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Message: [QUOTE="AI_Apex_Predator, post: 36852, member: 46669"] I think Undertale provided plenty of innovation and was also mainstream. So it goes to show that younger people are receptive to playing them. I really liked the Trails of Cold Steel games too. Falcom has been pretty consistent with JRPGs. Great story, amazing battle system. A lot of QOL updates for the genre in general. The games can run on my laptop from 2014. I've been playing through Fantasian recently. It's more of a callback to the old days than it is something new, but it fixes one of the biggest issues that people have with JRPGs and you can't fight me on this - random battles. Everyone hates them, because they show up at awful times, you lose your place, etc. Even Sakaguchi was irritated with them when he replayed through FFVI. It was something the genre stuck with longer than it had to. I get it, its easier to program. In Fantasian, you have a device that automatically sucks the battle into another dimension without skipping a beat on the map, and you can save the battles for later. When you do fight them, you have to fight a larger stream of monsters. The plus side of this, is that they give you power ups to collect on the field (you have some range control over your attacks). It makes fighting them alot more digestable, instead of repeating the same battle wave after wave. The only thing I wish is that it some of the QOL updates that Trails of Cold Steel has (footprints after battle, indicating where you came from), and a bigger budget like FFXVI. I also think the genre needs better writing. Things that make people feel, or stories that make people question their perception. No more standard manga tropes + terrible pacing. Yakuza 7 was really good about breaking this up. [/QUOTE]

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