Top 25 MUST-PLAY JRPGs on PS4 and SWITCH! 

It's crazy how people say the switch has been lacking in games. It's filled to the brim with games if you bother look beyond triple A games. My RPG backlog for the switch alone is crazy huge.

You hit me with the first one on the list! I just finished Trails From Zero a week ago and started up Azure right after. Love the cast of characters in the Crossbell arc!

I think 13 sentinels aigis rim deserves a place in this list

Never heard of Redemption Reapers! Looks right up my alley. Thanks for pointing it out!

Erick, thank you for recommending death end request 1 and 2. The story is crazy but I really like the battle system. Using the enemies as ping-pong balls is hilarious

I'm playing chained echoes right now, and so far I would call it a must play. I haven't played anything this good in a long time.

Started The DioField Chronicle earlier this week. Hoping to really dive into it more this weekend.

Perfect timing for me, just got out of the hospital and will be mostly stuck in bed for weeks. Let's see if there's anything on there I haven't played yet or feel like replaying :) might give me some shopping inspiration.

God tier list Erick. Finally, some love for God Eater 3. God Eater 2 Rage Burst was still my favorite. As for my backlog on this list: Persona 3/4, Diofield, Tactics Ogre, .hack, DQ11, Valkyria Chronicles, and YS9.

Thank you for reminding me of The Alliance Alive and the Valkyria Chronicles games.

As for Trails im playing Crossbell Arc recently, Valkyria is something ive finished recently, and its really great game, and i want give another chance to Chrono Cross after mentioned updates.

Fuga Melodies of Steel is my favorite Videogame. I bought it in March 2022 and have played through it 13 times since. I am not quite as over the moon about the second game but its still really good in my book and I love the Characters in this one even more then in the first game. I played through it twice and I have unlocked the secret teaser fore the third game. I look foreward to my third playthrough where I try out things I learned in my new game plus play through in a normal playthrough.

10:55 I knew people didn't like it, but I figured there were more issues than just graphics. Thanks for setting the record straight. Great list, by the way!

Excellent list!

What about Xenoblade Chronicles 1-3? These games are absolute fantastic and a must play in my opinion.

Very good list, Erick.

Hey dude, great list!!!. I never try Atelier is it good? worth it?

Great list man 🤘

I love Vesperia battle system. My only gripe about it is that bosses should never have access to overlimit like that again. Sometimes it's fine, and sometimes they abuse it to the point of using it in impossible situations. And overlimit right as the overlimit ends. Kind of kills the enjoyment to watch your characters get pelted by the same MA for the fifth time within 30 seconds. An exaggeration but they could actually do that if they wanted to. I don't know about future installments and if they fixed that or not as I haven't been able to get them. The only other Tales games I touched after Vesperia was Tales of World 2 and 3. I always wanted a chance to play Graces though.

Ys8 is amazin I played it on pc will be playing on my switch soon just waiting for the summer sale to start playing 8 protabely sounds super fun

ANY TIME you put Chrono Cross as #1 on the top of a list, I'M HERE FOR IT! :D

Best rpg channel on RU-vid 💪🏼

Not gonna lie Erick. Solid list. All of these are awesome.

These games are all on Steam aswell. Thanks for the list!

Does the patch for Chrono cross work on the physical copy? Or is the patch digital only?

2:15 finally someone mentioned God eater 3 , i love God eater series.. I have been playing that series since psp days ..

I really need to play ys9 and Crono cross death end looks amazing too I never even heard of those games until you talked about them.

Whoa, Death End Request isn't somethin' I thought I'd see in somethin' like this. Great experience, poppin' off Neptunia I didn't expect that game to be so dark!

I started playing JRPG's three years ago and have only played one game on this list! My backlog is ridiculous now.

thanks for reminding trails series!!

Been interested in Fuga for a while but I forgot about it way back when it was announced.

I have Ys 8 (finished), Nier Automata and SMT 3 already. Honestly their is way too many games to get into. Wish I had the time and money. I forgot that I played "I am Setsuna" already as well. It's been a while though.

Hey Eric, trails of cold steel 1 y 2 are available on PS4 on deluxe edition with some extra collectables

How about Grandia 1 and 2 HD? I know it's a limited run release and very hard to get physically though.

Hey Erick, if you could only play 1 game from this list what would it be?

Crazy good list. Also, a top tier RPG like Fuga needs a physical release. Many lesser games have been released on disc.

Surprised Chained Echoes didn't make the list

Valkyria Chronicles have now 15th Anniversary, and still no sign from Sega about this series is still alive or not. Unfortunately that means series is dead for good :(

i have almost all of these except for like 3 and i bought redemption reapers after seeing this(it was on sale)

The possible reason for Redemption Reapers going under the radar and/or didn't get bought/played is because it got bad reviews Day 1. I still want to get it but I will wait for a price drop. Not sure if you reviewed the game for the different outlook or not.

I am Setsuna is a must play for JRPG players. Heartbreaking story behind the cute design.

personally if you are interested on atelier ryza PLS TRY ATELIER AYESHA, atelier ayesha has such a beautiful story and charming characters with good personalities, try it!

Thanks for the recomendetion I’ll see redemption reapers and inmediatly buy it, a masterpiece!! And least a fire emblem-like on ps4

Baten Kaitos 1 & 2 coming to Switch soon to join this list.

Surprised SMTV isn't on the list. Great list btw thou.

Definitely loved Persona 4 Golden as I never played Golden before, was not a fan of the PS4 remake of Persona 3 as I hadn't read any reviews beforehand and didn't realize it wasn't a remake of the PS2 version

whenever i see a listing for i am setsuna, I always think about the completely ignored lost sphere

I'm suprised there isn't any Xenoblade Chronicles game on the JRPG list, the games are fantastic

No timestamp ?

I want to give Valkyria Chronicles a try I have owned them for ages if I can ever pull myself away from Zelda

all of these are on Steam as well!

Persona 5 Royal and Persona 4 Golden should’ve been in the Top 5

And I will most likely play most of these on my steam deck and or pc.

I own 23 of the 25. I'm missing Fuga and Redemption Reapers (which I've never even heard of before this video). Excellent list, although I would have found a way to squeeze the Final Fantasy games on there, VII through XII.

Doesn't matter how much people recommend Persona 3-4-5 to me, I just can't get into those games, I don't know why! Maybe the protagonists or the style, especially 5! Gotta admit I only played the demo for Nier Automata when it came out, I liked it but wasn't impressed by it but I think I need to get that one! I still wonder how it's a RPG?!

The two systems I collect for lol (also GameCube tho)

ähm why is SMT 6 not on the list while 3 is there?

timestamps WHERE?

PSP remakes are always good 👍

Why didn’t you mention at least 1 Xenoblade Chronicles?

Só Nice to see nier automata in the list! For the glory of mankind!

Resonance of Fate ❤️

Luckily I downloaded all of the SMT/Persona games on my PS3. I think P3 FES is by far the best version.

I know this will get lost in the comments, but could you potentially cover Eroge? Eroge was extremely important to the JRPG genre (and VN genre, YU-NO in particular essentially founding the major pillars of modern visual novels) and is where many large innovations come from. They deserve some respect put on their names for their rich history and their importance, and I think it would make an interesting video that may become among your most viewed.

No final fantasy?

whos the blonde chick in the title card with kasumi?

Recently I've gotten into jrpgs again and I'm addicted I wanna make new friends to discuss jrpgs if anyone knows of and chats or communities I could join it would be greatly appreciated thanks

Shin Megami Tensei 3 is good but not that good and DQ11 is up to high

It is really anoying that Falcom released TOCS 3 and 4 on switch but not 1 and 2...I know there are licencing issues but it would have been good to have them in one place.

nice!

Surprised you listed the Diofield Chronicle... it got terrible reviews. I had a preorder of the collector's edition, and as soon as I saw some of the reviews, I canceled it. No regrets there... I tried the demo and didn't much care for it. Otherwise, almost all the games I would have included are on your list with a few exceptions. "No teenagers here fighting god with the power of friendship." 🤣🤣🤣 Does it at least have fishing and does the boss have three final forms? If not, is it even technically allowed to call itself a JRPG?

Put it on time stamp next time

I think all of these games are also on the PC so that's another platform they're on and one less excuse for people to not play them.

Need more PC love, C'mon!

Expecting Astral Chain at first place Not that clunky,weird and old mess of crono cross

Erick saying God Eater games are better than Monster Hunter has me instantly intrigued.

When I sold all of my legend of heroes games for drugs many years ago…… 😢

Interesting how smt5 didn’t make the list.

Fuga needs a dual pack physical

P5R also has a PS5 version. It's more than just the frame rate that's changed: some of the "shots" are "reframed," there are better visual effects in some places, the sound is noticeably punched up, and so on. It's worth the price, really, even if, like, you've sunk a couple hundred hours into the PS4 version. It's like seeing a favorite movie in an art house theater, after only watching it on home media for years. It's a different experience, and you'll understand when you experience it.

no xenoblade? 😢

You forgot ni no kuni 1 and 2!

As an only JRPG player, I also recommend Scarlet Nexus. The game is soo underrated

Thank u so much i have many Jrpg games i can play on ps4 now(⁠⌐⁠■⁠-⁠■⁠)

Hello backlog, it’s been awhile……….

These are games but they need badly a remake. Lol.

I like your number 1. For a PS2 game, it is one of the best

Yo man, what about us Xbox players? We need help finding good ones since there are so few of them on the console. I’ve bought all of the ones you have recommended in the past that are on Xbox. Y’s Origin is 🔥

I've become fatigued and tired of turn-based combat. It is so tedious going through real time control then chop away into what now feels like a separate part of the game that is the turn based combat, esp random encounters - which is so annoying

He said god eater is better than monster hunter.....😢 CANCELED UNSUBSCRIBED 😂 Lol jkjk

When he said God Eater is better than Monster Hunter, I knew he was a bad reviewer. God Eater is fun but lacks the polished gameplay and originality that MH has. MH is the OG and nothing has come close to being even half as good.

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH

Some of these are worth playing...................if you get it second hand/used. Unless you love censorship, better get the originals (like Chrono Cross) or play the japanese version (like P5R).

❤👌👍

Persona 3 is great but the pacing is terrible

not gonna be popular opinion but I don't think Valkyria 4 deserve to be on this list. like, there's many other game like Zelda BOW, Zelda TOTK, Xenoblade series, etc... antagonistsin valkyria 4, IMO is very poorly written. they don't have substance and feels very one dimensional as character. like why do the traitor (forgot his name) turn traitor again? iirc he knows the valkyira kid he want to save is a fucking core to the subs (I forgot if he already knew they're also atomic bomb "core") and still attacks with full force leading to one Subs to self destruct. in other words, some kid dead. that other kid could be the kid he want to save, what the heck! tank commander boss and Valkyria boss are kinda out of place too IMO. it's like watching soap opera unfolding. the mad scientist is just being mad scientist. Only saving grace is gameplay that they polish over time. grenadier in 4th is too OP though. Kinda like that playable character can die for real in 4th though. got 2 death by the end of my play. I haven't played 1st yet (installed, just need to find the motivation to), but 2nd and 3rd has much better story, moral, and antagonist than 4th even with their weakness (2nd game is too grindy and don't even mention class up system grind. 3rd I can't find fault except it never go west and only have English fan translation to cope with). anyway, thanks for making the list, will surely try out some of them.

make a 30 min vid with no skips? bye

7:55 I don't know about that one. It has furries. Of all the internet communities, furries are notorious because they behaved so badly when the furries held a convention that the venue had to ban them from ever returning.

Re:Quest and good writing?? No. Just no. Pacing was god awful. I couldn't play for more than few hours. But to each his own..

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