10 More Great JRPGs That Respect Your Time 

0:18 10 - Tales of Symphonia 1:23 9 - God Eater 3 2:42 8 - Breath of Fire IV 3:52 7 - Shadow Hearts: Covenant 5:17 6 - Tales of Hearts (or Tales of Hearts R?) 6:30 5 - Granblue Fantasy Relink 8:04 4 - Ys Seven 9:05 3 - Radiant Historia (what an absolute masterpiece!) 10:20 2 - Suikoden II 11:51 1 - NieR: Replicant ver.1.22474487139...

That's why soundtracks are so important. I don't mind grinding if I enjoy the battle/overworld music. Flip that grind straight into a tail-slide!

My go to example of this would be Chrono Trigger. Nice pace, not too complex a fighting system, etc etc

Radient Historia is one of my ultimate favourite video games. That is partly because the backtracking is smooth instead of grinding for hours to get to that point again.

Star Ocean 2 remaster/remake is very very good to your time. many quality of life features that could be in every rpg ever to make them all better games!

8:26 An 'Ys'y way, you say? My nom would be Front Mission 4. 30 hours max even if you grind on the optional training missions, best of the series so far. If anything it felt like it was resolved a bit too fast considering you're commanding two separate teams of Wanzer pilots. That's only 15 story missions per campaign. Would've liked a final one where you can control both teams.

when you have a sequel video, it would be nice to have the link to the original in the description. thanks for the list!

suikoden 2 was the masterpiece of its time, and was so underrated. I can't wait for the remake to come out,

Very nice list dude, thank u

Thank you for this video - a totally underrated topic, especially, if you have a regular job and a family. That is, if game development counts as a regular job in the first place...

Nice to see tales of symphonia on this list. It was my first tales game. Really wanted to play the second but it seems it will forever be stuck on the wii.

Thanks for the video! Is Tales of Symphonia for the Switch fixed/patched now?

I never found Tales of Graces being complicated. Maybe it's just you.

Thanks for the list! Because of work, wife and kids. Also other obligations. I usually only get an hour or two of late gaming in each day. Currently trying to take on the Xenoblade series slowly.

Best exploration in video games. Not just jrpgs but video games. I want to see how jrpgs stack up against other genres in this regard

The only thing I've ever had to grind for in Radiant Historia was money, felt like a broke bitch the entire game lol

I have Shadow Hearts 2 sitting in my collection for years and really want to play it but unfortunately I still haven't found the best way to do so. On the PS2 it's too blurry and dark and I can't record it either. Funny, how I play Nier Replicant right now. Does it respect the time? Honestly, too much running back and forth for my taste AND I could have refrained from fighting Louise three times. The third time was too my crying on my end.

Good topic, thanks man

Great video. What is the song at 0:00 from?

Believe me if you want to have platinum on nier replicant you will haaaaate your life yes you need 20 hours to finish the game but you will need another 60 hours to platinum it Ohhh and I don’t know if you missed this game or you never played it but hyxze force is an amazing game it a psp exclusive

The issue with Nier Replicanct that it kind of doesn't respect your time on doing side quests; the rewards almost always suck to the point there is no point of doing them.

SH:Covenant is one of my favorite games of all time

Great list!

I play Brave Dungeon and Kemco games. For Brave Dungeon I find it avoiding all things that would be annoying. It has not much of a story, barely any npcs, no random encounter but the kind of monsters you fight are random, difficulty settings that can be changed any time even in dungeons and the pay off is balanced with each setting, the first 4 dungeons are optional, etc. What I like the most about it is that when returning back to town the game automatically restores your party's health AND replenishes all your items back to the highest amount you had before entering the dungeon. And it's all for free.

Ys Seven would be even better if they cut up part of the backtracking on the second half, still great game tho

GranBlue Fantasy Relink on PC is awesome!

When you said long ass hell games while showing p5r I felt that 🤣 I'm currently at 135hrs but it feels like I spent longer, I'm at Mementos bottom now which is somewhat near the end so I'm checking what I can play next after finishing it.

Ys 7 Still need more recognition; was my first ys game

what about infinite wealth?!

Going to havento check this out

God eater fan here and so happy to see it here

You can definitely finish BoF4 quickly. I rushed the game and cheesed the last boss by constantly swapping out team mates since i got to him in the mid 30s

Next is 10 jrpgs that disrespects your time 😁

Can you do a video about action jrpgs with good English voice acting?

I hope paper Mario ttyd remaster does the same thing as Mario rpg and adds a post game hard boss mode. It would be epic. Shining refrain resonance I feel didn't waste my time as I was grinding thinking it mattered. You only need a certain level and you can blitz the game. Only issue is the one mission the guys need to fight. That was bad gameplay design.

Radiant Historia is insanely good, hopefully Perfect Chronology leaves the 3DS and gets to modern consoles so that more people can play it.

I can't wait rhe release of the true game that respects your time.Tales of Erick Landon RPG

Have all these games except Nier. Idk why I can’t get into Nier series. Just gotta admit. It’s not for me. It goes against my soul.

Tales of Symphonia ❤

Nice

God eater 3 did not respect my time AT ALL the first hour. I tossed it. Tutorials to the max!

I didn't get into God Eater 2, but maybe I'd like GE3 more? It looks like it might be a better game.

Nier Replicant was fun to 100% on my Series X

I LOVED Nier. But I have to disagree with the respecting your time part. About 3 playthroughs of the second half to see all the endings - added scenes help of course.) A LOT of sidequests which, while built into the feel of the story are still numerous and at times tedius, and you have to collect EVERY WEAPON to get the final ending. Plus play through the first half then AGAIN for something special. It's a lot. It's a lot of GREAT, but still a lot.

Wish tales of heart R could be given to main consoles. Arise isn't long it just drags as the story isn't good. Graces the combo system is what makes it the best. And on repeat play it expects you to be able to speed run it which I did while also doing all the missions and sub quests. Xillia 2 sucks with the debt system as it directly hampers your gameplay same as the missions. Symphonia I feel takes forever. Don't understand how it's people's favorite guess it's just like bersteria and the only game people played in tales

I love Shadow Hearts 2... but no game that has random encounters and then puts the reduced encounter item at nearly the end of endgame respects your time. Earthbound was 1994. Lufia 2 was 1995. No excuse in 2004. And again, the game even has a crude mitigation... it just won't let you access it until the game is basically over.

I don't want JRPGs to respect my time, I want then to respect my wallet by giving me enough content to warrant a purchase

BOF 4 is amazing

battle transition screens that last a touch too long are why I can't replay most ps1 jrpgs xD

Bof IV Gold!

What is the girl from the thumbnail's game? The one on the left with green gloves 🧐

Great video but I disagree with Tales of Graces F combat being complicated, it's one of the least complicated combat system in the whole series... the thing with the game it's that it is challenging; probably the hardest and most skill based tales game.

Nier Replicant? Great game, love it. But grinding out those weapon materials necessary for the later endings (and in a Yoko Taro game, that's necessary to get the full story) and repeating the last 3rd of the game 3 times is NOT what I'd call respecting my time. Oh and it had the same fetch questing that Automata had. Then there's farming for some materials... literal farming on an 18-24 hour real time clock that if it wasn't for system time manipulating, would be a time waste beyond all time wastes. Nier Replicant should be near the top of a list of games that do not respect your time.

The exact opposite of these, but still a great game: Another Eden. Which is surprising, since it's a mobile game

Short JRPG time

I started tales of hearts R and played for maybe 5+ hours And stopped because the game didn't have an English dub Too much reading for all that dialog with Japanese dub I like to at least listen to the conversations and do something else irl But ill go back to it one day

Persona definitely don’t care about your time at all

Hearts R is fun but the localization was god awful. Some characters names were changed for no reason and a lot of the dialogue doesn't match what the characters really said.

My wife already disrespects me so why should my jrpgs be any different 😢

The SNES Mario RPG does respect your time and no, grinding isn't needed unless you want the game to be 50% more easier than it already is.

students rise up

What games are the girls on the thumbnail from?

I grind my teeth playing through octopath travel 1 to beat it and with some cheat during true final boss. I never good with this game equipment and jobs system. I hate this game. the most annoying part through out the whole game is the random encounter. I couldn't withstand that in 2nd game so I dropped after 30 mins of gameplay.

Nier Replicant? Is that a joke? It has the most infuriating sidequests ever.

gimme 10 rpgs that disrespect my time. Spit in my face with a 100+ hour game that isn't bloat.

Suikoden 2 😊😊😊😊

any good hentai games that respect a players time? asking for a friend..

100% completion of octopath traveler 2 takes over 100 hours, not exactly a good example of JRPGs that "respect your time", even though that's not a very high priority on my list, grinding is a Part of RPG game design, always has been and hopefully always will be

I'm sorry but God Eater 3 definitely disrespected my time. Those extra long loading times after EVERY SINGLE THING made me quit (ragequit)

Trails in the sky is very long but every hour is fucking worth it.

No and nowhere does Nier Replicant respect your time, I would say it is actually one of the few games, THAT DAMN HATES YOUR TIME.

Sao alicization lycoris endgame... that's wasting time Fighting the same boss near 1000 times to get 1 ultimate weapon from there are 8 yudabest is the go to youtuber for sao content and He has over 5000 h playtime on that one game to finished all content and get all the beSt weapons

Do a top ten female bosses

If you want games that "respect your time" then maybe RPGs just aren't for you, go play a shooter or sports game

Tales of Hearts R - BLEH. I hate this game. Such annoying and battle system was a joke (terrible animations too).

you forgot about Persona 5 Royal, shortest game ever (?

Lol. If you have to say jrpgs that respect your time... Ur already condemning the genre Everything is relative Realtive to normal games.. and not games that have to add a j at the end It's a waste

fuck cold steel and this endless filler blablablablabla. horrible game

Indeed, slice of life is useless crap that just wastes your time. like any persona game. just useless waste of time teenage crap

LOL....joke list.

🤣🤣🤣 you sound like a guy who plays on easy