Comments on: A Newcomer’s Take on Japanese RPGs

By: iloveoregon

iloveoregon — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:48:25 +0000

I don’t have much time to play RPGs or really any game much anymore, but I have to say that my favorite RPG of all time has to be Chrono Trigger. I remember it as one of the first RPGs I ever played, but I never really finished it until it came out on Playstation.

By: shanehinton

shanehinton — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:49:29 +0000

I love me some old games and I’ve got Chrono Trigger in the SNES library on my original Xbox… I’ll flip it on sometime soon.

I’ve also been eyeing Persona 3 for a little while now. I may just have to check that out.

Thanks for the tips.

By: thephotoshopwhore

thephotoshopwhore — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:42:36 +0000

Now that you mention it I can’t think of a single JRPG that doesn’t concern the saving of the world from some evil impending doom.

I don’t know how high your tolerance for older games are, but I’d highly recommend downloading a SNES emulator for one of Sakaguchi’s earlier games, Chrono Trigger. It is one of the only JRPG’s I’ve managed to play to completion because it kept me rightly involved throughout.

I understand the Persona series, specifically Persona 3, has probably the most thematic variation when compared to other JRPGs. Check it out.