I really want to play a Final Fantasy game at some point, but always seem to find something else play. Same thing goes for Dragon Quest games. I could ask everyone here which game from each series you recommend, but would I actually play it? Probably not. 😔
As for a single game I own, I will probably never play Disgaea 5. It's been so long since I bought it.
Final Fantasy 7- One of my earliest memories of the PS1 was watching a friend play FF7. I've always wanted to play it and I finally got it about a year ago after dragging my feet for a while. I started playing it, but it's been on my backlog for a while now. Funny thing is that I played and completed the spinoff/prequel Crisis Core.
Hollow Knight- Another game that I started playing, but keeps going into the backlog. I like the visuals, but for whatever reason I'm just not hooked enough to continue and finish it. Been in my collection for 3-4 years now.
Shin Megami Tensei/Persona series- Take your pick of any game in the series and it's probably one stuck in my backlog. I actually got deep into SMT [1] and 4, but kind of just got tired of the grind. I played up until the just after the first boss in SMT 5 and I got P5 Royal only to play up until the first cutscene. Not really sure why I keep trying to get into the series at this point:doomer:
Mid game gets to be a lot of running from one end of the map to the other to complete a quest. Or getting lost trying to solve a puzzle.
I enjoyed it in the moment, but it definitely dragged
SMT I actually gets really easy at a certain point of the game. Even if you run away from every encounter you should have little difficulty at beating the final bosses of the fuckhuge final dungeon. SMT I and II are both excellent games, but they have a heavy bias towards physical damage as well.
SMT if is based on the premise that you liked SMT 1 and 2, but also wish to get frustrated while playing a game like that.
Nocturne rightfully gets the reputation of being difficult, but I love the challenge of that game (and it eases off with the difficulty after Ikebukuro)
Strange Journey's gameplay is kinda mid, but the story and characters are amazing. That's what kept me going through that great game.
You've already played IV and V - I haven't.
The Megami Tensei games for the NES... MT1 is ass, but 2 is surprisingly really good. The music is great and seems better balanced than SMT 1 or 2 (I haven't finished it yet). It's kinda grindy at times though.
I heard Majin Tensei 1 is bad, but Majin Tensei 2 is a quite fun strategy-RPG in the style of say Super Robot Wars or (I believe) Fire Emblem. Great music too.
The Last Bible series is closer to generic fantasy slop than a megaten game - I guess play it if you're a completionist.
Soul Hackers is quite charming and silly, but otherwise fairly average.
Persona 1 is IMO great, but that is a minority opinion - people complain about it dislike the combat and high encounter rate. Also, the PS1 version has way better music (but the english localization is horrible) - thankfully a patch for the PSP port exists.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin has a fantastic story, but ass gameplay (on the PSP. Apparently the PS1 version is fine) - Eternal Punishment fixes all the issues, but is, well... a sequel.
Persona 3 has a great story, but is quite slow in the beginning.
Persona 4 is mostly known for its atmosphere and characters, as well as a great villain. It is however the most weeb-brained of the entire series.
Persona 5 has good, fun gameplay (if arguably too easy), but the story only gets interesting in the final third of the game. It is however
P5 premise spoiler
what I call a 1970s new left group simulator.
there's even more games but I won't talk about them, because I either haven't finished them or don't have much to say about them.
I burnt out in Hollow Knight too and was probably around mid game. Crisis Core is just a much shorter game, I think I finished it in a day or two. I'd recommend playing FF7, or any JRPG from that era through an emulator so you can speed up the combat.
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