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JRPGs Torment Me, This Year I Make Them Stop
njsykora \| 12:10 AM on 03.29.2009	25 comments

Today I got my collection of Gamecube games back after moving house. With those 27 games I got some of the greatest games ever made. And Donkey Konga. However it made me realise an uncomfortable truth.

Of the 25 JRPGs I own over all my consoles I have finished 2 of them. Those 2 are the 2 Kingdom Hearts games. Now I knew that I was bad at completing games. I always have been, ever since I was old enough to buy my own videogames. However not until I saw what is I think the longest standing unfinished JRPG in my collection sitting there in front of me did I realise how bad the problem had gotten.

23 JRPGs in my collection have not been finished. Some of these are excusable (Persona 4 only arrived today) while some of them are not (the aforementioned Skies of Arcadia) however all of them are now weighing on me heavily.

So here's the list. 23 JRPGs that I have not completed.

DS
#1 - Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
#2 - The World Ends With You
#3 - Chrono Trigger
#4 - Final Fantasy 3 *nearly finished actually

PSP
#5 - Final Fantasy: Crisis Core
#6 - Tales of Eternia

PS3
#7 - Valkyria Chronicles

Xbox 360
#8 - Eternal Sonata *unstarted
#9 - Lost Odyssey
#10 - Phantasy Star
#11 - Phantasy Star 2 *unstarted
#12 - Phantasy Star 3 *unstarted
#13 - Phantasy Star 4 *unstarted

Wii
#14 - Breath of Fire 2

Gamecube
#15 - Skies of Arcadia Legends
#16 - Lost Kingdoms
#17 - Pokemon Colosseum

PS2
#18 - Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga *unstarted
#19 - Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 *unstarted
#20 - Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 + FES
#21 - Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
#22 - Final Fantasy 10
#23 - Final Fantasy 12

So here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna finish these fuckers. All of them. So here's my pledge, my promise and my mission.

I, Francis Robin Lambourne, known to the vast majority of people who know me as njsykora will finish all 23 of these JRPGs before the 1st of January 2010. Over the next 8 months I will finish them all!

Absolute minimum of 10. If I finish 20 I'll be freaking ecstatic. If I finish all 23 you will find me in Trafalgar Square on New Years Day giving blowjobs to the tramp population.

God help me.....

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25 comments | showing # 1 to 25

CWal37 says:
(# 0) on 03/29/2009 01:02

I bought FFX last Monday, and had nearly finished it by this Friday, I didn't even play it through every day. FF12 took me much longer, although I was a sidequesting fiend.

Anyways, good luck in your endeavor, hope to see some updates as the year goes by.

Tdiddy9182 says:
(# 1) on 03/29/2009 01:06

Godspeed my friend, godspeed.

Lurfadur says:
(# 2) on 03/29/2009 01:18

Crisis Core won't take you too long if you're shooting just for the main quest/story. Here's a hint: if you don't want to fight monsters try running along the very edges of rooms, paths, and not cutting corners seemed to drop my random encounters down to almost 0%.

njsykora says:
(# 3) on 03/29/2009 01:23

@Lurfadur

I have literally done nothing of the main quest since I unlocked the missions. FF3 is first in my sight really since I'm so close to the end of it.

Qraze says:
(# 4) on 03/29/2009 01:37

wow! i really try to beat all of them but if its a crap game i just can't get into then i won't.

maybe you just don't like them but can't bring yourself to realise it?

njsykora says:
(# 5) on 03/29/2009 01:41

@Qraze

That really isn't the case, the games I've started but haven't finished I've had an absolute blast with but something has stopped me playing them at some point and I've just never gone back.

eternalplayer2345 says:
(# 6) on 03/29/2009 01:49

good luck man your gonna need it.

BrickRoadDX says:
(# 7) on 03/29/2009 01:58

I hate to be a downer man, but you're fucked.

pedrovay2003 says:
(# 8) on 03/29/2009 02:31

I just picked up Digital Devil Saga, myself. I started playing my friend's copy this weekend and it's awesome so far. Persona's 3 and 4 are two of the best games I've played --- I'd go for those first. They'll make you love JRPGs that much more.

Good luck on with all that...

ajaxender says:
(# 9) on 03/29/2009 03:06

Wow. I thought i was crazy trying to play every FF game that can be played on a psp, but youre on a whole new level.

Having recently just tried to finish Crisis Core, i give you leave to let that one go. I found the combat became a real chore, either boring or frustrating (which was a bit of a disappointment, considering how fun it was to start with). But hey, i didnt really do anything anyway, it was all the random chance of the DMW. The cutscenes etc are worth seeing though, luckily they are all youtube :P.

Endstiem says:
(# 10) on 03/29/2009 03:08

I just poured about 50 hours into Eternal Sonata for the full 1000 achievement points :) It gave me incentive to play through the Encore hard mode.... fucking great game.

CAVE says:
(# 11) on 03/29/2009 03:20

I have an almost exact dilemma, but I'm going to live with it. Good luck dude, try not to lose your mind.

FalconReaper says:
(# 12) on 03/29/2009 06:50

@njsykora:

If your gonna beat them all, I suggest that you start with TWEWY

Victor Stillwater says:
(# 13) on 03/29/2009 08:43

You've only not finished 23? Try 47, at least if my memory serves me right. :(

SakuChan says:
(# 14) on 03/29/2009 08:52

Hahahaha, my list is bigger than that. That's so sad. I have games still to beat on the older systems. :( Good luck to you.

Daxelman says:
(# 15) on 03/29/2009 09:51

Sonic Chronicles is a JRPG?

RonBurgandy2010 says:
(# 16) on 03/29/2009 09:53

hahahahaha good luck with that buddy. At least you got a drought on your side! I have a similar sized backlog. Maybe less, but no JRPGs, so they should take maybe 10 or more hours each.

The fact that I have a 7-page research paper to do doesn't help though.

Fuck, I need to get to work.

njsykora says:
(# 17) on 03/29/2009 10:01

@Daxelman

Its not a JRPG in the sense that it wasn't developed in Japan, however it shares many sensibilities with a JRPG. The turn-based battle system is more Final Fantasy than anything else Bioware's ever made.

Daxelman says:
(# 18) on 03/29/2009 10:17

@Njsykora: Ah.

You should put it in a "Wannabe JRPGs" list, for lulz n shit.

Qraze says:
(# 19) on 03/29/2009 11:46

hmm, their has got to be a reason why, maybe intimidation? i do the same thing but only when i'm at the last area. maybe once its done you won't have the incentive to play it anymore? how many times did you beat kh1 and 2? could be you want to play them but mentally investing time into them may pull you from other games? do you like playing newer games to older ones? meaning newly released.

there is a reason and i'm only trying to help you get to the bottom of it, i do something similar with certain other genres.

Mushman says:
(# 20) on 03/29/2009 12:08

Good luck dude, don't play ever SINGLE GAME ALL AT ONCE.

Take them down one at a time. I only have 3 JRPG's to finish, so it's not that bad for me.

Half left says:
(# 21) on 03/29/2009 12:21

Hrm...

Good luck with that =/

garison says:
(# 22) on 03/29/2009 13:46

I NEVER finish JRPG's. My backlog is probably in comparison to yours. I think the only one's I have ever finished are Kingdom Hearts II and Persona 4.

Cough says:
(# 23) on 03/29/2009 17:54

Strangely enough, i finished some of your unfinished list but could not get even near those kingdom games. I felt so wrong playing that.

Also, you could not emulate breath of fire and chrono trigger. Not playing them on an emulator doesn't let you not speed them up. Just not saying.

That said, god speed.

NihonTiger90 says:
(# 24) on 03/29/2009 21:51

Good luck to you, sir!

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Prononciation njsykora is pronounced like this. en-jay-sik-ora Yeah it would be easier if it were spelt njsikora but it doesn't look as cool does it? Mini Bio I'm njsykora, a news writer for Negative Gamer and Cblog Recapper on Wednesdays. Want to see what I live in? Look here. About This Blog This is a home for all my videogame articles and exploits that are too happy to go on Negative Gamer. Blog Series' The �5 Challenge In these troubled economic times we all have less money, join me as I set out to prove it's possible to get plenty of excellent games for only �5. #1: Timesplitters, Zone of the Enders and Dynasty Warriors 3 #2: Ico #3: Beach Spikers JRPGs vs NJ I have 23 unfinished JRPGs, I aim to complete them all within 8 months. The List and Mission 5 Reasons Why should you be excited for a game? A controller? A console? A program? A pizza? I explain why I'm excited for something and why you should be too. 1: LittleBigPlanet 2: Guitar Hero World Tour 3: Midnight Club Los Angeles 4: Eternity's Child Control Freaks A look at games that have been defined by their weird controllers, or unique use of existing ones. Now finished in 6 parts. 1: Ape Escape 2: The neGcon 3: The Sega Action Chair 4: Gametrak 5: Prop Cycle 6: DK Bongos Email njsykora@googlemail.com Awards The Great Retro Quiz 29: Donkey Kong Country The Great Retro Quiz 30: Super Mario Kart Consoles Owned - This Gen Wii Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Nintendo DS PSP The Retro Collection Dreamcast Gamecube Playstation 2 Nintendo 64 Turbografx-16 Neo Geo Pocket Colour