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If you want a truly epic story-driven JRPG, look no further than the Trails series. Created by Falcom, the recent Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel quadrology is the one to play through if you want a good mix of JRPG turn-based fighting and long-spanning continuity-driven storylines involving military schoolkids and warring fact...
JRPG heroines come in many sexy flavours, but most of them cater to a particular type, from your meganekos to your tsunderes, to even your Xenoblade Chronicles 2 oddities like Pyra and Mythra who are drawn up by hentai artists. But in an Atelier game where girls are basically wholesome? Surprise, surprise: JRPG fans from Japan found Atelier Ry...
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One Genre: 90s JRPG In Lush 2019 2D Southeast Asian Aesthetics Fantasy RPG Indivisible is a byproduct from people who love fighting games and 2D exploration platformers who also happen to love the art and culture of Southeast Asia. From the padi field village where our heroine Ajna lives to the seedy underbelly reminisce...
In another timeline, a game like Fire Emblem: Three Houses would have never existed. Ask any avid fan and you’ll learn that, once upon a time, Nintendo wanted to axe Fire Emblem for good. But we all know that’s not how the story goes. As the series sunk to its lowest point ever, Intelligent Systems created Fire Emblem: Awakening for ...
Tokyo RPG Factory was formed by Square Enix to create games that mirrored the look and feel of JRPGS in the 90's. The company's first release, I Am Setsuna, was quite well received thanks to its heartwrenching story and simplistic yet enjoyable gameplay. Oninaki is their latest game and for PS4 owners, you can start playing the demo and get somethi...
I never really liked the genre of building block sandbox games in which Minecraft remains the exemplar. The gameplay feels meaningless and filled with busywork meant to pad your time, lacking any sort of narrative incentive to push me forward or urge me to continue playing. While Dragon Quest Builders 2 isn't perfect, it has certainly surprised ...
As I've reported earlier, the Langrisser remake is coming to English markets early 2020 for PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch, which means more strategy RPG goodness for old-school fans. Unfortunately, it comes with a pretty plain remixed art style and none of the perky charm of the original. I am referring to the works of Satoshi Urushihara, a manga a...
Fans of 90s JRPGs and strategy RPGs should remember the Langrisser series from Japan, or Warsong for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis in the rest of the world. It combines turn-based RPG combat with fantasy anime tropes, and it was glorious. Now you can look forward to reliving those glory days with the upcoming Langrisser I and II HD remakes courtesy o...
The next installment in Bandai Namco's long-running and popular JRPG franchise, Tales Of Arise, was officially announced during Microsoft's Xbox E3 2019 press conference last week, despite being leaked several days earlier. The company recently held its Tales Of Festival 2019 in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday, 15 June 2019, where they revealed the J...
Square Enix has brought a pleasant surprise for loyal fans of Final Fantasy series with the reveal of Final Fantasy VIII Remastered which is heading to major consoles and PC this year. The remastered version also gains new features absent in the original game. Here's our first look between the remastered version and the original version on the Pla...
Not content with announcing the release date for Dragon Quest XI S: Definitive Edition, Square Enix has revealed a new Nintendo Switch Slime controller for all fans of the long-running and legendary JRPG franchise. The Dragon Quest Slime Controller for Nintendo Switch is slated to launch sometime in September, just in time to coincide with the 27 ...
A free-to-play JRPG mobile game from Xenogears and Chrono Cross/Chrono Trigger writer Masato Kato and music composer Yasunori Mitsuda will finally be released in Europe and Southeast Asia, two years after it was originally launched in Japan. Developed by Wright Flyer Studios for the Android and iOS, Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space, or ...
The Final Fantasy VII Remake is clearly a hugely-anticipated title based on the fanboy screams and yelps during the game's showcase in E3 2019 Square Enix press conference. And we'll have to admit: this is exactly what fans were looking forward to in an action-heavy gameplay demo of the title that's due next March. Square Enix has dropped ...
What a pleasant surprise! The best Final Fantasy, which is Final Fantasy VIII, is getting remastered, after many years of being slept on, and it is coming real soon this year, just in time for its 20th anniversary since its original release back in 1999. If you've been following the development of this title, you'll know that the game was often lo...
Cris Tales is a new indie game revealed at E3 PC Gaming Show 2019 that is essentially a "love letter to JRPGs". True, many games like CrossCode have said this, but this one, in particular, has a twist. In order for your protagonist Crisbell and her party members to end the rule of a cruel Empress and prevent cataclysms, you must visit the past, th...
Instead of waiting until their press conference tomorrow morning, Square Enix decided to jump the gun and announce the launch date for their upcoming Final Fantasy VII Remake at the Final Fantasy VII: A Symphonic Reunion Concert in Los Angeles. Mark your calendars for 3 March, 2020. That's when your fated remake will arrive. Here's some key art to...
And the leaks keep on coming, courtesy of Bandai Namco's recent security flaw (via ResetEra). First, it was that George R.R. Martin/From Software collaboration, and now a new Tales of game slated for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. The new title, called Tales of Arise, is set in the planets of Rena and Dahna, with the former pillaging the latter and essent...
While we said in our glowing review of Lapis x Labyrinth that the action RPG can be simple, there are some quirks and obstacles that can kill you outright without you knowing why. Whether you're using the wrong combination of adventurers/dango tower, ill-equipped, or have the wrong enchantments, you may end up stumped. Fortunately, we're here to h...
The sky is blue, the earth still orbits around the sun, and Gust and Koei Tecmo are still making Atelier games, I guess. That's a victory for a subsection of JRPG fans who crave melancholy adventures, hot alchemy synthesis action, and some turn-based combat goodness. The latest one, Atelier Ryza, is slated for Fall 2019 in Japan and will be writte...
The Star Ocean series is known for its expansive RPG gameplay and "Star Trek but anime" sci-fi narrative, though it's only played by RPG fans who kept track of Tri-Ace and their Tales of Phantasia/Wolf Team days since 1994. Well, this year and the next (probably) would be a good time to remind people about the series; at least Square Enix seems to ...
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