>>37274399>Stuck in starting town for an hour as characters drone on about HOW AMAZING THEIR MECHANICS ARE, etc.>Cringy, distinctly anime dialogue and humor, like HAHA WOW I SURE AM HUNGRY LISTEN TO MY STOMACH GROWL HOW EMBARASSING AH YOU TOUCHED MY PANTIES HOW EMBARASSING WAAA!~>Full of word salad objects and areas that only sound cool to people who don't speak englishThe only good JRPG is Nier, and that's because Yoko Taro is a westaboo who can let go of painfully tired tropes and knows how to make charismatic, fun characters and let the localization team adapt them in a good way instead of literally translating the humor, which always feels alien and painful. SMT: Strange Journey is similar, it's refreshing and feels so much less awkwardly japanese than other JRPGs.
IDK, I'm just jaded. I've tried all the "good story" JRPGs like Radiant Historia, and they just exhaust me and make me cringe.