and the cameo costumes you could unlock. It's also one of the only games in the series that made me cry from the ending. You should definitely give it another try!

[@GamingBroductions]

Damn, with that type of review from someone else who considers WA2 as their favorite in the series it sounds like I may have put this one down too soon! I only played it for around 10 or so hours and remember being fairly distracted at that time of my life when playing it so I probably wasn’t in the most fair position to judge it. I’m going to revisit all the WA series at some point so I’ll give this one another go then

[@guardianrandy]

@@GamingBroductions I think the other part of it I loved was how insanely good the graphics hold up for being a PS2 game, especially the special combination attack animations and summons. The story's a bit cheesy at times, but I liked the way they tied everything together with Avril's role in the story. I think, for me personally, my order of favorites is : 2, 5, 1, 3, XF, and then 4 in absolute last place despite liking Raquel and Arnaud.

[@porkchop05031997]

Fun fact, Grandia actually debuted on DreamCast. I'm sure not many other JRPG's did. I've been binging your content and love it! Lots of games I have yet to play. I wasn't really able to play many games as a kid, and recent fell in love with JRPG's when I picked up gaming. I've been playing through all the classics for the last 2 years, and you have helped me add more games to the list.

[@rooty]

You mean the Saturn? Or you mean grandia 2?

[@porkchop05031997]

@@rooty Nope, I 100% meant Saturn. Whoops.

[@zenset1]

Perfects recomendations!!

[@CBZero]

Chrono Cross, Trails in the Sky, Persona 4 Golden, Suikoden 2, FFX

[@FlumSM]

2:24 if you like FFX's battle system, you might like The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age on PS2. It uses pretty much the same battle system, no idea if it's a good game though since I've never played it.

[@Chadmh358]

Awesome video! You should post it on the jrpg subreddit. I’m sure they would love it and your channel!

[@GamingBroductions]

Thank you! The last time I tried to post a video in that subreddit it was taken down unfortunately since I’m not a regular poster there. If anyone else wants to post it there themselves though they’re more than welcome to! But no expectations at all, we appreciate you just being here watching 👌

[@Chadmh358]

@@GamingBroductions I’ll post it if that’s okay with you! I think I’ve posted enough on that subreddit to be allowed.

[@GamingBroductions]

@@Chadmh358 By all means feel free to, that would be awesome!

[@ss7ss790]

Super adventure island 2 on SNES :)

[@GamingBroductions]

I’ve never played this one actually but have seen it mentioned in some videos. Looks really intriguing and I do like the setting. I need to check it out eventually!

[@bakuiel1901]

Funny I would say Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest 1&2, Breath of Fire 2, Golden Sun 2 and Shining Force 2 for me, but probably because I played all of them one summer starting in June before school got one and right through till the next grade. I had played some of them before but did all that between grades 10 & 11

[@juanalbertoroigpalacios6911]

I just started the legend of dragoon a couple of days ago. Since I saw your video i get caught. Now I have to find time for Chrono Cross... my girlfriend gonna hate u! Jejejeje nice video Bro!

[@GamingBroductions]

Hahah sorry about that 😅 On the bright side at least you have some great games to look forward to. Thanks man!

[@Rhetzelle]

Suikoden V reminds me of Summer.. sad it's not on your list :( but great games in your list love FFX, Chrono Cross and suikoden II

[@GamingBroductions]

It was technically included with the Suikoden series but yeah I didn’t actually get around to talking about it individually. I didn’t play that one til I was a lot older and don’t have as much nostalgia for it as the others. It is a great game though!

[@leukocyte6100]

Suikoden 5 is perfect. you actually try to beat the heat in the beginning.

[@atafmaalaoui4761]

Skies of Arcadia 😍

[@GamingBroductions]

Ah that would have been another good one to include! The bright colors and adventuring theme is very fitting with summer

[@Kinda_ANastyDood]

Absolutely play Persona 4 Golden! No spoilers but the added contact is great!

[@alveeomar4018]

Can you please make a video on games that visually shows customisation rather than just increasing stats. Make the video based on every console. Please please please.

[@zacharyessey5904]

I think that all five Gensou Suikoden games are awesome. Even though the first is my favourite, I actually thought that it was the weakest in the series, but in a series like Gensou Suikoden, being the weakest doesn't mean much considering that each game has an awesome story, characters, battle system and music.

[@rburgan45]

I'm a little surprised kingdom hearts 1 didn't make the list

[@jazz2965]

Persona 4 is THEE summer game

[@SNYKPodcast]

Chrono cross needs to be remade Might be the best RPG of all time if it’s action RPJ

[@GamingBroductions]

Hell I would even take a port to the Switch at this point. Honestly anything related to the Chrono series we desperately need more of, it's such a uniquely cool IP

[@vel2118]

what’s the name of the game at 0:44 ?

[@GamingBroductions]

Beyond Oasis

[@martinde-serres8724]

I'm gonna have to disagree on Chrono Cross having no ties to Trigger because 1) it's set in the same world as Trigger and 2) the DS version added new content including a new canon ending tying both games together even more.

[@emcp7]

is that you and your dog at the end of the vid?

[@GamingBroductions]

Yes, but a cat actually… 😅

[@emcp7]

@@GamingBroductions lol, almost nobody walks there cat so I assumed it was a dog and didn't look closely. Great personal touch to the vid, my man

[@GamingBroductions]

@@emcp7 lol she loves being outside and goes for the occasional walk. She’s our outro in all of our videos as well ha.

[@dobadobadooo]

I'd say you should definitely give Person 4: Golden a try! Aside from an annoying new character that the game kinda shoves down your throat, it's an improvement to the original in practically every way. Easily one of the best enhanced editions to any game I've ever played.

[@GamingBroductions]

This is what I hear. I know it gets praise all across the board when it comes to improvements over the original so I do really want to play it eventually. Maybe we’ll cover some of the Persona games in future retrospectives, would be a great chance to go back and play it then. In fact I think that’s what we’ll plan on, might as well kill 2 birds with 1 stone!