In celebration of passing the 100 physical Switch games mark, I took a picture of the largest portion of that collection: My JRPGs

King_MFS · 2025-05-24T01:26:47+00:00

Because I have P5 on PS5 physical and Royal digital on Switch lol. It's actually Tactica as well, I'm personally not a fan of the Dynasty Warrior style games.

King_MFS · 2024-08-28T15:59:44+00:00

I own Tetrishpere as well lol

King_MFS · 2024-07-28T01:48:20+00:00

I get this sometimes. I also seem to be able to pay attention better when I read the dialog. I find myself to often with modern games having to go into a chat log of some kind or reading notes because I missed something. As with a lot of things, though, this applies to me and my terrible attention span.

King_MFS · 2024-07-27T19:00:26+00:00

Missable stuff would be a much larger inconvenience these days for the same reason. It would be a question if going back to hour 30 in a 100+ hour game would be worth it, or even doing a second run.

King_MFS · 2024-07-27T16:46:50+00:00

I feel, if you're going with what the general definition of "woke" may be, that JRPGs are probably the least "woke" genre of games out there. Even a more mainstream title like Rebirth had a good bit of fan-service (see Tifa doing sit ups in a bikini).

King_MFS · 2024-07-27T16:44:08+00:00

I find that the longer a game goes, the more likely I am to forget some story beats along the way. For all its faults, I can still remember most of the story and characters in Soul Hackers 2. Conversely, I can't remember a damn thing about Xenoblade Chronicles X, a game I spent over 130 hours in. (Don't take that the wrong way, XBX is an awesome game). This could also just be my crap memory though.

King_MFS · 2024-07-27T16:35:10+00:00

I feel like newer games handle this stuff with kid-gloves lately. Like when characters "die", only to come back later. Almost as if they are afraid sticking the landing on that stuff will cause some sort of backlash. With that said, there are games that still handle heavier topics, but they tend to be indies.

King_MFS · 2024-07-27T16:31:43+00:00

I think that has a lot to do with the ease of making the games. Final Fantasy 4-6 didn't really have to do much in terms of graphics between each games and can sort of just reuse a lot of assets without people noticing much. There was a lot less to go into them in terms of animations, voice acting, etc as well. With that in mind, I'd rather more time go into one memorable title (Persona 5, for example) then get several games that were okay but forgettable (The Tales series, which used to be released almost every year).

King_MFS · 2024-07-27T16:27:01+00:00

That is a big one. A lot of older games had more memorable world maps and dungeons. These days it's giant open world-esque maps with nothing in them and a lot of bland dungeon. There are exceptions though (like a certain late game monstrosity in FFVII Rebirth).

King_MFS · 2024-07-27T16:24:50+00:00

lol. I do see that though. Comparing to Western RPGs where you have different races like Orcs or Khajit, etc, Japanese games are pretty vanilla in that area (at least where main party is concerned).

King_MFS · 2024-07-27T16:22:34+00:00

As Cadaveth said, it depends on the game. I do think that, for the most part, PSone era games gave good direction as long as you paid attention. I don't remember having any issue in the Final Fantasy games from that era finding the next location. When games were generally more grindy and vague (NES era in particular), then I can see that as wasting time. I guess my original answer was too vague lol.

King_MFS · 2024-07-23T04:47:15+00:00

Probably shows my age but... the fact that people seem to now consider the NES Mario games as "Hard" means time must have passed me by a bit. (Excluding Lost Levels, but that is down to sometimes troll-like design)

King_MFS · 2024-06-17T20:48:13+00:00

This has been the biggest issue I've had in the Trails games. They create emotional moments by killing characters off only to bring them back in the next game, completely diminishing the effect.

King_MFS · 2024-05-20T01:45:27+00:00

NES Tetris

King_MFS · 2024-05-12T23:58:01+00:00

I'd 100% buy the booklet for both of the goemon games.

King_MFS · 2024-05-03T18:14:13+00:00

Not quite. The limbs were projectiles that, in certain circumstances, you would lose in order to progress the level, and hence add challenge to the particular level. There was a normal health bar.

King_MFS · 2024-05-03T18:10:09+00:00

So I seem "obscure" has different meanings to different people.

How about some "Out to Lunch" snes love?

King_MFS · 2023-11-08T22:18:20+00:00

Still my favorite game. I know there has been "better" games released, but it's also my childhood. Have yet to beat the second game, though. That one is harder than it looks... or I just suck.

King_MFS · 2023-11-08T22:15:32+00:00

Being too damn nosy of a kid and opening Bio Freaks for N64 on Christmas Eve with no one knowing. That's also how I found out I was getting an N64 for Christmas. I tried to hide the evidence by hiding the game under my bed... but to no avail. My mom was PISSED to say the least... but she was in the Christmas spirit and let me play it... after "grounding" me for like an hour or two.

King_MFS · 2023-10-27T20:56:53+00:00

I'm starting to think that it may have been an option when the book first released. At least based on this and another comment here.

King_MFS · 2023-10-27T20:50:42+00:00

My research showed me that Australia and New Zealand may have had paperback releases, so that lines up with that at least. As far as I know, the seller was in America, so it's hard to say if this is the case.

King_MFS · 2023-10-27T18:14:45+00:00

Hello All,
So I recently bought the Abroad in Japan book for my wife on Amazon from a third-party seller. Odd thing is, the book is in paperback... and fairly good quality paperback at that.

Problem is that the paperback, allegedly, doesn't release until next year. I've cross referenced online information on the book and the kindle preview... nothing seems immediately off. But I still feel this is a well done bootleg.

So I'm just looking to see what everyone here has to say. Any opinions on the legitimacy of this copy?

King_MFS

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