/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4475535
Romancing SaGa 2 has a nice twist on JRPG leveling up in that you're leveling a pool of skills, proficiencies, and global hitpoints instead of a start-to-finish party.

Valkyrie Profile, Vagrant Story, Treasure Hunter G, Sansara Naga, Silva Saga 2, Lennus 2, FF2, Grandia Parallel Trippers, Chrono Cross

>>4475535
the music in this game is sick as hell

>>4475651
This. The music is incredibly haunting.

>tfw the composer got fired by Square and had to compose pachinko music instead

Any good RPG from even 4th gen.

Azure Dreams

>>4475839
Kewne looks like Sparkster. The same programmer worked on Rocket Knight Adventure.

>>4475535
Bahamut Lagoon
Dark Half
Legend of Dragoon
Chrono Cross

>>4475550
>>4475915
How is Chrono Cross that unique?

>>4475942
The battle system has a lot of unique points, like the battle field effect and no stat increasing or level-ups outside of things related to bosses. They aren't all well excecuted, but they're there.

>>4475942
Cross tried as much as possible to be not Trigger (or really, most normal JRPGs) in battle. About the only things the same between them are dual/triples and that you can do a version of magic.

>>4475839
Tell me about that game.

>>4475758
sounds like it would have been cause of personal problems

or yakuza debts

>>4476147
Rudra had little success so the composer wasn't used a lot for later projects, thus stopped working for Square, thus had to make a living desu

>>4476089
generic roguelike with pokemon shit and a dating sim, thats literally it, its not that unique except for the combination of many elements

>>4476225
The monster combining to mix traits and breeds is pretty fun

>>4475535
The Star Ocean series (esp. 1 and 2) are pretty neat for that stuff. Your "skills" pool is so big and so varied between characters that it really feels important choosing what to do with each one.

It ultimately isn't that important, but it sure does feel that way throughout play.

I'd also recommend Lunar 1 and 2. Something about those games just makes you want to curl up and enjoy.

Mystic Ark. It's a sequel to The 7th Saga with less brutal difficulty, and far more interaction and story. It's also one of those 'multiple short stories which eventually have reason' games. You are one of a bunch of characters kidnapped from their worlds and turned into a statuette by an unknown force. You break free and take the other statuettes with you, that can be used to summon other party members. It has 7th Saga's 'mirror' for avoiding encounters but you're still gonna have to fight a ton, the encounter rate is the only real downside.

>>4475535
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO_Gf2fWbUI

>>4476274
Honestly, if it wasn't for the scaling rival fights 7S wouldn't be that bad.

>>4476089
It's a Roguelike with a monster capture/fuse system.
There's a Ps1 version and a Gameboy Color version.
The Japanese version had voice acting.

The text in the English GBC version is more palatable than the Ps1, but you have to suffer the 2 lines of text and GBC graphics. Not that there's much of a story. The significance of "Azure Dreams" is kinda lost in translation. The Japanese title was "Other Life: Azure Dreams".

>>4476317
It's really more of a life sim. The translation kinda misses the point. It keeps saying, you are 15 and old enough to go into the tower. But it's more that 15 in this society is Adulthood, and you're going to make a living the only way you know how, by following in your father's footsteps as a Monster Tamer. Build a home. Get a wife. There's a deliberate scene in the beginning where the MC's father explains that "It's a man's duty is to take care of women."

The game has an entirely different context in Japanese from the cover art alone.

>>4475535
Spiritual Force S.F. is an unusual mechanic, you invest learn points (LP) to build a character's SF and increase his main attribute, but in this game it also empowers party members in the same row and column. It sort of works like an aura. This helps you make up the stat shortcomings of party members in the same row, like low speed.
SF is also needed to learn special skills, once those are learned the ability can still be used even when SF reqirements aren't met due to a change of formation, but the starting postition governs how much the abilities drain the technique resource called IP. Formations can be changed before and during a battle.
On top of all that only 3 out of 9 possible members can receive orders, and at least one of the front members must live or it means instant defeat. Due to all of that the battle system is fairly dynamic and unique, especially in boss battles.

>>4476298
Based Drakken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgNQYX2zH1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM0YhyGOLpQ

I only know that the game is full of memes, but don't know if it's any good. Kinda want to try it.

>>4475535
Niji no Silkroad is a RPG for NES where you get no money from battles. Instead all money is earned by buying and selling items. So it's basically a trade sim & JRPG hybrid.

>>4476713
>Niji no Silkroad
This is great and the first time i see it on /vr/. I always wondered if there was any trading rpg game. Is the game any good?

>>4476687
lol, is that a game-over compilation or gameplay?

>>4476845
Yes.

>>4476795
Suikoden 2 trading Subquest it's very similar.

>>4476795
Uncharted Waters and its sequels kind of count.

>>4475535
Check out the Atelier series, crafting is the core of the game and the majority of your strength.

Ogre Battle has the whole Chaos Frame in mind which determines if you can recruit special characters and which ending you get. You don't control units directly, and instead build squads of people of various classes to clash with bad guys.

You can recruit other humans, monsters, and even find special equipment for new attacks and classes. Has a pretty good story to boot and one of the few N64 games that goes heavy on the swearing.

Music is pretty decent too.

>>4476225

sounds like it aint too generic then

>>4475535
Metal Max. Open world JRPG about bounty hunting and customizing tanks.

>>4476225
>>4476317
>>4476320
Are the girls at least good?

>>4477178
idk, the only fun i had with the game was riding around the town on that little scooter, the actual dungeon crawling is abysmal

>>4475535
Megaten
Recruiting and fusing demons in a dungeon crawler is always good

Hybrid Heaven

>>4477620
yeah

>>4475535
Great game. Wish there was something modern with the crazy awesome spell system

>>4475535
Niji no Silkroad on NES is a trading sim / JPRG hybrid. You get no money from battles and can only earn money by buying shit and selling it for higher prices elsewhere.

>>4481156
Did everything well except:
>Low enemy variety
>Shitty and repetitive story.
Also, having to replay certain scenarios with a different party was not a good idea after all.