Japanese role-playing game
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Statuses
Best Games in the Japanese role-playing game genre for Nintendo DS
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 6 February 2009
Players:
9.7/10
Steam:
87/100
Metacritic:
92/100
This role-playing game follows Crono, a young hero who sets out to save the planet’s future after his companion Marle vanishes through a rift in space and time. The...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 4 May 2007
Players:
8/10
Steam:
93/100
Final Fantasy III is a fantasy anime-style role-playing game with a third-person perspective. The four main characters were completely redesigned and new scenarios...
Role-playing game, In real time, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Strategy, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 5 September 2008
Players:
7.1/10
Steam:
93/100
Metacritic:
85/100
Final Fantasy IV is a tactical turn-based strategy role-playing game with anime and fantasy RPG elements. Expect fully voiced dramatic cutscenes, deep, emotionally...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 9 December 2010
Players:
7.7/10
Metacritic:
85/100
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is an atmospheric role-playing adventure with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. Created according to the canons of the...
Role-playing game, First-person view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 20 May 2011
Metacritic:
78/100
A fantasy role-playing game about traveling between two parallel worlds, where reality and illusion intertwine. As the protagonist explores them, the search to...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 20 February 2009
Metacritic:
84/100
This turn-based Japanese role-playing game unfolds in a fantasy world and follows a journey spanning three generations. The hero first travels alongside his father...
Role-playing game, Simulation, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 14 August 2007
Metacritic:
78/100
This role-playing game combines fantasy adventure with farm life. After waking in an unfamiliar village with no memory of his past, the protagonist is helped by...
Role-playing game, Action, In real time, Third-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Mario Game, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 1 November 2009
Players:
5.5/10
Metacritic:
90/100
This role-playing game with action elements follows two parallel adventures: Bowser tries to stop Fawful from taking over his castle, while Mario and Luigi search...
Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 26 March 2011
Metacritic:
75/100
This space role-playing game with strategy elements follows Yuri, a young crewman exploring the galactic frontier and gradually rising to captain his own fleet...
Role-playing game, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Side view, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 17 February 2006
Metacritic:
59/100
Lunar: Dragon Song is a classic Japanese role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. The game takes place a thousand years before...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 10 November 2009
Metacritic:
73/100
A turn-based role-playing game based on Dragon Ball Z’s Saiyan Saga begins with the World Tournament and Goku’s victory over Piccolo. Players control Goku as he...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 17 March 2009
Metacritic:
76/100
Set in a fantasy universe of parallel worlds, this turn-based role-playing game follows the Stars of Destiny in their struggle against the powerful One King. The...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 29 September 2009
Metacritic:
68/100
This turn-based role-playing game follows Dorothy and her dog Toto in the fantasy land of Oz after a tornado carries them away from their farm in Kansas. To find a...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 16 September 2008
Metacritic:
80/100
Dragon Quest 4: Chapters of the Chosen is a fantasy role-playing game about a group of heroes destined to fulfill a prophecy as the legend of Erdrick fades into the...
Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 9 June 2009
Metacritic:
58/100
A turn-based Japanese role-playing game set in the fantasy world of Bel Lenora, where people are born with magic. Fifteen years ago, a man without magical abilities...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 29 November 2010
Players:
5.5/10
Metacritic:
79/100
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 2 February 2007
Metacritic:
73/100
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 18 January 2010
Metacritic:
69/100
Glory of Heracles is a third-person role-playing game with an anime/manga/fantasy twist from Paon Corporation, Ltd.. The game is published by Nintendo of America...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Cyberpunk, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 22 February 2011
Metacritic:
85/100
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 9 February 2007
Metacritic:
69/100
Magical Starsign is a third-person role-playing game with a mixture of puzzle and fantasy from Brownie Brown Inc.. The game is published by Nintendo Co., Ltd.. In...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Combat robots, Japanese role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo DS → 28 April 2009
Metacritic:
73/100