When people say "oh I hate JRPGs" this nonsense is usually the stuff people mean. Bland nothing main characters, sprites that sort of look ok at times but often feel lifeless, cut scenes that go on forever, are made of still images, barely passable voice acting and feature reams of absolutely impenetrable exposition and barely relevant world building.

Then you get grindy slow turn based combat, filled with oodles of menus and systems and stats to match an over designed UI which somehow displays both everything and nothing all at once. Add some later game awkward fanservice consuming and voila, you get an idea factory mess. Utter trash

One of the more obscure games on the console, Xedge dash or Cross edge dash is a Japanese only 360 JRPG. Now as it was only released in Japan, it is entirely in Japanese and while it isn't unplayable, I wouldn't recommend it on the console. In fact it did get a English release on the PS3 and I would suggest playing it that way. Now this is a traditional JRPG in every sense of the word. The gameplay features walking around a world map, random battle encounters and a turn based combat system. The turn based combat is quite complex as there are different types of attacks which can break an enemies defense in different ways. These can be combined with combos between characters (you can control up to 4 per battles) to create combo attacks, which it seems like you need to figure out yourself. The fighting mechanics seem fairly interesting in this regard and I did want to explore more but was unable to due to my limited Japanese. The graphics are also very traditional or dated, and it looks and feels a bit like a ps1 game. Yet, I say that as a compliment. I actually really like the way the game looks and feel it fits the style of gameplay. So even without knowledge of Japanese, I was having some fun with the game for it's old-school mechanics and nice turn based fights. What put me off though was how text heavy it is. I really have no idea what the story is about but there are a lot of cutscenes and talking. Now it is skippable, but I just felt I didn't know what was going on enough to keep playing. While it's not as charming as Far east of Eden, it still does seem like a nice little old-fashioned JRPG. If you know Japanese and like that style of game I would recommend grabbing this one.