Top down action

[Anonymous No.4654714]

Is there any kind of list of Top down action or action-rpg games? I'm in the mood for some, and I'd like some kind of guide.

Ones I can think of:

>Zelda seires
>Soul Blazer
>Illusion of Gaia
>Terranigma
>Willow (nes)
>Crystalis
>Neutopia I+II
>Ys series
>Crusader of Centy

[Anonymous No.4654715]

Secret of Mana dude come on

[Anonymous No.4654717]

>>4654715
Evermore while we're at it, too.

[Anonymous No.4654732]

>>4654714

Alundra I + II

[Anonymous No.4654779]

>>4654714
Do you want RPGs or action adventures, because most of those aren't RPGs.

[Anonymous No.4654814]

>>4654732
Came here to suggest this. Just started a playthrough of Alundra haven't played since childhood and loving it.

[Anonymous No.4654832]

>>4654714
Legend and Beyond Oasis are great stuff.

[Anonymous No.4654901]

[Anonymous No.4654903]

>>4654779
>Do you want RPGs or action adventures, because most of those aren't RPGs.

In practice these are basically the same. The only difference is you can level up or equip more items. In terms of gameplay they're the same.

[Anonymous No.4654921]

Isometric action > top-down action

[Anonymous No.4654929]

Is Seiken Densetu 3 worth playing?

Mind you, I got bored of both 1 (Final Fantasy Adventure), 2 (Secret of Mana) and never played the others.

[Anonymous No.4654930]

>>4654921

I HATE Isometric. The view angle just seems so incredibly unnatural. It's very difficult to do anything with precision. They control very awkwardly.

[Anonymous No.4655030]

>>4654929
If you got bored of Secret of Mana, I don't know what this game would offer. The gauge that needs to fill before you attack is gone, though there is a much shorter time until your attack is automatically ready. The game is much more focuses on melee combat than SoM's magic spam.
You can freely choose three out of six characters, changing your story (final dungeon and boss, more or less) depending on your main character (two characters share the same storyline). There is also a class system where you can choose "light"/"dark" branches for each character twice as you level up, ending up with four endgame classes for each character. But there is no weapon system like in Secret of Mana.
I don't know what exactly bored you about SoM (never played the first), so I'd say give it a try and dabble around until you get your second party member (doesn't take too long) and see if it catches your interest.

[Anonymous No.4655035]

Golden Axe Warrior. It's an unapologetic ripoff of the first zelda

[Anonymous No.4655082]

>>4654779
Fuck off retard.

[Anonymous No.4655751]

[Anonymous No.4655761]

>>4655035
Are there any apologetic ripoffs?

[Anonymous No.4655771]

>>4654921
I like Light Crusader, but no.

[Anonymous No.4657619]

Brain Lord.
Got a bunch of weapons and magic and it looks decent.

[Anonymous No.4657627]

>>4657619
what an odd title

[Anonymous No.4657669]

>>4657619
jfc I hated this game as a kid because of those puzzles
never got past the electric dungeon

[Anonymous No.4657678]

>>4657619
my favorite snes title, great soundtrack

[Anonymous No.4657705]

>>4654714
>Crystalis
I had the urge to try to beat that about a month ago, then I found out the battery is dead the hard way.
There's no feeling worse than seeing your childhood stuff break down due to age.

[Anonymous No.4658776]

>>4657705
Why not replace it?

[Anonymous No.4658875]

I dislike how many of these games have either cheap or terrible combat. There's something about Zelda games being fairly simplistic, but not so that you lose freedom to move around and use other strategies. In many of these games I don't see such thing, I see something more repetitive and slow. I liked some of the games on the list by OP but I must say out of all of those, Terranigma was the only one to satisfy me on that level, because even though it had a combat system that was overly simplistic and magic was almost unnecessary, it still was fast paced enough.

[Anonymous No.4660701]

>>4655761
>Are there any apologetic ripoffs?
I apologised when I ripped off yer mum's knickers.

[Anonymous No.4660738]

If you want to go obscure there was this pain in the ass and fairly difficult SNES game. I've gone back and beaten a lot of games that gave me trouble as a kid but this one...well, it's a licensed game called King Arthur and the Knights of the Round based off of some old cartoon show. The combat seems easy enough at first but then as you play you quickly get lost since you have 12 characters to choose from and AFAIK the game never really tells you you need to have a certain one in your party to fight the first boss, which is also a fucking dragon that breaths fire with shit tier hitboxes

[Anonymous No.4660745]

>>4657619

Got that in the vr gauntlet a year or two ago, great game.

[Anonymous No.4660802]

Arcus Odyssey

[Anonymous No.4660805]

>>4657705
>There's no feeling worse than seeing your childhood stuff break down due to age

Does your body count as your childhood stuff?

[Anonymous No.4660820]

>>4660738
kek i remember that game it had a black knight like not like a black knight like in monty python "its only a flesh wound" but a black knight as in Sir Dindu

[Anonymous No.4660823]

>>4660805
not unless you're emanual lewis or gary coleman

[Anonymous No.4660828]

>>4654717
Evermore is dog shit garbage. Go jump in a lake, you blockhead.

[Anonymous No.4660843]

>>4658875
Completely not-retro but the Rune Factory games give you the option to use both weapons like swords or axes and other items like a hammer or a hoe to beat monsters with. It might not be as varied as most Zelda games but maybe you'd like it.

[Anonymous No.4660847]

>>4660828
i will fukken wreck u

[Anonymous No.4661876]

>>4658875
I liked Soul Blazer better than Illusion of Time and Terranigma. Most Ys games are also pretty good.

[Anonymous No.4662449]

>>4660843
Which should I start with, and will I miss out on anything by choosing one region over the other?

[Anonymous No.4662951]

>>4662449
Rune Factory is buggy but a solid title.
2 didn't leave much of an impression.
Frontier is widely considered the best entry in the series. The "balancing Runeys" mechanic is a bitch though.
3 is better than Rune Factory 2.
Never played Tides of Destiny, but my sister did. It's garbage. Doesn't feel like a Harvest Moon game.
Never played 4, no comment there.

Frontier > 1 > 3 > 2 >>>> Tides

One issue all of them suffer is that by the end dungeons pay well enough that you might as well not be farming.

[Anonymous No.4662995]

>>4662951
Is Frontier top-down?

[Anonymous No.4663080]

>>4662951
I'm playing RF4 and it feels like a culmination of Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing and action RPGs with some neat things added like leveling up some specific stats and catching and leveling monsters like in Pokemon. It might come off as a "jack of all trades, master of none" at first glance and the story isn't anything special but it's surprisingly addicting and the gameplay is very varied.

That being said, it's not /vr/-related so I will sage my own post.

[Anonymous No.4663886]

>>4654714

[Anonymous No.4664153]

>>4662951
4 > 3 > Frontier > 2 > Tides > 1

[Anonymous No.4664296]

>>4660701
>knickers
Since you're obviously British, I know what else you apologized for... You apologized to Muhammed for being white and let him rape every woman in your country.

[Anonymous No.4665224]

>>4654929
It's secret of mana with fancier graphics. I guarantee you'll be bored.
>>4657705
It emulates perfectly