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RPG's come in all sorts and sizes, but a lot of the well known games have something in common: they are part of a serie. There is no problem in that. I love me some Dragon Quest/Megami Tensei/Final Fantasy (more of a JRPG player myself, but same goes for Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Baldur's Gate etc.). Still, there are a lot of RPG's that I consider one-shots: RPG's that just received one game. Wether it is because of lack of succes, no financial backing for a sequel, whatever, a lot of these games have semi-uniqie systems and stories worth telling. Best of all: you don't need to play other games in the series.
I admit: this topic is secretly also a sequel-begging thread because who doesn't want a Skies of Arcadia II haha!
Anyway, here are three of my favourite one-shot RPG's. I love to hear yours! Let's make this a topic of RPG's that are worth playing even though they are mostly forgotten
Skies of Arcadia
Man, what's not to love about Skies of Arcadia? It's to me the perfect RPG in that it combines a great (I admit, also a bit cliched) story with addicitive gameplay that switches between standard RPG turn based battles and more tectical ship battles which are really, REALLY addicitive! Also, I love the cast! Happy Vyse and Aika found their way into the Valkyria Chronicles series. The Dreamcast version is great but the amount of battles is frustrating. Luckily they fixed that with the Legends release on Gamecube.
Lost Odyssey
Lost Odyssey was one of two games Sakaguchi's newly formed Mistwalker would release on Xbox 360 (the other one was Blue Dragon). And man, paired with an OST by Nobuo Uematsu this makes for a very atmospheric game full of feels. Not everything is great though, some characters are kind of out of place, especially when they try to incorporate humour in the game. Sometimes Jansen (the joker in the game) is funny, but it feels kind of out of place with the game. Battles are turnbased and make use of a ring system not unlike Shadow Hearts. It makes for very engaging battles. And the writing in this game, especially A Thousand Years of Dreams, a written recollection of Kaim, protagonist of the game. This game is really worth it to sink time in even today.
Eternal Sonata
Eternal Sonata is an Xbox 360/PS3 RPG with Chopin on his deathbed dreaming as backdrop for the story. Not surprising, everything, from character names to attack names, drips of musical references. During the game of course Chopin's awesome works are present (including of course Stanislav Bunin's renditions of classical works including the prelude made famous by Halo 3's 'Believe' campaign). Battles use an interesting system of light and dark on the battlefield that influence types of attacks and so forth. I do feel it is underutilized a bit, not really sure why. During the game gameplay is alternated with cut scenes that gives interesting information on real world events with the appropiate music and photographs placed in a time period. I wish the concept of this game is further explored with maybe other classical muscicians. But alas, I think this is the last one we will ever see.
So Fami, love to hear about your favourite one-shot RPG's people need to play!
I admit: this topic is secretly also a sequel-begging thread because who doesn't want a Skies of Arcadia II haha!
Anyway, here are three of my favourite one-shot RPG's. I love to hear yours! Let's make this a topic of RPG's that are worth playing even though they are mostly forgotten
Skies of Arcadia
Man, what's not to love about Skies of Arcadia? It's to me the perfect RPG in that it combines a great (I admit, also a bit cliched) story with addicitive gameplay that switches between standard RPG turn based battles and more tectical ship battles which are really, REALLY addicitive! Also, I love the cast! Happy Vyse and Aika found their way into the Valkyria Chronicles series. The Dreamcast version is great but the amount of battles is frustrating. Luckily they fixed that with the Legends release on Gamecube.
Lost Odyssey
Lost Odyssey was one of two games Sakaguchi's newly formed Mistwalker would release on Xbox 360 (the other one was Blue Dragon). And man, paired with an OST by Nobuo Uematsu this makes for a very atmospheric game full of feels. Not everything is great though, some characters are kind of out of place, especially when they try to incorporate humour in the game. Sometimes Jansen (the joker in the game) is funny, but it feels kind of out of place with the game. Battles are turnbased and make use of a ring system not unlike Shadow Hearts. It makes for very engaging battles. And the writing in this game, especially A Thousand Years of Dreams, a written recollection of Kaim, protagonist of the game. This game is really worth it to sink time in even today.
Eternal Sonata
Eternal Sonata is an Xbox 360/PS3 RPG with Chopin on his deathbed dreaming as backdrop for the story. Not surprising, everything, from character names to attack names, drips of musical references. During the game of course Chopin's awesome works are present (including of course Stanislav Bunin's renditions of classical works including the prelude made famous by Halo 3's 'Believe' campaign). Battles use an interesting system of light and dark on the battlefield that influence types of attacks and so forth. I do feel it is underutilized a bit, not really sure why. During the game gameplay is alternated with cut scenes that gives interesting information on real world events with the appropiate music and photographs placed in a time period. I wish the concept of this game is further explored with maybe other classical muscicians. But alas, I think this is the last one we will ever see.
So Fami, love to hear about your favourite one-shot RPG's people need to play!
