Underrated RPG's

Baka-akaB - 242 days ago

Only part of it i heard , they scatterered in a few place . Which imo it only kept the ring , but none of the quality of shadow hearts .

I may seems harsh but yeah i didnt enjoy LO . I felt the story was awful and generic , hell generic is the only word that i seems to be able to associate with LO .
i'll get disagrees as usual , but the only exceptionnal thing about the game seems to have been the star cast of creators like Sakaguchi , and it's final fantasy level budget .

Anyway back to topic , i agree about Shadows hearts wholeheartly . It's easily one of the top 10 jrpg series . Even it's weakest link , the 3rd game was awesome , and only dissapointed because of two previous stellar opus .

I'd remove Dark alliance from the list and replace it with Planestscape Torment .

Then i would add Xenogears , wich got a cult status , but not nearly enough the sales it deserved .
And likewise it's parent serie Xenosaga . Xenosaga I was good though with many flaws ... the 2nd one wich many disliked improved on many things , but sadly made some step backward on others . And the 3rd one , a excellent fusion of both previous title , and removing their last flaws , was ignored because of negative opinions about the second game .

Anyway Xenosaga plays as a whole obviously , and a whole that meshes perfectly and make for an epic and great story with a good gameplay .

Finally i'd add Tactics Ogre in all its form and versions . It was overshadowed by the excellent yet much more simplified Final fantasy tactics and later even forgotten with Disgaea .

Then Front mission . After a pretty crappy 4th episode , Square didnt bother with translating the excellent Front mission V on ps2 . Thank gods it didnt stop fans from translating it .

And finally , despite the Persona craze nowadays ... Persona 2 . Only half of it was released in the us , the other only recently entirely translated again by fans . NOw that a psp remake of the first game is underway , let's stop they'll do us the favor of doing a PSP persona 2 remake (and with luck with both chapters on the same disk)

Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report

Wiimaniac - 241 days 23 hours ago

Who was the stupid who disagree with the guy?! ;-|
Terranigma's awesome and very underrated! Illusion of Gaia it's another very underrated but really great game.

Those 2 are good examples of how great Enix was before it got acquired by Square. Another games to add to the list of greatness are Star Ocean 1(Snes/PSP)-2(PSX/PSP), Valkyrie Profile(PSX) and E.V.O.(Snes)

BTW Everybody liked Mario RPG and the game wasn't developed by Nintendo... It was Square-Soft who made it.

Agree(2) | Disagree(0) | Report

Wiimaniac - 241 days 23 hours ago

I only have Grandia II and I love it! The third was a piece of crap though.

Agree(0) | Disagree(1) | Report

Argento-Nox - 241 days 17 hours ago

@ChampIDC

Bubbles for you, I happen to have grandia 1,2 and 3. I also have all 3 shadow hearts games. Both titles are very underrated, both have that semi-real time attack bar that I love, especially shadow hearts with their semi-real time combo bar.

Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report

Argento-Nox - 241 days 17 hours ago

The shadow hearts game shown from the article is the 3rd one, Shadow hearts: From the new world. I'd recommend finding the first 2 games before that because the continuing story from 1 and 2 is of epic proportions compared to the 3rd one, which is like a side story from the previous two.

Shadow hearts (1st game):
http://www.gamefaqs.com/con...

Shadow Hearts: Covenant (2nd game):
http://www.gamefaqs.com/con...

Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report

Marceles - 241 days 15 hours ago

yeah epic fail after that one, not only was it a classic game, other than Donkey Kong Country it had some of the best graphics I've ever seen on SNES

Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report