Love having all my party members twiddling their thumbs defending and healing while one guy fails his steal rolls 10 times in a row
I extra love it if the steal move deals damage so you have to also worry about the target dying from too many failed attempts
I double extra love it when it’s a boss battle when on top of everything else the story momentum just grinds to a halt while you fuck with a stupid RNG for 5 minutes
It is indeed the first game, but these are all just random monsters you run into in dungeons and the overworld. At least bosses tend to have some kind of story justification. The same criticism about the enemies you fight being kind of silly and random could easily be made of many classic franchises, like Final Fantasy. insert picture of the haunted house enemy from FF7 here
I’m currently playing through the second game but I have to say that at least judging by the first two entries, despite the series’ reputation as the “Western” JRPG franchise they’re remarkably light on actual Western elements. Sure, there’s some spaghetti Western flourishes to the music sometimes, some characters wear duster coats and the landscapes tend to be kind of arid but everything else is just regular JRPG stuff through and through. (Also plenty of JRPGs throw in random Western elements anyway)
Also with regards to your edit to your previous post, I think that’s just because modern anime audiences and creators are more familiar with RPGs than they are with fantasy literature or the things that inspired fantasy literature
Yeah but I like the dusters, deserts and Western musical flourishes.
I think the amount of guns in a not-modern setting makes it feel pretty Western to me also.
I also feel like some of the towns look really Western. Big metal windmills and water towers, saloony architecture etc.
This also doesn’t apply to 2 obviously but this is the frontwoman for 3
Look at those six-shooters.
So far 2 actually feels somewhat less like a Western than the first game. The first game had Jack:
His jeans and the tassels on his coat contributed like 40% of that game’s Western vibes. Funnily enough, he doesn’t even use guns despite his special skill being named Fast Draw
I feel like a ton of JRPGs have at least one town that looks like this
I feel like Ashley Winchester in WA2 has the same vibes? He’s using a musket, wearing jeans and a Western style button up, etc
He just feels more like a young soldier type than a gunslinger or other strictly Western archetype to me