You leave me no choice but to join the weebs

[Bhaalspawn Jr]

People have thrown up some great recommendations already. I'd add the following:

Valkyria Chronicles and Valkyria Chronicles 4. Both on steam. Turn based with some actually emotional story beats.

The Persona series is great. My kind of hot take though is that you should emulate Persona 4 on PCSX2 instead of playing Golden as the remake kind of butchered the atmosphere as it was made originally on vita and downgraded the environments. Persona 3 FES should be emulated for sure though as the remake for it is pozzed and far too easy. Also think they messed it's atmosphere up as well.

RESONANCE OF FATE is a unique game. Very unconventional combat and gameplay. I'd recommend checking out some gameplay on YouTube as it's hard to describe.

Trials of Mana was a remake done decent for the most part. Overall the game's a bit easy but it's comfy.

I don't know if you've played Okami as I guess you could call it anime. If you haven't you should. One of the greatest zeldalikes ever.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 1 and 2 are kind of like if minecraft had a story. Fun and charming.

killer7. A surreal FPS game from the gamecube. You could emulate or buy it on steam.

No More Heroes series. Made by the same guys as Killer7 it's a hack and slash that makes fun of otaku culture.

Bullet Witch. Kind of like discount Bayonetta. It's cheap and kind of interesting. Was an xbox 360 launch title back in the day and got ported to PC.

Oh yeah and when you finish up Bayonetta 1 you should emulate the second on Cemu. It runs pretty much flawlessly and is a great game imo.

That is a hot take regarding Persona 4. Golden adds so much new great content, it easily surpasses the original. Visuals aren't everything, bro.

[GhostCow]

Trials of Mana was a remake done decent for the most part. Overall the game's a bit easy but it's comfy.

I second this one. Trails of Mana was really ******* good and worth muiltiple playthroughs.

[Kolgrim]

People have thrown up some great recommendations already. I'd add the following:

Valkyria Chronicles and Valkyria Chronicles 4. Both on steam. Turn based with some actually emotional story beats.

The Persona series is great. My kind of hot take though is that you should emulate Persona 4 on PCSX2 instead of playing Golden as the remake kind of butchered the atmosphere as it was made originally on vita and downgraded the environments. Persona 3 FES should be emulated for sure though as the remake for it is pozzed and far too easy. Also think they messed it's atmosphere up as well.

RESONANCE OF FATE is a unique game. Very unconventional combat and gameplay. I'd recommend checking out some gameplay on YouTube as it's hard to describe.

Trials of Mana was a remake done decent for the most part. Overall the game's a bit easy but it's comfy.

I don't know if you've played Okami as I guess you could call it anime. If you haven't you should. One of the greatest zeldalikes ever.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 1 and 2 are kind of like if minecraft had a story. Fun and charming.

killer7. A surreal FPS game from the gamecube. You could emulate or buy it on steam.

No More Heroes series. Made by the same guys as Killer7 it's a hack and slash that makes fun of otaku culture.

Bullet Witch. Kind of like discount Bayonetta. It's cheap and kind of interesting. Was an xbox 360 launch title back in the day and got ported to PC.

Oh yeah and when you finish up Bayonetta 1 you should emulate the second on Cemu. It runs pretty much flawlessly and is a great game imo.

That is a hot take regarding Persona 4. Golden adds so much new great content, it easily surpasses the original. Visuals aren't everything, bro.

To be fair it isn't just the visuals. With Golden they made the game easier and I prefer the OG voice for Chie. Also the new content feels like filler I could just watch on youtube if I cared that much. It is of course all up to personal taste but the visuals in Golden imo are pretty bad...

[GhostCow]

I prefer the OG voice for Chie.

>Playing in English

[UltraFan123]

I see that others already recommended FF6, which I agree is the absolute best installment in the series so far.

While I do think that the OG FF7 is great and all, I always felt it was overhyped. And if anything, seeing how FF7 has been butchered in the moder Square Enix remakes, I'm glad that FF6 didn't became as hyped in comparison.

I also always liked the classic Zelda games though idk if you would call those "weeb" or not.

[Bhaalspawn Jr]

The best in the genre:

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With some of the sexiest character designs you'll ever see in a Jap game:

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XC2_Mythra_Artwork.webp

I recommend playing it with the English VO. The English cast does an incredible job with so much heart going into line delivery. It's strange at the very beginning of the game though because the lip-sync is really bad, but it fixes itself after the prologue mission. Maybe they've fixed that part in the Switch 2 version.

And you don't have to play the first one before playing this one. It's a separate story and universe with only one subtle reference to the first game at the very end.

[GhostCow]

I see that others already recommended FF6, which I agree is the absolute best installment in the series so far.

While I do think that the OG FF7 is great and all, I always felt it was overhyped. And if anything, seeing how FF7 has been butchered in the moder Square Enix remakes, I'm glad that FF6 didn't became as hyped in comparison.

I also always liked the classic Zelda games though idk if you would call those "weeb" or not.

Big Disagree on this from me. FF6 is the of the few that I could never tolerate to the end. It just doesn't do it for me. I've tried to play all the way through multiple times over the years, but I've beaten the majority of 1-10. FF7 was Fantastic and there is a great modding community for the original. You can update the graphics and play with a better translation, among other things. 7 and Tactics will always be my favorites.

[UltraFan123]

The best in the genre:





With some of the sexiest character designs you'll ever see in a Jap game:








I recommend playing it with the English VO. The English cast does an incredible job with so much heart going into line delivery. It's strange at the very beginning of the game though because the lip-sync is really bad, but it fixes itself after the prologue mission. Maybe they've fixed that part in the Switch 2 version.

I once tried to play the first Chronicles installment on an old Wii emulator year ago, but the framerate was *** and it was always lagging.

Even so, I have always been interested in playing the Xenoblade Chronicles games one day, and I reckon that there are some decent Switch emulators to pick nowadays.

[DecadeRiptide]

With western media in general having been raped to death by woke freaks, I've started allowing myself to enjoy weeb content, which seems mostly untouched by woke. Wife and I have started watching certain anime recommended by AI (quite enjoying them actually!), and I'm looking into weeb games.

With the Steam sale going now, I am looking for recommendations for weeb games, ideally ones that are on Steam. (No anime recommendations please I'm already drowning in a backlog for that.)

This is basically an entire new alternate parallel universe of games that I have just never really given the time of day. I'm not picky about genre, it is enough that a game is good, cool, stylish, novel, interesting, etc. Hot women are a nice bonus, since we never get those any more over here.

So far I am playing Nier: Automata and enjoying it a lot.

Other games I already picked up on the sale that looked good:
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Persona 5 Royal
- DMC 5
- Vanquish
- Bayonetta
- Stellar Blade

What else you guys got? Calling all weebs!

Atelia Ryza 3 maybe?

[Bhaalspawn Jr]

The best in the genre:





With some of the sexiest character designs you'll ever see in a Jap game:








I recommend playing it with the English VO. The English cast does an incredible job with so much heart going into line delivery. It's strange at the very beginning of the game though because the lip-sync is really bad, but it fixes itself after the prologue mission. Maybe they've fixed that part in the Switch 2 version.

I once tried to play the first Chronicles installment on an old Wii emulator year ago, but the framerate was *** and it was always lagging.

Even so, I have always been interested in playing the Xenoblade Chronicles games one day, and I reckon that there are some decent Switch emulators to pick nowadays.

I just beat a modded 60fps version of Xenoblade X on the Switch emulator, Eden. There should be a mod out there for Xenoblade 2 to boost its fps too. (You can increase the resolution to 4k in Eden to make the game prettier too.) Or you could just buy a Switch 2 and play the new port that's out in July which will naturally have 4k, 60fps and new features.

[UltraFan123]

Of course Nintendo would ensure that these games never have a proper PC version.

[Roguey]

You bought the wokest Devil May Cry, they made the women uglier and turned a white character black.


1, 3, and 4 are fine given the time period they were created (2 is just a lousy game).

[rusty_shackleford]

question for the weebs:
I feel like older japanese games(before ~2010) don't have most of the actual developers listed in the credits, is this right? If so, why?

[Oyster Sauce]

question for the weebs:
I feel like older japanese games(before ~2010) don't have most of the actual developers listed in the credits, is this right? If so, why?

Some companies like Sega either didn't permit devs to be be listed at all or forced them to use pseudonyms to prevent poaching

[rusty_shackleford]

question for the weebs:
I feel like older japanese games(before ~2010) don't have most of the actual developers listed in the credits, is this right? If so, why?

Some companies like Sega either didn't permit devs to be be listed at all or forced them to use pseudonyms to prevent poaching

Do you know if Konami did this?

[Oyster Sauce]

question for the weebs:
I feel like older japanese games(before ~2010) don't have most of the actual developers listed in the credits, is this right? If so, why?

Some companies like Sega either didn't permit devs to be be listed at all or forced them to use pseudonyms to prevent poaching

Do you know if Konami did this?

Not specifically, but it seems like it was a common enough practice.

https://www.timeextension.com/features/ ... developers

[Val the Moofia Boss]

question for the weebs:
I feel like older japanese games(before ~2010) don't have most of the actual developers listed in the credits, is this right? If so, why?

I only know of this happening with Falcom due to the Ys 3 employee mass resignation event that caused Falcom to become a black company and for chairman Kato to institute policies where only he and Kondo could talk to the public and nobody else was allowed to be interviewed or show a portfolio of their work, etc. Kato was afraid that if individual employees could be identified or attributed for their accomplishments, then either fans would latch onto that person and give them leverage within the company, or that employee would be poached by other companies. I have not heard of this happening to the broader Japanese video game industry.

[chud_irenicus]

I dumped this entire thread into da robot and had it organize all the recommendations by platform.
The non-Steam ones are also great because I've been looking for good games to emulate on my phone!
Thanks for the recommendations everyone I've got a lot to chew through now...

Explicit recommendation → conflicting recommendations kept as alternatives → Steam fallback → original-platform fallback.

PC — Steam

• Aselia the Eternal: The Spirit of Eternity Sword
• Atelier Ryza 3
• Battle Chasers: Nightwar
• Bayonetta
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
• Bullet Witch
• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
• Dragon Quest Builders
• Dragon Quest Builders 2
• Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
• Elminage Gothic
• Eye of the Beholder 1–3
• Final Fantasy IX — Moguri Mod recommended
• Final Fantasy XIII — PC port preferred; graphics mods suggested
• Final Fantasy XIV — skip unless interested in an MMO
• Final Fantasy XV
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Granblue Fantasy: Relink
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• Neptunia series
• Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
• No More Heroes series
• Ōkami
• Planescape: Torment
• Resonance of Fate
• Septerra Core
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC
• Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter — remake; one poster recommends waiting until the remake trilogy is nearly complete
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
• Trails through Daybreak / Calvard Trails games
• Trials of Mana — remake
• Valkyria Chronicles
• Valkyria Chronicles 4
• Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
• WORLD END ECONOMiCA
• Yakuza 0
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon
• Other Yakuza / Like a Dragon games
• Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Steam alternatives from conflicting recommendations

• Final Fantasy XII — one poster explicitly preferred Steam; another preferred the original PS2 release
• killer7 — Steam and GameCube emulation were both offered
• Persona 4 Golden — preferred by one poster; another preferred the original PS2 version

The less-obvious Steam fallbacks—including Aselia, WORLD END ECONOMiCA, Elminage Gothic, Wizardry, Dragon Quest Builders, Eye of the Beholder, Septerra Core, and Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter—have current Steam listings.

PC — Non-Steam or special setup

• Final Fantasy XI — Horizon private server; otherwise skip unless interested in experiencing it as an MMO
• Higurashi: When They Cry — old fan-translated PC versions recommended

Super Nintendo / Super Famicom — Emulated

• Chrono Trigger — ROM hacks suggested
• Final Fantasy VI — original version, preferably with a CRT shader
• Secret of Evermore
• Secret of Mana — ROM hacks suggested

PlayStation — Emulated

• Final Fantasy VII — original version, preferably with a CRT shader
• Final Fantasy VIII — original version, preferably with a CRT shader
• Suikoden
• Suikoden II — avoid the Steam remaster

PlayStation 2 — Emulated

• Final Fantasy X — original version; avoid the remaster
• Final Fantasy XII — original version, preferably heavily modded; conflicts with a separate Steam recommendation
• Persona 3 FES — preferred over the remake
• Persona 4 — PCSX2 recommended by one poster; conflicts with another poster’s recommendation of Persona 4 Golden

PlayStation 3

• Demon’s Souls — original PS3 release

GameCube — Emulated

• killer7 — offered as an equal alternative to the Steam version

Wii — Emulated

• Xenoblade Chronicles — original aesthetics recommended

Nintendo 3DS

• Xenoblade Chronicles — offered alongside the Wii version

Wii U — Emulated with Cemu

• Bayonetta 2

Nintendo Switch

• Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Nintendo DS

• Pokémon Black and White

Sega Saturn — Original or emulated

• Sakura Wars
• Sakura Wars 2

Browser / Mobile

• Granblue Fantasy

Various original Nintendo platforms

• Classic The Legend of Zelda games

Series-level fallback

• Persona series — use the specific recommendations above for Persona 3 and Persona 4; for unspecified entries, use Steam when available and the original platform otherwise

[Val the Moofia Boss]

GBF recently got a Steam port, but for now it locks you out of also using the web browser version which you can access on both PC and on your phone.

Would also reiterate that FF14 is first and foremost a JRPG, and a MMO second. You don't do much MMOing until you get caught up on the 500+ hour long story. It is a mostly singleplayer experience until then.

[aweigh]

you should always play whatever makes libs seethe the most. if libs like it then don't play it. if they hate it then play it.

[Roguey]

question for the weebs:
I feel like older japanese games(before ~2010) don't have most of the actual developers listed in the credits, is this right? If so, why?

Some companies like Sega either didn't permit devs to be be listed at all or forced them to use pseudonyms to prevent poaching

Getting to the end of Sonic the Hedgehog as a child and thinking "What is with these names?"

Sonic the Hedgehog - Credits

I see Moby has corrected the record.

[chud_irenicus]

Had the robot sort the Steam options by price lowest-to-highest. I am by the way also a Steam Deck enjoyer so pumped to see a lot of these games are Deck friendly. I realize Deck is great for Emulation too but for games that are touch screen friendly (i.e. turn-based games) I prefer phone emulation since that's always in my pocket.

Going through it right now.

Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen looks cool, cheap. Sold.
FF9/FF13 in the cart, they're basically free, so.
Valkyria Chronicles 1&4 also look really cool, very novel and interesting looking gameplay.
Battle Chasers: Nightwar looks really neat, gorgeous art, also near-free. Carted.
Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch Remastered also looks gorgeous, very cheap, sold.
Yakuza: LAD looks cool, robot claims it's a good entry point to the series, very cheap, carted.

After this prices start passing $10 so gonna examine each title more closely, more thoughts to come.

EDIT: Ah nice wife owns some of these already in our shared steam family library, like FF12 and 15.

EDIT: Okay set up my phone with FF6 (FF3 in NA apparently), Chronotrigger, Secret of Evermore, Secret of Mana. I'm pretty sure I actually played Secret of Mana as a child. Also set up Duckstation with FF7&8 and Suikoden 1&2.

My cup runneth over!

[aweigh]

Had the robot sort the Steam options by price lowest-to-highest. I am by the way also a Steam Deck enjoyer so pumped to see a lot of these games are Deck friendly. I realize Deck is great for Emulation too but for games that are touch screen friendly (i.e. turn-based games) I prefer phone emulation since that's always in my pocket.

Going through it right now.

Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen looks cool, cheap. Sold.
FF9/FF13 in the cart, they're basically free, so.
Valkyria Chronicles 1&4 also look really cool, very novel and interesting looking gameplay.
Battle Chasers: Nightwar looks really neat, gorgeous art, also near-free. Carted.
Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch Remastered also looks gorgeous, very cheap, sold.
Yakuza: LAD looks cool, robot claims it's a good entry point to the series, very cheap, carted.

After this prices start passing $10 so gonna examine each title more closely, more thoughts to come.

EDIT: Ah nice wife owns some of these already in our shared steam family library, like FF12 and 15.

EDIT: Okay set up my phone with FF6 (FF3 in NA apparently), Chronotrigger, Secret of Evermore, Secret of Mana. I'm pretty sure I actually played Secret of Mana as a child. Also set up Duckstation with FF7&8 and Suikoden 1&2.

My cup runneth over!

Yakuza: LAD is also what hooked me with the series. After I finished Yakuza 7, i went and finished 0-6.

Robot is right. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, it's a perfectly fine entry point. I had briefly played 0 but it didn't hook me, i dropped it around chapter 2, then i tried Y:LAD because it was a new protag and it turned out to be one of the best games i've ever played, and made me go give 0 another try and then i just played every single entry.

The Judgment 1 and 2 games are great too, although 1 is better than 2.

[orinEsque]

Try Nippon Sangoku

2 seconds in: refugees

10 minutes in
dumb female **** lecturing you on gender studies and "kicking ***" of evil men
Male lead depicted as cowardly and inactive

Funded by amazon.

[rusty_shackleford]

almost every jap game ends up being about nihilism, reincarnation really did a lot of damage to eastern storytelling

[Vlajdimir Ermenović]

Weebs are the people who have brought gayness in anime. Anime should have remained Japan exclusive not sold worldwide. Soon all animes(and most likely japanese games) will have ****** characters or some kind of disabled ******

So you admit that trannime is gay, huh? The cracks in your internal "faultless superior jap" narrative are starting to show? Looks like you may turn out sane after all.

[mynameismortis]

So you admit that trannime is gay

Most of it sure, few pre-2000s are alright

The cracks in your internal "faultless superior jap" narrative are starting to show?

Superior in marketing sure, in everything else? It's up debate where on having big suicidal rates, low fertility rates, shrinking rural population with literal ghostowns is any way superior to the western suicidal policies. To be honest they could fix up their problems far easier than us, but not gonna see it happen when you have literal skeletons as rulers

[Trickster]

People have thrown up some great recommendations already. I'd add the following:

Valkyria Chronicles and Valkyria Chronicles 4. Both on steam. Turn based with some actually emotional story beats.

The Persona series is great. My kind of hot take though is that you should emulate Persona 4 on PCSX2 instead of playing Golden as the remake kind of butchered the atmosphere as it was made originally on vita and downgraded the environments. Persona 3 FES should be emulated for sure though as the remake for it is pozzed and far too easy. Also think they messed it's atmosphere up as well.

RESONANCE OF FATE is a unique game. Very unconventional combat and gameplay. I'd recommend checking out some gameplay on YouTube as it's hard to describe.

Trials of Mana was a remake done decent for the most part. Overall the game's a bit easy but it's comfy.

I don't know if you've played Okami as I guess you could call it anime. If you haven't you should. One of the greatest zeldalikes ever.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 1 and 2 are kind of like if minecraft had a story. Fun and charming.

killer7. A surreal FPS game from the gamecube. You could emulate or buy it on steam.

No More Heroes series. Made by the same guys as Killer7 it's a hack and slash that makes fun of otaku culture.

Bullet Witch. Kind of like discount Bayonetta. It's cheap and kind of interesting. Was an xbox 360 launch title back in the day and got ported to PC.

Oh yeah and when you finish up Bayonetta 1 you should emulate the second on Cemu. It runs pretty much flawlessly and is a great game imo.

That is a hot take regarding Persona 4. Golden adds so much new great content, it easily surpasses the original. Visuals aren't everything, bro.

To be fair it isn't just the visuals. With Golden they made the game easier and I prefer the OG voice for Chie. Also the new content feels like filler I could just watch on youtube if I cared that much. It is of course all up to personal taste but the visuals in Golden imo are pretty bad...

****** from banana making a mod that brings back the PS2 visuals. Maybe after that, the Steam version will finally become playable.

https://gamebanana.com/wips/86080

[The_Mask]

I dumped this entire thread into da robot and had it organize all the recommendations by platform.

Your robot missed Recettear. And it's a very good game.

[aweigh]

Japs are a perfect slave-race. They're pig-ignorant and only worship money and have no problems censoring their art to placate the West, all so they can sell a few units more. They care nothing about ideals or values, their only worldview is avoiding "conflict" which is why they kowtow to every DEI demand and always will. It's also why they lost to KPOP as well. DEI department will say jump and every single jap artist will ask 'how high, please do not cut off my income'. They are worse than ****, at least **** care about something.