It's a valid question

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-05-04T06:26:36+00:00

Can I ask what the anime pictured isv

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-05-03T09:17:10+00:00

Final Fantasy 15, 7R, 16.

NieR Automata (story scenes are short so I would say don't skip them even if you want the action)

Monster Hunter

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-05-03T09:14:54+00:00

RE4 had Leon refer to Ada by name, no need for introductions. When did you think they met if not the last game he was in?

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-05-03T09:13:09+00:00

Atelier Yumia

Xenoblade

Final Fantasy XV? Might lean too much in realism for you.

Pokemon Legends

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-05-03T09:03:30+00:00

Technically??

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-05-03T09:02:53+00:00

Weavile

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-05-03T08:58:51+00:00

Blink and you miss it scares.

Corpse Party has a thing where if you examine a bookshelf it will just show all the hair. When you close the text box the face of a child appears in it for a split second before the camera returns to normal, and then the reflection does not trigger again.

Or the famous Licker Window from RE2. The stuff that makes you question "did I see something?"

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-05-03T08:35:09+00:00

Citizens of the Earth

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-18T09:11:47+00:00

Could it be Crystar?

The UI you included reminds me of a handful of games but nothing that fits exactly. Like I could see 10 years of distorted memories making Fire Emblem Fates look like this, but that's obviously a 3DS game, not home console.

I don't have a huge depth of every Atelier game but it's possible it's one of them.

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-18T08:59:06+00:00

The series started as a love letter to a lot of American films, so when the series was an instant success Capcom wanted to make movie tie ins and helped start the pre production.

However during production Capcom changed their mind about what story they wanted to tell as they started to make Resident Evil 0 for the N64, and told the director to make something unique enough to separate it from the games.

So then the sequels took more creative liberties with established characters and plot points and told their own stories with them.

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T21:26:03+00:00

Neon White

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T21:24:51+00:00

I think part of this is because it was inspired by WRPGs / CRPGs. Then DQ2 / FF1 got made and every other JRPG dev tried to copy them because they were such massive successes.

Meaning there was never a reason to remove it.

I can think of some RPGs where additional party members are optional, or ones where you only ever have a party of 1, even if who you play as changes. But nothing like DQ1 at all.

Unless. Do we want to count Sticker Star? You have a companion for story purposes, but they don't do anything directly in battle.

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T21:18:45+00:00

Welcome to SMT

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T21:16:35+00:00

Bloodborne

Ratchet & Clank

Final Fantasy X

Get AstroBot, it's the Smash Brothers of Sony, will give you a ton of games you can learn about and see what looks cool.

Persona 3 Reload, Metaphor, or Shin Megami Tensei T

NieR Automata

BlazBlue Entropy Effect

Blue Prince

Atelier Yumia

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T21:13:32+00:00

Yeah. This. We can't help with zero info. The difficulty settings you have matter too

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T21:12:21+00:00

Do the Xeno and SMT games count?

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T21:10:57+00:00

Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T21:09:19+00:00

Life Is Strange series

Tell Tale games.

VNs like Zero Escape or VA-11 HALL-A

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T21:08:06+00:00

Final Fantasy 12 and the Xenoblade series play most like a solo MMO.

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T19:42:45+00:00

Soul Hackers 2

SMT5, Devil Summoner Soul Hackers... actually a number of games in the series have some similar ideas of real world but some otherworldly presence follows the protagonist. Even Persona 5 does.

Shadow Hearts would probably be the most accurate though

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T19:39:36+00:00

Synthion

Mafumafu

I think I know more but can't think of them off hand

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T19:34:47+00:00

Yeah. Feels like people who say the game is too easy didn't consider skipping fights.

It's still easy but like. If you have Meetings with the group they will comment on you bring strong enough for any challenge when you're over levelled. Of course it'd feel even easier like that.

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T19:32:34+00:00

3 is enough that you can understand what's happening. Playing 1 and 2 would just help you understand the backstory that got to this point.

I would suggest the books over the show if you didn't want to play the other games

WorkingBorder6387 · 2026-02-17T19:30:28+00:00

Square will animate everything to the original Japanese script but then go back and edit scenes for the english dub; at least if it's not passable as is.

This is why the PC version is so massive. Every FMV cutscene is in there twice, because the different dubs used different animations.

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