Heya, VG-ers! Looking for more recommendations, again! This time for the 3DS.
It's honestly a shame that I've hardly put my New 3DS to good use. I've played a very tiny bit of Smash and I've replayed a bit of Alpha Sapphire, but I've truly only used it when playing Okamiden, and I feel I could do it much better justice. Are there any good RPG games that might be worthwhile on the 3DS? Really, even just regular DS games would do at this point! ^_^
RPGs? Alright, lemme see....
Well, first up, one of my favorite 3DS RPGs,
Rune Factory 4. If you've played Harvest Moon or, more appropriately, if you've played Rune Factory, you should know what this is. If you haven't, however, RF4 is a cross between an Action-RPG and a Farming game with a Life Sim topping. This game is easily the best RF, much lengthier than 3 and much more fluid and streamlined than 2 and 1. Though the game is rather obscure for some odd reason, it is easily one of the tightest RPG games on the 3DS. Highly Recommended.
Next, there's
Persona Q and the
Etrian Odyssey Series. If you're a fan of old-school Dungeon crawlers, these games are definitely for you. In the case of EO, the locales and music are absolutely gorgeous, though the games are difficult, these entries have new difficulties that are accommodating to casual players and masochists alike. The games are sure to sate wanderlust, as there are few games on the 3DS that feel as adventurous as the Etrian Odyssey games. In the case of Persona Q, however, this one is more akin to the Persona 3 and 4 games, but is very much the latter in a EO coat. Still, it teems and oozes with Persona style and if you're a fan of that series, you'll probably be attracted to this title.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and
Monster Hunter 4 (Ultimate) are great, too, though I don't think I need to delve into those two, info on them is pretty common knowledge.
Fire Emblem Awakening is a great (if a bit divisive) Strategy-RPG that many consider to be the best game on the console even still. I don't think anything I say could do it justice, and there are reviews of the game abound, but I'd definitely give it a shining recommendation.
A personal favorite of mine (especially if you live...literally anywhere other than America), there's the
Inazuma Eleven Series. Inazuma Eleven 1 is available on the eshop in America and Inazuma Eleven 3, GO, and GO 2 are available practically everywhere else. What's Inazuma Eleven? Eheheh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh. Well, it's a Soccer-RPG that tak-eh. Actually, I did a review on it years back. It's a bit dated and I feel I underrated it a bit, but if you're interested you should check it out (though, if I may, the
Inazuma Eleven GO Strikers 2013 is a much more modern, better written, and better structured review that I think sorts out my feelings about the series much more accurately). Regardless, I highly recommend checking the series out.
Bravely Default is oft recommended, and though I've played a little, I know several other members who could do a much better job than I can there. And, then there's
Xenoblade Chronicles, but I don't think there's anything I could say about the game that hasn't been said many times before. It's a great, unique game with great music, characters, direction...get it, it's great. If you're a Kingdom Hearts fan, there's
Dream Drop Distance- but I, for the life of me, cannot find that game at a decent price.
And, finally, for one of the many DS titles I could recommend,
The World Ends With You. I cannot, absolutely CANNOT recommend that game enough. It's one of my favorite RPGs, one of my favorite games- but, this post's gone on long enough. I guess the same case here could be said for Xenoblade, in that I can't say what hasn't been said before. This game is a beautiful collage of unique gameplay, themes, music, and style, all cohesively fused together to make a game like no other. It's a fantastic game that can't really be replaced by anything else- there are no TWEWY-lites or TWEWY alternatives, and if there's any DS RPG you're considering, I would recommend this one.
