Role-playing games are known for two primary things: having to grind away at encounters for experience or items, and their often compelling narratives. RPG stories can run the gamut from the simple and mundane (the bi𝔍g bad evil guy has taken over and the hero must stop him), to absurdly complex and intricate.
And while some RPG stories can be hard to take in, if they are done well, those detailed plotlines can be some of the most memorable to players all across the worl🍰d. You just might need to keep a pen and paper on hand while you play them, to keep yourself oriented.
10 🐼Final Fantasy XIII ꦉ
One𒉰 of the most controversial mainline Final Fantasy titles to date, the Final Fantasy 13 series covers three interconnected games, Final Fantasy 13, the sequel Final Fantasꦐy 13-2, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13.
While the overall premise of❀ the series may be straightforward (stop the 'gods' in the form of Fal'Cie, and reclaim humanity's free future), there is a deep level o🥂f complexity in the reasons behind the story, especially as the series progressed. With time travel, alternate universes, and memory loss, it's not hard to wonder why it can be hard to keep track of it all (especially when much of the info is hidden in datalog entries)
9 Drakengard 🐠
As will be an ongoing theme with most of these entries, much of the confusion surrounding the Drakengard series stems from its confusing mess of multiple endings, alternate timelines, and multimedia sources such as comics and drama CDs used to expand upon the universe. While the action RPG series has a dedicated set of fans, willing to piece together the overall storyline, it can be very confusing to newcomers. Then again, can you really expect anything else🃏 from Yoko Taro? The man is well known for making games that can be difficult🃏 to understand.
8 Lunar: Silver Star Story Comple🎃te 𒁃
Released in 1996 for the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ill-fated Sega Saturn, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete is a remake of the 1992 game Lunar: The Silver Star. While the game did much to flesh out the somewhat lacking storyline of the original release through the fleshing out of characters and extending the 𝓰cast, this also caused some of the plot beats to come out of nowhere if the player isn't playing close attention. While it is an older game, with a large cast of interesting characters, playing a second time through to get the full impact of the story doesn't feel like a burden.
7 💛 Radiant Historia 🦩
One of the poster-boys for confusing narratives due to its heavy use of time travel and alternate timelines, the critically acclaimed RPG did have some saving graces. The game kept track of how many of the different time periods you had explored, making progress towards the ending easier, and the various options were color coded ꧙to show their significance to the overall plot. However, with so many options and the freedom to do them in whatever order you liked, it can be tough to keep all the various plot points in mind during a first playthrough.
6 Bioshock
Underwater cities, genetic manipulation, alternate timelines, and floating cities in the sky, how much more straightforward could it be? To give the Bioshock series credit, it is one of the most straightforward entries on the list, dealing more with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:having☂ to reco🌟ntextualize your playthrough once you reach the ending, and keeping those new ideas in mind on a second journey through Rapture or Columbia. Things don't have to be nonsensical on a first playthrough, you just need a good reveal that makes the second playthrough all t🐠he more appealing.
5 🦋 Final Fantasy Tactics ⛎
Like Bioshock, Final Fantasy Tactics is mostly straightforward in its primary plot. Oppressive church and the ruling class bad, working-class people tired of being oppressed good. Where the game makes sense on a second playthrough, however, is in fully knowing the character relationships for the context they provide, and in experiencing missed side-quests (as the game has a number of side quests that can only be completed with specific characters, so if they die, better luck next time). And if you're not careful, you might need a second playthrough anyways 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:if you save in Riovanes Castle.
4 Nier
As with all Yoko Taro creations, the Nier franchise suffers from mu༺ltiple endings, a confusing 𒐪timeline, duplicates and robots, and a healthy dose of philosophy added to the mix.
This isn't helped in the first game by the fact that not only are there two separate protagonists depending on where you lived in the world but some elements of the story, including some of the endings, 𝓀are locked behind multiple playthroughs, requiring at least 3 to unlock the ending that leads to the sequel game Nier: Automata.
3 Xenosaga
When people talk of confusing game storylines, Xenosaga is always at the top of the list. From confusing timelines, multiple dimensions of existence, robots and artificial intelligence, the nature of gods and humanity, and even more, it's no wonder that to this day, it can take multiple playthroughs of the three games, as well as dives into the wiki, to fully understand just what is going on in the series. And with it being a spiritual successor to Xenogears, as well as being 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:succeeded by Xenoblade Chronicles,ꦦ there are plenty of confusing plot 🔥elements to go around.
2 ♌ 𝐆Chrono Cross
Another game that comes up often, the sequel to the beloved classic Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross at times feels like it overdoes the complicated elements of its story. With 45 potential party members, and the inability to obtain all of them on a single playthrough, crucial plot elements can remain a mysterꦕy until subsequent runs through the story. And that's without counting the time travel, alternate worlds, and callbacks to characters from Chrono Trigger. Since you'll be doing multiple playthroughs to get all the characters, it should give you plenty of time to get the story straight.
1 🎀 𝔍 Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts is... Kingdom Hearts is something that can only truly have been experienced as it came out. The games on their own (except, perhaps, Dream Drop Distance and Kingdom Hearts 3) stand up fine on their own, with plots that run smoothly from start to finish. Meet heroes, fight bad guys, finish up with a battle against some form of Xehanort. Much of Kingdom Heart's confusion, however, comes from the game's story being 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:spread across 11 games over 18 years, and filled with constant retcons. While all the information is there, the games🥃 make a lot more sense on a second playthrough of the entire sꦕeries (which isn't exactly a short task).
