Said it before i'll say it again, as one of those rabbid FFVII fanboys (well, maybe not, but I still consider FFVII the greatest JRPG ever made) I can quite happily say that Lost Odyssey is the best thing since FFVII, I cannot reccomend it enough. A few simple design errors keep it in my opinion, from even beating out FFVII as the best.
I'm about 11 hours into Star Ocean, i'm really enjoying it, but I swear to god, if another game developer EVER creates a character who speaks monotone and says " 'Kay " 2 out of 3 lines of dialogue (no exxageration at all, if anything 2/3 is an understatement) I will kill them with my bare hands. Other than that, it's fine and i'm really enjoying it, controls are a little stiff and some of the environments look a bit crappy, but hey since i'm only just starting and it's taken me as long as it takes to beat most other full price games, I can deal with that. Edit: Also, there's no way Lymle is 15 I don't care what the manual says, she looks like shes about 5 and acts like maybe shes 12 at most. What's the point?! I hate carting around super powerful characters who are 2 foot tall annoying brats, it's like just fuck off that trend should have died in the 90s.
The rest though, i've played most of them and they aren't worth shit. Enchanted arms is ok but lacking severely in many areas, the combats nice and unique though, only thing that kept me playing it. Also it's super cheap. Eternal Sonata was fine, but something about it just kept me away :\ cant put my finger on it. Infinite Undiscovery has apparently, the worst opening section of any videogame ever, it utterly kicked me in the teeth it was so bad, what's worse is the localization is some of the worst i've seen since the original Persona, or One Piece. Apparently it gets a lot better, but shit, I couldnt take another minute of it.
Then there is Last Remnant, I dunno, certain things about that game reminded me of Lost Odyssey in many ways, but I couldnt get on with the combat, or the characters, again, I got very very bored about 6 or 7 hours in and just gave up.
Phantasy Star Universe is aight, boring as hell but its relaxing.
That's about all i've played 360 wise, don't know about Tales of Vesperia never played it. All I know is the marketplace content for it offends me, paying to level up my character?!?! Fuck off. Sure it's nice that lazy people have the option, but, jeese what the hell. There's 5 packs called the same damned thing "Level up 10(1),(2) etc" and "Level Up 5(1), (2), (3) etc" as you can only buy each one once, it's ridiculous, you can also buy a bunch of items and new skills for your characters. I bummed the free ones before they went paid, and if I ever play it will probably use them, but shit anyone who's gotta pay to level their JRPG character is playing the wrong genre.
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