Eastern role-playing game

Like, I don't, I think that like, that's something over the past while, um, that I have kind of, uh, come to a conclusion on, um, cause there's a similar, uh, comparison to the film industry right now right like we're seeing films like original ideas um that either do really well or really bad and that kind of transitions to my third point is the onlineness of it all right where we have certain games um certain films that get popular Mainly because of how it took off online, right? Like, Expedition 33, you know, the most rewarded game of all time now.

And you know I'm a big JRPG guy, and I was super, like, I was annoyingly excited for that game when it came out.

it didn't fully hit for me.

Like, I think that there are certain aspects of that game that are really cool.

So talk to me about Final Fantasy Resonance.

Yeah, Final Fantasy Resonance.

I wanted to bring this one up to you because I know that you're not a big JRPG guy.

And I think that this is the one that you need to try out.

Aika immediately smells the bullshit festering inside of this entire scenario.

No one, either in real life or JRPGs, is this generous to random strangers.

Belenna, why are you going out of your way to give us a ride? You don't even know us.

Belenna defects to sharp accusations and malfeasance.

We do it, or, hmm, what should we do? And this is where I start to disagree with how the swashbuckling system is being implemented here.

Oh, okay.

Because, like, me, the omniscient player, I've played many JRPGs before.

I know we're about to get fucking played.

And there's some of that like very, very, I guess, like, bespoke nature in this remake series where, like, the characters are so unique, you know, and they have their own mechanics, not just their own moves or specials or whatever, but they're actually their own.

They play differently in a way that expands but also captures something really essential to those original, those old JRPGs where, like, You know, you have some like Final Fantasy VIII where the characters are all basically the same, you know, and VII is kind of like that too, actually, but...

The kind of platonic ideal is where each character brings something totally unique to the table.

And that is much more complicated today when games are so expensive to make and everything has to be rendered graphically at such fidelity.

Um,

JRPG story.

Like, you know?

Yeah.

we'll just go around i've got one other yeah

Yeah, so I've got two.

I moved straight on to the next RPG, which I'm going to play because the back end of this year is going to be JRPG stroke, well, RPG heavy for me, into playing Final Fantasy X-2.

And I have mentioned this to you guys sort of in the Slack channel.

Jared, what you been

playing, mate? For the last couple of weeks, I've been playing the next JRPG in the beloved Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy Resonance.

Hmm.

This is a harkening back to the pixel art sprite-based games of yesteryear in the series.

mesmerizing and it's got this vibrant gorgeous art style and the characters themselves it's peak final fantasy just everyone's charming everyone's lovable even the villains are just so well written that you can't you kind of sympathize with them a little bit

oh i mean we as gay people love the villains right yeah that's that's pretty normal they're the hottest let's be honest Is

it a grindy game? I know some JRPGs can be.

Because you got these visions, you have to level them all up alongside your characters and they're around 23 visions.

Now, this isn't just unique to Final Fantasy.

There are plenty of JRPGs, especially, where the lead main character, I'm like, oh, this design is not that cool.

They look a little bit too... weak or young or something about him i don't always love it just depends on the character you know depends on which on the

character

Of course, not getting as many as I did for my Kingdom Hearts streams, and why would I? You

have to understand how JRPG focused our audience is.

Oh, yes.

I'm aware of this now.

And I think the more you play video games, especially Japanese video games, I think you can see the influence.

You know, so many JRPGs are just a very, like you say, anime sort of storylines that are a bit weird and you've got to suspend your disbelief a bit.

And I wonder if because I haven't read many manga or watched many anime.

But if I did, would I appreciate Japanese games more because I can see the influence?