I'm right there with Brad. I love JRPGs from the 90s to mid '00s but can't get into any of them anymore. I can appreciate the Persona games but even those don't really do it for me. Every JRPG I try these days is either full of fetch quests in giant empty worlds (Xenoblade), low budget cliches (I Am Setsuna) or confined to a really small area and filled with grinding (Persona). Wouldn't say I think these games are bad and I even feel Persona 3 - 5 are great. But nothing pulls me in, in the way those old Square RPGs did and still do. Even playing Shining Force 1 and 2 for the first time a couple years ago pulled me in unlike any JRPG from recent years.
Brad is into it but trying to spin and this is a JRPG from the 90s to the mid 00s with late 10s tech.
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