What jrpg to play

How do you guys choose what vidya to play? What if you choose wrong? Those damn jrpgs are long as fuck, if i choose wrong i might just lose a lot of time playing a boring game.

Hint: you don't have to finish the game just because you started playing it. If a jrpg still sucks after 5 hours you can probably move on. You can also skim through a lets play to see if it looks interesting at all.

But user, most jrpgs are like anime. They only get good in the middle. First part is usually 10 hour long tutorial with few starting villages and bosses with no special abilities or any difficulty. And tons, TONS of dialogues that introduce you to the story before any proper gameplay.

Unless its completely terrible and irredeemable then I'd probably just power through it to see if it picks up or just so I could say I cleared it.

Than dont play games

Pic related is for you.

Skies of Arcadia.

Pretty much this. JRPGs work on the same "Three episode rules" that animes do. If it doesn't have your interest an hour and a half into it, don't feel bad for dropping it.

There are also a lot of cases where knowing certain details ahead of time can actually make a game better. You might want to read the plot summary of a game that didn't interest you to see if there are plot threads later in the game that will peak your interest. For example, learning about Oersted turning into the main villain in the semifinal chapter of Live A Live is what convinced me to play through the game after I had gotten bored early on. Knowing what was going to happen in that chapter made all the foreshadowing and events beforehand stand out even more.

I want to point out that some of my all times favourite JRPGs start like complete fucking garbage and I had to endure lenghty periods of time before the started to not suck.
I mean the only JRPGs I played and likes that start strong outright are FF7, Phantasy Star 4 and BOF4.
BOF4 being fucking pinnacle of the genre overall.

Don't take that gamble. Leave videogames behind