What JRPG are you currently playing?

The battle system needed to be refined an awful lot and creating weapons while good is very complicated. There's other weird things as well wrong with the game. I still love it though and like everything Mitsuno the story is fantastic. It also has far and away Hitoshi Sakimoto's best soundtrack. I still think the game looks gorgeous, the art style translated very well to game graphics.

Myself, I'm still plugging away at Chrono Trigger and Phantasy Star 4. Phantasy Star 4 just keeps getting better and better. It's gotten quite emotional and very interesting. I read that Reiko Kodama took a lot from Final Fantasy IV and it shows, the game is brilliantly paced and doesn't have the high difficulty and maze like dungeon problems of PS2 and PS3 to a much lesser extent.

The last boss is a big difficulty spike. Do some side missions, they are short and will level you up fast. Found the game kind of poor and confusing myself.

Getting near the end of Chrono Trigger on the DS. I wanted to play it again because I remember very little of it. Turns out it was only because I thought it was much longer, it's only about 20-25 hours long. I didn't think that it would live to my memories but it more than has. It's still a gorgeous looking game, the soundtrack is one of the best from Uematsu and the story is surprisingly clever. Without a doubt the best RPG on the SNES that isn't called Earthbound.

So I started playing two PSP games because they are the only two I have left on my European account and want to switch over to my american account on my Vita. First is Riviera, a Sting RPG which means it's a bit weird and experimental. Riviera isn't too bad in this regard. Seems like a fun mix of visual novel and RPG with an interesting story even if the voice acting sucks.

Next is Final Fantasy 2. This is by far and away the worst mainline FF game and is barely playable on the NES. Not Legend of Dragoon bad but close. However Square managed the impossible and actually made this game work for the PSP release. In fact I'm enjoying it quite a bit other than some parts I had to look up a faq to progress the story because I over looked a small detail. Definitely worth picking up and playing. The levelling system is still messed up and nonsense but at least it doesn't require lots of grinding and you can't level down stats anymore.

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So yeah pretty happy with returning to the JRPGs. After that it'll probably be FFVIII (the one from the series I absolutely hated strangely enough)

If you want to enjoy that game you have to know how it works. If you are constantly using summons you will get bored and it's the wrong way to play it. If you draw enough magic and junction it to your stats you will become an absolute beast and will hardly ever use summon attacks. Also GF abilities can really increase your stats. Don't let the game automatically learn GF abilities for you. Concentrate on nothing but the stat% bonuses because after they are learned you get stat +1 abilities meaning every time you level up you get a permanent +1 to that stat.

FFVIII has an extremely broken battle system and breaking it wide open is the fun part.

Don't expect to get too involved in the story, it's absolutely terrible with some hilariously bad moments. The fun in the game is breaking it wide open.

I got past the first boss in Strange Journey. It wasn't the usual SMT baptism of fire thank god. I'm really enjoying the game it seems a lot more accessible than the Etrian Odyssey series.