192 Essential JRPGs on Nintendo Switch - The Must-Play RPGs for your Physical Collection! 

inb4notessential Support me here: www.patreon.com/ABitMoreJordan Or purchase games through these links! Thank you kindly! Purchase western releases here: videogamesplus.ca?bg_ref=iYuDU59a9v Or here: www.play-asia.com/games/nintendo_switch/games/14/712fj#fc=prc:1.0000000000,g:423|427|7|421|433,v:5|4,o:7?tagid=3093235 Imports. 5% OFF with SWTV23 Aria Chronicle: bit.ly/3sCjc9a Atelier Dusk Trilogy: bit.ly/2NkaM3x Atelier Marie Remake shorturl.at/adCO4 Atelier Mysterious Trilogy: bit.ly/2YKJ70Z Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon: bit.ly/2UTPizm Chrono Cross: bit.ly/3Lpp1zT Cross Tails JP shorturl.at/klvDZ Asia shorturl.at/iwPTU Dragon Quest Trilogy: bit.ly/2T5jJSj Dungeon Encounters: bit.ly/3AwejmT Empire of Angels 4: bit.ly/3ibUPfg Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection: bit.ly/428j8zY Final Fantasy IX: bit.ly/3pfU4Uk Final Fantasy X / X-2: bit.ly/2Rxl41z or: bit.ly/3gKPTw0 Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster: bit.ly/3Zl0TW6 Touhou Genso Wanderer -Lotus Labyrinth R-: bit.ly/3htgfHd Grandia HD Collection: bit.ly/3tP8c9U hack//G.U. Last Recode Asia: bit.ly/3ISamwU JP: bit.ly/3RL6qCj I Am Setsuna: bit.ly/2RrXZP9 Katana Kami bit.ly/2vsldMt Legend of Mana: bit.ly/3sjZa2t Mugen Souls SE: bit.ly/3OwFQvp CE: bit.ly/3OnoNvI Mugen Souls Z SE shorturl.at/ADFKM CE shorturl.at/emuN4 Omega Labyrinth Life bit.ly/2sF7uB7 Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song SEA: bit.ly/3OPBBLB HK: bit.ly/3Sz0YDu Romancing SaGa 2: bit.ly/3k2llZn Romancing Saga 3 (Eng Cover): bit.ly/375HCxa (JP Cover): bit.ly/2SI5ReK Romancing SaGa 3 HK: bit.ly/2VRQ02D SaGa Scarlet Grace Ambitions: bit.ly/3iqu9ai Saga Frontier: bit.ly/3b4riRw SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays (Platinum): Asian: bit.ly/38JXfNM JP Version: bit.ly/3bpz1KP SD Gundam G Generation Genesis: bit.ly/38IBQEH Seven Pirates H SE: bit.ly/3fbqgEJ CE: bit.ly/3JYSxMY Shiren: bit.ly/36h6MLt Super Robot Wars 30 Asia: bit.ly/35J5qrB Japan: bit.ly/3wnE3j7 Super Robot Wars T (Eng cover): bit.ly/2Ada0lS (Chinese cover): bit.ly/37kExKh Super Robot Wars V: bit.ly/2m44SJ6 Super Robot Wars X (Asian): bit.ly/2umIWx9 (Japan): bit.ly/37Ahavi Chinese): bit.ly/35qwXvg Taiko no Tatsujin RPG Adventure: Asian: bit.ly/2GiCIV5 Japanese: bit.ly/2UcXoS0 TouHou New World: JP SE: shorturl.at/nQX57 CE: shorturl.at/wCNS2 Twin Blades of the Three Kingdoms SE: bit.ly/3sTB6WV CE: bit.ly/3FmeZQ4 Various Daylife: bit.ly/3Dg5OhF World of Final Fantasy Maxima: bit.ly/3bEfRhN Thank you! 00:00 Intro 01:13 Final Fantasy series 03:44 Dragon Quest games 05:07 Fire Emblem's 05:46 Mana series 07:74 SaGa Series 08:37 Suikoden I & II 09:00 Grandia series 09:22 Tales of... series 09:57 Persona 5 10:34 Chrono Cross 11:08 Various Daylife 11:32 Marchen Forest 11:59 Tokyo RPG Factory Games 12:28 Compile's erm.. 13:05 Taiko no Tatsujin RPG 13:40 Aria Chronicle 13:57 Atelier series 15:45 Hack series 16:22 Touhou New World 16:41 Fairy Fencer F series 17:10 Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon 18:04 Mistover 18:25 Omega Labyrinth Life 18:48 Dungeon Encounters 19:12 Genso Wanderer 19:46 Alliance Alive 20:03 Lost Child 20:17 Live A Live 20:39 Octopath I & II 21:04 Bravely Default II 21:31 Ys series 22:27 Legend of Heroes series 23:55 Labyrinth of... series 24:15 Etrian Odyssey 25:12 A bunch of NIS America games (inc Disgaea) 28:57 Prinny Presents NIS Classics series 30:15 Labyrinth of Zangetsu 30:38 Nexomon 31:03 Metal Max 31:19 Maglam Lord 31:35 Shin Megami Tensei series 32:08 Ni No Kuni series 32:38 Classic Genesis RPGS 33:04 Valkyria Chronicles 4 33:39 Baten Kaitos I & II 34:11 Digimon RPG series 34:50 Sword Art Online series 35:20 Super Robot Wars series 36:00 Empire of Angels 4 36:18 SD Gundam G Generation 36:55 Twin Blades of the Three Kingdoms 37:15 Shiren 37:35 Katanakami 37:51 Diofield Chronicle 38:09 Tactics Ogre 38:35 Star Ocean 2 38:59 Rune Factory series 39:29 Harvestella 39:50 Nier Automata 40:16 TWEWY series 40:48 Triangle Strategy 41:20 Cross Tails 42:03 Pokemon series 42:47 Miitopia 43:09 Tokyo Mirage Sessions 43:32 Chained Echoes & Sea of Stars 44:09 Trinity Trigger 44:31 Mato Anomalies 44:54 Agarest War 45:19 Death End ReQuest 45:35 Demon Gaze 45:59 Blue Reflection 46:19 Undernauts 46:44 Mary Skelter 47:01 Witch Spring 3 47:24 Dragon Star Varnir 47:45 Monster Hunter Stories 2 48:10 Kowloon High School Chronicle 49:03 Xenoblade series

The fact that we still don't have Chrono Trigger is criminal. And don't get me started on Mother 3...

Wow, man, you put so much effort on this, compiling it all in a single video, just amazing. Thanks you for that, all support is deserved (and I'll remember definitely use your links when I start importing these beauties)

Thank you for putting this massive list together. It was a great reminder of how many classic ports I now have a chance to play or replay with new perspective.

I'll definitely be rewatching this video whenever a jrpg franchise on Switch catches my eye. I'm just astonished with how informative and high-quality this video is. You definitely earned my subscription. I do wish you organized them by developer though.

This my first time watching one of your videos and man I’m a fan now. Thank you for all the info on all the titles available on the Switch. I’m a huge jrpg fan too and now you’ve motivated me to try and finish all of these games 😂

This was an amazing list. Several games, I hadn't heard of... Those are getting added to my want list. Great vid!!!

192 essential JRPGs? bro, I don't have enough time left to play that many JRPGs

Thanks to this video I finally was able to pick up Trinity Trigger. The ESRB copy never appealed to me cause I didn't want to spend $60 on some forced CE. But last I checked PA was out of the PAL version of it. Watching this video reminded me to check and PA actually had it in stock so I grabbed a copy. Jordan, as usual you are the hero we needed. What a legend!

What a list! Tactics Ogre Reborn is essential. It's hard! Recruit-able characters die in their intro battles all the time if you aren't careful. It's like FE3H if it didn't have a convenient school to recruit your army from. Also essential is FF Pixel Collection, for the sheer value of 6 classics in great presentation. Record of Agarest War is essential for tactics fans as well. I'm really looking forward to Cross Tails (have an order in), hoping it lives up to the other tactics greats.

This is definitely great to see as this can run by the games I want to get or put it on the wishlist thats for sure, dope stuff jordan!

A highly entertaining and soothing voice, something that makes the video the better. The last game I obtained for the switch was Final Fantasy 4, the next one will be Suikoden 1+2. I am looking forwards to Dragon Quest 12.

This is an amazing list for the steam deck also i have a lot of these games on my wishlist and you had me adding more.

Thank you so much for this mate. saved to watch later while on static bike. Appreciate you buddy

Legend of Mana is the first Mana game I played on my PS1 with my brother. Having it on the Switch lit my heart as I get to play it on the go. Having to own this physically with Collection of Mana and Trials of Mana Remake are great to played on the go.

Thanks for all your hard work Jordan!!!!

The perfect video I was looking for. Thank god. I use my switch mainly for trips and I love having lengthy games on it to enjoy them when I travel. So JRPGs and Nintendo Portable console are like the perfect combo.

You're the best Jordan! For real! Your channel and Switch Watch are my favourite. I've recommended your channel to a friend, and any who'd be looking for recommendations on the Nintendo Switch. God Bless!

Have 86 Games at Home. Great Selection of JRPG. Thanks 4 this Video 😊

Note: Mary Skelter 2 has Mary Skelter 1 on the cart. Originally, you had to beat 2 to unlock 1. But there is a small download (not an update) that makes it available right away.

Glad someone acknowledges the existence of NEO The World Ends With You

Great video! If i could add, I think you should definitely try out any of the Trails series games. My personal favorite is the Crossbell series Trails of Zero and Trails of Azure. One of the best stories in my opinion

Your vids have saved me twice now. The 353 Imports vid, I didnt know about the censorship with Pocky and Rocky and literally just had amazon cancel my delivery the day before your video dropped. Here, I thought the new double pack of Rhapsody games were the only two games and and that the Prinny Presents V3 was just one of those Rhapsody games in that bundle.

My favorite physical jrpg series I have is the Xenoblade series, it's so good

I appreciate this list, I am missing a lot of good titles. I'm trying to buy more JRPGs lately to add in my collection. AND hopefully find time to play all😂. Tho not mentioned, Battle Network Legacy Collection is an awesome buy to add in collection. Love that series as a kid.

Wow!!! We are living in one of the best eras in videogames History!!!

What a great video! Love your content, Jordan.

Oh Wow great video. Good job. I feel Super⭐️As always there are some I thought I had but don’t. Have to rectify that issue lol👍🏾

Always looking to increase my physical JRPG collection so this a great list i already have a ton of. I do feel the NIS section is lacking without Labyrinth of Refrain and Labyrinth of Galleria though (unless my fat finger on the search bar caused me to skip them in which case disregard this comment!). Edit: just looked more closely and saw them listed separately if the NIS section. Carry on!

I love Dragon Quest and I bought my NSwitch just to play DQ11. I just hope they also put 456789 on Switch and release 10 globally. I love your list! Definitely gonna check all others. I love JRPGs.

192 games on 1 console is nuts. But I truly commend you for putting this together 🙏🏾🙏🏾 listened to every last recommendation

I agree, if you haven't played SaGa dip your toes into one. It's a love it or hate it series, but if you end up liking it you won't find other games like it anywhere else.

Saving the best for last xenoblade for the win as always. Also appreciate the shear dedication needed to put these together

Another fine video Jordan, Respect for the effort... You DO have quite a big care-home following, my Gran in Rotherham would LOVE for you to volunteer! She said "Tell him I'VE got a REALLY in depth character development system! Ha Ha..." Then she started coughing and I was asked to leave

I played Stranger of Sword City on Vita and its a lot of fun.

I wonder if Valkyrie Profile will be on the Switch one day. What a great game😊😊😊

very hard work , tanks man

192 ESSENTIAL titles of the most time consuming genre haha, it's hard to consider it essential, good video.

Great list! Thanks for putting it together. No Neptunia games tho? Some of those have physical release. Also I know it's not technically a JRPG but Undertale feels a lot like one and it's physical on the Switch.

You pretty much covered it all here

Hack , tales of series, and Death End 1+2 ( idea factory, known for Neptunia games) and atelier are definitely hidden gems imo despite that I'm still new to the Atelier games , like dragon quest and other Jrpgs not massively boomed in the USA etc they have strong strong followings . ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Octopath/Bravely Default, SMT/Persona, FF, DQ, Xenoblade and almost all of Nihon Falcom, Square Enix and Bandai Namco's JRPGs are essential. Lots of hidden gems too, some great, masterpieces or mid, plain forgettable or cringe, but thats the charm I never get tired of

that's a lot of jarpigs. only skimmed a couple points I'm interested in for the moment, but big +1 on Trails in the Sky needing some sort of current, non-PC release. In English. Cold Steel 1 and 2 have less excuse because those DO have Switch versions already.

I just came across your channel randomly and now I have to subscribe my favorite JRPG is Final Fantasy X-2,some that I’ve played besides that are: Final Fantasy X (I got the bundle) Bravely Default 2, Blue Reflection Second Light, I’ve played Final Fantasy Zodiac Age. I really wanna get Crisis Core & Fire Emblem. Also wanna play Octopath Traveler

you just quintupled my xmas wishlist

I got Xenoblade chronicles 3 a few months ago. Anime or jrpgs really have never been my scene but I've always been interested in them and would like a starter. Loving this game. I go at it in chunks for sure but it took me a while to understand the fighting system and I still have a ways to go. But my last 2 or 3 play sessions on it are hard to put down and I know I have so much more for this game to offer. Deff has opened my eyes and I got persona 5 via trade ins not too long ago. Another rabbit hole to go down.

I’d be interested to see a spreadsheet of meta critic scores for all he’s discussed

Surprised Mario + Rabbids games wasn't mentioned. In my honest opinion, there the best RPG games for the system next to Dragon Quest 11: S Definitive Edition. It may not look like an RPG. But it kinda is. It's an Tactical RPG/Strategy game. They are great and it's certainly an better Mario RPG than the modern Paper Mario games we got today.

Man this video is a true epic 👏👏

Hi, what game is at the 0:49 time stamp? And any recommendations for games very similar to Golden Sun and Golden Sun: Lost Age?

192 essential jrpgs... this guy understands. Subscibe

Hey Jordan, I love your videos! Could you make a video on Switch shmups? Thanks!

I'm only missing about 44 or 45 of the games in the list. I've been purchasing the Pixel remaster in reverse order. I just got to Final Fantasy 2. I love the FFX/X-2 Asian version. The audio is in English.

Great list! Though you didn’t mention Kingdom Hearts or Megaman Battle Network Collection.

Great list! Still many I want to pick up for my own collection. I would also include Heroland. And perhaps not *quite* fitting the JRPG genre by some people’s standards, the Akiba’s Trip games are perhaps worth mentioning as well.

ABitMoreJordan And His Channel Switch Watch Is The YT Channel That Got Me Into Collecting Physical Nintendo Switch Games Especially All The Ones With Fan Service And Hardcore Fan Service On The Nintendo Switch.

8:10 Literally thought that said Salsa Frontier when I first saw it lmao

Hey... this video is amazing 👏 👏

I like the list. You forgot about Sword & Fairy series. Sword & Fairy Together Forget released last week on the PS5. There is also Sword & Fairy 6 that came out way back in 2015.

This is insane!

Rhapsody retrospective yes!

No love for Shining Resonance Refrain? I love that game

There is this game I have to play anytime I watch your vids. It doesn't have an official name and never seems to have an ending and can be quite challenging at times, best thing I can call it is budget simulator! How is it that my second least powerful console has amassed the highest total spend and most amount of software?

Thank you Jordan for helping me continue to support the economy by showing me more games I now want to buy.

Now to add a title - there is also Tokyo Xanadu on the switch. Yes, it's only in Japanese but if you aren't cops then there is a port of full translation from pc for modded switches

omg i thought it was romancing salsa this whole time 💀

What about 13 Aegis Rim? Yes, it's similar to Digimon Survive with the Visual Novel storytelling and tactical battle system. However, it's a pretty good game with a great story.

..this video just prove that the Switch is the New King of RPG games 🎮❤️

Pretty nice list. Although for me i'll added Cris Tales and Mario + Rabbids on the list.

Time for Xseed to put all their Falcom games on the Switch! Guess I'll have to email them again.

We need the Suikoden series brought over to the switch. Great games that would bring 100s of hours.

No Astral Chain? Amazing anime-style Action RPG from PlatinumGames with some of the best music, combat and graphics on the Switch!

Hey Jordan, first of all for everything you do :) I watched your content over on SwitchWatch for several years now and lately branched out into your other content :) The research you do, your opinion and just everything is excellent. In fact your stuff is one of the go to material I recommend to others when talking about gaming content. But (and here is a big but now), while I always appreciate your opinion on the SaGa series, Legend of Mana, Rhapspdy and everything else (YES, there are actually quite some really nice kemco games out there) you sadly are just wrong with your opinion on NiNoKuni xP As a fellow Suikoden AND monster taming game I have to say that while NiNoKuni 1 is a nice ghibli game, the monster taming elements in it are only mediocre at best and the recruitment mechanic is just terrible. In fact the DS Version of NiNoKuni 1 handles this so much better and is in fact (at least in my opinion) the superior version of it. Sadly it never got out of japan and so people in the west have to use a translation patch. NiNoKuni 2 on the other hand feels like NiNoKuni mixed with Suikoden, as you can build your own city, wage war against other countries, recruit lots of playable and non-playable characters and so on. And this time around, there is no ither version of the game. So as a fellow Suikoden fan you just have to appreciate NiNoKuni2 for what it does and so it easily wins the match between these 2 ;) (Don't take all of this too seriously x3 Why I mean what I say, your taste on games is brilliant :) Please go on with what you do❤ )

You're the greatest guy in the world. Man.

For the Asia/japan releases only can we in America get them with English or no?

The Etrian Collection wasn't "remade". They just remastered them and made some changes for gameplay on one screen.

a jrpg list that includes Super Robot Wars. You get a sub just for that.

I also have an RPG to mention: Ring Fit Adventure.

No Sakuna of Rice and ruin? 😥

Imagine if you did a list like this for the n64... You sure wouldn't reach 192... You'd be lucky to reach 2... Switch had such a great library

big sad to not see Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection. also, i've never played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, but I hear it's pretty solid. probably deserves a spot on the list if Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon is on there.

Can you do the same for point and click adventures? :)

This is an amazing compilation. Thank you so much for making this! Picking up a switch OLED next week and I know my wallet is going to be very angry at me onward.

Trails of cold steel one and two are on the switch though !

No front mission series?

I dont even hav switch but im gonna watch to see if i miss play any rpg lol

Doesn't Death End have really shitty frame rates on Switch or was that actually fixed by the devs in the end? Awesome video as always :D

Jordan doing the Lord's work as usual, Cheers! 💪 谢谢朋友

42:27 Ha! ARSE-eus... sorry... I had to 😂

Is chained echos import already out?

I am totally convinced now that Jordan is an android that doesn't ever sleep.

Why does everyone say that Octopath Traveler and Bravely Default look similar? They are as different as sun and moon. By the way, both games are great rpgs.

Maybe I missed them but I think you forgot Cris Tales [this game rocks! People were too hard on it], and Astria Ascending! Both have physical releases and Cris Tales is super cheap

Oh, NOW someone wants to talk about physical collections.

The title of this video alone was enough to make me click on the video. Absolutely. Stunned. And amazed.

I wish they’d put disgaea 2 on the switch it’s the best one

NIS Games are now on sale!

but what rpg has the best fighting system?

100% Excited for the Suikoden series. I played through 1 ~ 5. Never finished Rhapsodia or the Gaiden series though

We're the same, switch will last long longer if you play jrpg only, it doesn't require a lot of pressing no combination buttons at all, my lite has no history of repair😂❤️