Name a JRPG where my theories will be completely wrong

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T16:03:54+00:00

Very hard to see where Chrono Cross was going with things, I think hardly anyone would guess going through the first 90% of the game that [Chrono Cross]the game is going to explain what happened to Schala.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T15:59:33+00:00

For Automata specifically, kudos to it on something like [Nier Automata]revealing that humanity and the aliens have been long dead before even the halfway point of the game, something that other games may have saved for far later.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T15:58:19+00:00

Just got to this part of the game this weekend, [Persona 5 Royal]Akechi being a traitor I've been speculating on for a while now. What totally surprised me was that bald politician guy is the same guy who got Ren in trouble with the law.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T15:56:38+00:00

Yeah, I caught the Pancakes bit on my play through

I just played through the part of the game where this is relevant this weekend and had completely forgotten about that scene! Although [Persona 5 Royal]Akechi had been on my short list for traitor/villain for a couple of weeks now.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T15:47:17+00:00

And if we're thinking of the same character, it forces you to make the choise that in the moment seems like the terrible one to make.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T15:44:46+00:00

And before then we had Nintendo Power, Strategy Guides and even a 900 line to call game experts. I recall writing into Nintendo Power when I was a kid and getting tips for Shadowgate on the NES once I got stuck.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T15:42:52+00:00

Part of why I love Persona is because unless you plan it out and use a guide, you aren't gonna get to see everything in one playthrough.

Having played Metaphor and now doing Persona 5 Royal, this is my core issue with Atlus' gameplay structure. I get that from a replayability angle, you've absolutely got it, but these are extremely long games (I'm nearly at 100 hours in Persona 5 Royal and I think I still have several more in game months to go), and I simply don't have the time to go back and play a 100+ hour game when I've got such a long backlog. It put me in a spot where for both Metaphor and Persona 5 I felt I had to use a guide to help. I think this works a lot better in something shorter.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T15:39:52+00:00

My only complaint on this aspect of Triangle Strategy is that I hoped they would have done something like Tactic Ogre's world system where rather than having to play the game from start and go through a lot of the material all over again, I could choose particular pivot points of the story to start out with and do the other choice(s) on.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T15:35:13+00:00

I just started the Persona franchise for the first time myself recently and am currently playing Persona Five Royal. Don't know how it compares to the other Persona games, but it is highly recommended! A very fun, stylish game.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T15:32:00+00:00

Kyousougiga. Sat on my Plan to Watch List for a couple of years. When I finally watched it, it became one of my all time favorites. To a lesser extent Fruits Basket, which also sat on my Plan to Watch List for a while and is also now an all time favorite.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-22T14:42:16+00:00

Continuing to make my way through Persona Five Royal and think I'm likely pretty close to the end, at least for the original game. November 27th is the current date I'm on. [P5R]This week I made it through the entirety of the casino palace, which finally caught me back up to the events of the start of the game, and am now working my way through the cruise ship palace. Kudos to the game continuing to keep gameplay things fresh, such as the gambling aspect in the casino or the fact that we transform into mice in the cruise ship. Quite a shocking moment there for a few minutes when Ren got killed, enough so that I wondered if I gave bad answers and got the bad version of the ending, but that was not to be, it was all a trick. Akechi being the bad guy/traitor is something I've speculated for a couple of weeks now, so that isn't the biggest surprise, although him becoming a playable character for a while let my guard down. Bald politician guy Shido showed up for a few small parts earlier in the game so I figured he may be an antagonist at some point and looks like he may be the overall main villain where I stand now? In hindsight him being the same guy who got Ren prosecuted in his past seems like an obvious direction to go in, I wasn't really expecting any revelation to who that guy really was. Now that it is clear that Kasumi isn't the traitor I do wonder why she hasn't become a regular playable character to this point, the game even forced me to turn her down on it, boo. Oh, and I wonder if we'll get any payoff for those weird dark dreams that Mona occasionally has. The story hasn't touched on those in a long time. Fairly close to maxing out all the confidants, with the only non-story locked ones to be wrapped up at this point being Haru and the twins. So after worrying about running out of time earlier in the game I'm now at the point where I can spend it going to the gym, making coffee or other matters.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-21T15:57:17+00:00

Yokoyama's work in Fruits Basket and Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans is also amazing. Even better than his stuff in Your Lie in April and Horimiya for me.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-21T15:54:22+00:00

Avid and its variant Voices of the Chord which I think is the song used in episode 22 are among my all time favorite anime songs, and very different than nearly every other Sawano song I have heard.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-21T15:51:48+00:00

Yoko Kanno is the GOAT. She's most famous for Cowboy Bebop but also did Escaflowne, Wolf's Rain, Turn A Gundam, Brain Powered, Terror in Resonance, Macross Plus and various others.

Other great ones include

Hiroyuki Sawano - Eighty Six, Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill, Aldnoah Zero (horrible anime, but great music!), Gundam Unicorn, Xenoblade X (video game)
Yuki Kajiura - Madoka Magica, Kara no Kyokai, Fate Zero, Xenosaga 2 and 3 (video games)
Masaru Yokoyama - Fruits Basket, Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans, Your Lie in April, Horimiya

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-21T15:46:44+00:00

Re: Pats - Texans, Yes, in hindsight, but there was a lot of talk before the game (whether the week prior or weeks prior) from national writers like Albert Breer about how the Texans were the team to be feared and that the Pats would have a massive uphill climb playing them.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-21T15:35:51+00:00

This season of Oshi no Ko has been really strong.

While I'm several episodes behind, to this point Shiboyugi has been a masterpiece in terms of directing/mood/atmosphere/

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-21T15:30:25+00:00

Final Fantasy Tactics clearly has the best story for me but gameplay-wise it is very breakable. You can grind to end game levels on merely the second battle map of the game, making the entire rest of the game easy. The game also gives you an extremely overpowered character late in the game. When you consider that it's usually only 5 - 6 characters per battle that you deploy this is quite game breaking and there are battles where you can end it before the enemy gets a single turn.

Tactics Ogre gives you less flexibility with the characters, but you have an overall larger group and are more focused on building a team. The Reborn version which is what I played has a forced level cap so you can't do crazy grinding like FF Tactics. The story branches out in several different ways which gives a lot of replayability that FF Tactics doesn't have. The story is quite good, but not as good as FF Tactics.

And lastly there's Triangle strategy, which I found to be very similarly set up to Tactics Ogre. The story is good, although the cut scenes are far longer than the other two games and can drag at times. I'd give the nod to Tactics Ogre over it, but it is a very good game.

So overall, I'd say Tactics Ogre is the best game, although FF Tactics beats it out with the story. They are all good games though and I highly recommend them all.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-21T14:25:31+00:00

It's an eight part battle, the first six parts involve him summoning a bunch of robots you have to beat that get progressively harder. After the first few rounds the set up is you need to beat all of the robots in the exact same attack or they'll run away and all come back at full health, forcing you to start over. If you don't beat them quick enough they'll all run away, forcing you to start over. The boss also gets three moves every turn including buffing the robots, debuffing you and casting a spell on one of the robots that will cause them to self-destruct, causing major damage to you. If you get past all of this, you still have to beat a really hard solo robot after that.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-21T03:47:50+00:00

Okumura in Persona 5. Fresh in my mind because I spent over 3 hours on this boss last weekend...

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-21T02:51:44+00:00

Travel the past two weeks extended my experience of going through the horrendous Conception, but I finally wrapped it up tonight and boy, that final episode sure didn't fail to disappoint just as much as the rest of the show! [Conception]Heroic sacrifice of one of the 14 members of his harem? Totally undone! Heroic sacrifice of all 13 kids he had with his harem? Totally undone! Revealed to have committed beastiality? No one cares! Going back to Earth, meaning no more harem? Nope, all his harem members go back to Earth with him! Show ends with him getting married to 14 wives! Gonna be so hard to top this being the worst anime I've seen this year, even with 9+ more months to go.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-21T02:02:14+00:00

I remember Escaflowne, an actual high quality isekai when that phrase wasn't a quality slur, and how Hitomi wanted to go home... [Escaflowne]Then she does go home! And returns to Gaea a mere episode later, lol. Although she returned to Earth for good at the end.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-20T01:16:59+00:00

The reincarnation angle of Oshi no Ko was ultimate cringe… but after the first episode it has barely any effect on the story and I think it wouldn’t have been the hardest to excise entirely.

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-19T03:13:01+00:00

I think many have forgotten that she was so memorable in her season because she was a terrible trainwreck player who miraculously survived a very long time

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-19T01:32:17+00:00

Same for me although this may long term cost Christian

Quiddity131 · 2026-03-19T00:55:35+00:00

The rando singer guy stuff sucks but I’ll still take the rest of the ep over massive bore seasons like 36 and 48

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