>>3932466
Shit like Agarest or Phantasy Star 3

>>3932466
Radiant historia

Romancing SaGa 2
SaGa Frontier 2

>>3932479
Which one of these has the villain who is almost impossible to kill in-universe? Like the protagonist try and try and he just keeps coming back?

>>3932483
Technically both are like that but the latter has a more explicit section about it

>>3932493
Thanks. I meant to play that one but couldn't remember which one was which.

>>3932466
Tales of Phantasia
Fire Emblem 4
both check this box too >>3932483

>>3932475
Never played it but doesn't that fall under OP's exclusion of time travel games?

>>3932466
I thought it was more like 15-20 years
>8 years a slave I think
>then petrified for another 10 years.
>>3932475
No it wasn't, that was over the course of a few months if I am not mistaken.
>>3932466
With NIS titles it's hard to gauge, a year to demon's isn't the same length as time to a human.

>>3935259
>With NIS titles it's hard to gauge, a year to demon's isn't the same length as time to a human
Yeah
Makai Kingdom in particular has such an abstract setting, that the game could take place over an afternoon, a week, a century, or a millennium, and there wouldn't be much difference.

>>3935259
You're omitting how long the adult journey takes to petrification. Which to be fair the game is unclear on, but it's at least a few years. I always figured it was a 5 year journey or so, just given that when you escape as a slave you can't be any older than 14, and the relatively short period between marriage and arriving in Gotha is long enough for a full pregnancy to happen. Hell, you don't even notice until you're on the damn mountain, so presumably the climb up and down took months.

>>3932466
Romancing SaGa 2

>>3935482
Yeah, this
Something that's definitely been lost in the wash over time is how long the played game actually lasts. Most games either don't care, or else will broadly take place over a year so you can get seasonality, but in the context of something like these older JRPGs, a world spanning ship voyage takes months. Climbing a mountain takes weeks, months if it's a large one.
A five year run for these kinds of games is really not that surprising. Someone exploring a significant portion of the world in five years is honestly a blistering pace, even without regular combat with wildlife.

>>3932466
Agarest: Generations of War

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>>3935482
>I always figured it was a 5 year journey or so, just given that when you escape as a slave you can't be any


I thought it was rather quick, then again the movie actually swayed my opinion after the fact. I thought that these things happened in rather rapid succession..... Like over the course of a few months you know. People tended to get married really quickly back in the olden times.


>>3935478
>place over an afternoon, a week, a century, or a millennium,
these are literal gods in extra dimensional space.

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>>3935737
God I love Babylon.
I'm so disappointed he never really came back in any real sense.