Is this good for someone new to the genre?

[Andrew R]

Or maybe someone just wanting medium difficulty?

[LoafEye]

The difficulty of battles can kind of spike in some places, but otherwise it’s pretty accessible! It’s a successor of an older JRPG series, but you don’t need to have played them to pick this up.

If you have GamePass, it’s up on there and you can give it a try before committing to a purchase.

[Zephyr Workshop]

As in, new to JRPGs in general? There are probably better games overall. Octopath Traveler 2 is a very good "standard JRPG", it was my goty last year. Unicorn Overlord is also recent and incredibly good - it's similar to this game narrative-wise, and you also collect a lot of units there, but the combat is more of a tactics game. Also 10/10.

this game is pretty good though. However, they are still patching out minor bugs and hopefully improving QoL and stuff over time.

In general though, jrpgs aren't especially known for their difficulty

[Colonel Cornpop]

I'm someone who really can't stand most JRPG's. I think the only ones I played majorly was Octopath Traveler 2 (as someone mentioned above, great game) and Final Fantasy 10 and 7.

As of right now the game is pretty darn good. I'm only a few hours in and it seems to be keeping my attention. The dialog is cheezy in certain parts, though it does not ruin the game or anything. I think it's a perfectly good JRPG to get into if you aren't too familiar with the genre and want something fun and entertaining. Playing on normal difficulty and it's been pretty smooth thus far.

[iameatingjam]

It could be. There's not anything you really need to know from the other Suikoden games. Its not necessarily the most beginner friendly JRPG but its not super difficult either. Depends what you end up jelling with.

If you want something super beginner friendly and don't mind more action based combat, there's Tales. They're all very approachable, if you can stand some tropes and what not. Berseria is the best story, Arise has very fun combat in my opinion.

If you want turn based combat there's Dragon Quest 11 thats a good jumping in place. Only thing I don't like about that game is that there's a silent protagonist ( thats just a me thing) otherwise its pretty great.

But if you specifically want something more in that 2D/3D kind of format, there's Octopath Traveler of course but I don't really like the way narrative works in that one, its all broken up by character and there's not much interaction between them. If you're just in it for gameplay this wont matter.

But I preferred Triangle Strategy which is in the same engine but is instead a Strategy JRPG with imo a more cohesive story. Its a good one.

And then of course there's this game, which is like Suikoden so more classic turn based. The premise is that you're in a war/rebellion and you need to build up an army. There's some minor strategy areas where you control entire armies but its a small part of the game and very simple. Most of the time you doing Jrpg things with a party of 6.

Just came out so a few rough edges but I really like it.

So yeah, take your pick and see what you like.

[Chief Spreading Bull]

Originally posted by Andrew R:

Or maybe someone just wanting medium difficulty?

Good a place as any to start. Its not too hard, not too easy, but quite different from everything around it that it does not feel bland at all despite its 90s roots.

[chiyen]

Originally posted by Andrew R:

Or maybe someone just wanting medium difficulty?

It's above average JRPG.

Just leave settings as Default is fine.

Some of the world settings are different to other JRPG (just as all RPG may have some differences in world setting), you should and will learn that when playing the game.