so you feel it, just wrap it up and seal it, and deal with it when a rainy day comes along

[yoshitsune]

Warning: completely arbitrary "best of" list ahoy!

...I figure it's late enough in the PS2's lifespan to look back on the games released for it as a whole. And specifically, my chosen genre of game, the RPG. So, bored and fueled by cinnamon bears, I am making a top ten list of the best PS2 RPGs ever.

Comments

[nemissa]

I am disappointed by the lack of VALKYRIE GAEMS in this list :'(

[yoshitsune]

Well, VP1 was PSX! And what I've played of VP2 seemed cool - I was, I think a little bit of the way through chapter 3? - but not quite enough to make the list. D:

[nemissa]

Well, clearly you need to play MOAR! >:o

(also I'm being SILLY, and have just been disappointed no one else's finished VP2 and liked it D:)

(also, 'valkyrie gaemes' may include vanillaware titles)

[yoshitsune]

Oh yeah! I meant to include Odin Sphere in the list of "games I own and that might make a revised version of this list once I play them," but forgot. D:

Though...is it really an RPG proper?

Perhaps once I finish AI:EM and Super Mario Galaxy, I will take another spin at VP2!

[yoshitsune]

And you will! (Well, "changed my life" is perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, now that I think about it; more "made me think and I have changed the way I approach life slightly because of it.")

And yeah, I kind of thought that was what the player was supposed to take away from that bit (the "twist" through the ending); that their creators, who are constantly built up as gods in their world, end up these regular people, and that they needed to stop looking to the heavens for help and instead realize that they're on their own and need to make their own path.

(Admittedly this idea mostly comes out of the so-stupid-it's-awesome Cartesian cogito ergo sum ending. XD)

And I think a better description of the .hack games has never been written. XD;