>>11465
>WoL
>my man
>I main him in Theathrythm, needless to say he's OP
The one game where on-design Warrior of Light is playable, Dissidia, is actually pretty arcadey. Its a weird game and a one of it's kind thing, but it does count as kind of an RPG. You can fiddle with the menu shit just like one, and it has a low-engagement 'RPG mode' if you don't want to play a tense DBZ Budokai-type game that it is but just handle the strategy.
Also it's fucking dumb and that makes it hilarious. Lightning is being a dick, everybody is brooding melodramatically, and it's all kind of an in-joke about convoluted FF stories. And to reiterate, it has Kain and WoL in 3D.
If only it had Vampire Hunter D as a quest character it would be pretty perfect.

Chrono Cross has story development triggered through character build and and (a) special attack.

>>11478
really? I started playing a few months back but dropped it inexplicably. Nothing really wrong with it just had literally played a bunch of jrpgs for about a year straight.

>Why won't there be a JRPG that just lets me play the fucking game? I don't even care if the battles are repetitive as shit like Valkyria Chronicles II, just let me slap together a party, jump into gameplay and progress the story through special attacks or something.
Dark Spire?

>>11452
>I played 3 jrpgs and now will talk about the entire genre in plural
Oh god, this is anime all over again
I wish normalfags had never discovered japan.

There's tons of rpgs like that Etrian Oddyessy and SaGa. How about actually being informed about a genre.