PS3 JRPG of the year then, for 2013...Which was almost a full year ago dude, what relevance does that have now? I've heard good things from Khirna about it but I've got a lot of other things to play.

Because it's better than Bravely Default :P

Subjectively to you maybe.

Nah, I haven't played Braverly. I've never even heard of it. I'm gonna look into it though. My point was Ni No Kuni is amazing. It's so long though. So long.

Surprised you haven't heard of it. They're both amazing games, the point though is that Ni No Kuni was something can came onto the DS far before it came to the PS3, and it was amazing back then in 2010. The DS then already had it's praise with it, and they're in different system categories so they don't compete now. Bravely Default is easily capable of being the best JRPG of 2014 like Fire Emblem Awakening was the best for 2013.

Um. The PS3 version is pretty different. Huge overhaul in graphics, and you can actually go around and explore towns and villages. It came out this year. Pretty different to the DS version. >Fire Emblem.

I know that it's fairly different, but "Ni No Kuni" started on the DS and got a PS3 version years later. In fact, you could safely give credit to where it started for it getting enough success to later get a jump up to a console. What about Fire Emblem?

Mean to put Ni No Kuni>Fire Emblem

Two titles greater than a dozen plus games? Not even possible. Fire Emblem's sales and success outnumber the nearly singular success Ni No Kuni has had by a large amount. Fire Emblem has had an established fan-base in Japan since long before Ni No Kuni had begun to pop up on people's radar.

I meant the newest one. Obviously not the entire series. I played a bit of Fire Emblem, I prefered Ni No Kuni. I did play another one a long time ago though, it was fun.

Check this list. See something odd?

Not really, unless you're pointing out that Fire Emblem is low on that charts.

All popular and "niche" titles like JRPGs and the like, had low sales. Monster Hunter, Etrian Odyssey, Fire Emblem, and Shin Megami Tensei. All very popular series in Japan, here in the West, no one cares or has even heard of most of these series before. Myself included until about two years ago. If a JRPG can sell the amount of copies that some of those did there, it means they're gaining more recognition and attention. Their low sales numbers is because most Americans and Europeans don't care about them as much because not many of them have come to the states or otherwise very often, so they don't gain much publicity. Pokemon's massive sales are because nearly every Pokemon game since the series creation have come to the US or otherwise, it's a known and popular series now that started in Japan. Now having over a dozen titles in it's respective collection. Fire Emblem Awakening having a little under 400K is because only Shadow Dragon, Path of Radiance, and one or two other games in the series have been localized. Rewind ten years and replace Pokemon with Fire Emblem, and Awakening would most likely have been the game with over a million copies sold, because it would have a better established fan-base overseas. Ni No Kuni's success can be attributed to a few things in the same manner. The PS3 is a JRPG console more or less because of titles like Tales of Vesperia, Tales of Symphonia(which has a complete release for two titles in the series coming up in late February), and many other titles that were on the PS3 in Japan, or the PS2 back in the day. Sony is a Japanese company, which gave the game much more publicity from the get-go. Nintendo and Infinite Systems are as well, but the 3DS isn't as big a system since it's a handheld. Over time, titles like Donkey Kong and the like that are rehashes of popular series, will eventually die out because right now, the 3DS is still aimed at a younger market, whereas the PS3 is not. Once more mature or older-age oriented titles begin coming out, we'll see an increase in the sales of those games. Though personally it saddens me to see Etrian Odyssey 4's sales numbers there...That's a pitifully low number for an old-school dungeon crawler series that deserves more attention, Untold wasn't there so maybe that did a lot better.

Ah, I see. Also, are those Tales game the same as Tales Of Xillia?

Yes, notable examples would be Tales of the Abyss, Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Legendia though it wasn't that great, Tales of Xillia, and Tales of Vesperia which is one of the few decent JRPG games that the 360 got, the PS3 got a better version of it in Japan only.

Agreed. That game was amazing. So many feels while playing that game. And the beginning of the game....holy crap. Posting a true spoiler, don't click it if you don't want to be spoiled. [spoiler]I totally thought that the entire game was taking place in Oliver's head while he was in the hospital given the sequence of events and that everyone had a double in each world. If the game had ended up being like that, I would have been completely fine with it too. [/spoiler] Seriously one of the best games I've played in a very long time. It is very balanced and has a breathtaking story. If you own a PS3 and have not played this game, you are wasting your console.

It was a good game spoiled by one of the worst battle systems I've ever seen. Still worth a purchase.