The best stories in video games are found in JRPGs. I don't make the rules, that's just the way it is. There's something about the format of a JRPG that makes it ideal for telling stories both big and small, and I've collected the ten BEST stories in all of JRPG-dom to present to you here. Let me know what you would consider to be the best JRPG stories of all time down in the comments, and who knows -- maybe I'll have to revise my list!
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00:00 Intro
00:57 Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology
03:00 Final Fantasy VI
05:25 Omori
07:49 Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
09:47 The Trails Series
12:48 Harvestella
15:35 Final Fantasy VII (Series)
18:21 Undertale
20:47 Chrono Trigger
23:22 Xenogears
25:32 Outro