weirdly overhated jrpgs
I've seen all of these get hate from either a vocal minority or majority their respective series' fanbases. And tbh none of them really deserve it? Ranked personally by how much I like them (spoiler: I like all of these games, and most of them I actually like a LOT). Notes will include how widely hated I've observed them to be. Obvious personal bias, some hated games are not on here bc I feel the hate is justified lol
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"I thought people loved that game!?"
They do! And rightfully so, but I've definitely seen a fair share of disdain towards it, particularly towards its alignment reps. white ending is secretly one of the most interesting endings in a video game bc of how much interpretations of it vary. tokyo feels like a lived in place and claiming that it just steals ideas from smt1 and 2 is a null point bc lord forbid a game in the same franchise reuses and combines ideas from earlier games and puts its own spin on things.
They do! And rightfully so, but I've definitely seen a fair share of disdain towards it, particularly towards its alignment reps. white ending is secretly one of the most interesting endings in a video game bc of how much interpretations of it vary. tokyo feels like a lived in place and claiming that it just steals ideas from smt1 and 2 is a null point bc lord forbid a game in the same franchise reuses and combines ideas from earlier games and puts its own spin on things.
applies to dsfe as a whole but definitely mostly towards shadow dragon, overwhelmingly so.
still less of a slog to play than 3h
carries the stigma of being the game that started the "waifu emblem" trend or having "the worst maps in the series" and "bad writing" but i think it's ultimately fine. lucina definitely hard carries and i think the narrative has good ideas and themes but they're just poorly paced
Only hate it gets are seemingly from diehard gen 1 fans and from people who are allergic to..checks notes trainer teams being 10 levels lower than your team for...checks notes again wow a whole HOUR of a 20 hour game??? the horror! and you mean to tell me levels shoot up to somewhere more respectable as soon as you reach blackthorne city???? gasp!
idk it's fine. zephiel is a cool antagonist. remake that fleshes out its characters could go a really long way
yeah it's slow and the dex sucks but it's ultimately inoffensive i'd rather play it over gen 1, swsh or bdsp
it's...fine. kind of a nothingburger game but genuinely it is so, so, so, SO much more bareable than the two games that came before it. phantasy star 4 still wipes the floor with it though
cheating because I haven't played it yet. though it's a game in a franchise I love that is looked down upon for being very different (this isn't a modern departure so it's probably still a really good game actually)
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DQ7 is a good candidate imo,it's lengthy yeah,but it's very suitable to play in short bursts
get smt iv outta here
Get smtif... outta here
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