Hello, I'm trying to remember a JRPG I came across when I was a very very small child, so young in fact I still didn't know how to read. Needless to say, the game in question was a complete nonstarter for me at the time. I remember it being a 2D game with a top-down perspective, I don't think it was isometric, but all that might be wrong considering how long ago it was. However, what I distinctly remember was that it opened with the protagonist in a field of tall grass in the dead of night, it had an eerie, or at least lonely atmosphere. Does this ring a bell to anyone? I'd love to find out what it was after so long.
Also general PS1 JRPG thread I suppose.

>>11875465 (OP)
Funny that you post a BoF 4 pic as your description reminds me of the Breath of Fire 2 opening.
You do start in a field of grass by day, and then there's a sequence at night, all with an eerie atmosphere.

>>11875501
Thanks for the suggestion. Looking it up that doesn't seem to be the right game. I forgot to mention that I played this on the PS1 (or a very VERY small chance perhaps it was actually n64 but I strongly doubt it).

To keep the thread alive outside of my search, I've most recently played Legend Of Legaia. I really enjoy its combat system and it just has a fun world. I like the art style for the human characters in the overworld, I think they did a good job with the 3D chibis. I haven't gotten very far though, I gotta get back into it.

>>11875517
youtube.com/watch?v=cNm6GRomAvA

Great game with a cool atmosphere and cool boss fights

>>11875465 (OP)
Probably not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIJMDdcMpzg

>>11875465 (OP)
Valkyrie Profile 1?

the Ninja chapter of Live A Live

>>11875678
I just don't like monster recruitment, don't like MegaTen, Pokemon and DQV because of that shit but man does Jade Cocoon look amazing, I just with it was a standard JRPG

>>11875465 (OP)
>2D game with a top-down perspective
>protagonist in a field of tall grass in the dead of night
Suikoden 2?

I appreciate all these suggestions. None of these unfortunately look familiar though.
However I will say that while >>11875687 is obviously wrong since I never had a super famicom, this scene from the game is the closest to what I remember seeing. Main difference is that this is a sidescrolling scene while my memory recalls a top-down scene.

>>11875465 (OP)
Are you certain it was PS1?

>>11876482
As I was only about three or four years old at the time I can't be absolutely certain. However the only other console I had at that time was an N64, so that's the only other possibility.

Check the Shiren the Wanderer series, I think it might be one of them if my memory doesn't fail me

You couldn't possibly be thinking of Suikoden 2, could you?

>>11876494
What year was it? That'll help narrow it down

>>11875679
yes the famed dead of night opening of VP1 featuring bright daylight

Guess you can download every NA released JRPG for the PS1. Then Google if it's a 3D game and rule it out. I see there's a list of NA PS1 RPGs list, but it adds action adventure games like Alundra and has western games like Might and Magic, Dark Stone, and Diablo. It at least narrows it down to 99 games.

>>11877668
I doubt anon was playing Jap only games as a wee lad. Also, none of them were on PlayStation.

>>11878469
Niggas always misremember what console they were playing with these kinds of threads. Watch OP's mystery game be a fighting game on the 3DO.

did OP find it?

OP's description vaguely reminds me of FF5. It's a forest instead of a field but it did release on ps1

>>11879246
Unfortunately no. The reply above you is right about how fleeting our memory may be, especially memories from such an early stage in life. Whatever the game is, it absolutely had to be on either the Playstation or the N64 as there were no other consoles around me at the time. But whatever it is, I may have also simply completely misremembered what I saw at this point, perhaps it wasn't a night scene, perhaps it wasn't 2d, perhaps it was isometric. Who knows, I'll still keep searching but there's a very real chance it simply may not exist as I remember.
So with that I'm content to let this thread turn into a general JRPG thread instead. Talk about the games you've been playing recently. During my search I learned about the PoPoLoCrois series and I love the artstyle. Anyone here play it?

On the topic of games one vaguely remembers, I have a game I've been trying to track down. This was either a Playstation 2 game or a Gamecube game. I remember sandy, desert-y sort of box art. Some cool vehicle on the back. Maybe a post-apocalypse or science-fantasy vibe? Two or three women on the front art.

It was a choice between that, or Skies of Arcadia, and my mom didn't like the midriffs on display, so Skies was what I went home with. But what was that other game?

>>11880106
Metal Slug Anthology?

It's thousand arms op.

>>11880106
possibly metal saga

>>11875465 (OP)
Shadow Madness

https://youtu.be/NXuSr3PdM0M?t=7002
Would be my guess.

>>11880106
Probably some Wild Arms episode.

>>11880689
>>11880448
Feels like it might be one of these. I definitely think it was some kind of RPG, but neither have quite the color scheme I think I remember. Thanks for all the assistance!

It wasn't any of the Saga games was it?

Taking advantage of this thread, does anyone remember a Japanese PSX RPG where the camera was also kind of bird's-eye view (not isometric), and you had a kind of interesting dodging system? One thing I remember well for obvious reasons is that after you finished the first section/dungeon/mission (I don't remember well), there was a cutscene of a girl taking a shower completely naked (but obviously she was shown from behind).
Thank you

>>11882029
Granstream Saga

>>11882084
Thanks. Do you know if the game is worth playing?

>>11882140
It's okay. The PS1 has better action RPGs, like Dew Prism and Alundra.

>>11882159
and Brightis

>>11875465 (OP)
Breath of Fire 3?

https://youtu.be/E8DjZD4ybis?t=737

>>11875465 (OP)
I'm curious to see if someone can find it.
When I was a kid I played BoF 4 at an older friend's house. I didn't know how to read English yet, so I got lost around the first town.
I didn't remember the name of the game and searched for stuff like "ps1 game that starts on a desert", it took a while to find it, but I eventually did. It's funny how it ended up being pretty different from my memory.

there was an old game, definitely 3d with really blocky graphics. i dont think it was an rpg, maybe an action or hack-n-slash type. i think your character could copy/clone enemies and use their moves.

>>11884876
Kirby 64

>>11884876
Mischief Maker’s?
Shake, Shake!

>>11884889
no, not kirby. the character was human/humanoid, not a pink ball.
>>11884898
i never played it, but wasnt that game a 2d platformer with 3d models?

>>11884876
100% sure it's Brave Fencer Musashi
and in the unlikely case I'm wrong, it could also be Rue's path in Dewprism/Threads of Fate

>>11884876
>blocky graphics
>action or hack-n-slash
>character could copy enemies and use their moves
Sounds like Threads of Fate

>>11885112
>>11885153
THANK YOU! it was threads of fate!

>>11885180
It's one of my favourite PS1 games, you should give it a play through. Try Mint too, she's also pretty fun.