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Grandia has meet gameplay but a weak story. Xenogears is really cool at first but is obviously rushed near the end. Suikoden 2 is a really good game overall. I never played Wild Arms.
Overall I'd say Suikoden 2

SaGa Frontier is better than all 4, if you've never played that

>>3829550
Wild Arms is some quasi Western Ameriboo shit. The rest of that is pretty accurate.

Also one of the best ever Anime intros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVOFibwVMw0

in order:

suikoden 2 (but I recomend that the person plays the first one first), it aged brilliantly, one of the best rpgs of all times.

grandia: for anyone that played lunar and loved it. it's really about the feeling of being in an adventure. the voice acting is bad but cute.

xenogears: nice game, terrible second disc. it's clearly an unfinished game, anyone that says otherwise is an apologist.

wild arms: quite average but competent.

>>3829716
tfw downloading the midi of this off of rpgamer and listening to it on repeat for a month

>>3829546
this

one of my friends really really likes wild arms.

>>3829539
Star Ocean 2

>>3829539
Suikoden 2 but get a character recruitment guide (108 in total) for the true ending.

Xenogears is one of my favorites but disc 2 is a massive change in pace. Go from playing the game to visual novel.

Wild Arms has nice ost

never played grandia

>>3829539
my order:

suikoden 2: Far above the rest.
+Graphics aged nicely: which can't be said about the rest.
+ Gameplay challenging, yet no grinding.
+ Quite customizable becouse you need to think about constructing solid team out of 108 available characters, and utilize powers. More strategy less mashing x.
+ war minigame that enhances gameplay and is in line with the storyline
+great immersion and solid plot
- characters are just dolls for fighting aside from 5 main chars and villains.
- hard to play without guide, which hampers immersion a bit becouse you worry about missable content all the time


xenogears:
+ quite developed/developing characters
+ big plot
+ best budget out of those 4(but still no FF tier)
- gameplay is really tiring, no customization, tons of random encounters, combat is braindead
- drags on, problems with narration pace
- minigames are badly designed and even more tiring than the rest of the game

grandia:
+ merry adventure time
+ voices in PSX game
- it's like lunar: if you aren't 10 or fan of 1985 "the goonies" you might have a bad time.

wild arms: Average. No prominent merits.
-Combat is as bland as it gets in JRPG - push x until enemy dies, pick best gear, no char custamization.
-Poor man game- no cutscenes, ugliest 3D graphics.
+Comfy adventure time.
+You can't hate it for anything, it's just that it isn't good.

To summarize:
Play suikoden 2, watch xenogears on youtube, ditch wild arms. Grandia is aquired taste so can't say much about it.