Hello everyone! I really want to get into the jrpg genre but I have no idea which game would be good for a beginner. I have played persona 5 and I really enjoyed it. Any recommendations would be really appreciated!
Hello everyone! I really want to get into the jrpg genre but I have no idea which game would be good for a beginner. I have played persona 5 and I really enjoyed it. Any recommendations would be really appreciated!
I think we should stop saying “JRPG”, but if you must, another vote for Chrono Trigger, though it will spoil you on games of that type: no grinding, no random encounters, good balance of playable characters, unique combat mechanics that to this day haven’t really been explored (specifically, dual and tri-techs, special abilities that require certain combinations of party members and that utilize all of their abilities).
This is a near-perfect suggestion
What would be perfect?
I guess there probably isn’t a “perfect” first JRPG since people love particular things (A better first one for my preferences would have been something like Persona 4/5 just because of my story/style preferences), but I think generally Chrono Trigger is as close as you can get.
I will never recommend Persona games because Atlus is a bully and a jerk.
Fair point. I’d actually forgotten about this.
Any recommendations for similar social-simulation + role playing games?
Are we really just dropping the catagorization of a common genre?