What was the first jrpg you ever played?

[Autorapist]

I watched my dad play Kingdom Hearts when I was but a seedling.

[Element]

Chrono Cross. Crashed out when some faqqot showed up attired in bdsm gear a few hours in. Then tried Vagrant Story. Crashed out early when it dawned on me that Ashley wasn't a female powerlifter. Never played jrpgs again.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Final Fantasy X/2. Odd game looking back at it.

[TheEmptyRoad]

Pokémon Yellow.

Yes, it counts.

[WhiteShark]

This, I think. Owing to childhood circumstances, I could only play some once every couple weeks, so I never finished it and eventually forgot about it, but it was pretty cool.

[Trickster]

Persona 3

[Vaako]

[Norfleet]

I played the original Wizardry. All JRPGs are just Japslop imitations thereof. Case in point: I had to fish this image off a Jap website.

[Melo]

In 2000, my older cousin lent me Final Fantasy VIII for PSX along with a magazine that had a walkthrough for it in it. I was ten nine and all I knew about videogames were Sonic and Road Rage on Saturn and Croc on Playstation. I was blown away by FF VIII, I barely understood the systems and the story even less. The whole thing was a magical journey from start to finish.

[DoubleOO7]

Chronos trigger and fallout 1, wasn't a huge fan of fallout 2.

[Bhaalspawn Jr]

Pokemon Leafgreen

My brother had Firered and we played nearly non-stop. I still remember the amazing moment where I asked if I could borrow his Graveler to beat some random NPC trainer, only for it to evolve into Golem via the trade and him demanding it back immediately. Blew our minds back then.

Hate what that franchise has become now.

[Vergil]

Does Kingdom Hearts count as a JRPG really?

[BlueMemphis]

Final Fantasy 7. I wish i had something more original or niche but sod that revisionism, ff7 at launch was the bees knees and i remember the popular saying at the time is most people didn't even know it was an rpg when they purchased it.

[Stack of Turtles]

What's a jorpug?

[Tinky Winky]

Umi no Nushi Tsuri - Takarajima ni Mukatte (海のぬし釣り 宝島に向かって) on PS1. It's a kid fishing game that barely qualify as an RPG though, and I wasn't really aware of wtf JRPG is at that time, it was an illegal CD copy and I got it because I was obsessed with fishing games back then. And yeah, I played it in Japanese because it wasn't translated.

[Oyster Sauce]

In 2000, my older cousin lent me Final Fantasy VIII for PSX along with a magazine that had a walkthrough for it in it. I was ten and all I knew about videogames were Sonic and Road Rage on Saturn and Croc on Playstation. I was blown away by FF VIII, I barely understood the systems and the story even less. The whole thing was a magical journey from start to finish.

It's been 2 years since the last video. Get back to work.

[SpellSword]

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► Pretty sure it was Dragon Warrior.

[Melo]

In 2000, my older cousin lent me Final Fantasy VIII for PSX along with a magazine that had a walkthrough for it in it. I was ten and all I knew about videogames were Sonic and Road Rage on Saturn and Croc on Playstation. I was blown away by FF VIII, I barely understood the systems and the story even less. The whole thing was a magical journey from start to finish.

It's been 2 years since the last video. Get back to work.

My only public videos were under a different name and unrelated to FFVIII, so I am pretty sure you mistook me for someone else haha.

[Gastrick]

The first one I played would've been the Pokemons, liked the turned based semi-strategic battles in them and how free they were in how many possible pokemon you could pick from to build up a party. Liked learning the type weakness and strengths chart as well with it; and how you'd have to build a party around patching as many holes as you can while still having few enough in your team to have them be high-levelled without any grinding. For "what got you into JRPGs", nowadays these are a genre that sits on my backlog endlessly while I instead read or watch random things online or grind shoot em ups in my spare time.

[methoxetamine]

Did you rike it? Would you recommend these games to someone who never played them?

[Vaako]

Did you rike it? Would you recommend these games to someone who never played them?

snes lufia2 and gba version I would, if you like round based fighting games. These games have some unique mechanics I havent sadly seen in any other jrpgs. You fight the sinistrals in some fights before you are supposed to be able to kill them. But if you do enough dmg in 3 rounds usually before they can insta faint your party you can earn a very op and unique item. Which will still be best in slot at the endgame and you can bring them with you in the ancient cave. Where you usually start again with lvl1 and you cant bring any items usually except the ones from blue chests you found in the ancient cave. Which has like 100 lvls I think the gba version even went to 200 lvls. But the gba version had all dungeons random generated. The snes version only the ancient cave if I remember right and the silver/gold dragons at the end are almost an insta wipe for the party if you fight them they were ridiculous op and the snes version also had the possibility to farm endless items from monsters which give perma stat boosts to characters (not that those help in the ancient cave I think). GBA version difference was also you had to use some strategy with the positioning of characters you could have 9 active there and you had to align their energy color right to use certain op special attacks. SNES version was a lot simpler in that regard only 4 chars all the time even tho a few change during the story. But you could aquire op weapons which allowed you to attack like 8 times with one attack.

Also the battle theme music was really good in the snes version and that were just midi files I think which could not really save much information.



While it doesnt have all the time travel stuff from chronotrigger I would say in quality its on the same level tho.

[Acrux]

Lufia 2 is easily a top 3 SNES game.

[Vaako]

Lufia 2 is easily a top 3 SNES game.

yeah only watched like the first half of this video again since it has been a while since I played it to refresh my memory. And most of the comments under the video are also great. And allegely the ancient cave was the first rogue like game he said... not sure if thats true since I dont play these games. And I am not sure you can actually farm certain items in rogue likes which youcan reuse on your next runs, like in the ancient cave with the blue chest items. Think those were even better in the gba version. Some of the best items you can aquire in these games. Also I completly forgot about the egg dragon and the 8eggs you had to find 4 times to be able to fight him and then get the op egg ring which maxxed all stats to 999, not sure anymore if I ever did that even or if I only saw that in videos or at a friends house.

[rusty_shackleford]

Lufia 2 is easily a top 3 SNES game.

Only reason it's so unknown is because by the time it was even available in the west, N64 and PS1 were out for a while already.

[rusty_shackleford]

Did you rike it? Would you recommend these games to someone who never played them?

Yes, it's one of the best JRPGs ever made.

Also it has a capsule monster system that predates Pokemon red/blue by a couple years and is IMO really cool for a game not built around it. All around cool game that is still one of my favorites.

[Tweed]

This, I think. Owing to childhood circumstances, I could only play some once every couple weeks, so I never finished it and eventually forgot about it, but it was pretty cool.

This ******* thing costs 80 dollars new. It was ridiculous.

[anvi]

I was only interested in my PC but I somehow had a demo of a Final Fantasy game and loved it. Not sure if it was FF6 or FF7, but it was a demo of one of those. And I like it more than the real game because there was no exploring, no towns, and not much story. It was basically just several battles one after another and they were interesting and different to PC land.

I tried playing the real FF7 but I always get bored when I reach a town and have to go in multiple places and do dialogue stuff and quest **** and equip various gear that I didn't understand.

Probably the only one I played all the way through was FFT which I loved. The start was harsh and I nearly gave up and I had no interest in the story either. But I liked all the little battles and they were getting more complex as it went on. And then late game you get to tweak your classes into cool stuff like the Calculator, Knight, Ninja, and stuff. I liked the one that powered up a big attack and then disappeared and a turn or so later would leap from the sky and smash someone.

I never had much interest in JRPGs but I played Valkyria Chronicles PC version for a while and it was pretty good. Although I didn't complete it.

[Cal Cutter]

Final Fantasy 7.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1

https://www.mobygames.com/game/79632/hy ... -rebirth1/

[DemoGraph]

Tamagochi on tamagochi in early school.
Then FF7 on PC in uni.