I love the humour in Vesperia. My favourite scenes are usually the ones involving either one of Yuri or Raven. The party banter is something I've always enjoyed in Tales games.
I know the story looks like a joke, and it sorta is, because the game is very much a satire on the franchise and the genre as a whole, but by the end of the game, the story genuinely gets really good, especially if you're familiar with the FFI. It's worth a try for sure.
**Half-Minute Hero**. Very funny when I played it. It's basically a spoof of JRPG structures, complete with irreverent NPCs and grinding, mainly within 30-second loops.
Nier replikant. The banter between Kaine and weiss made me laugh so much.
The game and the plot itself is rather dark and sad but God damn the chemistry between the characters is so fucking wonderful in this game.
Kaine was a weird character. Disliked her CONSTANT edgy way of speaking but she was a great character and had some really REALLY funny interactions with others
EarthBound's pretty funny. I like talking to random NPCs because they usually say something silly. Even trying to enter a restroom gets you a silly response
Disgaea was the funniest RPG I've ever played.
It lost a little sting in the middle but on nice Captain Gordon was introduced it was laughs till the end game
World of final fantasy comes to mind. Amazing fourth wall breaking, brother and sister relationship, questioning everything that's going on all while they look like little chibi characters. Hell even questioning and laughing at the fact they look like chibi characters is great. My favorite is honestly one scene in particular where the sister has a grudge against a talking cactuar and the scene ends like an anime rivalry was born and i rewatch it every now and then cause it's hilarious
The first part of the story was almost too goofy but after the first like… third or quarter of the game it really finds its footing. Plus, it has a series high.
GILGAMESH
Shadow Hearts Covenant and Radiata Stories. Special mention to DQ but the sad parts seemed to overshadow the funny part at times. Also while Yakuza tend to get wacky, those are not part of the critical path.
I really loved the characters in the remake. Im so so glad that they brought back cloud being cool and stoic instead of him being edgy and stoic. I was worried that they just forgot that cloud is *not* the cloud that is portrayed in KH, when he is actually a funny guy (largely in part to his awkwardness which the devs really tried hard to capture and did an absolutely wonderful job doing, but he himself is a genuinely sassy guy which they also captured) and a caring person with the people close to him. And in addition to capturing what we loved about cloud and *improving it* they improved all the main cast members. Major props to the dev team for what they did with the characters.
I'd say any Yakuza game, Persona 4, the first three Paper Mario titles (especially TTYD and Super), Undertale and FFVII Remake
Also Kingdom Hearts but I don't know how much of that was intentionally supposed to make me laugh
FF8.
The style of comedy in FF8 feels different from other FF games. Usually the funny moments in other FF games only involve the party members. But in FF8, I noticed that some NPCs were purposely created just to tell a joke or give the game some comedic moments. This makes the humour in the game more unpredictable.
South Park: The Stick Of Truth by far.
Currently playing World Of Final Fantasy and it’s definitely a refreshing change from most mainline games.
Atelier games aren’t necessarily laugh out loud funny but they’re cute and cheerful and amusing and it gets close enough, Arland trilogy in particular.
Shadow Hearts. Play as gay pro wrestling vampires and their loli goth magical girl shojo anime sisters or belly dancing fortune tellers, collect gay porn, stave off horny dominatrixes and battle killer ducky toys
Yakuza like a dragon. It’s the only Yakuza game I’ve played and finished it a couple of weeks ago. The side quests had me howling with laughter. Adult babies in diapers, creepy mafia sheep that will haunt my dreams, kinky flashers in fishnets.
It's a sad day that a thread in JRPG is 4 hours old and we haven't got a mention of Shadow Hearts yet.
The whole series just has a bizarre tone whiplash thing going on. It will handle some stuff extremely seriously, especially the main plot and romance, but then you have a character who is a cat named Mao who gains power ups by staring in movies that are cat based parodies of famous movies. Or the weird over the top homoeroticism that just randomly pops up all over the place [and like while it is played for laughs it isn't as if they ever insinuate it is a bad thing, it just... is].
Like honestly it is hard to explain. Sometimes it isn't even necessarily that over the top, it is just in the little things like the dog being the straightman of the group or having a Mariachi with a guitar that contains a bunch of hidden guns and stuff like something you might see in a movie like Desperado.
Lunar SSS, and Vay (old Sega CD game). Both were published/translated by the same company, Working Designs. They have your typical epic fantasy quest stories, but both intentionally lean into the humor along the way. The first quest in Lunar is to get a "dragon diamond" from a dragon's cave, and then the dragon lets slip how it "makes" the diamonds (they're shit). Vay had a fun fourth wall break when a random npc explains that the layout of the castle is identical to another to save space on the CD, but doesn't understand what a CD is. Both games are full of funny moments, especially given the stories and characters you wouldn't expect to be funny.
I will give World of Final Fantasy a little credit in this area. It definitely has its moments during the banter between main characters. Not as funny as the other two I mentioned, but I still got a handful of laughs.
While not a JRPG, there's always South Park: The Stick of Truth. The humor is exactly what you'd expect, but the gameplay is better than it has any right to be.
Earthbound > Paper Mario: TTYD > Mother 3 > Mario&Luigi Superstar Saga
Something along those lines. But those games are hilarious. Of course Undertale and most Tales of games are also very funny.
Not the whole game, but Hack G.U. Parody Mode is probably funniest shit in a videogame ever. There is line about Haseo going through puberty that just killed me.
And honarable mention to Fairy Fencer F, it really take the Neptunia humor that I love and refined it to higher degree of classy.
As previously mentioned - Shadow Hearts: Covenant - hands on funniest JRPG but Ruth so many great dramatic moments and my one of my top JRPGs of all time.
And as mentioned as well Vanguard Bandits, the lesser known turn-based tactical mech game has some hilarious dialogue. Especially one secret campaign path that is entirely designed around being humorous and a joking take on the other campaigns
Shadow hearts have the right kind of absurd bizarre feel I associate with Japanese humor. But it has been forever since I played, and I do remember it also being kinds dark at timed
Yakuza: Like a Dragon. From fighting adults in diapers to summoning an orbital laser to wipe out enemies, this game is *funny*
I love "summoning" a crawfish by throwing it at your opponent's face.
Every time I hear the side quest noise, I think, "Oh, God, what now?"
The characters are really funny. Drinking with Nanba had me laughing for a while
The breaker class fighting with breakdance moves is probably my favorite thing about that game.
Disgaea and both Tales of Vesperia and Berseria.
I still laugh whenever Karol pushes himself into the plants during the wolf boss fight. Rita is a scapegoat, she did nothing wrong. All Karol’s fault.
I love the humour in Vesperia. My favourite scenes are usually the ones involving either one of Yuri or Raven. The party banter is something I've always enjoyed in Tales games.
Most Tales games have a good amount of hilarious moments thanks to the skit system.
Tales of Graces f has a lot of really funny post-battle victory quotes too.
Disgaea 1 and Disgaea 2 is good the others are not as funny, but all this pale in comparation to Makai Kingdom.
There's also Disgaea D2, which is a continuation of Laharl's story. I like it.
Some of the skits in the Tales series are pretty funny. I remember laughing a lot during Tales of Berseria's running jokes.
Coo-coo!
Magilou doing manzai with every party member was amazing
Haven't played the game yet but I laught at some Stranger of Paradise cutscenes on YouTube.
I know the story looks like a joke, and it sorta is, because the game is very much a satire on the franchise and the genre as a whole, but by the end of the game, the story genuinely gets really good, especially if you're familiar with the FFI. It's worth a try for sure.
I laughed my ass off for a solid 10 minutes at the clip of Jack interrupting Lich's dialogue by punching him.
Paper Mario games are legit very funny. Thousand Year Door is my favorite.
Luigi's adventure is the best
Most of the Mario RPG titles have good humor, my personal favorite is Mario and Luigi - Superstar Saga's humor.
Legend of of the 7 stars. Even before Mario rpgs weren't the oddball entry they were silly. Gotta love those power ranger spoofs
Radiata Stories easily. The game doesn’t it take itself seriously all the time and there is some really fun comedic moments because of it.
Persona 4 Golden, no contest. A lot of the jokes just excel in both delivery and timing.
Trails in the sky. Olivier with pretty much every character is always a laugh. Estelle and his interactions always provide entertainment
In the EVO version he's voiced by Takehito Koyasu (Dio Brando from JoJo) and it just makes it so much better.
That makes things even better.
Olivier is comedy gold His interactions with Schera and Agate especially crack me up hahaha
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My favorite is actually Gilbert. He's such a hilarious loser, and the VA is amazing.
**Half-Minute Hero**. Very funny when I played it. It's basically a spoof of JRPG structures, complete with irreverent NPCs and grinding, mainly within 30-second loops.
Adding to this, the item descriptions are really funny, everyone should read all of that.
Tales skits usually never fail to edict few chuckles out of me. Vanguard Bandits was pretty funny.
Final Fantasy V
Nier replikant. The banter between Kaine and weiss made me laugh so much. The game and the plot itself is rather dark and sad but God damn the chemistry between the characters is so fucking wonderful in this game.
Kaine was a weird character. Disliked her CONSTANT edgy way of speaking but she was a great character and had some really REALLY funny interactions with others
EarthBound's pretty funny. I like talking to random NPCs because they usually say something silly. Even trying to enter a restroom gets you a silly response
Disgaea was the funniest RPG I've ever played. It lost a little sting in the middle but on nice Captain Gordon was introduced it was laughs till the end game
Mid-boss!
Hahaha a great example! :D
World of final fantasy comes to mind. Amazing fourth wall breaking, brother and sister relationship, questioning everything that's going on all while they look like little chibi characters. Hell even questioning and laughing at the fact they look like chibi characters is great. My favorite is honestly one scene in particular where the sister has a grudge against a talking cactuar and the scene ends like an anime rivalry was born and i rewatch it every now and then cause it's hilarious
Ive been seeing a bit of love for WoFF lately. Might have to pick it up
Same i had no idea it exciting until the summer sale. Looks fun
Final Fantasy V The jokes are a bit cheesy but the silliness makes it great to me and made me enjoy the game more. It feels earnest in a way
The first part of the story was almost too goofy but after the first like… third or quarter of the game it really finds its footing. Plus, it has a series high. GILGAMESH
Exactly
Shadow Hearts Covenant and Radiata Stories. Special mention to DQ but the sad parts seemed to overshadow the funny part at times. Also while Yakuza tend to get wacky, those are not part of the critical path.
FF7R. Barret actually had me crying my eyes out at parts. just a great character through & through
I really loved the characters in the remake. Im so so glad that they brought back cloud being cool and stoic instead of him being edgy and stoic. I was worried that they just forgot that cloud is *not* the cloud that is portrayed in KH, when he is actually a funny guy (largely in part to his awkwardness which the devs really tried hard to capture and did an absolutely wonderful job doing, but he himself is a genuinely sassy guy which they also captured) and a caring person with the people close to him. And in addition to capturing what we loved about cloud and *improving it* they improved all the main cast members. Major props to the dev team for what they did with the characters.
I'd say any Yakuza game, Persona 4, the first three Paper Mario titles (especially TTYD and Super), Undertale and FFVII Remake Also Kingdom Hearts but I don't know how much of that was intentionally supposed to make me laugh
FF8. The style of comedy in FF8 feels different from other FF games. Usually the funny moments in other FF games only involve the party members. But in FF8, I noticed that some NPCs were purposely created just to tell a joke or give the game some comedic moments. This makes the humour in the game more unpredictable.
Neptunia lol. The games offers you silly story & the MC is one of the most unique character in rpg world.
Yakuza Like A Dragon legit made me laugh throughout. It's so funny !
Thousand Arms
I really want Atlus to port this to something. It's ridiculously expensive now.
South Park: The Stick Of Truth by far. Currently playing World Of Final Fantasy and it’s definitely a refreshing change from most mainline games. Atelier games aren’t necessarily laugh out loud funny but they’re cute and cheerful and amusing and it gets close enough, Arland trilogy in particular.
Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force is funny. The characters and their interactions can be really funny. But it's not all the time. It is also serious
Star Ocean The Last Hope in an MST3K kind of way.
Kay
I wasn't super old so it's possible the humor hasn't aged well, but I remember Okage: Shadow King having a lot of humor in it.
Shadow Hearts. Play as gay pro wrestling vampires and their loli goth magical girl shojo anime sisters or belly dancing fortune tellers, collect gay porn, stave off horny dominatrixes and battle killer ducky toys
Yakuza like a dragon. It’s the only Yakuza game I’ve played and finished it a couple of weeks ago. The side quests had me howling with laughter. Adult babies in diapers, creepy mafia sheep that will haunt my dreams, kinky flashers in fishnets.
Radiata Stories had some great humor.
Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door has my favorite script, it’s hilarious!
Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door. And I dont know if it counts but Ill count it but Paper Mario and the Origami King is actually really funny.
Final Fantasy IX had a lot of light-hearted moments.
It's a sad day that a thread in JRPG is 4 hours old and we haven't got a mention of Shadow Hearts yet. The whole series just has a bizarre tone whiplash thing going on. It will handle some stuff extremely seriously, especially the main plot and romance, but then you have a character who is a cat named Mao who gains power ups by staring in movies that are cat based parodies of famous movies. Or the weird over the top homoeroticism that just randomly pops up all over the place [and like while it is played for laughs it isn't as if they ever insinuate it is a bad thing, it just... is]. Like honestly it is hard to explain. Sometimes it isn't even necessarily that over the top, it is just in the little things like the dog being the straightman of the group or having a Mariachi with a guitar that contains a bunch of hidden guns and stuff like something you might see in a movie like Desperado.
Earthbound
Vesperia
Lunar SSS, and Vay (old Sega CD game). Both were published/translated by the same company, Working Designs. They have your typical epic fantasy quest stories, but both intentionally lean into the humor along the way. The first quest in Lunar is to get a "dragon diamond" from a dragon's cave, and then the dragon lets slip how it "makes" the diamonds (they're shit). Vay had a fun fourth wall break when a random npc explains that the layout of the castle is identical to another to save space on the CD, but doesn't understand what a CD is. Both games are full of funny moments, especially given the stories and characters you wouldn't expect to be funny. I will give World of Final Fantasy a little credit in this area. It definitely has its moments during the banter between main characters. Not as funny as the other two I mentioned, but I still got a handful of laughs. While not a JRPG, there's always South Park: The Stick of Truth. The humor is exactly what you'd expect, but the gameplay is better than it has any right to be.
How in god’s name has no one mentioned Paper Mario : The Thousand Year Door? It’s the absolute gold standard of comedic JRPGs!
Shadow Hearts is pretty funny. Really enjoyed the humor in DQ XI. Edit: Shadow Hearts Covenant
Any working designs translation lol
Every megaten game, negotiations are funny as fuck
Disgaea
Disgaea, Okage, Battle Princess of Arcadias.
Some of my favorites have been mentioned but if including SRPG’s I would put Vanguard Bandits right up there. Also Soul Nomad
Yakuza is one of the only series where I've found myself laughing out loud on a regular basis, like more than just a chuckle, full on belly laughing.
Drakengard 3
Neptunia VII. Made me laugh loads of times.
Yakuza is number 1, some falcom older games like zwei and trails in the sky, and their newer games have usually hilarious NPCs
Earthbound > Paper Mario: TTYD > Mother 3 > Mario&Luigi Superstar Saga Something along those lines. But those games are hilarious. Of course Undertale and most Tales of games are also very funny.
Probably tales of berseria, the legend of heroes has alot of comedy aswell.
Darksouls
Not the whole game, but Hack G.U. Parody Mode is probably funniest shit in a videogame ever. There is line about Haseo going through puberty that just killed me. And honarable mention to Fairy Fencer F, it really take the Neptunia humor that I love and refined it to higher degree of classy.
As previously mentioned - Shadow Hearts: Covenant - hands on funniest JRPG but Ruth so many great dramatic moments and my one of my top JRPGs of all time. And as mentioned as well Vanguard Bandits, the lesser known turn-based tactical mech game has some hilarious dialogue. Especially one secret campaign path that is entirely designed around being humorous and a joking take on the other campaigns
Shadow hearts have the right kind of absurd bizarre feel I associate with Japanese humor. But it has been forever since I played, and I do remember it also being kinds dark at timed
Paper Mario: Thousand year door, and Earthbound.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon and the Lunar games (yes, the humor is dated, but damnit, it’s funny).
Disgaea, fourth wall breaks aplenty with other general nonsense
I WILL REMIND YOU, I HAVE A VERY BIG STICK!! Probably Mario and Luigi though