> That moment in JRPGs when the party get separated

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>female MC waifu gets corrupted by or falls in love with the big bad

>>375917786

Name literally one game where this happens.

>>375917818
Real life

>>375917714
>game spams you to save regularly
>other characters tell you this is going to be tough challenge
>other characters tell you to be careful are you ready etc etc
>theres still no dialogue option saying "its okay im min/maxed bro"
feels bad man

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>tfw forced to play as the party members you never leveled up

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>>375917818
Lunar: the Silver star

>>375917714
>strangely enough that's also the only time you need to actually do thinking to win battles
>only lasts until the next boss fight
>right back to mindlessly pressing attack

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>>375917714
>Doing quest in a dungeon
>Oh shit, the boss appeared
>Let's chase him further
>One by one your party members fall into traps or stay behind to open doors
>End up with only the MC
>Ohshit.jpg
>Find boss and begin fight
>Fuck, I ain't going to make it
>Suddenly, one of your party members gets back in during the fight
>Each turn one of your bros comes back in while posing and shit
>When all your bros are back the boss shifts to its second phase and summons his own party members

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>tfw your brother dies by the hands of a swordmans who was your only parental figure and then you turn into a half demon long haired scantily clad vengeance seeking monster and your brother you thought died actually became the swordsmans shotacon sex pal and you have to kill them both with the company of a pirate, demon swordsman, military captain gone rogue, and a stupidly sexy smug witch bitch

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>boss can utilise the power of friendship

>Acquire party of well-rounded individuals
>It mostly stays afloat because of two particular party members
>They have better designs, better skills and overall better stats and personalities
>The sad part is that this always stands out as something fishy in every JRPG

>Lo and behold, party members leave you halfway through the game to be the bad guys / antagonists and you are left with half-assed flat replacements

>>375917818
Fire Emblem 4

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>>375918959

Did you order some
Insubstantiality

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>that moment when some evil dude kills his henchman for not doing his job properly, because obviously training new, green henchmen on the job is so much better and efficient than giving the old vets a fair warning after their screwup

>>375917818

Genealogy of the Holy War

>that moment in JRPGs where the female side character you've had zero chemistry with falls in love with you

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>JRPG tries to imply that the story is not made up as they went

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>>375920187
>at some point in game an NPC sits you down and pieces together the plot for you
>it makes even less sense explained in length.

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>>375917818

Breath of Fire III

Final Fantasy 9
Final Fantasy 6

Suikoden I
Suikoden II

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> Get a new party member after completing more than 75% of the game
> Nigger is 15 levels behind everyone

>>375917818
Live-A-Live

>>375920478
>a character from the previous game sits down and gives you a massive exposition dump about everything that happened in the plot because of him screwing something up as well as massive reveals that tie it into the previous game out of the left field
>all it does is put more questions out in the air that never get resolved since this is right before the final dungeon

>>375921101
Chrono Cross?

>>375921287
yep
fucking balthasar

>>375917818
Bahamut Lagoon

>>375920775
I don't think you followed the reply chain correctly

>>375920935

Star Ocean always takes that to a whole new level.

>Fucking Pepita is only availble for 1 fight at the very start of the game which puts her at level 3 after finishing it

>Omg guys hi you still have a party slot in the last dungeon? I want to join!!!
>still fucking level 3

>>375921508

Whoops. U rite.

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>big bad villain from the first game returns as a villain in the second game but was actually secretly a reformed bro getting you ready to take down the true second game big bad

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>your party only allows 2 members
>you and the other guy/girl/whatever
>your party member always rotates out for another character at some points
>every character is always stronger than you and one shots everything until the final dungeon

>>375926082
What is: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

>>375917714
>main protagonist can be removed from the party
>play the whole game without them
>mission where you can only use the protag
>weak as shit

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>party member gets separated from the main party
>all their items and gear go back into your inventory
>when they rejoin their level is boosted to match yours

>>375920775
>Suikoden 2

?????

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>>375917714
Is there a game where rotating party members is actually useful?

Normally, you just choice your favorite waifus and blast tru the game with it

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>>375917714
thanks for making the motel section annoying as fuck

>>375917786
>>375917818
Prey, not the new but the old one.

She's freakin attached to an abomination and becomes a boss that you have to kill.

>>375920935
>The villain and your party share a common enemy and decide to team up
>They join your party
>They are fucking useless
>They can't use any of the sick spells they used against you earlier in the game

>>375927116
Its useful during the first part of FFX, later in the game it's unnecessary though.

I think I purposefully swapped my party around a bit while playing Child of Light too.

>>375927116
Nowadays you're either stuck with the same core party and the occasional forced guest, or you basically have no decisions about who is in your party depending on the plot.

With older RPGs it really does depend on how well the game was designed with different party members in mind. Breath of Fire liked encouraging bringing certain members into encounters due to the advantages they may have if you weren't nuking things with Dragon forms, at least until Dragon Quarter sticks you with three core characters for most of the game.

>>375927968
Breath of Fire 1 and 2 have wildly unbalanced party member usefulness
In 1 Ryu, Karn, and Bleu are clearly the best, other character's not so much
In 2 you get more useful party members, but then you also get stinkers like Spar, Sten, and unfused Jean

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>>375917714
>game has over 30 party members
>only 3 or 4 are worthwhile

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>>375917956

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>>375917714
>the journey starts when MC's village is destroyed

>>375927116
It's fun pulling off tag combos in Berseria

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>>375928453
>game has over 100 party members
>most of them are viable
>there is endless possibility for mixing and matching

>>375921589
For the sake of consistency I can understand if that character didn't train to get stronger throughout the game, but at the FINAL dungeon? Who thought that was a good idea?

>villain you barely won against joins your team
>he's shit

>>375927116
The party composition is ALWAYS as follows

1: You
2: Your Waifu
3: Your best Friend
4: (If it exists) The 2nd best looking girl after your waifu OR if the game lacks that the coolest character

In FF6 it would be like: Edgar, Terra, Locke, Celes
in FF8: Squall, Rinoa, Xell
etc...

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>>375917714
>you had your characters' EXP lined up just right so that everybody would gain a level at the same time
>party separates and only the active characters you're using gain EXP, throwing everything off

>>375918959
Berseria 2 when?

>>375920935
>first boss joins your party in the sequel
>complete garbage
>final boss joins your party in the sequel
>overpowered as hell

>>375918224
>they turn out to be good when leveled up

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>>375929317
>anons are enjoying the sequels to the Suikoden III story in another timeline

>>375918513
what game

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>Boss fight is essentially your party being pitted against another party of adventurers like yours

>>375930127
>that one party member that's always 1 level behind everyone
>MC will always be 1 level ahead

>that dungeon that makes you not want to play the game
what's her name /v/?

>>375917818
FFVIII. She's the sorceress.

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>>375930874
>the other party uses combination attacks like your party does

>>375927116
SMT Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers

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>>375917714
>that moment when you realise that character was not a permanent team member and you equipped him some of your best shit

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>>375930846
Romancing SaGa 3, the series as a whole has many gimmicks related to party members.

>>375917714
These are the best moments you fag.

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>>375931814
>tfw waiting for the translated Vita releases

>>375927386
>boss from the previous game joins your party
>he's obviously weaker than when you fought him
>over the course of the game, he relearns abilities you saw him use during the first game

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>>375931939
They're going to happen eventually
>tfw the games have been localized before Gideon translated 2 or someone made an actual fantranslation for 3
Good things comes to those who wait, I guess

>Main rival was supposed to join the party near the end but the devs ran out of money so he just sits around as a NPC instead

>>375928453
LISA The Painful is far too guilty of this

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>Main female isn't a healbitch