That's true. I skipped FF3 because it didn't feel big to me at first or epic enough. Just not much of an 8 bit guy I guess.

16 bit brought expansive epic worlds to life and that's what I was attracted the most to. I mean Chrono was slick and stylized, but Super Mario RPG was like "holy fuck this game is 16 bit??" It was def cutting edge.

Secret of mana isn't here, blasphemy

FF6/3 is in many ways the best JRPG of its era. Chrono Trigger was awesome too and they are closely tied however the sheer number of characters, quests, and secrets in FF6 made it feel much more "epic" than Chrono Trigger.

I was playing all of these JRPGs in the 90s as they were coming out and I have to say when FF7 came out it drew a lot of people to the genre due to the way it was marketed and it being for the Playstation. I played it through many times and it is a fucking awesome game but because I had played 6 first I never thought it was plainly a "better" game.

In the early-mid 90s I was chastised for liking JRPGs because they were "gay" and when I was playing FF1 on NES my friends were like "dude why do you play that gay game where the dudes are in boxes and you don't even control them." All it took was some marketing and a popular game system to bring a bunch of new people to the genre. Shit, even a lot of my game nerd friends had to play "catchup" because they missed all the SNES JRPGs that came out before FF7.

Anyways, if you haven't played FF6, play it. The best way to play is to get a customized GBA FF6 Advance ROM but with the original SNES music tracks hacked in. The GBA sound hardware wasn't true to the original (amazing) soundtrack and a lot of the instruments are fucked.

Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, FFTactics, all fucking awesome - but play FF6 if you haven't. Its what a JRPG should be.

I'm scared.

I know its not the same genre, but King's Field is one of my all time favs.

Where the fuck is Golden Sun?

Crystalis is another fucking awesome game. I remember the cover art but its super small on the cartridge. Man the zoom-in on that green blob is fucking hilarious roflroflroflroflroflrofl

Golden Sun was later on, wasn't it GBA and made after 2000?

My vote was for Final Fantasy Tactics but honestly get yourself an SNES emulator and download Treasure of the Rudras (Rudra no Hihou).

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