I recently watched some Electric Underground videos about mechanicaly pure beat em'ups and schmups, and was wondering if any1 has game that come to mind when it comes to mechanicaly pure JRPG's?I mean specificaly as the genre's most basic, distilled form, where the interesting part of the game is not the story, but the difficulty of overcoming game's obstacles with your spells/ items/game's mechanics. I know blobbers and strategy rpg's have plenty of examples, thats why i'm trying to limit it strictly to classical JRPG's.The games that come to mind for me are:-early Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games-Last dream, as an expanded version of FF1-weirdly i'd put Five nights at fuckboy's here, despite being a meme game the highest difficulty and most secret bosses were a legitiamtely intersting mechanical challenge-Black souls 2 hardest zone.- SMT 3 on hard, where most of the game's fun comes from overcoming incresingly bullshit battles and the story takes a 2nd seatAnyone has any other examples of similar JRPG's?
Phantasy Star IV
SaGa games
King's Field 2
that one that was recently translated and I never finished, with the museum and the blue haired girl
>>3925417romancing SaGa minstrel song is that game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101110/Touhou_SouzinengiV_The_Genius_of_Sappheiros/
>>3925417>jrpg>mechanics
>>3925417dark souls
Ys Oath in Felghana (it's like a beat em up disguised as a jrpg)7th Saga, spares story very challenging mechanical focusMONSTER HUNTER series, if you're not too strict about the jrpg definition Saga scarlet grace one of the deepest densest Halls of Hell tier turn based jrpgs ever, it will fuck u
>>3925417Crystal ProjectEnchant FarmArguably late game Bravely Default on hard, the boss rush in chapter 8 was the most fun I've ever had in an RPG mechanically, but it's also bogged down by repetition and shit writing.
>>3925417Difficulty mods or challenge runs. What makes any systems shallow is lack of difficulty.
>>3925652Problem?
>>3925547You can safely disregard any sludge with Touhou on it. Touhou fangames are inherently low effort because if they were worth a damn, the creators wouldn't be riding the coattails of a known, successful brand for attention.
>>3925958what would be your favourite difficulty mods then? all i know are hardtype ff mods, and apocalypse ff 7
