Anime games that are good enough to be fun for non-fans too

[TEKTORO]

Here's another one I played a lot back in the day. I am not aware of there being a part one to this? Maybe its just named weird.



I was aware of the Cartoon (anime). I know it was a distant third behind pokemon and Digimon but this Trading card game really sucked me in for a while.

I Dont know if this card game was ever released physically in the USA. But the basics of the card game in videogame form is in there. Would it have been as popular as Pokemon? Who knows, but give it a little try and you may become hooked on it.



There's some nice combos and some strategy involved. So even if you've never seen the anime, you'll get how the game is played.

This game is amazing for fans of Collectible Trading Card games. This is up there with Magic The Gathering and Culdcept, There are tons of cards to unlock either from playing or you can rip new cards from other PS1 games in the monster lab thingy. It's semi tough to learn the process but you can understand rather quick after some matches how to play.

The first one was a Gameboy color game which is a little heavier on the RPG style but still has card battles. It's also a very good game but the PS1 is an obscure gem good mention Flojo.

[Michi]

Any good anime based JRPGs?

I enjoyed what I played of Sailor Moon: Another Story back in the day. I never ended up finishing it because my computer died, but I remember it being pretty solid, even though parts of the translation were a bit off.

One of these days, I'm going to have to give it another go.

[the7k]

If nothing else you can say that the modern Naruto games are extremely nice to look at. They do play pretty well too even if it's not my thing.

I only played one of the games from 3 years ago. It felt a bit too much about spectacle, but that may have been because I sucked at it xD.

Any good anime based JRPGs?

Magic Knight Rayearth was already mentioned on the Saturn, though I actually enjoyed playing the SNES version before I even knew about the anime series.

The Slayers RPGs were also pretty fun, could be nostalgia glasses but I played one of the SNES ones as soon as I discovered the anime series and enjoyed it. A lot of praise gets thrown on the Slayers Royal series for Saturn and PS1.

I still need to figure out how to patch games on the Retron 5 for I can try the Nadia game on the Genesis/Megadrive. It's another anime RPG, though there is apparently no fighting in it and it's closer to Maniac Mansion than Final Fantasy.

If you like Diablo, then Record of Lodoss War for Dreamcast may be your speed. I don't like loot grinders, but it felt like a competent one from what I played.

Blue Seed on Saturn is considered one of the best Saturn RPGs to not be translated by some import fiends. I still need to get around to playing it.

And there's the mother of all Turn-based Strategy RPGs, the Super Robot Wars series. SRW Alpha 3 on the PS2 is hard to not find enjoyment from regardless of how big of a super robot fan you are (and I'm not one, aside from a very small amount of exceptions) - you can just feel the love radiating from the game.

[Hobie-wan]

Super Robot Pinball on GBC J. Super fun pinball game even if you don't know all the series or follow ay of the other Super Robot Wars stuff.

[dsheinem]

Great games. I watched some of the anime after playing the first. I typically don't watch or like anime.

[ZeroAX]

wow, I guess there are a lot of good games i had no idea about .

I think I'll look into that lupin game first . It's going to be my first SFC cart too

[s1mplehumar]

Great games. I watched some of the anime after playing the first. I typically don't watch or like anime.

Yeah man. Gungrave is excellent. I remember picking these up for like a buck a piece at Gamestop. Not sure if they still run that low.

[isiolia]

Great games. I watched some of the anime after playing the first. I typically don't watch or like anime.

JT already brought them up, but a technicality - Gungrave was a game first, the anime came later. There are a good number of examples that could be given for that, from small OVAs or movies (Panzer Dragoon, Bayonetta, etc) to multiple series based on a property (FATE, Persona).


Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage is half decent, though it's set in an arc of the manga that's after what the anime/films cover. You don't need to know all that to hack and slash though.

[Tanooki]

That's true there's a lot of anime that came from a game, usually stuff companies for decades have known could be marketable. Fire Emblem and Dragon Quest from the Famicom era have them, Ganbare Goemon did this too, but newer stuff like some of the Tales of... games do it too.

[ZeroAX]

Pokemon