This month, I’ll be having my favorite cereal, “Oops, all FF7R2.” There’s a lot of side content, it seems.

I will finish Persona 3R, start Final Fantasy Vii Rebirth and Unicorn overlord. And 2 coop games. I think that’s to much for this month. Bug i have more time than on Februar.

I’m not really a JRPG person at all, but I picked up a SteamDeck with hopes of getting myself back into gaming and kicked up Final Fantasy X on a whim. I’m probably about half way through and having a great time so far. I grew up watching my brother play a lot of FF games (although I can’t say that I remember any of them ever being beaten), so I have a soft spot for them.

I’m not really sure what I’m going to play next. I have a list of other JRPGs that I’d like to play, but I also started playing Suikoden II, so if I stick with it I’ll probably play something non-JRPG on the side to try and avoid burning myself out on the genre.

Last month was a little more JRPG-heavy for me! Here’s what I played:

• Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Torna: The Golden Country. I was quite disappointed with this one. I wouldn’t call it outright bad or anything, but I had sky-high expectations going into it after enjoying XB2 and seeing tons and tons of positive word-of-mouth for Torna over the years. A big part of the problem was side questing was not what I enjoyed about XB2 (I actively avoided it, really), and it’s mandatory in Torna. Between that and those main story quests that essentially were side quests, there was surprisingly little story-centric content when all was said and done. I was enjoying the new characters and wanted to know more about one of the old ones, so I felt kinda cheated in the end.
• Atelier Meruru. My fourth Atelier, and my favorite so far! The big cast was a lot of fun, and I got a kick out of the kingdom development. There were components of each of the Arland games that I really liked, so between that and being told that time limits are less of a thing as the series goes on, I think my favorite Atelier game is still ahead of me. Exciting!
• Sword of Convallaria. I shared my thoughts on this in an earlier post here. I can’t get the game out of my head despite my anxieties over the format. After talking with some friends about how they enjoyed stories in gacha games, I think I’m gonna give this a shot when launches. Hopefully it’s not a disaster.
• Terranigma. Played this for my Discord’s game of the month. Still such a delight. Near the top of my list of “games I want to see re-released.”

This month I suddenly don’t have anything particular in mind. I’ve softened on Unicorn Overlord a bit after playing the demo. Unless I get some big recommendations I may actually wait for a sale? Not sure. Otherwise, I’ll keep nibbling at Tokyo Xanadu and Atelier Ayesha.

I don’t think I finished any JRPGs in February, but for March;

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - I’m on the final chapter so that’ll be the first game I finish.

Ys: The Oath in Felghana - Aside when you get stuck on a boss because you’re under-leveled and only dealing 1 damage to it I’ll breeze through this, maybe I’m 1/3rd of the way through and the games aren’t too long.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna the Golden Country - dropped this because of the affinity charts you have to max out in order to gain progress but XB3 got me in the mood again.

Don’t know what I’ll start this month.