the Well-Red Mageさんのイラストまとめ

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As I kid, I definitely thought Vile had a gigantic robot nose even though it's clearly a shoulder-mounted cannon.

💙Active or Wait, play at your speed
💚Hasn't been milked to death or infected with sequelitis
💛Not formulaic
🧡Replay value
❤️Made the best use of the hardware available to it
🤍Still visually stunning
🖤Not Square Enix

11/X

(artist: unknown)

❤️The best Dragon Quest & Dragon Ball, too
🤍Localization not a mess
🖤Not one moody emo Hot Topic protagonist in sight
💜Impresses new players today
💙No politicization
💚No preachy themes
💛No anime perv
🧡No quest markers, lets you figure things out

9/X
(art: HeavyMetalHanzo)

🤍Not a button-mashing ARPG like nearly every JRPG these days
🖤No microtransactions, amirite
💜No need for character development DLC
💙No empty open world waste of time
💚No insane fandom
💛No uncanny valley faces
🧡On the SNES
🤎The best Final Fantasy

8/X

(art: chesterocampo)

🖤Religious imagery isn't ham-fisted
💜Roster of playable characters is the right size for each character to receive development and background (again, Cross or even yon holy FF6)
💙Coined the term New Game + and it actually thematically fits

6/X

(art: amade)

🧡Doesn't take 100 hours to complete or drag itself out
🤎What padding? (Plz don't Remake it, SE)
❤️Story makes sense and is presented with clarity (I'm looking at you Chrono Cross)
🤍Quasi-sequel/spin off Chrono Cross one of the best PS1 JRPGs

5/X

(art: Xavier Garcia)

🤍Not a ton of boring exposition to sit through
🖤Akira Toriyama's cutscenes (they're on YouTube!)
💜At the crest of the 90s JRPG golden age
💙Not early 3D (sorry, polygonal Cloud)
💚Multiple endings
💛Balanced linearity and freedom

4/X

(art: Robert Porter)

🤎No JRPG voice acting cringe
❤️Story doesn't rely on a ton of JRPG tropes/cliches
🤍Not a sequel/part of an existing franchise: no baggage of tradition
🖤Strong female characters
💜Accessible gameplay
💙Square's classic ATB system combining tactics & time

2/X

(art: AbyssWolf)

#TWRMQOTD

No single game will be for absolutely everyone, given differences in tastes, preferences, skills, and talents and so on.

Can you name an iconic/popular game series that you just can't get into, for whatever reason?

I can name a few.