/v/ - Video Games

I recommend digimon world dawn/dusk. I don't know if you would consider this casual but it sure was fun.

Get a graphics tablet and play Etrian Odyssey.

>>16635984

>Black Sigil

Kind of interesting "Everybody Hates Kairu" premise at the start that flips the classic idea of the protagonist being one of the few people to be able to use magic, but the encounter rate is completely fucking abysmal, and from what I've heard from other anons that managed to suffer through it to the end, there isn't a payoff to doing so. I have zero fucking clue how there's demand enough for the game that it's reached like $80 for a complete copy these days. Also a case of western devs (a fucking leaf team, in particular) trying to make a throwback to classic era JRPGs, of which I'd say competing title Nostalgia did a better job at.

>Sands of Destruction

Interesting setting, but while the combat starts as a neat sort of "build your own combo" ordeal and utilizes both screens, it makes combat get pretty long as the game progresses, especially if you can't keep morale up to get those extra actions. Some enemies will just spam attacks that induce demoralization. Also suffers from mood whiplash because while Kato (Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Baten Kaitos) wanted to write a dark, bleak world, Sega told him to cut that shit out partway through, so every time it seems to edge into something actually dark it gets reined back in to be more family friendly. Still rather neat if you can sit through it (Kyrie's particular response to having no control of his life is worth witnessing; I was not expecting him to handle it the way he did), but not exactly one I see myself replaying. Game has an undub patch if that's of interest, though personally I didn't find the dub especially bad (at least for the player's party), and was surprised at how much voicing it actually had for a DS game. Should also note that while it got an anime under the game's original name of World Destruction, it is not an adaptation, and more a re-purposing of premise and characterization so don't think watching it is another way to experience the game.

>Summon Night: Twin Age

Note that it is NOT Swordcraft Story, so don't be expecting that sort of deal from it. Game's its own standalone spinoff of Summon Night.

Probably not "hidden" or anything at this point, but you should consider Radiant Historia and Strange Journey. And I do mean the originals, not the 3DS remakes. Also not an RPG, but thirding >>16636018 if you haven't played it and like adventure games.

>a story/characters fag

Read a book. Play a real strategy game instead of poorly balanced busy-work with flashy visuals and a jpop soundtrack. Sands of Destruction has a pretty neat anime though. I played through the shitty game twice just so I could enjoy the anime more.

I remember I briefly played the Code Geass game on DS and it was a decent RPG. I didn't know a lot of japanese back then, but I'm sure there's an english patch for it already.

>>16643327

>Read a book

Books don't let you play and control characters, you fucking faggot.

>nobody has mentioned Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time or Bowser's Inside Story

what the fuck is wrong with you people

>>16643580

Both shit games with no story that OP has undoubtebly heard of several times already like hearing some nigger spam pokemon mystery dungeon.

>>16643593

try harder next time

>>16643603

The original superstar saga and the n64 rpg was the height of the series. Everything after that was shit copy paste with no or little originality on their handheld line.

>>16643608

Partners in time was a linear RPG with unskippable and boring cutscenes whose battle mechanics were very simple. So simple in fact that it was a downgrade from the original game that had button modifiers based on a time setting to make battles more challenging and skill based. Ontop of the whole series become casual tier tutorials at every corner handholding after superstar saga.

>>16643610

>>16643615

>can't even get his grammar right the second time

>>16643617

You act like other RPGs don't have unskippable dialogue or cutscenes, they're all guilty of that. The Bros. Items are based more around hand-eye coordination instead of timing in PiT, but both are still needed to pull them off. I will agree that they are very tutorial heavy, which makes replayability annoying.

>>16643648

>games can be broken so they are bad

>>16643575

>Playing on a tiny screen.

Fuck that.

>700$

You can get a good pen display for around 200$, which is cheaper than a Switch. Seems to me to be a good investment if not only for playing DS and 3DS games, but also for photo editing and drawing. You would get more use out of a graphics tablet than wasting money on a console.