Did you ever play Final Fantasy VI? That is another game that treads this line. Even after you beat the game, the world has been completely trashed and families torn apart. A huge portion of the population are dead and the environment has been wrecked. But you killed the big bad guy at least! ... yay.
I have not played a single Final Fantasy game. It's just one of those major series I somehow missed.
If you like older JRPGs you can't go wrong with old Final Fantasy. IV and VI are good litmus tests to see if you enjoy the series as it largely remains unchanged up through Final Fantasy IX. After that is becomes much more heavy into TEENAGE MELODRAMA. And Dragon Quest if you missed those. Dragon Quest V is one of the few JRPGs that gives Chrono Trigger a run for its money.
If you do, start with FFIX. It's probably the closest to being objectively "the best", but I prefer FFX because it has a great balance between classic & modern design.
Bro... just stop.
That's in a Japanese canonical light novel, I think. There's more to it but it's funnier if we leave it at that.
We can talk about Secret of Evermore anytime because that is a fantastic game that earnestly deserves its place among the greatest of RPGs, and it got a raw deal from retards thinking it was the replacement for Trials of Mana.
I actually beat that game, too. Fuck that desert/wasteland section with the impossible to find shit. Really weird game and I am glad I played it.
It's very underrated. I liked it a lot, and actually beat it. I didn't even finish Secret of Mana.
I finished Secret of Mana but it crashed at the final cinematic.
It wasn't until a couple years ago that I got off my lazy butt and played an FF game from start to finish, with it being FFVII, what with the Remakes and all that. Let's just say I found myself one of my top favorite games by the end of it.
Master mode refreshes it enough for me, but I didnt play it for a year or two after my first playthrough.
I'm cautiously optimistic. I'm hoping all those empty building foundations we saw in the gameplay preview are some sort of village-building feature that lets us actually restore Hyrule so as to give the player more incentive to explore the map again.
