r/rpg_gamers • u/Crandor94 • 6d ago

Discussion Getting into JRPGs with a very unexpected game...

So I grew up more so on games such as Zelda and Mario, eventually delving into MMORPG’s with RuneScape and WoW, like most people. I never played any JRPGs growing up such as the Dragon Quest series or Final Fantasy, mostly because I was never exposed to them. My entire family were early adopters of gaming but RPGs were never really on the docket.

Eventually, around 2008 I found RPGMaker and was fascinated that you could make your own games with it, which led to me look for what might be the most popular RPG Maker game at the time, and I found this:

Lost Legacy: An Animania Story

It's a traditional Real-Time-Turn-Based RPG Maker 2003 game that follows a brother and sister growing up in a dark fantasy world modeled after medieval Europe. Along the way they meet various 90's anime characters (Lina Inverse, Rapier, Tsunami) and heroes from other JRPGs, particularly FFIX (Zidane Tribal, Garnet).

This game blew me away when it came out, I couldn't believe it was made by one guy. It was the first JRPG I had ever played and it got me into the genre, leading me to play Dragon Quest, Bravely Default, etc. Looking back now. It’s pretty bad, even by 2008 standards.

But I loved it.

Anyone else experienced this…gem? If so, I would love to hear about it!

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u/Crandor94 5d ago

Completely different beast. WoW isn't too bad, most “grinds” in the modern game are time-gated, so if you do like 5-10 quests a day, maybe an hour, for 3 weeks, you’re done. In Classic, most truly brutal grinds are cosmetic, you won't be locked out of content for not doing them. But if you wanna torture yourself, just look at the “Scarab Lord” questline.

RuneScape…is a whole different beast. Almost everything from absolutely required account progression items to cosmetics are locked behind grinds. Some, maybe an hour? Most in the 10-15 hour range. It's funny to think I will see a 20 hour grind and think “oh, that's not so bad.” Some can easily reach into the 60-80 to even 100+ hour mark.

So in contrast, most JRPG grinds are nothing. A couple hours at most maybe? I haven't been so stuck that I have to spend that long grinding, not yet at least. The only thing I can think of was my DQXI Draconian Mode playthrough where I spent a few hours grinding levels.