Push Square: "Today marks the launch of Dragon Quest VIII on the Nintendo 3DS - an enhanced port of the original PlayStation 2 masterpiece. We're obviously not here to talk about the handheld reimagining, but we do think that its release gives us a good excuse to look back on the PS2 title. A joint effort from Square Enix and developer Level-5 - of Ni no Kuni fame - Dragon Quest VIII: The Journey of the Cursed King is now over ten years old; it launched in Japan in 2004, North America in 2005, and Europe in 2006. And you know what? It's still one of the best Japanese role-playing games that we've ever played - and we've played a lot of them."
The list is as long as it would take you to grind through Dragon Quest VIII. Here are the best JRPGs on the PlayStation 2.
Good list, kudos for adding Shadow Hearts, Covenant is probably the best Jrpg most people have not played and what an improvement over the first one (plus ties with Koudelka which is an awesome game as well).
Take a look at the libraries of your favorite consoles. I guarantee you, other than a handful of fighting games better suited on the Dreamcast, PS2 still has the best, biggest, and most varied library. Literally something for everyone. JRPGs on PS1 and PS2 really were special.
Edit: the article basically just lists every single JRPG on PS2 lol
Dragon Quest XI was the first Dragon Quest ever released on a Microsoft console, and the next title to come to Game Pass should be Dragon Quest VIII.
Well it's already playable on a Xbox thanks to Retroarch. But being available through the Game Pass is more a matter of Square-Enix remaking it or at least remastering it for the current generation.
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The only thing I regret about this game is that it never had an HD treatment.
Loved this game, really excited for Dragon Quest XI!
This was my Summer in 2006. It didn't have 60hz support just like FFXII that came 9 months later but it at least had 16:9 widescreen support.
60hz support on older games is another reason why we PAL users go mental over remasters, we never even got to play the games in their original state most of the time like, again, FFXII.