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This week, Final Fantasy VII turned 25 years old (Japanese release), and it seems like the perfect moment to think back and reflect on how big a game it was for both the Japanese Role-Playing genre and the PlayStation’s emergence as the dominant home console player in the mid to late 1990s. Squaresoft Never…
The Danish made Arcadia Fallen is a role-playing game, of sorts. Yes, I know I will be attacked by the ‘If it doesn’t have turn-based battles and statistical progression it is not a role-playing game” crew for that statement. However, my assertion holds true. Galdra Studios’ Arcadia Fallen allowed me to role-play a fantasy character…
For 1990s kids, such as myself, there was no better time to be a gamer than in the aforementioned decade. Video games were in their infancy period, and thus, new genres and groundbreaking gameplay innovations were a more common occurrence than in modern times. The most important of event of all was the transition…
The PlayStation 3 was an interesting machine, to say the least. It was a tech marvel when it first launched back in 2006 as it featured Blue-Ray playback right out of the box and a “cell” CPU that was, at least on paper, state of the art. However, the system’s performance in actual game…
This past weekend marked Yasunori Mitsuda’s 50th birthday. The famed (Xenogears/Chrono Series) composer thanked his fans in a tweet where he hinted at a big announcement for one of his current projects scheduled to take place next month. Will it be the Chrono Cross Remake? Hard to say, but let us first take…
What ten games would you bring if you were stranded on a deserted island? has crossed my mind before and is an often used, made up scenario to discuss “the best”. In the unlikely event I ended up stranded on a deserted island, I would need an irrational Tetsuya Nomura/Kazushigue Nojima plot device that would…
Nintendo Switch Online subscription members will have something special to look forward to in February. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask finally arrives to the service, though we can’t vouch for the eventual quality of the emulation. Does Majora’s Mask Make the Service Expansion Pack a Worthy Investment at Last? If you have never…
Before anyone complains about Dark Souls not being ‘Throwback” material, know that it has been more than 10 years since Dark Souls was first unleashed upon the gaming world, and that it was released two console generations ago on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. What made me consider the game for today’s weekly section…
The title of this article might cause some initial confusion and maybe create some controversy. Does the “FFVII Fan” (in this case, me) want Final Fantasy VI to have been remade instead because he hated Final Fantasy VII Remake and wants FFVI fans to have to endured the same pain? Or is there more than…
The Big News today has to do with Microsoft shocking the business world by acquiring Activision in a historic 68.7 billion dollar deal. Given the Call of Duty fanbase currently playing on the PlayStation 4/5 platform, future exclusivity of this and other franchises could deliver a massive blow to the Japanese giant. Microsoft is not…