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Haha, thanks! A memorable character, that's for sure!

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Hey Pludel,

Have you read The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb? I am reading it right now. On book 1, it's pretty good. I won't say it is as good as WoT but I am only 50% into book 1 so I will have to see how it goes.

Yeah, it does sound like one of those games, especially being so different to other games in the series, I can totally understand bouncing off of it because of your expectations.
It's been my favourite game of all time for like the last fifteen years, I like it a lot^^ I highly recommend it if you are able to play the original version on a DS - it takes full advantage of the hardware and as such it doesn't port or emulate super well unfortunately.

White Knight Chronicles seems to be like FF 12, so that's exciting. Another one, probably 6, 7, 12, 9 in order of excited anticipation now. 10 hasn't set in as exciting yet, but once I come around to it, I'll probably get that new game excitement.

I'd recommend Chrono Trigger to a lot of people. It's not a masterpiece in my opinion, but it does have that mainstream masterpiece pacing, where plot-points are seemingly methodically placed. Some solid music as well. Suikoden 1 is a wholly different aesthetic. It feels like a political adventure, but not in the heavy politics way, but that you're getting a bunch of people together, some of whom you don't know that well, for a common goal. It's like the difference between writing fiction about groups, or people first. It feels like the group is the focus.

What kinda games did you rent?

No rush.
I mean why else would Axel be on this site? They're pretty good, especially the 358/2 Days manga, but they do definitely cut a lot as well. Ah yeah Chain of Memories is like card battles right? Or at least it has cards involved somehow I think, I remember hearing it's pretty good but also being so different I can imagine it's hard to get used to so I can totally understand. Yeah I was going to go for the DS version, not really interested at all in all the summary versions in the collections, and certainly not for 358/2 Days since I liked the manga a tonne and I heard the game has reports to collect for extra lore or whatever much like The World Ends With You, so I'd definitely want to do that.

That's more than understandable, maybe let me know what you think if you get around to it.
It's fine don't worry, I'm kind of too tired to get a lot done as well myself.
Alright so, this is probably going to be the weirdest thing you've heard in a while, but I've admittedly only read the manga versions - I've never actually played the games. Doing that did get me interested in trying the games though, I definitely plan to play at least the first, Chain of Memories, II, and 358/2 Days.

Oh, the point in one's life. Good point. I'm currently playing FF 1 PR, and most anticipated are 6, 7, and 9, in that order. Eventually, I'll reach your favourite to see what the hype's all about (because every FF has hype, apparently, lol).

I've since realized Hourai High isn't a favourite of mine, with it just having a memorable, and likeable aesthetic. And I'll list the 9s, and 8s I've played, because there's not too many. (I'm glad I've been getting into JRPGs for a few years now, though.) 9s: Ys 1 + 2 together, Pokemon Emerald + FireRed. 8s: Chrono Trigger, Terranigma, Suikoden 1, Nier Automata, .hack Infection, White Knight Chronicles. Maybe because I binged IMOQ, I thought MOQ were 7s, but still one of my favourite aesthetics. Also, I did LPs of Terranigma, and Illusion of Gaia, so that was good memories. My favourite games are more a mashup of WRPGs, eurojank, im-sims, doom-likes, survival horror, and platformers. Didn't even realize how diverse they were until looking, but out of my top 15, or so, there's at least 2 in each of those genres.

I like making platformers, because they're turn-your-brain-off game dev usually. Kinda reminds me of webdev in simplicity, but one notch up, probably.

It's super well liked in general, so I'm sure you could find any number of songs of praise for it if that wasn't enough. Definitely a super good game; worth it for singleplayer, and there's a tonne to do in it. And in case you do get around to it, Dissidia 012 to my understanding makes the original obsolete.
More to do yourself eh?

Yeah, I get that. Even a little edginess can make something stand out from the others in a series, or rather, Persona 1, and 2 seem edgy as well, so it's probably a trend towards stereotypical anime tone. Persona 5 might be the best for many, because it's either the first, or only one they've played, or they like the cheery tone more. Atmosphere plays a large part in what people call taste, in my experience, and tone is a large part of atmosphere. And what would you say are your favourite JRPGs? Is Persona 3 one of them?

If you're interested, I'm working on my fourth platformer, and it's almost half-way done. I might get my comedy isekai JRPG to a short few hours after that.

Dissidia is amazing, super fun and it's a huge game on top of that. I beat it, as in rolled credits, but I'm pretty sure there's still just about as much to it that I didn't play, and I think even a couple characters that I never unlocked. It's a full on JRPG, it's by no means a simple arena fighter; tonnes of moves, equipment, maps, it's got a full on story to everything, neat remixes and some really good original tracks, and so many mechanics to the actual fighting - I don't know how much you know about it or not, so I won't go into it too much unless you want to hear more, but I absolutely cannot recommend it enough. I've got a DS yeah, so I'll try and get myself a copy a some point.
At the same time though, I feel like I actually play through longer games faster because I don't have to worry about running out of game, that probably doesn't help much with the hundred and fifty hour long ones though - those are still impossible.

What's your favourite parts about Persona 3? And I've read hardcore fans saying it's best, would you say that's true, or nah? It'll take so long to get there from the beginning of (S)MT, so I wouldn't mind a few spoilers.

It's preference over quality. Do you have any 9/10 favourites? If you do, it's that taken further, it's a low-end favourite 6/10. Mostly because of genre, and aesthetic: NES-style SNES JRPG mostly set in highschool + quirked up = pleasing to moi.

Definitely agreed that it's Watanabe's best work at least in my opinion.
I love Samurai Champloo as well, but Cowboy Bebop just hits different mannnn!
Do you got a favorite episode?

OH! I have heard of Wolf's Rain, but have obviously not watched it.
Thanks for the recommendation! Appreciate it! :)
WHAT?!?!?! YOKO KANNO scored the soundtrack?!?!
YEAH. DEFINITELY ADDING IT NOW FOR SURE. XD

Sometimes the older animation style just hits different. ^^

I love old school sht man. XD
I'm even watching the OG of og of Gundam show. The 1979 one! lol
Trying to be more cultured in that series.
And no. I'm not going to watch every single gundam series. That's too much. DX Haha!

Oh. Interesting. Just saw your actual anime list just now.
You must've had quite an old original MAL user account, eh? Your old pludel account.
That anime list design is pretty old school now. :P

I've played X-2, XII, XIII, Dissidia 012, and Theatrhythm Curtain Call - so really not many. I've got the other XIII games sitting around to play as well but I also super want to play the DS versions of III and IV. I'm not super keen on the Pixel Remaster visuals myself, but that sounds like a pretty solid idea to me. And I feel you on that backlog issue, it's especially bad when it comes to JRPGs.