WD isn't a shit-tier Engrish translation. It's basically a wokalizer translation except they can make rape jokes and call people retards. Not really woke but the same amount of disrespect to the source material as a modern wokalizer translation.
I would just like to be able to play the games on something with a bigger screen than my Miyoo Mini Plus.
It also sucks too because there are effectively no other ways to play these games in the japanese dub because nobody decided to make an undub patch until very recently. I also think they should've brought over the Sega CD version but maybe that'd confuse too many retards.
The dev is French right? So it's either going to be turbo-kino or the worst, most pretentious slop imaginable. I feel like there's no in-between with the French.
I played the first two on the DS and that fuckin' IOSYS FOE song was on my iPod all through high school and early college.
4 was the game with most hours played on my 3ds. Loved that shit so much I went and played every other game in the series. Very sad that we'll never ever get a new one, and if we do it won't be the same without that kino bottom screen touch controls.
I know they did remakes for the 3DS and there are also the PC ports, which version would you recommend to a newcomer?
The PC ports are nigh-exact remakes of the original DS games, including translations and exploits from the DS era. Mainly the PC ports offer the unpixellated high-res sprites for NPCs, players and enemies, you have a new sprite for each class, and you have a few of the QoL settings later Etrian games would introduce.
Is the restored conted good? I played it on the original xbox and loved it but the cut locations look ugly as hell.
Yeah. It adds new items, QOL changes, and makes the main story more cohesive with more side quests to do. The cut locations are entirely optional and you can play the entire game without going to them. Though the HK-50 factory was worth playing through at least once.
JRPGs are a huge genre where two games can be almost nothing alike. What kind of features do you think you're looking for that FF and SMT/Persona do so well? What do you think made you fall off of other games? And how broad are we casting a net for recommendations - turn-based only? Or are strategy or action RPGs fine too?
KOTOR 2 with restored content is great and makes the whole last third of game more cohesive, but make sure not to include the restored droid planet add-on. I played it through once and it was boring as fuck. The modders had basically nothing to work with in "restoring" it outside generally knowing it was a scrapped planet so they had to come up with everything themselves, and while they might be good modders, game designers they are not. The whole thing is literally just running back-and-forth doing errands for a bunch of robots on a metal grey planet.
I fucking love the Trails series, namely Trails in the Sky 1-3 and Trails to Zero/Trails to Azure. Really quality sRPG with a lot of heart, the graphics are from the PSP era but I think its really charming. The setting is worldbuilding porn, the lore is so established and it feels so lived in; one of the main features of the game is that after every main story beat, the dialogue of every NPC in the game gets updated, which really makes the game feel lived in (and checking up on NPCs after these updates is important if you want the ultimate weapons.)
Sorry not everyone is interested in slogging through a hacked version of D&D 3e passed off as 'gameplay'
Not everyone wants to relive high school for 100 hours with copy-paste anime tropes, no choices, no gameplay, and nothing but back to back autoplay exposition dumps pretending to be "gameplay".
I love kotor 2 too, probably my favorite writing and dialogue in a video game in fact, but going into a JRPG thread just to use it to shit on JRPGs as a genre (for things kotor 2 is also guilty of, lmao) is pretty faggy and disingenuous to both.
Early Etrian Odyssey difficulty is way overblown imo, like a relic from an era of JRPG discourse where SMT Nocturne was the hardest shit ever. Yeah the postgames are hard but Atlus postgame bosses are always some stupid trial and error game of No You Can't Do That.
What are the pre 2000 JRPGs that stand up to KOTOR 2? I quite enjoy older JRPGs compared to newer ones and would love to get some recommendations.
Did Cold Steel IV filter you? The plot was so retarded in that one that I still haven't played Reverie and the Daybreak games.
Correct, I love the Sky games and FC is my favorite in the entire series. SC is good but I feel like there's a lot of padding, it would've turned out way better as short 20 hour expansion or as a very long epilogue to FC. The remakes seem like a missed opportunity to me, making FC and SC a single game would've been great.
