1UP: "You'd be forgiven for thinking Radiant Historia is some oblique descendent of Chrono Trigger. After all, it's a 16-bit style RPG about time travel. It has something of a steampunk aesthetic, with an opening town that looks an awful lot like Final Fantasy VI's Narshe, and an earthy color palette. It has a combo-driven, three-character combat system. Atlus even hired Square mainstay Yoko Shimomura (Parasite Eve, Kingdom Hearts) to compose the game's music, which sounds an awful lot like the more ominous portions of Chrono Cross' soundtrack (albeit with slightly less Celtic flavor)."
Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "The little handheld that could was a dream for role-playing game fans, with both major blockbusters and cult-classics making the DS a handheld you always wanted to have in your backpack. "
From Xfire: "The golden era of JRPGs has long since passed, with more traditional RPGs having planted themselves firmly under the spotlight for the better part of the past two decades. However, while there's not been as many JRPG games released in recent years, there's still enough of them being released that results in certain titles slipping under the proverbial radar."
Highly recommended if you like FF Tactics. I believe it was Colin Moriarty's (Last Stand Media) GOTY last year.
Most of these are the weak story jrpgs which is why its an easy pass for myself. I don't have love to turn based or tactics battles systems but I enjoy the other aspects of jrpgs. The most important aspect to me is the story. I have put up with playing horrible battle systems and mini games that should never exist to enjoy the lengthy and amazing stories these games have. For some reason around the PS3 days they seemed to think, who cares about story just worry about battle system and crafting. So if those are the things you're looking for then this list is for you.
I’ve been trying to get back into playing JRPGs lately. With the recent release of Persona 5 Strikers, I finally decided to start playing Royal. I don’t know if I can make the time for just any JRPG though, and Persona games are always an experience and a half.
We’re on our way through the third chapter when something pretty heavy happens.
