Ranking JRPGs of 2023

all right what's going on everybody it's your boy Mr jrpg here and we're going to do a ranking of all the jrpgs that have come out in 2023 okay maybe not just the ranking of the jrpgs that I played or I've spent a lot of time in and I I'm going to rank them and see uh where they should be sorry if the jrpg that you're looking for is not here but I probably didn't spend too much time in it to judge it or I didn't uh actually play it at all so hey it is what it is I don't have time nowadays to play every last single jrpg that comes out in the year I didn't have time to do it 3 years ago makes you think I have time to do it now today no not anymore so all right here we go and uh we're going to start this off as you can see I got the list here uh so the first one is artia Riser 3 okay so Riser 3 is supposedly the last atier uh Rising game but uh you never know the with the series Breaking Milestones with this Ser with this particular entries or these entries rather uh they could easily be another arer game so hey who who knows what's going to happen uh I thought it was pretty good I I didn't think it was uh too bad I did enjoy the battle system the characters were pretty nice uh seeing characters from the first game up until this third game uh grow see everybody's friendship seeing people like Bose he's a guy that in the first game he was uh he was an [ __ ] but now he's a cool dude and he's actually a playable character was awesome uh the graphics and performance on PC at least was really good um overall I I have nothing but positive thing to say about the tyly Riser 3 there was nothing underlyingly B bad about it the only thing I can say that was uh that irked me a little bit is towards the towards the end it just became like a clip show not a clip show rather but rather just like cut scene after cut scene after cut scene doing very little things in between and it was just like like this is almost venturing to visual novel status where we just watching things happen uh that that's really it nothing else was just was bad about it the B the battle system was great uh characters was great and um KOB techmo I think gust please for the love of God can you please put an English dub back into these in these games I know you guys are a small company I know English dub cost a lot but I can't I I'm getting a little tired of Japanese only so uh I'm going to put AER riser in I'm going to put it in I'm I'm thinking about A and B I'mma put it in put it in a tier like the the the problems I had with it was nickpic all right so one piece Odyssey uh this was a surprisingly good game surprisingly good RPG usually these anime RPGs aren't that great fairy tale but this one actually was pretty competent the graphics were pretty amazing character M was is great too uh you know it's One Piece One Piece is Peak fiction out here in these streets like come on we we we notice um uh battle system was pretty up was pretty cool uh like I I really enjoyed how in battle you had like different areas where you had to fight your battles or you had to send help to another area to help another um crew member uh it was pretty pretty cool um I will say though I felt that it dragged a little bit too long and well it probably dragged for me because I I I I know one piece inside and out so like when they were revisiting these areas from the show it was just like all right I know what's going to happen we're going to go here we're going to do this they did do some interesting things in between those but honestly I didn't think it was enough uh uh also um you know it's going to be crazy how I mentioned this the voice acting I felt was very just like like that they have like literal clips of everybody's voice and they just threw them into this game that's how it felt to me at least and maybe during major story events story points they just uh you know actually voice acted the characters but um it's a weird complaint But ultimately not bad not a bad game uh surprisingly good anime RPG um at the end of the day nothing amazing so I'm going to put one piece odyy into C tier fire emem engage Fire Emblem engage this one was a we one because I I really enjoyed the game like I really enjoyed the characters the the the strategy RPG side of it was amazing that's the main part of any Fire game what am I talking about um just yeah um just from a gameplay perspective very good very solid the problem was the game story and their characters they just felt like they weren't that great and they weren't memorable in any way shape for form in fact like a couple of months after this game came out came out early uh 2023 a couple months after it came out I lowkey forgot it came out within this year I asked others and they also forgot this game came out within this year it's like this game dropped and like nobody talked about it because I remember when Fire emem 3 houses came out that was was in everybody's um you know on everybody's radar for about like two or 3 months after they're released and everybody knew by the end of the year that 53 houses came out this one however just it just came and it went it's weird I I I don't know um kind of sucks but it is what it is uh ultimately engage was a good game I I I think I played it almost twice two and a I think maybe two two and a half times I got like half through half of the game again using the female protagonist but uh yeah I really didn't enjoy the game but unfortunately it's just not that memorable uh this is going to be a tough one I'm going to put it in B tier yeah I going to put that in B octopath traveler 2 this is not up for debate not up for discussion aop paath traveler 2 is a s tier game and unfortunately I feel like this is another one that came out and it was out of people's uh Minds off their radar for a while after thebat travel 2 it's a solid solid uh jrpg and I love the battle system the boosting uh they did some extra things with the batt to keep things interesting I like of course the um the pixel art is actually pretty good I actually think that if you're playing this game on a handheld you're kind of doing it a disservice you need to play on a nice freaking 1080P or 1440p 4K screen to really appreciate the pixel art and you know the the H the 2dhd stuff that square in has going on for these games it really just looks good on a really uh nice Monitor and a a big TV ultimately octopath traveler 2 great game I didn't have any complaints uh just nice all around uh hunai star rail this is one I wish I played a little bit more I haven't I didn't really jump into it all that much but it's a it's it's the new uh mobile gotcha game from ho overse and it's not that bad I really did enjoy the of course the shell it looks looks amazing it's more of a Sci-Fi RPG so if you're looking for something within that you know that futuristic look you you kind of can't go wrong here and the battle system is not that bad um it it borrows um from the trail series when it comes to being able to use your super art or your super skill um in uh breaking the turn order you can use it at any point so that's pretty cool um but you know keeping up with the events keeping up with all the new characters I've heard everything's been going well with it maybe I'm wrong but hopefully um and uh hopefully soon I can play it a little bit more um I want to put star Rail and B tier uh Xenoblade Chronicles 3 this is the DLC Futures redeemed and this is just like octopath Traver 2 I'm putting this in s tier this might honestly be my uh jrpg of the Year even though it's DLC expansion I don't know I just really enjoyed this game I I enjoyed it so so much it's so much in my opinion it's a lot better than the main game of Xenoblade uh 3 um I I like Xenoblade 3 I I just man this Xeno Blade 3 for me just didn't click if you will I didn't care for the characters that much I really didn't care for the story all that much until you got to the end and we found out somebody um somebody made a herir on but um yeah besides that um yeah I just feel like Xenoblade 3 when it comes to its characters at least they're kind of boring and when it comes to the design I feel like they're an over correction from Xenoblade 2 cuz if you remember Xenoblade 2 came out you know a whole bunch of characters were just like everybody was going crazy cuz some characters are way too scantily clad showing too much skin whatever have you and I feel like they overcorrected with Xenoblade 3 when it came to the designs not saying that I hate xenot 3 because of the designs no it's not what I'm saying I'm just saying I notice it and it just it just it it just sticks out to me it's not it's not a complete Point against the game for me but this is something I noticed other than that uh going to the DLC great now the characters here are all awesome you've got Rex and and um and shock back into things uh you got Matthew who seems really down to earth and he's a really cool protagonist you got a as well and then her Secrets then you got the other two um I forgot their names but yeah they're also cool too and the story was also really good it picked up well kind of picked up it was a prequel wasn't it I can't remember some of the comments remind me if it was a prequel or sequel I can't even I think it was a sequel I don't know anyway everything else about it was good the the map was more smaller but it was more it it felt more I don't know if I want to say manageable but it felt way more cohesive it just it it it just worked I I really enjoyed everything about the DLC I couldn't wait to play anytime I wasn't playing it and I just I I did most of the stuff in the game but um I didn't go for some of the super bosses but man it was really good and this is another game that really that this is another Series in my opinion that just needs to either get off the switch get it off a Nintendo platform and get off get onto a better more powerful platform cuz man it just sucks how this game looks sometimes it it is what it is I hope you know maybe the switch gets power up some down the down the line and it can handle at least 40 fps to 60 FPS at a 1080p rate that that' be great but um I really feel like the switch and you know lesser platforms are just not doing this seriously justice but yeah it's still an eser game okay Final Fantasy 16 oh my God Final Fantasy 16 um okay what can you say about a game called Final Fantasy 16 nothing good okay so at the end of the day I did not enjoy Final Fantasy 16 when it first when it was first coming out and you had trailers and you had all this other information coming out people were like oh this is not a Final Fantasy game it's not even an RPG me I was personally like okay this is the last draw for me in square anex that okay you're not going to make a traditional RPG with your main light entries anymore and this will be the last one I'll take it for what it is and we'll go from there the problem for what it is is that it's not fun and it's almost I want to say boring so before I even get to that let me get to the things I did like about it the graphics unbelievable these huge Kaiju battles with the icons was just magnificent like holy [ __ ] I wish like other games would take point because that was just amazing there were just certain points in the game where I was just like I was just in in the Kaiju battles I'm just like damn this is just I'm just looking at it's like this just eye candy my eyes are just like just eating like squ Enix was cooking when they made these Kaiju battles when they made these icon battles they were just really amazing and there was even one point where I was fighting um Bahamut and he was going to unleash his Neo flare solar flare I forgot what it's called and he was counting down and I was just like well [ __ ] I I kind of want to see it like I I want to see you unleash this ultimate attack I want to see how how this flare attack happens and um it was amazing like I can't believe it but there was certain times and now we're getting to the negatives there were certain times where I just felt like I was not playing a final Fantasy game it just felt like if this game was named anything else it was called Final Fantasy 16 or Final Fantasy Clen friends I wouldn't have played this game because this game is it's an action game that's that's what it is it it has RPG elements but they're so light they're barely there and they barely matter uh one of the points to that is your equipment your equipment while you might be doing a little bit more damage if you upgrade it it's not by that much and then you'll do side quest Quest and the side quest themselves there's a lot of them don't get me wrong um especially towards the end of the game but they when you complete the side quests they don't give you enough experience to actually level up so it's kind of like when you go and and do side quests in a in in in a normal RPG you get enough um exp or you just go around the field or whatever dungeon you got to go through and you'll level up you probably level up like three levels doing you know a whole bunch of side quest and Final Fantasy 16 it's like it's manufactured to only level up when there's major Story battles major Story Boss Battles so it kind of feels like what am I doing these Side Quests for and they give you materials to upgrade your equipment it's just like okay I don't care about these materials I don't care about anything else uh the story see the the thing about the story is you have a good unit of characters that make a full party in an RPG and the problem is you only play as one person you play as Clive and that's it everybody else like you have really good characters here really amazing characters and it's just like you don't play them enough they they act like they have this camaraderie that I just don't buy at all Clive and Joe were cool the other guy I was missing an eye I forgot his name but he was cool Sid was great as well you had another person named mid mid but ultimately at the end of the day I especially when I got towards the end I did not enjoy Final Fantasy 16 at all and and then one of the things was about the combat that it was very easy it very much Hold Your Hand you know Final Fantasy 15 when you first booted up says a final fantasy for longtime fans and newcomers or something like that but this game just feels like that it feel like that for this game Square Innings please your audience isn't I guess the casual or is dumb I I don't know but they're not dumb anymore Square Enix they can play a game you don't have to hold their hand and that's what the Bon ultimate felt like the enemies were really easy it was easy to um buy items and potions and whatever you needed was there like after every battle like if you just look around the area you get a high potion or or something you The Ether or something like that and then you can do don't get me wrong this this game is kind of devil man cry light light but you can do a whole bunch of combos should you choose the problem is you don't need to the enemies are so easy they die so fast and then you got the big en enemies and the mid-tier enemies okay maybe you have to do like a combo there but like just doing a basic I don't know what the attack button was XXX and then a special icon ability that was enough you didn't need to do anything else plus if plus if you die in the game the game um wherever you're at there a whole bunch of checkpoints in the game so you'll never lose progress and there's um when you're placing the boss battle once you get them down to a certain amount of HP if you die you'll come right back to it not only will you come right back to that part you will have a full set of potions and heels this is like I can't do anything wrong in this game like there's no punishment in this game at all it's just it's just holding your hand the whole way through okay I read about Final Fantasy 16 enough where am I placing in on this list some people are going to hate me some people are really really going to hate me I don't put in DET tier I'm I'm sorry I I I I didn't enjoy it I feel like Final Fantasy needs to go to at least the Final Fantasy 7 route when it comes to party based battles I know Square in wants the action based route because that gets more people interested more eyes interested and whatnot but man I didn't enjoy it sorry Final Fantasy 7 Final Fantasy 16 people if you love The Game you know I'm not even saying that I I I don't even care if you if you love the game I'm going look at you funny if you think this is the best final fantasy and you think this is the the the top tier action based battle system in RPGs I'm looking at you funny I'm calling you stupid I'm never talking to you ever okay yeah I said it don't care all right let's move on okay guys post editing Mr jrpg is here and I feel like that Thanos meme where he's talking to nebula in endgame and he's like perhaps I treated you too harshly well Final Fantasy 16 perhaps I treated you a little bit too harshly based on your sound design and your graphics uh definitely your soundtrack absolutely is just it's it's really good it's almost amazing and there are times where I was just using the music to get through my day your graphics are actually really really good really phenomenal uh and the boss battles are a really good spectacle so I'm going to say I'm going to bump it up to from D to C and it's going to be a low C but yeah it's it's a c so you know 16 fans who really love 16 relax all right come down the sky 7 okay the sky 7 was a really good return to form for this series I really enjoyed everything about the sky7 for the most part there were some instances where the game kind of uh didn't I I felt were really gimmicky especially the jumbo jumbo ification which is basically just characters getting huge and it's just an extra feature in the game to say that the game has extra features it has no bearing or impact in the story and I almost for got it was there along with the weapon reincarnation but this is just dis skaya coming back to what we love about the ska cuz the ska 6 wasn't that great wasn't really good at all it was just kind of a disappointment but this one came right back knocked it out of the park and there was really nothing I have that was too much of a problem with the game except for the things I mentioned earlier I do feel as though we're getting the same DLC each time for for this game it's like main characters from the sky like we got a plethora of characters from different worlds and different universes I mean look at the the skia mobile game that was around for a minute and then you know the global version is just gone but you know there's a whole bunch of characters in that and I wish we had them in here ultimately Sky 7 great return to form I will say though I I'm getting used to the 3D model the 3D look uh I I I I I wish I really do wish they go back to the 2D Sprites that from the sky one through five but unfortunately I think for you know um nepon Ichi software and um it's just easier to make these games in 3D so like at this point there's really no reason the game is in 3D like people would say oh a game going in 3D probably helps people you know new people get into the series no at this point I don't see any new disy fans around here and and like the people that love the sky they hate the fact that it's in 3D some people won't even play it for the fact it's in 3D anyway that's enough negative the sky 7 was a really good game really soled I I enjoyed it I'm going to give it a the next one is Star Ocean the Second Story remake which I'm very surprised that this game even came out that they even remade this game like I I I feel like every entry of star oan is always its last but lo and behold just another one comes out this one I feel like a lot of people slept on I feel like this one is a really solid game really good RPG has really good graphics I thought the uh look of the uh Sprites combining with the 3D environments were going to clash no actually it worked out pretty well in the battle system really nice really really fun really engaging I don't really have any complaints about it um I do enjoy I do enjoy do using the pseudo blind spot like when you dodge just at the right time you go right behind the enemy you can unleash holy hell um one of the issues I got with the game is basically the story uh I feel like the story is kind of taking a backseat to almost anything cuz I feel like you can be like level 99 within like the first four hours of the game almost I feel like you can break this game so easily if you wanted to but the choice is there and I just feel like the story just takes a backseat to it all and I feel like the characters uh aren't that engaging they're fun when you're doing the private actions I really do like how they indicate when there's a private action so I mean each time I had to each time I did a moror event I had to bring up the map and see if there's a private action going on around but uh Hey it did lead to some pretty funny conversations the issue with this game that I feel is the party system how it works is that you can recruit characters or you cannot recruit characters based on your decisions and the thing about it is if you recruit a character they're not really featured in the story all that much one example is Welsh which there's a reason why she doesn't have you know I think she was added retroactively in the PSP version so they really didn't do much but like there's a finite number of Party member slots that you have and I filled one with Welsh and she does nothing during the main story at all she has some pretty funny bar actions but in the main story she's just silent in every single cut scene so it's like I wasted a slot on her completely uh but other than that I feel like if you if you like RPGs you should play Second Story and it's kind of funny because this game came out God knows how long ago and it's still arguably the best Star Ocean game when we had at least four entries since then I don't care what anybody says Star Ocean 5 was a great game uh I'm going to put Star Ocean eight here sea of stars what does there to say about sea of stars I mean like the game is just amazing I'm not going to spend too much time here we're going to put it in s and that's it just like really good battle system really fun characters SE a STS was just really amazing if you if you if you like if you like RPGs go play sea stars person 5 tactica is a game that I did not expect that I would be playing but hey it is what it is you know they're going to mil the Persona franchise Persona 5 for however much they will until until you know Persona 6 comes out I feel like we got at least one more spin-off to go but the thing about Persona spin-offs is besides them coming out and besides them you know just having a lie like you know when Persona 6 comes out you know he is going to be a spin-off there's going to be a whole bunch of spin-offs like years later after after it comes out the thing about the spinoffs is they they almost don't do no wrong like like they're they're not bad games it's just that are you are you tired of the franchise or are you not because it's not like they're going to have a spin-off and it's going to be really bad no they're going to do it pretty well like I remember Persona 5 Strikers in my opinion did the whole muso Warriors game the best like holy crap and this one is pretty similar um the only thing about it is if you're tired of seeing a Persona 5 characters which I which I am I'm I'm tired of seeing these guys I love them love them to death but I hate aatchi yeah that's right I hate a catchy but um uh if you're tired of seeing it you probably don't want to play it and it's interesting how I played it shout out to Discord because they gave me a um a a free month of Xbox live gold and I was just like oh okay and I realized that tactica was on there as well but uh I'm going to give I'm going to put Persona tactica I'm going to put it in the C tier uh it's not it's not bad certainly not certainly not bad at all but eh it's really just put in the C tier because it's a Persona 5 it's another spin-off and it's just like I'm done the only spin-off I'm waiting for Persona 5 now is just to have the fighting game we just need that personified fighting game hopefully it's made by our system works and man man that would be great then I can go back and you know I I'll appreciate the characters more trails and the referee okay trails and the refere solid game love it it was really it's really good the only issue I got with it is that well it's it's still the same more or less the same uh uh Trails bow system and setup that we've seen since I I think um Cold Steel three and they added some new stuff like Brave orders and uh I forgot what the other one was called but um they're just adding some stuff little by little and I I do appreciate that they you know each game you know that adds more stuff to the battle system and you know there's more things you have to check and more things you have to worry about and it's cool great setups a [ __ ] ton of characters to choose from like you can use almost any characters that you want at any point except for in the main story cuz you know they kind of split up and the the story is split into three ways but when you get to the revery Corridor you can pretty much have who you pretty much put whoever you want in the part party and there's a whole bunch of things to do in the r Corridor it's great really good game um I don't have any major complaints except for no spoilers no spoilers at all just the the main plot of the game the main antagonist of the game the main reason the game has comeing to be the story has happened I kind of didn't care for it too much I felt like the trails game were were going somewhere else with their story um and this one just like covered a really they covered a really generic uh plot point to a lot of mediums not going to say what it was cuz it's kind of like spoilers but like you seen it in countless movies you seen it in countless anime TV shows I'm like H I guess Trails can do it too why not it's fine but Ry I'm going to put into hm I want to put R and S tier just for the sheer amount of characters that you can play as just ridiculous amount of characters you can play as I I love having a nice choice when it comes to you know making my own party next one is zenis Zone zero didn't come out this year technically but I got a chance to play the close beta and it was really good I don't have too many complaints about it but at the end of the day just like hunai Star rail it's a gotcha game so do with that what you may you know you're going to have limited time events you're going to have login bonuses to get you login every single day but the presentation is really good I really enjoyed the graphics the cut scenes when there was an actual cut scene was really great and if you want to know more about my thoughts of Zen Zone Zer I got a video up on the Channel that I recently uploaded uh talking about the closes beta ultimately really good I look forward to it I'm going to play more and um yeah s Zone zero is going to go into B tier okay guys as I said that's all that I have I know there are other there are other RPGs and jrpgs that came out this year and they're not on here you're going to get really mad at me but like I said in the beginning go back to the beginning and check my reason you know why and uh yeah that's it I'll talk to you guys next time peace

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Length: 29min 9sec (1749 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 06 2024