The genre is alive and well. Legendary developers like Square Enix and Monolith Soft are putting out bangers like and while even the indie scene is seeing serious succes✱s with games like Sabotage Studio’s and Rabbit & Bear Studio’s .

All the same, there was an age in which games in this vein were launching left and right, and so many of them were fantastic.𝓰 Today, we’re taking a look at several JRPGs that would really benefit from another turn at the wheel, a full-on remake to either underscore their inherent greatness or address certain issues that could bring a flawed gem to freshness.

7 ꧒ ꦬ Jade Cocoon: Story Of The Tamamayu

It had only been a few years since Pokemon took the industry by storm. Digimon fever was hitting its apex. In partnership with Katsuya Ko🌌ndō, character designer for the classic Studio Ghibli film Kiki’s Delivery Service, a long-running studio called Genki launched a catch-and-train JRPG with echoes of Pokemon and Digimon alike - Jade Cocoonꦺ: Story of the Tamamayu.

Jade Cocoon stars Levant, a Cocoon Master who battles bug-like monsters called Minions. Upon purification, they will battle on Levant’s behalf. Training them up and eventually fusing them leads to the creation of ever more powerful Minions. It’s a grea🐬t gameplay loop tied to a surprisingly heartfelt story about a young man in search of his father and his efforts to defend his village against nefarious demons.

Why A Remake? What Are The Odds?

A modern spin on Jade Cocoon could be something special. Kondō’s art could seriously shine with the graphical capabilities of the modern age, and the😼re’s a unique blend in Jade Cocoon’s core formula✱. If nothing else, we’ll always have the PS2 sequel to enjoy. It’s pretty good!

Bit of a recurring theme, we'll warn you now. But uh, we're not overly confident this will ever be revisited. Genki still exists, though as best we can ꦜtell (correct us if we're wrong), i🎶t's strictly a support studio now.

6 The Legend Of Drag🀅oon𓄧

Hot off the heels 🗹of the global phenomenon that was Final Fantasy 7, Sony Computer Entertainme൩nt seized the day and set about tasking Japan Studio with the production of a Japanese role-playing game to rival it.

The Legend of Dragoon launched in 1999; its claim to fame is its Dragoon Spirit system, in which the ♑heroes would eventually gain the power to transform into magical armored w🀅arriors.

The infusion of timed but♍ton presses to a turn-based system kept players on their toes, although we’re not sure Japan Studio quite knocked this tidbit out of the ဣpark. The timing can be a tad wonky.

The story🐽 is uneven, and the English translation is a mess, but the game soars court𓄧esy of its creative designs, mostly enjoyable cast, and surprisingly detailed worldbuilding.

Why A Remake? What Are The Odds?

A remake could right a lot of wrong turns in The Legend of Dragoon. A stronger script (with a translation to suit it), a more refined take on the signature battleﷺ system, and richer visuals would bring back that Dragoon Spirit in spades.

But with the 🧔closure of Japan Studio, and Sony not exactly spinning in follow-up JRPG projects in the years since its debut, this one feels like another long shot.

5 Wild Arms

This is a fun one. Much like is the spiritual successor to th🐎e series, the Wild Arms series is getting a crowdfunded spiritual successor in Armed Fantasia. Which is great, because the notion of JRPG worlds packed with worldbuilding styled after the Wild West genre is too good to let slide into gradual obscurity.

Wild Arms was a successful series for Media Vision, totaling five mainline games, a strategy 𓂃RPG spinoff, and an enhanced remake of the original. Why, then, do we think that self-same original game warran🍃ts a second remake?

It’s been two decades since Wild Arms Alter Code: F partly reimagined the first Wild Arms, and it’s an excellent blueprint for one more crack at a franchise that felꦦl by the wa🏅yside like so many other IPs did after the PS2 generation came to a close.

Why A Remake? What Are The Odds?

Media.Vision hasn't rele🀅ased a game since 2018's financially tepid Valkyria Chronicles 4, and it's hard to imagine them returning to past glories.

But again - Armed Fantasia! Wild Arms creative veterans are helming what they’re calling a “Westernpunk” ඣRPG, and it’s very🔯 much a new Wild Arms in all but copyright. We’re hoping for the best.

4 Star Ocean: Til The E🦹nd Of Time ♛

Square Enix recently released a lush remake ofꦏ most beloved entry - the second one. But the third game, while surely controversial for a certain late-game plot twist, still has its fair share of fans. Us included.

Star Ocean: Til the End of Time brought the series into full 3D courtesy of the PlayStatꦜion 2’s graphical horsepower. It was a leap in production quality, even if its predecessors’ more two-dimensional designs hold up just as nicely (arguably all the more so).

The superbly named Fayt Leingod navigates an interstell🗹ar conflict and fantasy ki🌠ngdom politics in equal measure with an all-star cast of allies and a riveting battle system to boot.

Why A Remake? What Are The Odds?

With the apparent success of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Ocean: The Second Story R, we could see Til the En💛d of Time eventually remade. But we’re not quite sure if Square will pull the trigger on this one - this is likely a harder game to remake, and it do♋esn’t command the same degree of fan fever.

3 ꦰ Breath Of Fire

Just as Konami once touted Suikoden as their JRPG flagship franchise, Capcom kept pace with Breath of Fire. A series starring protagonists named Ryu who can invariably transform into mighty dragons, B🎶reath of Fire had Capcom’s flash-bang factor down pat, and its medieval backbone gradually expanded into impressively vast worldbuilding.

The first two games, released on the SNES, don’t quite hold a candle to the PlayStation entries that followed, nor the fifth game on ♉PS2. Breath of Fire III is especially beloved all-around, and Breath of Fire I♈V - one of the most gorgeous PS1 games, hands down - has the honor of hosting one of gaming’s greatest antagonists.

Just the same, there’s plenty of charm in Breath of Fire and its first sequel, and loads could be don😼e to incorporate some of the innova♐tive features seen in their follow-ups.

Why A Remake? What Are The Odds?

If Capcom e💯ver feels the urge to bring back Ryu’s draconic adven🌌tures, it might be wise to give it all a fresh start. But would they?

Capcom has had tremendous success focusing on core, proven, IPs like Monster Hunter and Resident Evil. Getting them 🐈to greenlight even "just" a remake in a franchiꦑse that relatively few remember would be a tough sell.

2 🎀 Chrono Trigger ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ

There’s a reason they call it “the dream team.”

In 1995, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii, Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest character designer Akira Toriyama (RIP), Final Fantasy VI director Yoshinori Kitase, Live A Live director Takashi Tokita, Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, and a who’s-who 🌱list of up-and-coming legends teamed up to create the timeless time-traveling .

We’re hard-pressed to think of a game with better pacing, and only t♒he aforementioned Dragon Quests can rival Chrono Trigger in charm. Under the steady guiding hands of these industry icons, a game with pitch-perfect combat, vivid and memorable designs, ඣand a majestic tale of era-hopping heroism against an otherworldly threat struck the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was glorious.

Should Chrono Trigger ev🦂er be remade, millions of diehards will doubtless scrutinize whatever comes of it. As well we should - Chrono Trigger is one of the only video games we might be tempted to label “perfect.”

Why A Remake? What Are The Odds?

Why remake it, then? We think Chrono Trigger’s every aspec🔯t has the DNA to be brought forward in a modern sense without losing an ounce of its charm.

Besides, it’d be a bona fide revival of what may be gaming’s shortest-lived belo🉐ved series. Chrono Cross, a far more divisive but nonetheless beautiful sequel, landed in 2000. 1996 text-based choose-your-own-adventure Radical Dreamers𒁃 exists, but up until Chrono Cross’ 2022 remaster, very few in the West had ever touched it.

It’s been 24 y☂ears and counting since Cross… it’s time. Chrono Trigger commands a legion of fans for a reason. Still, it's a tall ask. A lot of mon꧑ey would need to go into this one. Outlook unclear.

1 Xenogears

The young, relatively untested, Tetsuya Takahashi worked closely with his wife, Soraya Saga, and Chrono Trigger co-writer Masato Kato to deliver a game that was one part conventional JRPG, one part twisted ꧋psychological thr💯iller, and ten parts unlike anything that came before it.

Xenogears is, frankly, outrageoꦛus in scope. Takahashi poured so much into it that a several-hundred-page companion compendium, Xenogears Perfect Works, is mandatory reading for anyone fully swept up in the game’s plots within plots, far-reaching and millennia-spanning backstory, and the overarching origins of its mythos.

It could have been the start of its own series. It wasn’t meant to be. As we covered in our Xenosaga entry, Takahashi founded Monolith Soft, trying ⭕his luck again with copyright-dodging Xenosaga.

That on🤡e went somewhat sideways as well (though it's plenty worth playing), but hey, he’s nailed it with the ongoing success of .

Even still, there’s still nothing like Xenogears. They threw everything but the kitcheꦰn sink at this one, and it nearly came apart at the seams. Many late-game story events are reduced to - literally - protagonists Fe🌳i Fong Wong and Elhaym van Houten describing them in front of static imagery.

Why A Remake? What Are The Odds?

This project proved too vast for any one game to contain, let alone a game produced largely by y꧅oung developers who lacked much prior experience.

The benefits of a Xenogears remake r💮ather speak for themselves, then. But it might be the most far-fetched inclusion on this list… and that’s saying something.

Xenoblade Chronicles continues, and Square Enix is canceling plenty of projects in order to consolidate their resources for more surefire bets. We can’t see ෴Tets🌜uya Takahashi returning when he’s spearheading a successful studio, and we can’t see Square Enix caring to ask him in the first place.

Ah well.