Lookin for JRPG emotional or fun story

[MarioPartyN64]

Lookin for JRPG

I finished:
Earthbound
Mother 3
Lunar (PS1)

Emotional experience was worth it.
(prefer SNES, SATURN, GBA, PS1)
- Chrono and Mana (combat seemed too much energy for me atm).
- Live a Live not feeling it right now. I'll revisit these 3 games later.
(im new to rpgs)

 

[SinAkuma]

Try breath of fire 4 for ps1.

 

[Felipe]

Final Fantasy 6 on SNES, the only RPG with a somewhat well developed story in this console in my opinion.

 

[A4lmond]

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 on the GBA was fun although I never finished it (I'm terrible at actually finishing any games), Super Mario RPG for SNES I also remember playing for hours (idk if I can even count it as a JRPG? lol), PS2/PSP is not one of your preferred consoles but I feel I should still mention Persona 3 and 4 as games with fun stories that get a little intense at times (4 is more lighthearted than 3), I think the first two games in the series are on PS1 but I haven't tried those

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Man i have the temptation to make a joke replying by just "sex" but it won't fit... So I'm gonna tell you Final Fantasy 1

 

[Cantarella]

If you liked Lunar 1, Lunar 2 feels like a good next step. Pretty wacky, pretty high emotions.

 

[Castilho]

Reading your post made me instantly want to recommend Grandia 1 for the psx. Was a highly emotional journey for me.

 

[χKai]

Lufia 2 is an old favorite

 

[nattybohman]

I know this is on newer consoles, but it had a retro style to it... Octopath Traveller had some really good and sometimes emotional stories depending on which characters you chose.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Ohhhhohohoho, there are so many RPGs for you to take a look into, I'd go as far as to say 90% fulfilled at least one of those. A few of my favorites (these are general favorites, so pretty much every console got listed here, just pick out the ones for GBA/PS1/SNES/Saturn if the others aren't doable):

-Final Fantasy VI (SNES)
-Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (DS)
-Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (GameCube)
-Shin Megami Tensei II (SNES)
-Breath of Fire I-IV (I and II on SNES, III and IV on PS1, though IV was recently ported to GOG)
-Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (SNES)
-Mega Man X: Command Mission (GameCube/PS2)
-Etrian Odyssey III (DS/Switch/Steam)
-Shin Megami Tensei IV (3DS)
-Muramasa The Demon Blade/Rebirth (Wii, PSV)
-Fate Extra (PSP)
-Final Fantasy V (SNES)
-Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Redux) (DS, 3DS)
-Persona 4 (Golden) (PS2, PSV, PC, modern consoles iirc)
-Yakuza (PS2)
-Yakuza 2 (PS2)
-Yakuza Kurohyou (PSP)
-Yakuza Kurohyou 2 (PSP)
-Yakuza 3 (PSP)
-Mystic Ark (SNES)
-Ys IV: Dawn of Ys (PC Engine)
-Ys V (SNES)
-Baroque (Saturn)
-Suikoden II (PS1, PC)
-Madou Monogatari (Genesis)
-Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon (Saturn) (actually got fan translated a few days ago, so you may still see it on the Repo)
-Sakura Wars (Saturn)
-Odin Sphere (PS2, PS3, PSV)
-Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (or just Fire Emblem overseas) (GBA)
-Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA)
-Persona 2 duology (both originally were on PS1, but the definitive versions are on PSP. Eternal Punishment is the sequel to Innocent Sin)
-Yggdra Union (GBA, PSP)
-Knights in the Nightmare (DS, PSP)
-Disgaea franchise in general
-Phantasy Star IV (Genesis)
-Tales of Rebirth (PS2) (fan translated)
-Tales of Symphonia (GameCube)
-Sailor Moon Another Story (SNES)
-Princess Minerva (SNES)
-Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1, the Saturn version isn't a good port, but I think there's a hack to make it better)
-Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA)
-Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS)
-Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS)
-Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)
-The World Ends With You (DS)
-Mega Man Battle Network franchise (all on GBA)
-Mega Man Star Force trilogy (all on DS)
-Custom Robo: Battle Revolution (or just Custom Robo overseas) (GameCube)
-Custom Robo Arena (DS)
-Golden Sun trilogy (two on GBA, last one on DS)
-Advance Wars franchise (first two on GBA, last two on DS)
-Popful Mail (Sega CD)
-Phantasy Star Portable (PSP)
-Phantasy Star Portable 2 (PSP)
-Galaxy Fraulein Yuna (PC Engine)
-Medabots (GBA)
-Tales of Phantasia (SNES, PS1)
-Ihatovo Monogatari (SNES) (this one's barely even an RPG tbh)
-Magic Knight Rayearth (Saturn)
-Robotrek (SNES)
-Atelier Marie + Elie (PS2)
-Mana Khemia duology (PS2)
-Black Rock Shooter: The Game (PSP)
-Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn)
-Skies of Arcadia Legends (GameCube)
-Dragon Force (Saturn)
-Dragon Force II (Saturn)
-Linkle Liver Story (Saturn)
-Princess Crown (Saturn)
-Illusion of Gaia (SNES)
-Brain Lord (SNES)
-Terranigma (SNES)
-Secret of Evermore (SNES)
-Lufia II (SNES)
-Treasures of the Rudras (SNES)
-Final Fantasy IV (SNES)

 

[Stare best girl]

SMT1(if you can't tolerate SNES random encounter rate, then play PS1 version) and SMT2
Persona 2 duology(play IS on PS1, avoid the terrible PSP version while EP is fine in both PS1 and PSP)
Dragon Quest V
Xenogears
Panzer Dragoon Saga(play Panzer Dragoon and Panzer Dragoon II Zwei first)

 

[MetalSharkPlayer]

If you played Lunar 1, what are you waiting to try Lunar 2? Its the best one for me. Leo is such an awesome character, reminds me of Vegeta of Dragon Ball Z with his personality and pride.

Xenogears is top tier... Highly inspired on Evangelion as well.

Some people mentioned Breath of Fire 3 and 4, but there is not too much "emotional" stuff on there, really awesome RPGs though.

I think most people just recommended you good RPGs or their favorite RPGs instead of ones with emotional plots going on lol

 

[irkella]

JRPG is a tough term to nail down sometimes, but I'll drop a list of games with a focus on story, and heavy RPG elements. Some are tactical, but the story is still very character-based. I'll try to avoid the *really* obvious ones as well, but since you're new to RPGs, forgive me if some are games you've already heard of.

SNES:
Energy Breaker (English translated)
Front Mission (English translated)
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
Marvelous: Mōhitotsu no Takarajima (English translated)
Mystic Ark (English translation)
Shin Megami Tensei: if... (English translated)
Star Ocean (English translated)
Super Mario RPG
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (English translated)
Tales of Phantasia (English translated)
Terranigma
Xak: The Art of Visual Stage (English translated)

PSX:
Final Fantasy Tactics
Kartia: The Word of Fate
Koudelka
Linda³ (Linda Cube - English translation)
Parasite Eve
PoPoLoCrois Monogatari (English translated)
Revelations: Persona
SaGa Frontier
Suikoden
Vagrant Story
Valkyrie Profile
Wild Arms
Xenogears

Saturn:
Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean
Grandia (English translated)
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Shining the Holy Ark

Others to check out:
DynamiTracer (SNES/Satellaview [En-T])
Langrisser II (Genesis/Megadrive [En-T])
Phantasy Star II (Genesis/Megadrive)
Radiata Stories (PS2)
Thousand Arms (PSX)

 

[Stare best girl]

JRPG is a tough term to nail down sometimes, but I'll drop a list of games with a focus on story, and heavy RPG elements. Some are tactical, but the story is still very character-based. I'll try to avoid the *really* obvious ones as well, but since you're new to RPGs, forgive me if some are games you've already heard of.

SNES:
Energy Breaker (English translated)
Front Mission (English translated)
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
Marvelous: Mōhitotsu no Takarajima (English translated)
Mystic Ark (English translation)
Shin Megami Tensei: if... (English translated)
Star Ocean (English translated)
Super Mario RPG
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (English translated)
Tales of Phantasia (English translated)
Terranigma
Xak: The Art of Visual Stage (English translated)

PSX:
Final Fantasy Tactics
Kartia: The Word of Fate
Koudelka
Linda³ (Linda Cube - English translation)
Parasite Eve
PoPoLoCrois Monogatari (English translated)
Revelations: Persona
SaGa Frontier
Suikoden
Vagrant Story
Valkyrie Profile
Wild Arms
Xenogears

Saturn:
Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean
Grandia (English translated)
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Shining the Holy Ark

Others to check out:
DynamiTracer (SNES/Satellaview [En-T])
Langrisser II (Genesis/Megadrive [En-T])
Phantasy Star II (Genesis/Megadrive)
Radiata Stories (PS2)
Thousand Arms (PSX)

I feel that for Megami Ibunroku Persona will be better wait for Tom's translation as the localization has americanizations and lacks Snow Queen route while PSP has QoLs and at same time has issues like broken encounter rate, changed OST(thankfully encounter rate and OST can be patched) or ugly HUD(although someone is making a new HUD that is closer to PS1)

 

[NachoChi]

SNES: Tengai Makyou Zero (Far East of Eden), Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy V

Saturn: Albert Odyssey (gives Lunar Vibes), Magic Knight Rayearth, Shining The Holy Ark

GBA: Mario and Luigi Super Star Saga, Golden Sun, Riviera The Promised Land, Medabots (Metabee/Rokusho version)

PS1: Tales of Phantasia, Wild Arms, Breath of Fire III, Grandia