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[lucablight]

I love jrpgs and that was hilarious!

 

[lazygecko]

The super special final attack needed to be about 5 minutes longer.

 

[Jotamide]

Wow, I'm surprised this was actually funny.

 

[Hero]

NPC kid made me chuckle, nothing else.

How did this miss amnesia cliche? Or the antagonist being related to the main character? Or the last boss only being introduced right before you fight them?

 

[SuperSonic1305]

Was that Tomba music during the card game part?

Edit: Yes, it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9gKPlArR0

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

I can see Chrono Trigger, FFT, Dragon Quest VIII, Earthbound and a bunch of Final Fantasies.

Edit: Also pretty sure some backgrounds are from Super Mario RPG

What Earthbound and Chrono Trigger references did you see?

 

[Hero]

What Earthbound and Chrono Trigger references did you see?

Chrono Trigger is the whole fair intro event and your mom waking you up??

 

[Exentryk]

"JK I have two more forms."

Lol.

 

[WrenchNinja]

The first jrpg I played only had the princess trope and the world being called gaia

Illusion of Gaia was a weird ass game

 

[royox]

What Chrono Trigger references did you see?

-Mom Waking you up
-MC not talking
-"Oh! It's the town festival! Go there for no reason!"
-Your companion was a princess!


I also see Tales of Phantasia and FFIV references.

 

[Zeyphersan]

The only JRPGS I've beaten are Final Fantasy 4 and Chrono Trigger, and this video covered a WHOLE lotta both of those

 

[AZ Greg]

This reminded me so much of Albert Odyssey: LoE. The intro was almost 1:1 lol

 

[Pinko Marx]

I got a few chuckles out of it, but they kinda explained the jokes a little too much.
Still, a cute video.

 

[purg3]

character portrait of the kid on fire cracked me up. Pretty good video

 

[AerialAir]

Great stuff! Though I'd call it Every Squnix JRPG Ever.

 

[NavyPharaoh]

It's not don't make fun of my games, it's that they mostly went for low-hanging fruit.

If you want to mock Final Fantasy games, Mega64's SAKAGUCHI'S FINAL FANTASY video is much funnier.

That was godlike

 

[Ultimadrago]

ITT: "B-b-but my JRPGs aren't like this!"

#Notalljrpgs

#notalljrpgs

I knew I was too late, Aeris.

 

[themagicalkitsune]

What Earthbound and Chrono Trigger references did you see?

Final boss reminded me of Earthbound. You have to use a special command that's now required to beat the boss. Plus the whole "this is powered by our love!" thing.

 

[Faabulous]

They are at least 4 years late with this joke, and even then Zeboyd did it better.

 

[Corpekata]

Final boss reminded me of Earthbound. You have to use a special command that's now required to beat the boss. Plus the whole "this is powered by our love!" thing.

The powered by our love thing is pretty common. I remember playing Rogue Legacy on the PS2 and it essentially ends this way and it is super fucking corny.

 

[Otakumegane]

This is painfully accurate.

I feel like the last one I enjoyed shouldn't have these right? (Looks at Xenoblade)

-High tech enemy faction
-Childhood friend + Secret Princess
-Hometown destroyed in random raid
-Two final boss forms
-Mystical weapon+Final plot device attack
-Final dungeon dialogues were on point
-Talking animal companion (Damn it I hate this too)

Welp. My tastes aren't as good as I thought.

 

[Lexad]

That was pretty good but the minigame BS is more of a symptom of modern WRPGs

 

[aspiegamer]

THe dinosaur part killed me.

This is sooooo specific a reference that I'm not even sure if it was deliberate. FFVIII and CT also had ridiculous dinos.
The end all, be all of exp grinding locations in FFVI and the best place to try to stay awake while you teach the entire party Ultima... Dinosaur Forest!

 

[wmlk]

FF4 and FF6 both have burning villages and FF6 had a famous dinosaur forest used for leveling.

In Xenogears, you literally get your village burned down and your next boss happens to be a dinosaur.

 

[Pinko Marx]

One of the first major "oh shit" enemies in FFXII is a giant T-Rex.

 

[Scrooge McDuck]

I agree with others though, having parents or older party members would be awesome. I don't know why I can't think of any JRPGs outside of Suikoden where you can recruit very old characters to join you...

Very old JRPG characters are actually quite numerous compared to the forty-somethings.

We've got the don't-call-me-uncle/aunt thirty-somethings...

And the I've-seen-things-in-the-days-of-yore sixty-and-up...

But hardly any party member around the age of 40-50. Especially weird in JRPGs with numerous ensemble casts like Valkyrie Profile and Final Fantasy VI that just skip right past the forties.

 

[Dahbomb]

More accurate to say every Square JRPG ever (especially older ones) but still fairly entertaining (minus the sexy henchman character, really annoying).

 

[Kangi]

Dead accurate, especially for the SNES stuff. And the "not in MY JRPGs!!!" responses make it all the better.

 

[jb1234]

Final boss reminded me of Earthbound. You have to use a special command that's now required to beat the boss. Plus the whole "this is powered by our love!" thing.

I think it was an FFIV reference, where the spirits of your friends pop in to give you strength and love and health and shit. And then you have to use the Crystal to continue the battle.

 

[Mentok]

I thought it was funny, and definitely covered a lot of the old JRPGs I used to play!

#notalljrpgs

 

[Inuhanyou]

This is painfully accurate.

I feel like the last one I enjoyed shouldn't have these right? (Looks at Xenoblade)

-High tech enemy faction
-Childhood friend + Secret Princess
-Hometown destroyed in random raid
-Two final boss forms
-Mystical weapon+Final plot device attack
-Final dungeon dialogues were on point
-Talking animal companion (Damn it I hate this too)

Welp. My tastes aren't as good as I thought.

Xenoblade is a quality RPG. The point of the matter as i said earlier in the thread is how the content comes together into a quality whole. Story and situational tropes by themselves should not have anyone make their decision about quality, as everything is made up of tropes to begin with.

This is more of a Japanese media trope versus a western media trope

 

[jack_package_200]

I thought it was funny, and definitely covered a lot of the old JRPGs I used to play!

#Notalljrpgs

I knew I was too late, Aeris.

Thank you! I'm here till Thursday.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Perfect, even down to the terrible English dub

 

[xzeldax3]

My favorite part was the final attack damage, 999999998

 

[Hero]

My favorite part was the final attack damage, 999999998

Alright, gotta admit, that number got me to chuckle too. Whenever something like that happened I would always be like "Really?"

 

[Cameron122]

I started FF12 the other day and actually laughed out loud when I saw a t. rex

 

[Finaika]

They should make a WRPG one with bald space marines, gritty brown color palette and unnecessary sex & violence.

 

[VanillaCakeIsBurning]

Xenoblade is a quality RPG. The point of the matter as i said earlier in the thread is how the content comes together into a quality whole. Story and situational tropes by themselves should not have anyone make their decision about quality, as everything is made up of tropes to begin with.

This is more of a Japanese media trope versus a western media trope

I think you're misjudging intent. When people use tropes to say that something is bad, they are doing so because it's easy to substitute that in lieu of actual insightful analysis. If they cared they wouldn't be using that as the soul basis of their post.

In other words, it's an easy to way to say that something sucks, even though you can do that with everything,

Spoiler

but keep that part a secret.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

They should make a WRPG one with bald space marines, gritty brown color palette and unnecessary sex & violence.

That would have to be 3d and look like a couple of last gen titles that may not actually be wrpgs at all. For the same effect or a modicum of the same loose accuracy it has to be isometric fantasy at the very least. Let's have some standards.

 

[eyeball_kid]

So painfully funny. I loved the "Let's go play more minigames!" part. It always frustrates me when a JRPG has linear narrative gates where if you step past one, you lock yourself out of content you can't access again.

The NPCs not reacting to situations was also great. I remember this happening in Suikoden 1 towns a few times.

 

[joecanada]

They wouldn't always let you skip but at least you could turn dialogue speed up to 10

 

[Kieli]

They should make a WRPG one with bald space marines, gritty brown color palette and unnecessary sex & violence.

Can't recall the last time I've seen a sexy brown space marine WRPG. Maybe you're thinking of FPS?

Also extremely disappointed they forgot the amnesia MC.

 

[michalmarek77]

That video was really good. And Funny

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

As someone who doesn't play JRPGs this seems accurate

10/10

 

[djtiesto]

As someone who thinks all JPRG's are the same and are the most generic japanese trash ever, I found this funny,

Sounds like someone has no clue about the genre... Japanese RPGs are easily one of, if not THE most diverse genre in terms of gameplay systems.

And also, people have been doing this kinda parody for years about the Japan side of things. Would be nice to have a western RPG parody for once...

-Extremely clunky skeuomorphic interfaces that resemble old parchment
-Dwarves that love to drink
-Pretentious elves that live with nature and shoot bows
-Those elves being in a race war with the humans
-Orcs, orcs, everywhere
-Bad level scaling and tons of loot that you don't need (how much better is Iron Sword+5 than Iron Sword+4 with 30% ice resistance, and how necessary is it?)
-Clunky action combat where your attacks lack any type of weight and characters/enemies barely react to getting hit
-"Your choices matter!", except not really
-Terrible 2 minute-long endings that drive the above point home
-A bunch of skills you can sink upgrade points into that are barely used during the game (including one or two useful skills that, when fully powered, break everything)

 

[ienjoyrawfish]

Sounds like someone has no clue about the genre... Japanese RPGs are easily one of, if not THE most diverse genre in terms of gameplay systems.

And also, people have been doing this kinda parody for years about the Japan side of things. Would be nice to have a western RPG parody for once...

-Extremely clunky skeuomorphic interfaces that resemble old parchment
-Dwarves that love to drink
-Pretentious elves that live with nature and shoot bows
-Those elves being in a race war with the humans
-Orcs, orcs, everywhere
-Bad level scaling and tons of loot that you don't need (how much better is Iron Sword+5 than Iron Sword+4 with 30% ice resistance, and how necessary is it?)
-Clunky action combat where your attacks lack any type of weight and characters/enemies barely react to getting hit
-"Your choices matter!", except not really
-Terrible 2 minute-long endings that drive the above point home
-A bunch of skills you can sink upgrade points into that are barely used during the game (including one or two useful skills that, when fully powered, break everything)

"Every WRPG ever?? More like every Elder Scrolls game ever.

#notmywrpgs"

 

[lazygecko]

Sounds like someone has no clue about the genre... Japanese RPGs are easily one of, if not THE most diverse genre in terms of gameplay systems.

And also, people have been doing this kinda parody for years about the Japan side of things. Would be nice to have a western RPG parody for once...

-Extremely clunky skeuomorphic interfaces that resemble old parchment

I wish that stereotype was actually true. Most fantasy RPGs these days tend to go for a sleek, "modernized" interface look. Like Skyrim and its faux-Apple bullshit. Dragon Age Inquisition did the same thing. I've always hated it and how it detracts from the fantasy aesthetic.

 

[Chobel]

As someone who doesn't play JRPGs this seems accurate

10/10

LOL

 

[Teknoman]

Seemed like just every FFVI/VII ever.

 

[skLaFarebear]

This is so old final fantasy that it hurts lol.

Well done.