It's been more than a decade now, but I'm pretty sure my favorite JRPG protagonist is Lenneth Valkyrie of Valkyrie Profile.
Lenneth stands out to me not just as a strong leading lady, but as a professional. She spends much of the game recruiting the world's most fearsome warriors, and she's not afraid to condemn those she doesn't like to the Nordic version of hell. Not even a love interest -- the comparatively wimpy Lucian -- is enough to dull her edge.
The original PlayStation library has dozens of classics long since forgotten - TechStomper unearths five of these gems which have been lost to time for one reason or another.
Disruptor PS1, a pre Goldeneye console FPS from 1996 (with Command and Conquer type FMV cutscenes) and the first game by a pre Spyro Insomniac Studios directed by Mark Cerny. A good game for its time, and pre Bioshock use of telekinesis type powers. A game sadly almost completely lost to time
We need to bring back the golden era of ps1 & ps2 .
We need to see quality games developed with alot of passion to make gamers satisfied .
We need to benefit from new AI technology to bring something new to games something like " nemesis systems " that used in shadow of morder and upgrade it to next level
With so many games on the PS1, here's a list of underrated classics for you to try out! The games that you should play at least once!
I liked the style of the original Oddworld games, Alien Trilogy was a little underrated as well IMO.. Basically a lot like Doom but with aliens. There were a lot of great games on the PS1 though.
Here's my top ten hidden gems.
Silhouette Mirage, Threads of Fate, Koudelka, Misadventures of Tron Bonne, Tail Concerto, Blasto, Silent Bomber, T.R.A.G, Trap Gunner, and Tiny Tank.
All great hidden gems that I 100% recommend.
DuckStation emulator for PlayStation 1 can now employ rollback netcode, letting you play games like Tekken online with 6 frames of rollback.
The sad frustrating thing is that the current JRPG protagonist is a preadolescent fashion model who's on a Pokemon-type journey of self-discovery which happens to also involve saving the world.
Damn I was really hoping this column would end because its nothing more than one sensationalized and generalized piece of dribble than ever
"In the succeeding years since the original Valkyrie Profile, I've mostly been disappointed by the leading men and women of JRPGs."
And Ive been happy with them. disgaea has had my favorite casts ever
"From Final Fantasy XIII's Lightning to Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria's Alicia, relatively empty archetypes have become the order of the day. It's no wonder critics are so consistently down on the genre."
Ok so you list 2 characters out of a billion and then you generalize falsely...........
Most real rpg fans love japanese rpgs..........
"From what I've seen, the average JRPG hero tends to be a weird loner. "
you dont play them. Thats why, you pretend you do, but you generalize...................
is mario a loner? is any dq main character a longer?
A comment that I really liked
"I really don't think this article should be restricted to JRPG's but really should just include all games in general. "
"Personally, one of my favorite, more recent, JRPG protagonists is Yuri Lowell from Tales of Vesperia. "
"I actually like Lightning quite a bit. "
not sure why hes picking out jrpgs, character development is a difficult thing to do, especially with video games as the medium. not to mention that investing money into something like character development is a very risky move: its been shown that the majority of gamers only want to shoot things