RPG's you want to play but cant :(

[Vyk]

Princess Crown is a good guess. I was thinking Astal, it has a similar art-style, but is not an RPG of any kind, so probably not

I didn't realize a different team made the second VC game, though that may explain part of why I wasn't fond of it like I was the first one. It was anime high school the game, and I just . . . could not take it. Unlike a lot of people I know, I tend to care more about combat systems and exploring in RPGs than stories and characters (dungeon crawling carry over, me thinks. ._.), and I can put up with a lot of inane drivel from the latter as long a game is fun to play -- which VC2 was, sans drop hunting for promotions --, but eventually the my irritation with the entire school crap managed to bore its way into my skull and forced me to drop the game. I haven't touched the third game due to my experience, and low expectations, carrying over from the second, but knowing it's from a different team gives me some hope. Is it worth my time?

I'm not really a good judge in that regard. VC2 burned me out way faster than that with the whacky anime tropes sort of ruining the sombre atmosphere that's supposed to be a war. Laughing and joking around being a stupid idiot that signed up for enlistment because HIS BROTHER DIED (not a spoiler, they set the game up that way in the first two seconds). I could not get over that. Every time a conversation happened I failed to suspend my disbelief for the stereotypes and archetypes presented in the game. I never even got out into the actual war. I still had just the starting 3 characters. And I'm not really a fan of the way either of them played on the PSP with the battle map all split up and making you jump from one camp to the next

So with full disclosure, I hadn't really gotten that far into the third one either. You're supposed to form a team called The Nameless. To indicate you are a secret covert group that did a lot of the work for the characters in the very first game, but behind the scenes, not on file, and probably expendable. It all sounded quite interesting. Except they ruined it almost immediately when they introduce your character as Mr Perfect. Who scored higher on the training exams than anyone else in the history of ever! And he acts all stalwart and super confident and unapproachable. Typical Japanese Golden Child Genius trope that I just couldn't buy into. I hope and pray it gets better when you actually become a nameless and get other characters enlisted in your group. It definitely has potential. Just starts off on the wrong foot. And that's about all I did with it. So unfortunately I can't honestly answer your question

I'll have to look into Feather now, me thinks. The Shining series is a really interesting one, with a lot of variation between the titles, so I never know what to expect in terms of quality. I think the most recent one I played was Tears, which was . . . interesting. I heard there was a followup to the game we didn't get, which I might be interested in playing. Would you happen to know anything about that one?

Also, in regards to mention of Saturn emulators, Assault Suits Leynos 2 is, like, my holy grail for that console, and I still haven't gotten to spend the quality time with it I've wanted to. T -T

I'm not entirely sure, the PS2 era Shining games sort of made me look the other way. I believe the sequel to Tears was Wind, and from what I understood it was a direct sequel that played the same way and I'm pretty sure even had some of the same characters

I did just remember there was also a game called Shining Heart, which I know even less about other than the cover looking very Kingdom Hearts'esque. Now that I remembered it exists, I fear it's possible the translation team may move on to that instead of Blade, so here's hoping its a good game

I guess my thing is I played the first 10 - 20 minutes of Blade, so I know that game is fun. And I wasn't immediately turned off by the characters while reading the translation the way I was with VC2 and 3. Though it probably can still happen later, considering how SEGA handles their franchises..

Probably about time I stop rambling for a minute though lol