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[โ€“] autismdragon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the gameplay is a skinner box where the treat pellets are cutscenes

Me as a kid cheating this system by running from battles so I could get to the next cutscene or town to talk to people in (yes, I liked getting one line of dialoug from each NPC that much). Then ending up coming up against a boss that I'm underleveled for, getting stuck, and quitting.

Honestly for me growing up has been learning to enjoy the gameplay part more as well. I get what you're saying though. But personally I like the narratives of pretty much every game in the FF series a lot, for example. And the Tales series as you mention. Other ones have more simple ones but still feel satisfying to me to explore it. I just find that method of narrative exploration very rewarding.

But I also like Shonen lol so that probably has something to do with it.

[โ€“] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Liking Shonen will get you everywhere with JRPGs. Some FF games have their moments I've played 1-7 as well as 10 and 12, there's some pretty good stuff there, but I wouldn't really rank any above YA quality, which is the target audience and I liked it then. Tales games have good characters usually but the narrative is usually both convolulted and pretty shallow at the same time. I also believe there's only about 25 or so games that actually have really good stories, and that's leaving room for ones I haven't played.