Best JRPG for 2021

[Vayne]

What's yours?

Mine is Tales of Arise...this game is just on another level

[FlashRAVE]

Nguyên văn bởi Vayne:

Nguyên văn bởi Shinno:

Shin Megami Tensei V anyone?

lol boring game

don't bother ask if you can't respect other opinion

[CoffeeKitty]

maybe im crazy but i really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ liked scarlet nexus.

[Odin Spark]

I am equally enjoying Tales, Monster Hunter Stories 2 and Bravely Default 2. Its been a good year for JRPG's.

[Musou]

Nguyên văn bởi Marosh:

Nguyên văn bởi Musou:

Technically one should play Trails in the Sky 1-3, Trails from Zero and Tales to Azure to fully understand Trails of Cold Steel, biggest problem is that they released Cold Steel in the west before Zero and Azure, which won't be released in english till next year (Zero) and 2023 (Azure).

For the real full story, definitly. But honestls, Trails in the Sky 1-3 and Trails of cold steel 1-4 work as standalone. The "mastermind" behind the scene is explained good enough. With all the games you have even more information and it makes it more "epic" for sure.

Btw. didn't know Zero and Azure come to the west. This is actually neat!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1668510/The_Legend_of_Heroes_Trails_from_Zero/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1668520/The_Legend_of_Heroes_Trails_to_Azure/

[CLG]

Mine is Scarlet Nexus or Ys IX. Tales of Arise really falls apart at the second half of the game. The entire games pacing is really off and the combat is pretty bad too. I'm still having fun but it's not my goty unfortunately.

Blue Reflection 2 may be my goty if gust delivers. The Asano ost will certainly do wonders for the game for me atleast.

[Marosh]

Nguyên văn bởi Musou:

Nguyên văn bởi Marosh:

For the real full story, definitly. But honestls, Trails in the Sky 1-3 and Trails of cold steel 1-4 work as standalone. The "mastermind" behind the scene is explained good enough. With all the games you have even more information and it makes it more "epic" for sure.

Btw. didn't know Zero and Azure come to the west. This is actually neat!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1668510/The_Legend_of_Heroes_Trails_from_Zero/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1668520/The_Legend_of_Heroes_Trails_to_Azure/

This is really nice. Thank you!

[Ogami]

Nguyên văn bởi Marosh:

This is really nice. Thank you!

BTW, the Japanese version of Reverie (Hajimari no Kiseki) is also already on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1562940/THE_LEGEND_OF_HEROES_HAJIMARI_NO_KISEKI/
Works fine with the English fantranslation overlay which was created for the PS4 version.
Finished the entire game like that.

If you dont want to wait 2 years for the official English release to play the story. ^^

PS: The reviews are mixed not because of the game itself but because there is a massive crash bug if you play with Korean text that has still not been fixed after 4 weeks and Korean fans are (rightfully) not happy about it.
I put 60 hours into the Japanese text/dub version with the fan translation and had no problems at all.

[Marosh]

Nguyên văn bởi Ogami:

Nguyên văn bởi Marosh:

This is really nice. Thank you!

BTW, the Japanese version of Reverie (Hajimari no Kiseki) is also already on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1562940/THE_LEGEND_OF_HEROES_HAJIMARI_NO_KISEKI/
Works fine with the English fantranslation overlay which was created for the PS4 version.
Finished the entire game like that.

If you dont want to wait 2 years for the official English release to play the story. ^^

PS: The reviews are mixed not because of the game itself but because there is a massive crash bug if you play with Korean text that has still not been fixed after 4 weeks and Korean fans are (rightfully) not happy about it.
I put 60 hours into the Japanese text/dub version with the fan translation and had no problems at all.

I saw that but I will wait. Hey, I've waited for all 4 Trails of Cold Steel games, so waiting again shouldn't be a problem. ;)

[Yhwach]

SMT V

[FireShark]

Nguyên văn bởi Yhwach:

SMT V

It will probably be better than Arise.

Arise is the best so far.

[Ogami]

Nguyên văn bởi Marosh:

I saw that but I will wait. Hey, I've waited for all 4 Trails of Cold Steel games, so waiting again shouldn't be a problem. ;)

Was no option for me, i just finished playing through all 4 CS games in a span of 6 weeks and then Hajimari came out.
I just wanted more so i bought it and used the fantranslation. xD
Will still buy it again when the English version comes out in 2023.

[zuppaclub]

Nguyên văn bởi artyomr0bot:

Nguyên văn bởi zuppaclub:

not many of people playing legend of heroes cold steel series on steam / PC , heck even the entire franchise , yes, sad

at least I think it's sold well on console ( the main market ) , maybe.

Don't look on Steam. Those games can be bought elsewhere DRM-free.

GOG? I said steam because it has chart on steamdb , I don't think other places sold more copies than on steam.

[Eisen]

For me it's either cold steel for the story or Arise for the gameplay that has the potential for best JRPG 2021

[Alberich]

Nguyên văn bởi Vayne:

It's funny...maybe on steam...the minority speak the loudest?

Tales of arise peak players ingame on steam is 60k

Ys9 only 1.3k
Cold steel 4 2.7k
Nier replicant 28k

So yea

why don't you buy cyberpunk 2077 then? since you think that massive amount of fans/shills with ♥♥♥♥ taste=quality product.

[Solaires]

Nguyên văn bởi CarlosNeri:

There are no more good RPGs; they are all mediocre.
The last good Tales Of were: TO Shymponia, TO Legendia and TO Abys; the rest are rubbish, all the same or similar to the previous ones and with a very short gameplay story.

That got me into the game 20 years ago. Certainly is not the last good tales game and highly behind the times now but was a great game when it released. Vesperia would be a more modern game that is decently like Symphonia but Symphonia wasn't very fluid either and everything was too simplistic. For the time it felt like an upgrade to what was generally popular for it's time which was usually mainly turned based RPGs.

Personally I like Graces f the most but it's starting to get a bit behind the times as well and it's combat is kind of between the more modern games and the early mechanics.