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So far, um... I'm playing a 90's fantasy anime and it's wholesome as shit.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (6 children)

One of the better JRPGs ever done.

Follow up Lunar 1+2 with Suikoden 1+2, then Golden Sun 1+2.

(Optional) Phantasy Star 1-4.

After that, you really don't need to play any other JRPG.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

And mother 3. Dear God, mother 3.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Username checks out

But really, how could you forget Lufia 1&2?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

As usual, Star Ocean: Second Story gets overlooked (they did do a great job with the remake though).

You're also leaving out the entire SMT/Persona series, but I guess it's not everyone's cup of tea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Persona is a sore subject for me because they ruined the original North American localization.

"So when you finish a random encounter, you can gain experience, or harvest souls!"

"Polling says Americans don't like random encounters."

"Oh, that's easy to fix, reduce random encounters 50%"

Which made it so you either couldn't get enough experience or harvest enough souls. :(

They also removed the Snow Queen quest for some reason:

https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Snow_Queen_Quest

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Breath of Fire 3 is also an excellent, timeless JRPG

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Lunar is up there with FF 4 and 6 and Chrono. Likely best 4 retro rpgs that exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Tales of phantasia is a must play as well.