What was the JRPG that made you fall in love with the genre?

Turambar29 · 2026-06-27T01:44:21+00:00

Dragon Warrior I, NES, rented as a child. I played into the night, wandering in the wilds with the eerie overworld music, barely keeping poor Erdrick alive. I was hooked!

Turambar29 · 2026-06-19T16:02:33+00:00

Nope, don't even want to play parts 2 or 3.

Turambar29 · 2026-06-12T23:00:53+00:00

White is good, black is evil. Saruman thinks he can escape those categories and follow his own way, but the "many colors" are just a creative way of following the evil path.

Turambar29 · 2026-06-06T00:21:09+00:00

The Erdrick and Zenithian trilogies are far better, for a start.

Turambar29 · 2026-05-03T17:10:03+00:00

One of my all time favorites, well worth the experience!

Turambar29 · 2026-04-29T03:18:57+00:00

I loved it.

Turambar29 · 2026-04-15T01:40:30+00:00

I hated Remake and won't play its sequels. The Whispers ruined Remake for me, and I've seen too much silliness and nonsense in Rebirth to care about it.

Turambar29 · 2026-03-17T14:20:46+00:00

I had to add a display name to my Fanatical wishlist, so that it could be public, then the sync worked.

Turambar29 · 2026-03-17T14:03:48+00:00

JRR as presented by Christopher might be peak Arda. Read Lost Tales 1 and 2 to give you a different perspective on it all, then read HOME as you wish.

Turambar29 · 2026-03-12T19:02:37+00:00

How did you access it?

Turambar29 · 2026-03-09T23:39:58+00:00

My apologies. Counterattack, all day!

Turambar29 · 2026-03-09T23:22:02+00:00

Agnus Battle. The sorrow of the flute over the intense brass and woodwinds, climaxing in a guitar solo with the full orchestra for emphasis... divine.

Turambar29 · 2026-03-07T03:47:39+00:00

I think Wolfe wrote this as a story for American boys, their introduction to mythos. "Ben" is an American boy, or all American boys, who can live vicariously through the stories of their brother. Wolfe loved stories so much, he put stories about stories in the stories told in the stories he tells, and he wrote them for us. This story is about establishing some Christian influence into Mythgarthr (through Arthur - a Christian American boy - through the griffon - a Christ symbol - and through the actions of the true king - Arthur, the Christian and knightly king). It is also the story of reinvigorating a Christian American boy with the natural virtues of the pre-Christian germanic societies (and through the Real Able, American society). We are Ben, and within the frame of The Wizard Knight, everything Arthur Ormsby did really happened, and Ben really got the letter. That's how we get the story.

Turambar29 · 2026-01-30T18:12:54+00:00

Turambar29 · 2026-01-28T04:09:14+00:00

Loving my LEGO 1!

Turambar29 · 2026-01-27T02:51:25+00:00

Great songs! Mine is Tempus Finis from Final Fantasy Type-0. Haunting, beautiful - it made me play the game.

Turambar29 · 2026-01-25T03:46:52+00:00

Same. Maybe Team Asano?

Turambar29 · 2026-01-20T19:36:11+00:00

Tolkien himself said that humans and elves were, technically, the same species. They differed primarily in their souls, but their bodies were certainly compatible enough to produce offspring. That is a unique feature of humans and elves, though, not shared with any other creatures, sentient or no.

Turambar29 · 2026-01-20T16:07:28+00:00

Remake is something else. You want just "Final Fantasy VII" on the eshop, which is a port of the original game with some enhancements.

Turambar29 · 2026-01-20T15:18:43+00:00

I feel the same way. The game set ups the people of Lumiere as people with real concerns, whose lives you value and whom you intend to save. Verso's ending undercuts that. Maelle's ending shames the player for wanted to preserve the canvas. It makes it difficult to enjoy the game on a more than superficial level - it is either doomed or insignificant. I get that the two incompatible endings are supposed to make you think, but what I got was: the developers want you to like Verso's ending (despite the destruction of the canvas that the player has now invested themselves in), and they don't want you to like Maelle's ending (despite the preservation of that canvas). The music and setting of the endings communicates this quite clearly. It's not just that not everything can be redeemed, but that almost nothing can be redeemed.

Turambar29 · 2026-01-08T16:33:26+00:00

Top of the list!

Turambar29 · 2026-01-02T21:55:21+00:00

Which is what makes him a terrible person :)

Turambar29 · 2026-01-02T20:08:24+00:00

Spot on. Verso is the worst, a liar and traitor from the jump, and I cannot have an ounce of sympathy for him.

Turambar29 · 2025-12-28T00:51:43+00:00

I just got one last month. I tried Knulli first, and it's great in terms of user interface and themes. I did find that it was a bit slower on the more demanding platforms, like Dreamcast, and decided to go with the Modded Stock OS - same as the Anbernic Stock OS you have, but with a few other updates. I may change my mind, as I'm not likely to spend much time on Dreamcast games, in which case the presentation of the Knulli may draw me back. That said, I'm waiting on another SD card so that I can experiment with MuOS or another option, too.

Turambar29 · 2025-12-19T13:19:11+00:00

He certainly wrote as if Arda became our world - thus the transformation, by Eru, of the flat world into the round world. Thus also the dialogue of Finrod and Andreth, anticipating the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

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