Craig Will at GoozerNation writes, "Time travel has always captured our imagination as a society. From classic movies (Back to the Future), books (The Time Machine and plenty of others) and television (Futurama or anything on the Sci-Fi channel). Video games have had a few series that have tried to put the time space continuum into our hands; Chrono Trigger instantly comes to mind as a game that did it right. The problem with time travel is that it's hard to do correctly or in a believable way; either there's going to be paradoxes or contrived plot points to overcome those paradoxes. Radiant Historia is an RPG that attempts to bring a brand new time traveling experience to the DS and although it is a sound entry from Atlus, it doesn't quite hit the mark."
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.
