زاکاری گرێف نووسەری لیستە لە کۆمپانیای DualShockers کە لە ساڵی ٢٠٢١ەوە بە شێوەیەکی پیشەیی یارییەکان ڕووماڵ دەکات، یاریزانێکی تەمەن درێژە و نووسەری پێشووی کەناڵی GameRant و Fix Gaming بووە، زاکاری لە سەرانسەری هەواڵ، ڕێنمایی، چاوپێکەوتن، پێشبینی، پێداچوونەوە، تایبەتمەندی، و لیستەکاندا نووسیویەتی، کە پاشخانێکی فراوانی لە ڕۆژنامەگەری یاریکردندا هێناوەتە کارەکانی.
The brief period of time when we had the GameCube, Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and the original Xbox was a fantastic era for video games. The titles that would go on to be the classics we know and love today were regularly inventive. Each and every single one of these consoles had some exciting game that made it worth buying; even the OG Xbox, which lost the sales war to the PS2, likely due to how it ignored the JRPG subgenre.
Thanks to its origins as a Microsoft product, the original Xbox was very American-focused in terms of the games on its platform and the experiences it offered therein. Obviously, this left little room for JRPGs as a default. More Western RPGs like The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic were the most common options for the system. If you wanted JRPGs, you bought the wrong console, straight up. But because that was the takeaway back then, that left a lot of gems I don't think many of you have uncovered. So let's take a look at them.
Every single one of us should be used to the concept of console exclusives by now. On top of that, this era of video games was full of Japan-exclusive games that die-hard fans would have to track down somehow. The existence of Shin Megami Tensei: Nine still makes heads roll to this day. If you know anything about JRPGs, the concept of a Shin Megami Tensei game that can only be found on the Xbox might serve as the strangest thing you've ever heard of. And it's completely real.
The reason it's first on this list is that getting your hands on it is still pretty difficult. Even if you manage to emulate it, there are no English patches that are easy to use with only bite-sized translations and YouTube videos to help you with. Quite a shame, too. I personally really enjoy the presentation of this game, but it's widely seen as not worth the Herculean tasks you need to go through to play it. Hopefully, something will happen to help this game shine someday, but it likely won't happen any time soon.
Yeah. If you know this game already, then you know how far I had to go to recommend it. The Xbox JRPG catalog is that sparse.
Metal Dungeon is a poor attempt to get something akin to Time Stalkers or Mystery Dungeon onto the Xbox to fill an empty space. There's nothing too interesting about Metal Dungeon apart from its science-fiction presentation as a Roguelike RPG and a completely customizable party. I feel like it's worth playing if you're a die-hard fan of these types of games, and you've already tried every other recommendation you run into. Or if you fancy yourself as a video game historian. Sometimes, things like these can still give some perspective, even if they might not be the best there is.
On to some better stuff! Sort of. To be completely transparent from the get-go, Black Stone: Magic and Steel wasn't exactly a good game in 2003, and it isn't exactly much better now. In my opinion, what it offers has aged in such a way that it throws you back in time, reminding you of how games were back in the day without the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia. Its edgy opening FMV will leave you in stitches, its story briefings between dungeons are best left ignored, and you can play all of its hack-and-slash dungeons in co-op! Hooray!
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