I've never played jRPGs in my life except Wizardry and Souls, played all the western stuff under the sun
What always put me off was the cartoonish anime design of the characters. (Settings are often very good looking tho, very comfy fantasy stuff)
Can you guys recommend me something that doesn't look like anime? Something that, even if cartoonish isn't downright ridiculous like pic rel? I appreciate jap writing but man I can't stand their anime looking designs
Give Strange Journey a shot.
Thanks, good suggestions, will check em
Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga
Paper Mario
Earthbound
All of those and their sequels are very divergent from most "anime" artstyles, but also distinctly Japanese. They're also frequently cited as some of the best RPGs ever.
What about mariorpg?
Superstar saga is shit. Frick. You
Matsuno games during the late 90s and early 2000s generally have a more serious and less colorful style (Ironically, the series that eventually turned into the abomination in your OP).
- Tactics Ogre
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Vagrant Story
(Also Ogre Battle but that was his first and oldest game and has the most "cartoonish" feel)
seconding Matsuno designs like Crimson Shroud
Final Fantasy 1 - 6 and Tactics.
No.
Matsuno is exactly what OP is looking for. If you are OP and that's not what you want, you need to clarify and not just mumble "no" like your mouth is full of dicks.
Matsuno is literally mr.anime
Maybe in concept art. They're sprites so its not like you can tell.
Give me a single matsuno
character that looks like Mario.
He isn't asking for an RPG that looks like Mario though?
The two categories of aesthetic aren't Mario and Anime. Its not like when someone asks for an RPG people go, "Do you want your RPG to be Mario or Anime?" FF1 - 4 don't look like Mario but they don't look like anime either.
> Something that, even if cartoonish isn't downright ridiculous like Luso from FFTA2
Just so I have this straight:
>Matsuno/Minagawa game with an austere color palette emphasizing skin tones and a restrained focus on depicting humans living in a bleak world.
DOWNRIGHT RIDICULOUS. Look at that anime face on Agrias.
>Italian stereotype plumber with a giant bulbous nose wearing brightly colored overalls visits a world of mushroom-people and evil turtles with a Godzilla master who has kidnapped the totally not-anime princess again
That's fine, not too outlandish.
I am sorry but you have severe colourblindness
>y-y-you're colorblind
Frick off dipshit unless you can explain to me what's "downright ridiculous" about the art style in the Matsuno games. The only really weird stylistic thing I can think of is the feminine waist-hip ratio on male characters. Beyond that you just have moderately exaggerated limbs.
my bad I accidentally baited the wrong guy
everything makes sense now
And the noseless, wid hip features help to instantly make them recognizable as FF Tactics characters.
Most of the true to life realistic artwork for other, mostly western, rpgs all run together. The styles all run together with little distinction.
>Most of the true to life realistic artwork for other, mostly western, rpgs all run together.
Matsuno's PSX-era games have fantastic art direction, not exactly a fair comparison.
Lots of anime games "all run together" to me too, if I'm just carelessly looking like you're doing with western games
Rolf, Sigurd, and Ryu from the 90s. All generic-looking, blue-haired JRPG protagonists. Yeah sure if you're a weeb you can tell the difference in art styles and if you have prior knowledge of each game you'll know the space-suit goes with the Phantasy Star protag, the one with fangs is the Breath of Fire protag, and the sword dude is Fire Emblem.
>Wizardry
>jrpg
sad
In regards to Luso from FFTA, you can't tell how outlandish his outfit looks in the actual game. Don't let character artwork deter you from trying games.
My suggestion is to give older games from nes up to psx if character artwork bothers you. As you don't actually see all those unnecessary clothing accessories when playing the game.
>In regards to Luso from FFTA, you can't tell how outlandish his outfit looks in the actual game. Don't let character artwork deter you from trying games.
I feel like that's all more the problem though. Like the design is ludicrous but the designer had to know what he was working with material wise. He had to know that none of that shit he was throwing on there would be visible. And yet he tossed it all in just because he could. In some ways it's impressive honestly but it just shows a complete detachment from anything resembling reality. And what's worse, when you actually loose all the tchotchkes and all the nick nacks he actually just comes off as a very plain, very indistinct sprite. Like if you lined him up with even enemy designs based on purely the sprite he'd blend in worse than NPCs.
Every Fire Emblem, specially Path of Radiance. I recomend playing PoR and then go for the 3 GBA games
(me)
The designs are colorful, like every JRPG, but it's far from the pic related
Post DS FE is anime as frick.
Well yeah, fire emblem became kinda anime starting with Awakening, but it's still mild in comparison with most JRPG out there
Just play stuff that looks like anime that's good.
Graphics do not matter.
>Wizardry
>jrpg
this is your brain on Nipponshit
Was wizardry not developed in japan?
Holy shit I just googled it, this whole time I thought that devs were japanese wtf... That's embarrassing
Japan purchased the rights to it afterwards
>played all the western stuff under the sun
>What always put me off was the cartoonish anime design of the characters.
So how many western games did you skip?
Because between the goblinos and shit like pic related I guess you played very little
Not him, but he isn't complaining about western games having cartoonish anime designs. He's saying the reason he hasn't played JRPG's is because they have cartoonish anime designs.
Yeah, he would have to actually play them to know they have the same exact shit he complains about, if not worse
It's sad that you still don't understand what he's saying. I wish you the best in life, you're going to need it.
The saddest thing is that you're the one who's not understanding anything, but it's always the dumbest imbeciles who have to desperately posture in this place.
nah man not him but you can't save face like this
yeah the other guys right you're being obtuse
Imagine not playing PacMan or Tetris ever due to not liking the artstyle or lack of realism.
Play Metal Max Returns on SNES and MM2 Reloaded on DS (both fan translated). The character designs are slightly anime, but they're overshadowed by the fact that you get to drive and customize tanks for combat.
The b***her 3.