10 Best RPGs In A Modern Setting
1. Yakuza: Like A Dragon
Many were worried when the Yakuza franchise was set to become a turn-based JRPG series, the combat is great in Yakuza, why change it?
Well, to give us one of the best games ever made that manages to use its JRPG tropes to comment on society as a whole as well as give us a lot of good laughs.
The turn-based combat system here relates Ichiban's view of the world to the pure good heroes of old turn-based JRPG's. He views the world as something that can be fought through, no matter the politics behind everything.
He fights for justice no matter how much people keep telling him he can't just go and beat a corrupt politician with a baseball bat until he agrees to stop being corrupt. Hpnestly, it's both hilarious and weirdly heartwarming.
How JRPG tropes are applied to a modern setting is also great.
Monster-hunting is just some crazy scientist who makes an app that allows you to document all the different types of trouble makers out there, summoning is calling your mate to help beat up your foes, and "dungeons" are a disgusting sewer system Ichiban will eagerly explore for loot, even though his friends really don't want to be there.