Crescent Tower Is A Tribute To 2D 8-Bit Japanese Role-Playing Games, Out In 2025

If you feel that Japanese role-playing games are way too modern and prefer the Famicom/NES style of turn-based combat and dungeon-crawling, then this next piece of news may entice you. AMATA Games will release an upcoming 2D title named Crescent Tower, with development handled by Japanese indie studio Curry Croquette. In a nutshell, you and your...

The Three Best Ghostbusters Games We’ve Played

To celebrate the release of Ghostbusters Afterlife this week in Malaysia and Southeast Asian cinemas, I'd like to bring up a good number of Ghostbusters licensed games that came out and were fun to play. Okay, that was a lie: there weren't that many. A good chunk of them ended up being complicated for their own good, while the ones that came out...

How Three Decades of Final Fantasy Shaped VII Remake’s Combat [Part 1]

Few games out there have a cultural footprint as significant as Final Fantasy. Originally a fantasy role-playing game inspired by western titles such as Ultima and Wizardry, the first Final Fantasy in 1987 was a small project that followed four Warriors of Light as they set off on a grand adventure to save their world. The game was a commercial su...

Distant Worlds Is This Week; Here Are All The Arrangements Of The FF Main Theme

Final Fantasy's music has always been the best kinds of OSTs to default to; they're inventive, fun, and catchy at times. To celebrate the Distant Worlds concert that's scheduled for this weekend starting tomorrow night, here's a SoundScape video Mr Toffee did that focuses on the many arrangements of the Final Fantasy theme. You know, the one that ...