5 Boring Easy To Forget JRPGs

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#1 - Blue Dragon
Of all the games on this list Blue Dragon may have the best resume on paper. Witten by the father of Final Fantasy Hironobu Sakaguchi, scored by Nobuo Uematsu and art directed by Dragonball creator Akriya Toriyama; . Released in 2007 for the Xbox 360 Blue Dragon tried to be a unique final fantasy esque turn based RPG that by all accounts should have worked. The main cast of characters come off as loud and way too childish despite the fact they are all supposed to be at least 16. The environments look very bland and washed out. Battles are a sloggy affair with a spark of something creative that is just never fully realized. I tried playing Blue Dragon myself and made it about 10 hours before I gave up. I found the cast too annoying, the battles too simplistic and the world uninteresting. I looked up some reviews from when Blue Dragon released and the consensus seems to be that the class system has a lot of promise and versatility but the story doesn't really get interesting till disc 3.

#2 Quest 64
If you're an RPG fan of a certain age you will understand the pain that I felt buying a Nintendo 64 and looking forward to all of the rpgs the system must contain especially after the golden era of rpgs on the Super Nintendo. Thanks to hardware limitations the cartridges didn't have enough memory to hold the games RPG developers wanted to make. Famously Square Enix put together a tech demo of what a 3D final fantasy could look like on the 64 and offered nintendo advice on how to improve the system. Nintendo told Square to fuck off so Square did just that right on over to the playstation along with every other major rpg developer. The 64 only got three real RPGs; Tactics Ogre 64, Mario and the Seven Stars and Quest 64. Quest 64 has one of the most tedious battle systems where everything is simultaneously baby easy but also requires an ungodly amount of grinding. As for the plot, I'm pretty sure the developers forgot to write one. They probably figured you'd be so busy trying to level up your stats you wouldn't notice. The extent of the plot is to get the jewel thingies and fight an evil dude who is evil.

#3 - Crystar
Crystar is a game with an interesting premise and an interesting twist. I wont say anymore because I know the game only recently came out on switch and many folks are just now considering picking it up. I'm not here to spoil the game. I especially am not here to spoil the one thing that makes Crystar interesting. Crystar has a very small cast of characters who are all out to do a thing but to achieve that thing you will need to fight through a myriad of bland labyrinthine levels that beyond each having a specific theme is just a series of floating platforms. The story as I said has an interesting premise but in order to experience it in full you will need to replay the game three, four or five times.

#4 - Final Fantasy 15
What FInal Fantasy 15 has on all of the other games on this list is that I remember the names of the main cast of characters at least. The boys are the best part of the game but they are only part of the game. 15 started life as a side game to Final Fantasy 13 before getting promoted to mainline entry status after years of development hell. 15 finally released in 2016. I played the game and I had absolutely no idea what the hell was going on. From start to finish Final Fantasy 15 felt like a game that was missing half the story which is not an exaggeration or a mischaracterization. To have any idea what's going on you'll need to first watch a movie, watch an anime, stop what you are doing mid game to go play some DLC chapters and for all I know read the novelization cause it still feels like a ton of shit happens off screen after doing all of that. So long as you do your homework Final Fantasy 15 is not a bad game but who wants to do homework. As a standalone game Final Fantasy 15 is an incomplete bland mess whose only redeeming quality is the friends we made along the way.

#5 - Fairy Fencer F
I'm sad to put Fairy Fencer F on this list because I've actually played it a couple of times and enjoyed myself doing so. I like the characters, I like the world, the premise of free either a benevolent goddess or world ending demon in order to collect buff granting spirits like pokemon is fun. The gimmick halfway through the game when everything goes to shit and you time travel back to when you first meet the party so you can stop everyone from dying leads to some cool moments and a lot of gags. All that said you may have noticed something. I haven't said the names of any of the characters once. I seriously can't remember any of their names.Not only that I don't remember the actual plot either. Fairy Fencer is one of those games I think can be enjoyed at the moment but has no real impact.

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