Do you like the direction the series goes in? From ATB and power fantasy to the action combat and darker setting
Oh, that's actually hilarious! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HbIHVoTY2M I wonder if it's enough to be fit into TAS category.
I don't know much about achievements in FF X but I've heard of that that meme challenge to dodge 200 lightning bolts in a row. Have you done it already?
I returned to Atelier Escha & Logy recently and have been having fun from seeing all these bizarre and expensive-looking costumes on characters. As if the guys and gals just were going home from a cosplay event and then suddenly went into the nearest forest to loot everything they could find.
I wish the game was a little bit harder, though. Not as hard as Totori in terms of time limits, but in the combat sense. You just breeze through everything without the bombs or healing items.
JRPGs tend to be long enough, so every session is a time investment for a game which is enjoyable or at least has some potential. Or you're just persistent enough.
Anyway, do you have anything to say about your current game or the ones staying in your backlog? Something you like, having mixed feelings about, strongly criticize? Your current progress?
It doesn't have to be a JRPG or even of Japanese origin, just anything reasonably related.
Same with RIF, it's throwing error 429 now. Well, Reddit Was Fun while it lasted
Sale front pages and dates
Steam Summer sale June 29 - July 13 10 AM PST
GOG Star Festival Sale June 07 - 16 10 PM UTC.
Has a bit more limited selection of games, but counts as a sale of JRPGs (especially Falcom ones) and Japanese games in general.
Most links below are from Steam, the GOG links are added next to them.
Great indies!
- Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition (GOG) -70% $4.5
- Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling (GOG) -50% $10
- Chained Echoes (GOG) -20% $20
- Cosmic Star Heroine (GOG) -75% $3.74
- CrossCode (GOG) -70% $6
- CrossCode: A New Home DLC (GOG) -50% $4.5
- Eastward (GOG) -40% $15
- Epic Battle Fantasy 5 -20% $10
- LISA: The Painful -20% $16
- OMORI -25% $15
- Undertale -70% $3; (GOG) - no discount on GOG, unfortunately
- Wargroove -60% $8
KOEI TECMO
- Atelier Mysterious arc
- Atelier Sophie / Firis / Lydie & Suelle bundle -51% $58.47
- Atelier Sophie -35% $26
- Atelier Firis -35% $26
- Atelier Lydie & Suelle -35% $26
- Atelier Sophie 2 -40% $26
- Atelier Dusk arc
- Atelier Ayesha / Escha & Logy / Shallie bundle -51% $58.47
- Atelier Ayesha -35% $26
- Atelier Escha & Logy -35% $26
- Atelier Shallie -35% $26
- Atelier Arland arc
- Atelier Rorona / Totori / Meruru bundle -51% $58.47
- Atelier Rorona -35% $26
- Atelier Totori -35% $26
- Atelier Meruru -35% $26
- Atelier Lulua -50% $30
- Atelier Ryza arc
- Atelier Ryza -50% $30
- Atelier Ryza 2 -50% $30
- Atelier Ryza 3 -25% $45
- Blue Reflection series
- BLUE REFLECTION -60% $24
- BLUE REFLECTION: Second Light -50% $30
- FAIRY TAIL -40% $36
- Toukiden Kiwami -60% $24
SEGA incl. Atlus
- Yakuza / Like a Dragon series (GOG only discounts on 0-6!)
- Yakuza Complete Series (GOG) $35 - includes 0-6
- Yakuza 0 (GOG) -75% $5 - nice point to start the series with!
- Yakuza Kiwami (GOG) -75% $5
- Yakuza Kiwami 2 (GOG) -75% $5
- Yakuza 3 Remastered (GOG) -66% $7.5
- Yakuza 4 Remastered (GOG) -66% $7.5
- Yakuza 5 Remastered (GOG) -66% $7.5
- Yakuza 6 The Song of Life (GOG) -66% $7.5
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Steam) -75% $15 - nice point to start the series with!
- Like a Dragon: Ishin (Steam) -30% $42
- Judgment series (Bundle -46% $70)
- Judgment -40% $24
- Lost Judgment -40% $36
- Shenmue series
- Shenmue I-II -80% $6
- Shenmue III (GOG) -85% $4.5
- Persona series
- Persona 3 Portable -25% $15 (maybe wait for Persona 3 Remake?)
- Persona 4 Golden -25% $15
- Persona 5 Royal -40% $36
- Soul Hackers 2 -40% $36
- Catherine Classic -75% $5 (NB! Doesn't include content from Catherine Full Body, e.g. Qatherine)
- Valkyria Chronicles series
- Valkyria Chronicles -75% $5
- Valkyria Chronicles IV -80% $10
Nihon Falcom games (publ. by XSEED, Aksys, NIS America, Mastiff)
- Trails in the Sky
- Trails in the Sky First Chapter (GOG) -50% $10 - nice point to start the series with!
- Trails in the Sky Second Chapter (GOG) -35% $20
- Trails in the Sky 3rd (GOG) -25% $22.5
- Trails Crossbel duology
- Trails from Zero (GOG) -32% $20 - nice point to start Trails series with!
- Trails to Azure (GOG) -36% $10
- Trails of Cold Steel
- Trails of Cold Steel I (GOG) -50% @20 $ - nice point to start Trails series with!
- Trails of Cold Steel II (GOG) -50% $20
- Trails of Cold Steel III (GOG) -60% $24
- Trails of Cold Steel IV (GOG) -40% $36
- Ys series - start with either one, the order doesn't matter
- Ys I + II Chronicles (GOG) -70% $4.5
- Ys: The Oath in Felghana (GOG) -70% $4.5
- Ys Arc of Napishtim (GOG) -75% $5
- Ys Origin (GOG) -75% $5
- Ys SEVEN (GOG) -40% $15
- Ys: Memories of Celceta (GOG) -40% $15
- Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA (GOG) -55% $18
- Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (GOG) -30% $42
- Tokyo Xanadu eX+ (GOG) -80% $12
- Xanadu Next (GOG) -50% $7.5
- Zwei series
- Zwei: The Arges Adventure (GOG) -40% $9
- Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection (GOG) -50% $10
- Gurumin: The Monstrous Adventure -70% $3; (GOG) - no discount on GOG
Notes:
- Releases of Trails and Ys from NIS America and XSEED are usually DRM-free even on Steam, especially the older ones.
- For Trails series in Korean and Chinese, see Clouded Leopard Entertainment homepage, which also has discounts
- In August 2021, NIS America removed regional prices on GOG for many games, making prices in countries like Brasil, South Africa, and Russia match the prices in dollars. The regional prices on Steam are still there.
BANDAI NAMCO
- Tales of series
- Tales of Symphonia -75% $5
- Tales of Vesperia -80% $8
- Tales of Zestiria -90% $5
- Tales of Berseria -90% $5
- Tales of Arise -60% $24
- Sword Art Online series
- SAO: Fatal Bullet -80% $8
- SAO: Alisization Lycoris -80% $10
- SAO: Hollow Realization -85% $8
- SAO: Lost Song -85% $3
- FROM SOFTWARE (Dark Souls series, Elden Ring)
- Dark Souls Remastered -50% $20
- Dark Souls II -50% $20
- Dark Souls III -50% $30
- Elden Ring -30% $42
- Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot -75% $15
- Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time -65% $14
- God Eater 3 -85% $7.5
- Digimon World: Next Order -35% $32.5
- Scarlet Nexus -75% $12.5
- One Piece Odyssey: Deluxe Edition -35% $55 (For some reason, they made a discount on the Deluxe editon only. The normal one is still at $60)
CyberConnect2 (incl. .hack// games published by Bandai Namco)
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel -40% $24
- .hack//G.U. Last Recode -85% $7.5
Square Enix
- Final Fantasy series
- III 3D Remake, IV 3D Remake -50% $8
- VII -50% $8
- VII Remake Intergrade -43% $40
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion -30% $35
- VIII -50% $6
- VIII Remastered -50% $10
- IX -50% $10.5
- X + X-II Remaster -50% $12.5
- XII -50% $25
- XIII -50% $6.5
- XIII-II -50% $8
- XIII: Lightning Returns -50% $8
- XV -50% $17.5 (NB: has Denuvo)
- Type-0 HD -60% $10
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin -30% $28
- World of Final Fantasy -60% $10
- Chrono series
- Chrono Trigger -50% $7.5
- Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition -30% $14
- Mana series
- Secret of Mana -50% $20
- Trials of Mana -50% $25
- Legend of Mana -50% $15
- Star Ocean series
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope -60% $8.4
- Star Ocean: The Divine Force -40% $36
- Octopath Traveller series
- Octopath Traveller -50% $30
- Octopath Traveller II -25% $45
- Bravely Default II -50% $30
- Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of the Elusive Age -35% $26
- LIVE A LIVE -30% $35
Note: Too many games to list! Refer to their sale page for more
NIS America excl. Falcom games
- Disgaea series
- Disgaea PC -80% $4
- Disgaea 2 PC -80% $4
- Disgaea 4 Complete -60% $16
- Disgaea 5 Complete -75% $10
- Disgaea 6 Complete -20% $48
- The Caligula Effect series
- The Caligula Effect: Overdose (GOG) -70% $15
- The Caligula Effect 2 -50% $25
- Langrisser I+II -60% $20
- The Alliance Alive HD Remastered (GOG) -70% $12
Note: In August 2021, NIS America removed regional prices on GOG for many games, making prices in countries like Brasil, South Africa and Russia match the prices in dollars.
XSEED Games / Marvelous Europe excl. Falcom games
- Rune Factory series
- Rune Factory 4 Special -35% $20
- Rune Factory 5 -50% $25
- Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity -40% $9
- Trinity Trigger -20% $40; (GOG) - no discount on GOG
- Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin -40% $18
Compile Heart / Idea Factory
- Neptunia series
- Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 (GOG) -65% $5.24
- Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2: Sisters Generation (GOG) -65% $5.24
- Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3: V Generation (GOG) -65% $5.24
- Megadimension_Neptunia_VII R (GOG) -70% $7.5
- Super Neptunia RPG (GOG) -75% $7.5
- Neptunia Virtual Stars (GOG) -80% $8
- Cyberdimension_Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online -70% $7.5
- Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters -25% $37.5
- Fairy Fencer series
- Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force (GOG) -65% $5
- Fairy Fencer F Refrain Chord -30% $35
- Death End Re;Quest series
- Death End Re;Quest -75% $7.5; (GOG) - no discount on GOG
- Death End Re;Quest 2 (GOG) -70% $12 - there is a discount on GOG! o_o
Note: There are so many Neptunia games and spin-offs so you better look at the publisher's page. Some games contain nudity.
Spike Chunsoft
- Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness -60% $24
- Crystar -70% $18
UPD:
Thank you for contributing to what will become "best practices" for any new instance when the surge of new users from Reddit (as well as spambots) subsides and the situation becomes less chaotic. I hope other instances which blocked yours over the spambots reconsider their decision.
The competitive 100OJ scene is a strange thing given how random this game is and how much your results are dependent on dice rolls, warp panel destinations and other random effects. You get many hilarious situations like rolling four zeroes or getting seagull'd in your face, but if you play it for wins, this can be pretty frustrating.
On the other side, this game is pretty chill and fun, has large userbase and doesn't require much clicks or reaction! So it's perfect for relaxing with friends in a voice chat on a hard day's night.
Well, this answer is basically what I was looking for. So piracy is frowned upon in general public and shouldn't be discussed outside people "in the loop", but some mild elements like account sharing are acceptable. Thanks.
If you prefer some story-heavy games, you can try Eastward. It has gorgeous art style and controls and UI are a great fit for handheld devices such as Deck and Switch. It takes ~15% battery a hour and can be completed in 10 to 15 hours.
If you're fine with longer games which will take 45-70 hours total, try some 2D JRPGs like Trails in the Sky FC (which also has nice touch input in menus!), Trails from Zero and Chained Echoes. All tree aren't battery-heavy at all.
If I understand that correctly, Lemmy instances cache other instances' posts and whole communities in order for federation to work, so even federating with such servers is pretty risky as it may technically count as distribution of child porn