When I think of JRPGs, I fondly look back at the many masterpieces I have lived through. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Quest 3, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 9, Legend Of Dragoon, and Lucifer’s Call, just to name a few. Then reality smacks me right in the gob, and I remember that modern JRPGs, and some older ones, are riddled with tropes that get my blood boiling.Every one of these tropes needs to die in a fire, and thankfully, some of the🌌m are currently being spit-roasted as I type. Some of these things exist in WRPGs too, and🧸 you know what, they can be thrown into the pot as well. I’m sick of this nonsense — it has to stop.
5 The♛y Stole My Stuff ꧟
This is one of the tropes that is on its way out, but when it rears its ugly head, it riles me up something rotten. Like a deceptively dated joint of chicken, this little bugger hits you when you least expect it. Sometimes a party member just twocks your stuff and legs it - and I’m not talking about Yuffie here ei🐓ther.
So, you are walking along with a party of like-minded adventurers, and suddenly, some weak-willed coward decides to abandon ship. The flag-waving cheese-sniffer hightails it in the opposite direction, and is gone for a good few hours. This is annoying enough, but sometimes, they take all their gear when they leave. How dare they. That&rಞsquo;s my stuff that I diligently robbed from some grandma's wardrobe five towns back. You better believe I am reloading my save and stripping that guy down to his briefs. W♈ho does he think he is?
4 🧔 Why Are All The Girls 10…I ꦿMean 10,000 Years Old?
Fanservice is something we, unfortunately, have to live with when it comes to many games. JRPGS - especially the anime-styled ones - tend to be especially prolific when it comes to it. I can ignore most 🌸of it, but sometimes I can’t help but raise an eyebrow in disagreement.
Of course, I am talking about the 10,000-year-old demi goddess in a skimpy pink bikini who looks and sounds like a toddler. Why does this exist? Why is this the norm? I get cultural lines get crossed when you, well, cross cultures - but that doesn’t stop me, the objectively correct party here, feeling like this is a tad inappropriate. Get that stuff out 🍌of my genre, it’s n♛ot welcome here.
3 Massi๊ve Numbers, Little Impact
This one grinds my gears. Not because it’s game-breaking, frustrating, or weirdly sexual. No, this one bugs me because it warps my perception of what&r♓squo;s good and what’s bad. I am talking about ‘Big Number Syndrome’. For those not in the know, it’s when your 🥀level one character is hitting for three, or even four, digit numbers with their most basic attacks.
Why is this a problem? Because it’s an awful ploy designed to trick you into thinking you’re better at hitting the attack button. It’s meant to give you a burst of adrenaline because you just bopped that slime for 10,000 damage. This is a short-sighted design choice, because where do you go from there? You&𓃲rsquo;ve already hit the damage cap in some other, better games. You’ve stripped long-term progression for short-term gains. Throw it in the bin.
2 You Bea𝓡t ꦫA Boss, Only To Lose The Fight
There is nothing worse than smacking a boss around for hours on end, enduring failure after failure, only to finally eke out a victory and for that win to be taken away from you. It&r༒squo;s actual gamer torture and should be outlawed. It’s lazy and serves no purpose from a narrative or gameplay perspective🐎.
I am fine with a boss wrecking my party and leaving me feeling like a failure. I’m even fine if that failure is followed up by a cutscene showing my party failing. These are fine - they help convey a sense of power - help🌸 set up a long-term goal for the player. Having you beat a boss only for it to not count is the worst kind of ‘gotcha’ moment.
1 They Never Shut Up! 🎐
I can’t be alone on this one. The other stuff? Sure. You can argue all you want about the legitimacy of those gripes. But this one? No way. JRPG characters never - and I mean never - shut up. It doesn’t matter what you are doi๊ng, where you are, who has just died, or how much danger is around you, they will always babble some random gibberish in your general direction.
Sometimes, it’s just constant grunts and moans. Other times it's mind-numbingly baꦬd dialogue being used to convey bafflingly simple concepts, on repeat, to make sure you don’t miss the plot. It doesn’t matter what they are saying, only that words are coming out of their mouth at all hours of the day. I don’t need a runni🍌ng commentary. I have my kids for that, thanks.
