Recommend me a Sega JRPG for the PS2

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Yakuza 1 & 2 are RPGs for the PS2, kinda surprised I'm the first to mention it

Odin Sphere is also owned by SEGA iirc, the reason Vanillaware's games went to different developers was to avoid competition with Persona

 

[UnDubious]

Yakuza 1 & 2 are RPGs for the PS2, kinda surprised I'm the first to mention it

Odin Sphere is also owned by SEGA iirc, the reason Vanillaware's games went to different developers was to avoid competition with Persona

Odin Sphere was published by Atlus. Not sure what you mean when you say it "went to different developers". Vanillaware is the developer. Sega owns it now by extension since it bought Index Holdings, which owned Atlus. But they had nothing to do with Odin Sphere when it came out.

I agree that Yakuza 1 & 2 are basically an evolution of action RPGs... but I'm not sure it's what people think of when they say "JRPG", so I tend not to mention it in that context.

 

[Sinmenon]

Sega bought Atlus in 2013, so no, none of those PS2 games count. Besides, Sega never merged Atlus into itself. Atlus remained its own company creatively, with most of the same people still working there in key positions.

I'm aware.
iirc, Atlus went bankrupt after the release of Persona 4, which was made with a shoestring budget. Atlus was then bought by another company that also went bankrupt due to fraud, and Sega acquired that company.
This is why I said "technically", and to give some leeway for more options. I did list all that got an English release, not counting the published ones.

 

[UnDubious]

I'm aware.
iirc, Atlus went bankrupt after the release of Persona 4, which was made with a shoestring budget. Atlus was then bought by another company that also went bankrupt due to fraud, and Sega acquired that company.
This is why I said "technically", and to give some leeway for more options. I did list all that got an English release, not counting the published ones.

You said "It was during this generation that SEGA bought Atlus and SAMMY, so (...Atlus games) technically apply." It wasn't in that generation. It was in 2013, a good while after. So Sega didn't own them. "Technically" doesn't change the meaning of the sentence. Sammy bought Sega in 2003, btw.

Atlus didn't go bankrupt after Persona 4. Index Holdings, which had fully taken over Atlus in 2010 (after first buying some of it in 2006), went bankrupt in 2013 for reasons that don't seem to have much to do with Atlus. That's 5 years after Persona 4 (2008).

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Odin Sphere was published by Atlus. Not sure what you mean when you say it "went to different developers". Vanillaware is the developer. Sega owns it now by extension since it bought Index Holdings, which owned Atlus. But they had nothing to do with Odin Sphere when it came out.

I agree that Yakuza 1 & 2 are basically an evolution of action RPGs... but I'm not sure it's what people think of when they say "JRPG", so I tend not to mention it in that context.

I’m late to this but my fault, I should’ve said Vanillaware’s games went to different publishers and didn’t notice the fuck-up till now.