![]() At the same time, people like me who had grown up on high quality FFs 7, 8 and 9, Xenogears, Star Ocean Second Story, Suikoden and Chrono Trigger, were expected to stomach fifty awful Kingdom Hearts decimal points that did nothing but leave a bad taste in the mouth (Don’t even get me started on what we eventually got with III). The average quality of the JPRG took a nosedive in the mid-2000s – Final Fantasy churned out 12 and 13 and all its terrible sequels (and the less said about 15 the better), Xenosaga started well but lost sales with every instalment until it was cancelled, the Tales series died after Symphonia and still trades on the strength of Vesperia, only viewed as great in the dearth of other quality titles. ![]() Since then that side of the genre has taken over with franchises like Fallout, Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls commanding the console market for whole generations. I had little exposure to any western ones during the nineties, and only really started to take notice of them in the early 2000s. ![]() As a teenager I was obsessed by JPRGs, or as we referred to them at the time, RPGs. ![]()
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