Some of the earlier JRPGS were pretty unintuitive. Probably because the developers didn't really know what they were doing yet. Mother 1 doesn't give you any p

Some of the earlier JRPGS were pretty unintuitive. Probably because the developers didn't really know what they were doing yet. Mother 1 doesn't give you any plot guidance on what to do and is insanely overly difficult due to poor balancing. I believe Phantasy Star 1 was designed to be played while using grap paper to map the dungeon. A modern re-release has the game do this for you automatically. Even in Playstation era games like Suikoden there's this problem where if you put the game aside for a week and return to it and forget where to go next there's often no way to re-show the dialogue telling you where to go and no quest log. Suikoden 2 makes you collect 108 characters for the good ending. You definetly would need to take notes to try to do this without a guide. But it's poorly designed because you can miss one of them due to RNG during a mandatory fight scene with no way to know this.