Jrpg Video Games Bucket List

Complete the video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a role-playing adventure.

A crashed colony ship on the alien Mira, an open world four times the size of the others, and mechs to cross it.

Five chapters, each following a different party member until they all meet in the last one.

The Game Boy Advance sequel that turned the combat into a card deck and set up everything after it.

The job system proper, twenty-three classes swapped at will, and the last of the trilogy that never left Japan for years.

No experience points - your stats grow from what you do - and the first game in the series with a real story.

The prequel with three interlocking campaigns, the one that explains where Xehanort came from.

A linear thirty-hour corridor into Gran Pulse, with the fastest battle system the series has had.

Ike’s mercenary company in a war between humans and laguz; the GameCube entry the series is still writing about.

The 1986 game that invented the Japanese role-playing game: one hero, one slime at a time.

The 1987 original that saved Square: four Light Warriors, a job you pick at the start and a time loop at the end.

Two generations across a continent, with children who inherit their parents’ skills and weapons.

Seventeen years later: Toy Story, Frozen and the end of the Dark Seeker saga.

The 2023 game that summons the heroes of every earlier Fire Emblem as rings you equip.

The last of the main run: a court intrigue in the Queendom of Falena, and the closest the series came to Suikoden II.

The Trinity Sight system: the same war told three times, from three sides, before they converge.

The handheld one built for playing next to other people, with a shared map and grottos traded on the street.

Kalos, the first three-dimensional generation, and mega evolution in the middle of a battle.

A war of succession in Ivalice fought on isometric grids, with job classes and a script about class.

A classroom game summons the other selves of a group of Japanese schoolchildren; the 1996 first Persona.

Rumours spread in Sumaru City start coming true; the half of Persona 2 the West did not get until 2011.

Build your own party, then learn which world you have been walking around; the ending that ties the trilogy up.

The same story from the other side, with a save file imported from the first game to finish it.