So far, um… I’m playing a 90’s fantasy anime and it’s wholesome as shit.
One of the better JRPGs ever done.
Follow up Lunar 1+2 with Suikoden 1+2, then Golden Sun 1+2.
(Optional) Phantasy Star 1-4.
After that, you really don’t need to play any other JRPG.
As usual, Star Ocean: Second Story gets overlooked (they did do a great job with the remake though).
You’re also leaving out the entire SMT/Persona series, but I guess it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
Persona is a sore subject for me because they ruined the original North American localization.
“So when you finish a random encounter, you can gain experience, or harvest souls!”
“Polling says Americans don’t like random encounters.”
“Oh, that’s easy to fix, reduce random encounters 50%”
Which made it so you either couldn’t get enough experience or harvest enough souls. :(
They also removed the Snow Queen quest for some reason:
