Digital Devil Saga and Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne were two of the most expensive games on the Playstation 2, both selling for more than $70 used. Atlus reprinted the two games in April and the prices plummeted more than 50%. Great news for RPG gamers, but bad news for video game collectors or people who bought the games in March.
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).
I own all 3 of those games with 2 copies of Koudelka on PS1 just in case one of the four discs crapped out on me . Same with Legend of Dragoon. That’s one thing I want Sony to get back into , JRPGs , action and turned based
Yep, they should have at least 1 Japanese studio with 2 teams in it specialize in JRPG.
The amount of time I bring up Covenant when referring to amazing RPGs is astounding.
I wish I had played the other Shadow Hearts games, didn't know there was so many until later in the PS3 generation, at that point they hard to get for a reasonable price. I only got to play Covenant sadly, hopefully they'll all get ported to modern systems at some point.
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
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just got nocturne. now i can enjoy it
WOW I never knew the whole price thing with Nocturne O.o (hugs his copy of Nocturne)
Still Nocturne is one of the best games by Atlus :D
But I can grab nocturne for $20 so I'm not worried about that.
And I'm happy I grabbed the digital devil saga games when they came out.
To anyone that hasn't played these games, if you like more mature orientated rpg games, then the Shin Megami games are for you
i'm playing persona 3 fes right now and hope i can land a copy of nocturne