Ostrowidzki1989 said:Good jrpgs are dead in the water right now.
JRPGs are quite strong. I consider
Niers: Automata to be the best eighth generation console game regardless of genre. Persona 5 topped the NA/EU game charts. If you want a good JRPG to look forward to,
CODE VEIN is available for pre-order. There are three things to bear in mind.
--It is 2017. JRPGs are different from how they looked in the early nineties. Modern JRPGs do not look like Final Fantasy VI just as modern western CRPGs do not look like Wizardry VI.
--The X1, sadly, is not the best JRPG platform. One has to be platform agnostic to get the best JRPGs.
--Blockbuster games take much longer to develop. On the western side, I am still waiting for
Cyberpunk 2077 that CD Projekt RED announced over five years ago well before
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released.
The
Yakuza series shows some genre blurring so you may not consider the games to be pure RPGs. However, there has been a lot of genre blurring with western CRPGs as well.
Dark Souls Series is so different from FF VI that many on TA don't consider the games in the series to be JRPGs. I'm not going to belabor the point here. Suffice it to say that the series' influences clearly reflect seminal JRPGs that preceded it, its story telling reflects Japanese not western narrative exposition, and its art is based on the conventions of JP manga. Nevertheless, if you want old-school, there are still a few around like the critically acclaimed
I am Setsuna or the recently released
Tales of Berseria.
The
Yakuza series,
I am Setsuna, and
Tales of Berseria are not available on the 360 or the X1. Neither is the game that I consider to be not only the best recent JRPG but the best recent game regardless of genre--
Nier: Automata. There are over a dozen good JRPGs that are coming out on the PS4 between now and the end of the year. If you pick up a Wii U or a Switch, you can play the spectacular
Chronicles X and the much anticipated
Xenoblade Chronicles 2.