SNES-like Role Playing Games on Other Consoles and Handhelds - SNESdrunk 

I always appreciated the "Have a great test of your day" at the end of your videos. It's oddly comforting, especially compared to the usual "don't forget to like, comment and subscribe" you get from most other content on this site. I hope you're not letting the aggressive comments of children and shut-ins affect you. Your videos are seriously some of the most informative I've run across. I value this channel immensely, and I would hate to see you give up due to RU-vid comments.

Suikoden feels very much like a SNES RPG that changed platforms mid-development. The structure of the game, the layout of towns, the combat system, it's doing its very best to take every cue from SNES RPG classics.

Reading the comments makes me wanna get rich and catch up on RPGs for the rest of my life.

Ogre Battle 64 was incredible! Loved creating my own army with awesome characters like Ankiseth, Destin, and Biske.

You should check out Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast and GameCube.

I'm so glad you remembered Radiant Historia. The Mario and Luigi games are also great. Particularly the first and third ones.

Radiant Historia was a sleeper hit. Yoko Shimomura outdid herself with the soundtrack.

Holy crap... no bitching here! You mentioned my favorite RPG on a handheld system, of ALL TIME. Radiant Historia is a masterpiece and something I mention over and over on my channel. The combat is SO good. The graphics and music are SO good. Why does no one talk about it...? Glad you gave it some love. I need to get back to it though... I'm about 25 hours in. Wild Arms rules, as does Grandia. Arc the Lad is very SNES-like! Great list, good sir.

Ah, great list! You actually compiled a excellent set-up for anyone looking to expand thier horizons, and huge props to you for including some oft-overlooked gems like Ogre Battle 64 and Rdiant Historia :D

I'm glad someone finally mentioned the greatness that is Phantasy Star IV. Even being a huge Nintendo fan, PSIV and the two Shining Force games on the Genesis are some of my favorite of all time.

Ogre Battle 64 is one of the greatest games ever made!

Love Golden Sun, I agree that they are pretty text heavy, but I think they are still worth playing

The Shinning Force games & especially the Phantasy Star games were amazing rpg's and were my favorite series growing up. I highly recommend everyone to play them.

I've never owned an SNES, so your channel is a great way to vicariously explore the console. Definitely planning to get a Switch Lite and Switch Online someday for the SNES games.

Oh man Lunar brings me way back. There is a sequel that's great too!

Man, your channel is so good. So many well-made, consistently entertaining videos. This is one of the best places for soaking up retro game nostalgia. Keep up the good work!

Awesome list! Can't believe you mentioned Wild Arms, Xenogears, Shining Force, Golden Sun, some of my favorites growing up!

Mother 3 should have been on the SNES.

I got “Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology” on 3DS for Christmas this past year and loved it! Amazing stories and characters! I’m not the biggest fan of the battle system, but it’s not bad at all, just not my favorite. They tried something new with it and succeeded.

Your channel is one of the only ones I regularly check. Keep it up!

IMO the best video you've done, highlighting the best games of the genre for that era

Thank you so much for this vid. This game me some ideas as for what to play next.

Great video SNES Drunk....one of the best retro game reviewer on RU-vid. Always well balanced.

Another awesome video! Keep up the great work and keep making awesome videos! You have helped me discover some really great games. Thanks!

excellent video! Suikoden is my fav RPG series, it's very fast and very little grinding, with a collectathon of characters. Def a good pick for SNES types.

Nice to see Radiant Historia get some love. Absolutely outstanding game.

Man. I really enjoy your channel. I found it looking for vids that played more than 1 rpg song at a time. I have been subbed for a good while now and I gotta say. I love how you acknowledge Breath of Fire and Lufia once in a while. I know they aren't the best RPGs. But for me, they kind of got me into the genre. So thanks for that. Off to go get Radiant Historia.

"Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware" Love the videos

I really enjoy your videos and takes on things. Your opinions are usually unbiaised and well-thought. Keep it up bro!

Great video. Glad to see Golden Sun get a mention.

Play suikoden 1 and 2 is a must

Love your videos, short and sweet!

Liked your video, but for rare weird yet great games, in my opinion you by passed a game thats consider a cult game, with great reviews, but plays differently then the majority of its peers. Vagrant Story for the playstation console fits perfectly into this video. Keep up the great work, love your videos from games when i was a teenager, heck even reminded me of the names of games I had forgotten the titles of.

MegaMan legends was my favorite ps game. The way they kept it light hearted in spite of the post apocalyptic setting was great.

The Golden Sun games are sheer classics. Played them tons back in my middle school days. Leveled every character to Lv99 in Lost Age and would play the Coliseum with a finished file for hrs on end re-fighting bosses, back in the good ol days when I actually had time to do stuff like that. Great recommendations here! I look forward to play all of these titles. SnesDrunk, have you played Shining Force 1 yet? I haven't played 2 very much yet but the sound effects in SF1 are soo satisfying, they're like shotgun blasts! It's worth mentioning them both, it also has great characters and a fun story and the game play/graphics and music are all similar to 2.

Brave Fencer Musashi!

Glad to see Ogre Battle 64 getting some love. I first played that game back in the 90s holy shit did it ever exceed my expectations. Most N64 games have not aged well, but Ogre Battle 64 actually stands out because it has aged SO well.

God, I'm so glad you mentioned Radiant Historia. I wasnt expecting it to pop up at all, but its truly a spectacular game that handles time travel very well. I'd also like to add the game Nostalgia to the list, for people who love Final Fantasy games. It's a charming FF-esque game with great graphics for being on the DS, and good music.

Great picks! Keep it up!

Great list I would add final fantasy tactics to the list in an eta of ground breaking fmv and 3d graphics it if pews both and delivered deep systems beautiful sprite work and somehow made grinding fun it took an older simpler style and approach to the next level One of the best tactical rpgs out there Grandia has a very satisfying story glad you mentioned it

Another informative and well made vid. Thanks Drunk.

The three Fire Emblem games on GBA (6 7 and 8) are great if you haven't checked them out. 7 and 8 were released in English.

great vid! would love to see more like this!

Great review. There's some titles on this list that I already love and some that I think I would if I had the chance. I would suggest the Dysgia series, but that was on PS2, so it might be a little out of your spectrum of review. Still, a great series that utilized the "tactics" RPG style very well.

Nice list. Lots of titles I missed

Love your videos SNESDrunk, thanks to you I have discovered so many amazing classic games. If you ever start producing videos on RPGs from Dreamcast and beyond please make it a point to mention Skies of Arcadia. Skies of Arcadia is an Amazing JRPG developed by Sega for the Dreamcast and later ported to the GameCube. This games was simply amazing. It featured some of the best turn based party combat of it's time while also including airship turn based combat as well. The world in which Skies of Arcadia takes place was vast, and such a joy to explore. Its characters were extremely likable, and quite expressive for the time. The game's sound track was extremely catchy and oh so memorable. The only JRPG that has truly come close to matching the brilliance of this game was Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii.

Thanks for giving ogre battle 64 some love it was easily one of the best rpgs ever

That's pretty cool, learned new things today :)

Thanks for another great video, SNES drunk. Love the PS era RPGs and you covered a lot of the great ones. Hadn't really looked into Breath of Fire 3 yet, somehow I missed it when I was younger. Really enjoy the first two, gonna try and pick up the 3rd one, and hopefully I can get my hands on Ogre Battle 64 too!

+SNES drunk. crushing it as always. really enjoyed this video I'll be checking some of these out,never played the shining force games they look cool. have a great day and keep up the fantastic work !

For not being an 'expert' on PSX JRPGs, you did a pretty good job of picking out some of the best ones. I've played most of those that were translated into english and I'd say the best three I've had the pleasure of playing are Grandia, Suikoden II and Xenogears. The PSX really was blessed when it came to JRPGs.

Awesome video!

Great work Sir

Oh, how many, many times I've played Ogre Battle 64...

Great review 👏

huge props for the BOF3 mention, i feel like bof 3 hits all the high notes, except it could have done for a bit more character customization. but the art, the story, the mini games... stellar game. a full gamming experience.

I liked Radiant Historia, but there was a certain part where the difficulty shot up so high I just decided to ignore it. "Nostalgia" for the DS, on the other hand, is an excellent and unique JRPG that is definitely inspired by steampunk and Indiana Jones, well worth playing.

Just played through Radiant Historia last year. It's fantastic

A few summers ago I decided to catch up on all the jrpgs I missed over the years. First games I picked for my "Summer of JRPGs" were Lunar 1 or 2 and... it ended after that. Unfortunately I played, what were for me, the best two first.

No complaints here mate You hit pretty much every noted you could. OH wait WHERE"S FINAL FANTASY TACTICS lol. I picked up Ogre battle 64 a couple years ago knowing it would likely go up in price. Have yet to play it, but that little blurb got me pumped

It's always exciting to see sega saturn games in these lists.. Love it

New subscriber here great list as always!

I think I just recently made a similar comment on another video about classic JRPGs, but the first two Lunar games were first released on the Sega CD (the first one, the original version of Silver Star Story Complete, was just subtitled as "The Silver Star").

Both Lunar games are some of my favorites.

Nice collection

Good video. I still plan on getting my hands on a nintendo 64, just for Ogre Battle.

great video, as usual

Rhapsody, on PS1. I loved to play it with my sisters!

Very happy to see Radiant Historia there. One of my favourite RPGs of the past 10 years. I like to refer to it as the true sequel to Chrono Trigger.

Loved Ogrebattle 64 and the original on the SNES. Not sure how many times I played through them.

Since you mentioned lunar silver star story complete. There's also the sequel Lunar Eternal Blue complete on the same system since it's quite an improvement of the first game and answers quite a few questions from the previous game.

Hey man, great lists, PSX has an amazing list of great rpgs, Xenogears is still my favorite game of all time to this day, you should definitely finish it.

well done video honestly.

I'm roughly 20 hours into PS4, I was worried about the insane grinding I heard about, but it's not too bad. Its true it's one of the better 16 bit RPGs, anyone who's played the SNES classics needs to play it. Its a piece of history.

Golden Sun the Lost Age is probably my favourite game alongside Chrono Trigger, damnit the gameplay from it is perfect

I remember getting ogre battle 64 for Xmas. Good game

You did a fantastic job with this. You missed a few GBA RPG's(Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Riviera: The Promised Land, Mazes of Fate), but other then that I believe you covered almost all of them. All of those Pokemon games and Beyond the Beyond for the PS1 are the only other games I can think of off the top of my head. The latter definitely looks 110% like a SNES RPG. It was actually made by Camelot and is very similar to Golden Sun, but it was made long before it and it has a few annoying flaws.

I'm a simple man. I saw someone reference Ogre Battle 64, I clicked "Like" & subscribed.

Fantastic look into some other system's RPGs! Xenogears happens to be my favorite RPG on the PS1.

Alundra, Breath of Fire 4, Legend of Mana, Tales of Destiny and Valkyrie Profile are nice additions from the PS1; Crimson Gem Saga, Tales of Eternia and Tales of Phantasia are my favourites from the PSP ♥

thank you for your vids sir

Great Video thanks 😀 Arc The Lad 1-3 on Psx Front Mission 3 on Psx Final Fantasy Tactics on GBA are worth to mention too from my Side 😉

Ogre Battle 64 is in my top 10 games of all time. Amazing story, soundtrack, gameplay, depth.

played all of those. I think Lunar was my second favorite game. if you got time, you should try thousand arms since that one made me laugh on more then one occasion growing up.

Lunar 2 for the ps1was a masterpiece that came with a leather bound book, a solid ass pendant, discs on how they made the game and such. And much much much more. How dare you not mention that game!!! Nah jk, you mentioned the first one, but the second one is a fucking masterpiece. Keep up the good content.

How about Sword of Mana? It's a re-imagining of Final Fantasy Adventure on the GBA that, gameplay-wise, tries to tie it in better with other Mana games. It's worth checking out for those who like Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3.

A very SNES like RPG you'd like is Beyond The Beyond. It was made by the guys who'd later go on to make the Golden Sun games, and you can where that got some ideas from those games in this game.

Ogre Battle 64 is a great mention. If for no other reason than it's a solid 2D sprite based RPGish game on the N64 (a rare treat for folks of a certain temperament). If you don't need a ton of bells and whistles in your RPG, some fun mentions on DS would be Nostalgia and Glory of Heracles. The latter being the first game in a long series of solid RPGs to finally make it to the west.

Great list of games I still regret not buying Ogre Battle back in the day. Some other great games to tack on to this list are for Geniuses Shining In The Darkness and for the 64 Hybrid Heaven

Two games I want to share that weren't in the video are Brigandine and Star Ocean: The Second Story, both for the PSX. Brigandine is to me the best SRPG on the PSX. The bevy of characters, monsters, and classes is great. Replayability is great with each faction giving a new experience. The only downsides to this great game are the battle scenes (awful 3D graphics that slow down the gameplay but can be turned off) and the lack of a final boss (that the Japanese version has). If you like games like Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Shining Force, this is a must play. Star Ocean: The Second Story is my favorite RPG for the PSX, just narrowly beating out Xenogears. The combat is fun, the cast of characters is diverse, and again good replayability in trying out both story lines. Someone else will have to point out the downsides to this game, because I can't think of any. Anyway, great video!

Legend of dragoon anyone?

I’m a big fan of your content. I would throw Albert Odyssey for the Saturn onto this as well. Really quality RPG.

Great video U are awesome But lol... Just do a video of shining force 1, shining force 2, and shining force cd In one video It would be awesome and very educational for people who don't know about it They are good games Just underrated

to add a few more from the PSP, Crimson Gem Saga, rather difficult at the beginning and comes off as a tad grind-y, but it is an RPG through and through. Also check out Mana Khemia, it's an RPG with a slice-of-life anime feel, where you get to go to magic school and manage your day to day activities.

Lunar has an amazing remake for the PSP. Definitely my favourite version of the game. Nall isnt annoying in this one!

Lots of good looking games in this list that I missed over the years.

Just tossing one more game into the ring, but if you played Tactics Ogre and Ogre Battle on the SNES and liked Ogre Battle on the Nintendo 64, Gameboy Advance has a prequel game to Tactics Ogre called Knight of Lodis that's surprisingly fun. It incorporates a kind of achievement system into the class system, so that earning the achievement for hitting two enemies with one weapon attack unlocks the spear-wielding valkyrie class, or getting a spell to hit three enemies at once unlocks a more AoE-focused caster class. I've seen a lot of streamers playing all four Ogre games as part of the same challenge, like Coffee Potato beating all four using only faeries, a challenge nearly cut short by one particularly angry chicken enemy.

Xenogears is pretty much my life force. I've played through it from start to finish at least 15 times by now.

Radiant Historia is pretty great. Fun story, I bought a copy of this from some lady at a flea market dirt cheap but when I popped it into my DS I found out it was actually the Japanese version.... Great list, especially since it's out of your comfort zone.