Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is a Fantasy based RPG video game by Nintendo. Released back in 1987, Final Fantasy only allowed playability of Nintendo’s NES and GBA (Game Boy Advanced) and later on it ported to more platforms such as MSX2, PSP, iOS, Android and Nintendo 3DS. The game is set in a Fantasy World that thrives with the help of four elemental powers of four Orbs. Each of the Orb governs over one unique classical element including Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water. The world of Final Fantasy is home to multispecies of beings such as Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Dragons, Mermaids, and Robots. The world of Final Fantasy was once home to an ancient race known as The Lefeinish who used the powers of Wind Orb to craft Giant Airships, and power up a mega structure referred to as the “Floating Castle” (a Space Station). Because of some unknown reasons, the Wind orb went dark, and all of the other Orbs (Earth, Fire, and Water) followed. The World of Final Fantasy went into despair and chaos. The story takes a turn when four young Light warriors appear in the world of Final Fantasy. Theses warriors are destined to rule over a darkened elemental orb individually and are the ultimate saviors of the world. The game allows the players to select anyone of them as the main character and start exploring the world. Players are tasked to traverse through the Kingdom of Coneria, rescue Princess Sara, defeat the Evil Knight Garland and reach down to the Town of Pravoka. Liberate the Town of Bikke, defeat the Pirates, acquire the Pirate ship and embark on a chain of fantastic quests to achieve the final objectives of the game. Final Fantasy is all filled up with excellent adventures and quests of the Light Warriors, and the game takes the players to the most beautiful places in the Final Fantasy universe as they keep on going through the enemies, bizarre situations, and magical environments. The Ultimate purpose of the game is to defeat all the evils and restore the order in the world by making the Elemental Orbs whole again. With a brilliant backstory, addictive and quite immersive gameplay, great mechanics and beautifully created visuals, Final Fantasy is one of the best and longest running Fantasy RPG video game to play and enjoy.
#1 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is a part of a widely popular game series and offers a brilliant mix-up of Action-RPG, Tactical Strategy and Turn-based elements. The game offers multiple endings and multiple paths to choose and enjoy the game to the fullest. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor takes you to the Modern day Tokyo where it sets you up into the character of a teenage boy who along with his friends is caught in a heavy conflict between the humans and Demons. You can choose sides and once you have chosen the side, you can act as a leader who is determined to devastate the opposing forces by the use of his tactical and strategic approach. You can lead your squad all the way to enemy installations, destroy or capture them, push the devils out of the populated areas and defeat them with all the courage you muster. Sword-based fighting, exploration and interaction with objects plus the online players and AIs makes this cool game even more thrilling. With a wonderful story, brilliant setting and an immersive game-play, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is one of the best games to play and enjoy.
#2 Bravely Default
Bravely Default is a marvelous Nintendo 3DS specific Turn-based Tactical-RPG video game by Silicone Studios and Square Enix. The game focuses on Turn-based combats and features four main characters and heroes of Luxendarc: The Wind Vestal, allows them to explore, go to quests and fight off the enemies by engaging into some of the most epic combats ever. Your task as the protagonist Tiz, is to fight against the Alternis warriors and defeat them in every quest to complete the game objectives. Bravely Default offers equally equipped enemies, an amazing and unique environment, surreal game world, amazingly action-packed quests, combats and battles and an immersive engaging game-play that will definitely leave you spell bound for quite some time. Bravely Default is a great tactical-RPG to play and enjoy. Do try it out for a brilliant Action and Tactical-RPG gaming experience.
#3 Monster Hunter Tri
Monster Hunter Tri is basically the third great inclusion to this amazing series. The game is a wonderful blend of Action-Adventure, Tactical-RPG, Hack and Slash and Multiplayer Co-Op game-play that lets you be a Monster Slayer from a guild of gladiators. Your duty is to save the village of Moga from the wrath of the monsters and other enemies. A continuous threat from a nearby island is what is bothering the people of Moga badly, you must go against the monsters, kill them all and let the people of Moga live in peace. Monster Hunter Tri offers great adventure quests, a lot of cool weapons, skills and a number of characters to choose between along with an engaging game-play, superb visuals much more. Monster Hunter Tri is a marvelous Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash game to play and enjoy. Do try it out if you love playing Hack and Slash and RPG games, it’ll definitely entertain you well.
#4 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 is a wonderful Adventure based Tactical RPG and Strategy video game by Atlus. The game is set in Japan and features a group of students who make a pact to summon demons and fight against the mystic creatures devastating the country. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 lets you be one of the students and control a demon named Tamer and lead your friends, fight against the evil forces and free Japan from their wrath. With amazing game-play, a well-written story, lot of upgrades, cool visuals and a unique combat system, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 is a brilliant game to play and enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love it.
#5 Fire Emblem: Awakening
Fire Emblem: Awakening is a Single and Multiplayer Tactical RPG video game. Set on the Continent of Archanea, this 13th installment of the Fire Emblem series provides with a similar game-play and mechanics as its predecessors, focuses on tactical combats and allows you to be a soldier of the kingdom of Ylisse, pace under the command of Chrom and defend Ylisse against Risen and the Hostile nation of Plegia. With some of the most epic Combats, Exploration and Quests, Fire Emblem: Awakening is no doubt a wonderful game to play. Fire Emblem: Awakening allows you to use your best strategic skills, and tactics to reform the whole Ylissian army, make new combat strategies and eventually help the Prince win the epic war against all the hostile entities. Fire Emblem: Awakening is packed with great action oriented and turn based game-play, a great story and superb visuals. Try it out and you’ll love it for sure. Fire Emblem: Awakening offers state of the art visuals, an amazing storyline and a typically engaging and quite immersive gameplay.
#6 Dragon Quest VIII
Dragon Quest VIII is an Action, Role-playing, and Single-player video game developed by Level-5 and published by Square Enix. The game takes place in a fantasy world and lets you jump into the game world by selecting a character. It is the eighth entry in the series of Dragon Quest. According to the story, the antagonist named Dhoulmagus, the King of Trodain, stole an ancient scepter and used it in Castle. The game takes you to an adventurous game world. You are required to defeat your enemies and the antagonist to recover the scepter and rescue the king and princess.
It has a set of levels that you have to complete to earn experience points. These points will unlock further content of the game. Customize your character and interact with lots of NPCs. Control the character using intuitive controls and participates in turn-based combat. Dragon Quest VIII offers core features such as Skill Points, The Tension System, Monster Team, Fantasy World, and more. Try it out, and you’ll surely enjoy it.
#7 Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles is an Action-Role-playing, and Single-player video game created by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo. The game takes place in the fantasy and sci-fi the world offers open environment split into zones. It revolves around real-time and action-packed combat and includes a variety of characters. It focuses on two titans called the Mechonis and the Bionis. The Bions’s people are fighting against the machines of the Mechonis. During the war, the main protagonist appears named Shulk discovers his power to equip the Monado. The game sets you on an epic quest, in which you have to take revenge on your beloved friend named Reyn. You can explore the world from a third-person perspective and have to complete several quests to earn experience points to further progress. You’ll encounter other people as you progress through the story, and can create your alliance with those people. Use different weapons to take down foes and face their boss to complete levels. Xenoblade Chronicles is the wonderful Role-playing game to play.
#8 Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight
Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight is a Role-playing, Combat and Single-player video game published and developed by Atlus for Nintendo 3DS. It is the marvelous entry in the series of Etrian Odyssey. It has two different modes such as Story and Classic and the game includes five playable characters (Fafnir Knight, Flavio, Arianna Caledonia, etc.) and lets you choose one of them to start your game. There are a variety of levels divided into three difficulty settings such as Easy, Normal and Hard. Control your character throughout various levels and compete against enemies to defeat and earn points. The game takes place in the fictional world filled with monsters and other creatures. Participate in turn-based combat and train your monster to fight against AI characters and earn XP points to enhance his abilities. During battle, you can select your option from Attack, Skills, Defend, Items, Switch and more. Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight is the wonderful game for those players who love playing Role-playing games. Try it out.
#9 Xenoblade Chronicles 3D
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D is an Action Role-playing and Single-player video game developed by Monolith and published by Nintendo. The game serves as the remake of an acclaimed Role-playing game Xenoblade Chronicles and introduces new XL system. It takes place in the huge world where the player can select his favorite character from available and customize his way using lots of accessories and items. The player can explore the world from a third-person perspective, battle enemies in the real-time action with RPG strategy gameplay. During the game, the player can control a team, battle against massive monsters and slay them using his mighty sword. He can interact with non-player characters, earn experience points to unlock additional content, and improve his power, abilities and skills by using these points. The game lets the player control the Mechon army and struggle to find the truth behind the Monado blade. Real-time Combat, Animated Modes, new Characters, Soundtracks, etc. are prominent features to enjoy in the game.
#10 Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology
Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology is a Role-playing and Single-player video game developed and published by Atlus for Nintendo 3DS. The game takes place in the stunning world and it unlocks the time traveling power of the White Chronicle in this title. It expands the original gameplay and comes with a great deal of included story and gameplay content, several modifications, and a new way to experience the awesome adventure. The continent where the game is set is plagued with the expanding desertification, laying the world to waste by transforming it slowly into sand. The game becomes tenser and the special intelligence agent, who is sent on an epic mission when he finds the relic’s powers. The game focuses on turn-based element like other traditional RPG games, in which the player command his party of 2 to four members and pits against another team with the aim to remove all the members of opposing team to move forward. The game is played from an isometric perspective and the player can interact with Non-player Characters to gain information about the quests. With cool graphics, superb mechanics, and brilliant controls, Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology is the best game to play.