Final Fantasy Tactics. I love Unicorn Overload, but I hate the forced dating crap so that keeps it from dethroning Final Fantasy Tactics. Another runner-up is Triangle strategy. I like Vakharia Chronicles One more than Four
Unicorn overlord gameplay wise. 13 sentinels for story. Both from vanillaware. Vanillaware is king and IMO a top 3 gaming company up their with Larian and From Software.
I'm on the minority that prefers engage over three houses, the graphics, the combat, all of the characters from past games, it's just so good in my opinion. Yes the sim side of it is basic, and so is the story, but I don't play tactical jrpgs for the simulation side of things, and gameplay wise engage is superior.
I would also recommend Wandering Sword maybe, idk if it's a game I'd recommend everyone, and some systems were a little confusing at the beginning, but the story was really engaging and the open world exploration was really good, you really felt like a wandering samurai (duh) I guess it's a tactical rpg, even if the grid is really small and without much going on, you end up being able to use multiple characters in battle, idk
I've put tons of hours into the first 5 games on this list. Complete bangers. I've dabbled in Disgaea 7 and have Tactics Ogre Reborn and Valkyrie Chronicles 4 in my backlog.
I don’t know that I’d say Engage de-emphasizes “social aspects” when 3H doesn’t really emphasize social aspects, at least not to a degree any greater than Engage does. You will be primarily spending your time playing thinking about how what you’re doing effects the gameplay. 3H just takes more time *within* its gameplay to incorporate its story and characterization, which isn’t something unique to social simulation nor persona, although there are inspired elements which I think is good for an RPG considering how successful and broadly loved persona is. Engage just doesn’t have much characterization or story to tell, so it doesn’t (outside of dedicated cutscenes), which is fine for people who just want to play the game and don’t care for story/characters
Unicorn Overlord - despite its title - it’s a perfect “itch scratching” game for anyone looking for new strategy RPGs - I’ve played most of the rest of the games on this list and UO is the first that I’ve immediately wanted to start over after beating the game. Check it out if you haven’t already
I wondered why Disgaea 5 instead of 7 but then I realized that 7 is quite different from the earlier entries (3D models, no magichange, Demon Shogi, Battle rewards).
I played Langrisser Mobile for a bit on release. I'm glad to see they reused the assets for the remake. I'm sure it'll play out similarly but without the gacha. 😊
@@TagTheLegend I would pick fire emblem engage engage merely because I favour gameplay above anything else ( 3 houses have a clearly better story tho) If I were to pick according to story = triangle strategy
I would also recommend some indie titles like Dark Deity and Symphony of War. Trying to give more options to the more mainstream titles. Dark Deity is more fire emblem like, while Symphony of War did come out before Unicorn Overlord, their systems are heavily similar to one another. Both are available on Steam and Dark Deity was ported to Switch
If you are new in tactical JRPG, I highly recommend to start with Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions. One of the greatest tactics of all time.
I just want Unicorn Overlord on my steam deck man sigh. Can’t play it til I move in with my SO who has a ps5 lol. I’m impatient thoughhhh. Great video but had to skip the Unicorn Overlord part so I don’t cry
I wouldn't recommend Diofield Chronicles at all. The game lacks variety and character upgrades/cuztomizations. Half way through the game and I'm already bored to death. The only good thing about this game is the character portrait. Resold.
I know fire emblem since 2013 play it on the crappy samsung dial phone with $50. the game was made by china on that phone with 6 series. I never got the chance to own a nintendo product until 2019 when I finished uni and got job and got money to buy console, pc and games. Still Fire Emblem brought back child hood memories.
Sadly, when "Stacking characters" became meta in Disgaea, that's when I lost all interest in playing the games. I wish I could get back into them, but there's such an emphasis on this - unless that's changed, Idk.
Fire Emblem Engage felt so boring compared to Three Houses. I never got to finish it because I always felt sleepy while playing it. Music is a lullaby, characters speak so monotone, story numbs you.. Well maybe story would have gotten better over time but it really came to me as a snoozefest meant to put you asleep at night.
Most of those games are super good. But for me Vakirie Chronicle is not that good. I don’t know, I was so hyped at first, but gameplay quickly became boring for me 🥲 the story and characters are very good though, they’re the reason makes me complete the game
You mean "Valkyria Chronicles"? I never been interested. I just find it weird, its a shooting war but tactics. Why they don't make it into third person shooter instead, it makes more sense.
Three houses got Koei Tecmo involved. But Engage this time only Intelligent is the only one develop the game. no wonder I felt the difference. three houses on field u still see character wield the equip weapon. in engage, regardless of what weapon equip, you will always see iron sword on the field. the only way to see the character wielding correct weapons is to press - to zoom and view character in details or in battle.
How do we make a list of games to try in 2024, and then list games from 20 years ago. You cant find anything to fill out the list thats recent? So lazy
Final Fantacy Tactics is better than all the others in the list. I'll list a few examples. It's perma death gives to a chance to save your characters. That alone makes it better than Fire Emblem. It doesn't have that stupid dating sim like in Unicorn Overload (the only thing I don't like about that game) It doesn't have multiple endings like triangle strategy. (I loved the game until the terrible ending) To be clear, this is my opinion and I'm not saying the others care bad games, just that I put Final Fantasy tactics above the rest.
This is possibly the main reason I never liked nor interested to even touch any Fire Emblem games since PSX era. I more prefer Square-like or Atlus-like JRPG.