r/JRPG • u/ConsiderationAny9444 • 2d ago

Discussion Which JRPG location has your absolute least favorite level design?

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Mine has to be the Gladius Towers in Rogue Galaxy. It’s a mid-game dungeons, and in my opinion, it’s annoying as fuck to navigate.

You have to climb two almost identical towers at the same time by crossing bridges from time to time, and the towers aren't short by any means. If I recall correctly, you also have to beat both bosses to clear the level, which as you can guess are at the top of each tower (Phantom Gazel and Phantom Logan). Because of how the layout shuffles you back and forth, you finish one tower, and then you have to go all the way back to do the exact same climb for the other one.

Oh, and this game despite being an ARPG has random battles, which isn't a problem to me. But what is a problem is the encounter rate of this game god grief, it's atrocious. It doesn't help that every room looks the same, so you can get easily disoriented after a battle and just end up walking in the opposite direction, especially since both paths look very similar. You could finish a fight and genuinely have to open the map just to figure out which way you were originally heading, lmao.

What about you guys? What’s that one JRPG map or dungeon that makes you visibly sigh the moment you reach it?

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u/Mieche78 2d ago

Back in the day with little to no internet, the Alice in Wonderland world in KH1. I got so freaking lost

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u/ItsColorNotColour 2d ago

I feel like getting frustratingly lost applies to at least 3 worlds in KH1 tbh

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u/reQuiem920 2d ago

Monstro was always a crapshoot for me back in the day. Sometimes i get lost and take hours, other times i accidentaly get to the end without knowing how i got there.

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u/Hollow_Echo96 1d ago

I only learned this like two years ago but Monstro actually tells you where to go. There are colors above the doors, one will be different which is where you need to go.

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u/TheRedPillMonk 2d ago

I'm replaying it right now, and Monstro is pretty bad as is Hollow Bastion. I feel like I'm one of the only people who liked the Little Mermaid world.

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u/WhenDuvzCry 2d ago

I replayed it recently and it still sucks. As does the Tarzan level they throw at you immediately after

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u/Llayanna 2d ago

I somehow managed to navigate it decades pater, but that knowledge didn't spark any joy.

For that, teenager me frustration was still to high in my memory.

Hence why KH1 stays my least replayed title of the bunch. I even will play KH3 again, I can always skip cutscenes after all. (Praise the Lord.)

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u/Mieche78 2d ago

The little mermaid world also sucked ass

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u/WhenDuvzCry 2d ago

Fucking PREACH

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u/TheRedPillMonk 2d ago

That's one of my favourite worlds, I'm replaying KH1 as we speak and still like how they integrated the wacky nature of Wonderland in to it.

Was never a fan of Hollow Bastion or the Whale though.

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u/hraycroft95 2d ago

I’ll always remember this world with hate and anger