What are the most "anime" JRPGs?
I'm in the mood for the most shameless, juvenile, male gazey slop out there.

Puyo Puyo Tetris

>>716194443 (OP)
>Uessshhh I'm a faggot westoid who is racist against all Asians and Asian culture!!! Why cant everything be boring ugly like me!?!?!!?
Calm down OP

Oh boy, here I go.
-Neptunia
-Dark Rose Valkyrie
-Omega Quintet
-Death end re;Quest
-MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death
-Demon Gaze
-Stella Glow
-Mary Skelter
-Persona 4
-Both Blue Reflection games
Yeah, I tried to mention only games I've played...I don't recommend Omega Quintet but everything else is decent/okay at least or even good.

>>716194443 (OP)
The ones that pander the hardest are the ones that are desperate to make up for trash production values. You might be in the mood for some trash because you're horny right now, but you'll probably feel differently half an hour in when you realize you've signed up to play a shitty, repetitive game. Stop at Xenoblade 2 and go no further.

>>716194958
Pretty much this entire list save for Persona lol >>716194634
It's not surprising ecchi vidya got wholly replaced by gacha. It gets straight to the point.

>>716194634
Since you mentioned some dungeon games, the Moero games are pretty good fun too and not actually as horny as people think (it’s more parody).

>>716194634
so basically everything from Idea Factory, and then some?

>>716194443 (OP)
Xenoblade, pre-Arise Tales and modern Ys come to mind.

>>716194634
>Persona
lol, no! Persona isn't even an RPG franchise, just poorly disguised 90-hour visual novels for lonely otakus with a 10-hour watered down SMT game lazily stappled on top.
Tokyo Mirage Sessions is a million times closer to what OP wants.

>>716194443 (OP)
XBC2 is a masterpiece

>>716195564
Yes.

xenoblade X is arguably more otakucore than 2
you can literally have a full female party in playboy bunnysuits and larp like you're playing through daicon 4

>>716195857
we'll never get another Xenoblade like 2, won't we?

>>716194443 (OP)
I always wanted to try xbc, but the hud always seemed too cumbersome to keep track of in the heat of things (I prefer turn based over action, but will play action if it feels rewarding enough)
Is the hud something that gets easier with time, and is the combat SO attention oriented and so punishing if you're not 300% on it?

>>716194443 (OP)
there's that Eden's Zero game that came out recently
I don't know if it's good though

>played Xenosaga
>hear about Xenoblade games for years
>get Switch 2
>nab 1 DE and 2 on sale
>"At last, I can find out what's so great about-"
>blurry as fuck
>locked 30 fps
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. They better patch this for Switch 2 soon.

>>716195993
Hopefully, no, while I love 2's story (When ot acually focuses on the story and not in random filler) it is by and far the worst Xenoblade game so far, the menus and systems are extremely obtuse, the character designs (Not the clothes but the weird squirrel faces) are offputting, the structure of sidequests is attrocious, the gacha-like blade lottery system is a gigantic waste of time, and literally half of the game is filler, nothing between the prologue and arriving at Indol has any point, that's 4 entire titans that are completely pointless and really make it feel like they came up with the titans first and then made up reasons to visit them rather than have a clear outline of the story beforehand, and exploring them just feels less justifiedo overall than the pointless areas in the other games because in 1 and 3 going through places lile Satorl or Makthia is necessary to get to the end objective but in 2 the characters are actively choosing to deviate from their actual target to go to these side locations that don't actually further the main quest in any ignificant way.
Also the horrible dub.

-neptunia
-persona (pos-2)
-tales of
-trails (post sky)

take your pick

>>716196084
The hud is made significantly more readable in 1DE and XDE, and 3 also streamlines 2's hud a lot.

>>716195993
they reused enough xenogears plot points in blade 2, we don't need that again

>>716196462
>dub
amigo, what the fuck are you doing?

>>716195993
No, and that's a good thing.

>>716196602
I don't play in japanese, the rat-on-helium voices of the girls give me headaches, the dub is fine in 1, 3 and X but in 2 it's miserable.

>>716196646
ywnbaw

>>716196560
So 2's is the rougher one while 1de, x and 3 are relatively better? Good to know. How about the combat?

>>716194443 (OP)
If you want real recs you are gonna have to go to altchans like 8 chan moe, after the downtime people like me do quality posting on altchans and just shitpost here.
Otherwise I would just tell you to play persona 5 here, maybe danganronpa if you are feeling adventurous.

>>716195796
>just poorly disguised 90-hour visual novels for lonely otakus
not even for otaku, for failed normalfags

>>716196834
Combat is mmo-ish, the character auto-attacks while the arts cooldown; arts have the usual mmo effects, some are positional, some are better if used after other types of arts and so on, there's also a topple system for incapacitating enemies through art sequences and chain attacks.
Each game has some mechanics thrown on top, in 1 you have foresight which gives you visions of attacks that the enemies will use in the future and a timer to evade them or change their outcome, 2 uses an element rock-paper-scissor system to stack orbs that power-up special arts, 3 has character and art fusions known as Ouroboros and a very beefy job system and X has mechs called skells for fighting huge monsters as well as automatic commands that combo with one another called soul voices.

>>716195954
XCX is way too based and arguably not "anime" in the way OP describes. In fact it has the hallmarks of sucking off western philosophies.

>>716197239
I'm not a very narrative intensive guy, but my autism compels me to play in order anyways: where does x fit in, if at all?

>>716197354
X is probably best played last, it doesn't have much of a narrative connection to the numbered games but there is some stuff in it that is best left until after playing the main trilogy, plus it is also the hardest one in the series so it's probably best to play it when you have at least some experience with the series.

>>716194443 (OP)
You are looking for gachas

>>716197324
X is strange in that some parts of it feel very western and some are just so extremely anime.

>>716196601
Xenoblade 3 literally copied the entire character of Grahf for N. I unironically think Takahashi is a bit of a hack

>>716197650
N isn't like Grahf, Jin is though

>>716197650
That's because Xenoblade 3 is as close of a remake of Xenogears as Takahashi could get away with without infringing Square's copyright, the entire Xeno franchise is three attempts (So far) to tell the Perfect Works story.

>>716197530
Awesome. I'll give this some serious consideration, thx Anon

>>716194634
You could have just said "Compile Heart and Idea Factory".

>>716197572
By nature of being a Xeno game it includes western concepts, but X kicks it into overdrive:
>gnostic concepts (free space)
>burger fetishism a la NLA
>manifest destiny
>for a 2015 game: character customization to a degree rarely seen in JRPGs, but commonly in WRPGs
>progressive (non-derogatory) viewpoints on racism via exploring speciesism
>Sawano
But some clear reminders that this is a jap game:
>strictly JP mech design
>character tropes (tatsu potato, lin kawaii, nagi old man dick strength; nearly all recruitable characters which are one-dimensional like h.b., murderess)
>cutscene transitions into/out of boss fights

>>716194443 (OP)
Japanese should have put more loli in their anime/games to filter out tourists like this

>>716198720
they do, and as a result they don't get localized

>>716194443 (OP)
Tokyo Xanadu is pretty much high school urban fantasy anime as a game.