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Author: Samuel Rivera

An avid video game player and book reader, Samuel has been playing video games for the last 31 years. He has played nearly every PS1 JRPG known to man, and loves Ocarina of Time more than any other game.
Kingdoms of Amalur

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning (NS) Review

Posted on September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

What a pleasant surprise Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning has been for me. I missed the original release in (2012). At that point, I was fully invested in Skyrim (would be all the way until the The Witcher 3 launched), and Kingdom of Amalur flew under my radar. Thankfully, The Nintendo Switch has been the perfect…

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The Top Five Nintendo 64 Role-Playing Games According to Metacritic

Posted on September 7, 2021January 21, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

This was a tough list to compile. The reason for that is that when  you search for Nintendo 64 “RPGs” you only get two hits on Metacritic.com. Simply put, the N64 did not have many traditional RPGs released on the U.S. and you could (quite literally) count them on one hand…even if it was missing…

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Fantasian

JRPG News: Is Fantasian Sakaguchi’s Final Game? Tales of Arise Arrives This Week

Posted on September 6, 2021September 6, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Hironobu Sakaguchi might have released his final (no pun intended) game in Apple Arcade’s Fantasian. “I am Nearing the End of My Video Game Development Career” According to a recent Washington Post Interview, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Creator of Final Fantasy (and other great RPGs) feels that Fantasian could be his final game. Sakaguchi is fond of…

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Skies of Arcadia

The Top Five Sega Dreamcast RPGs According to Critics

Posted on September 4, 2021January 21, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The Sega Dreamcast was not necessarily known for its wide library of great RPGs. Perhaps, this (the DC’s small RPG library) was due to a short lived life cycle, and to Sony’s dominance in that genre. Still, Sega’s final machine did have some real gems, and we have taken up the task of listing the…

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Starfield-RPG

Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6 Xbox Exclusive? and Cyberpunk 2077’s Next Gen Update

Posted on September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

This week, as we have previously speculated on NER since Bethesda’s buy out, industry insider, Jeff Grubb (VentureBeat), claimed that both Starfield, and The Elder Scrolls 6 will be Xbox ‘exclusive’ titles. The statement comes as Bethesda’s Pete Hines (SVP Marketing and Communications) made some lukewarm statements where he wasn’t specifically shutting out the PlayStation…

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Record of Lodoss War cover

Throwback Bit Thursday: Record of Lodoss War: Advent of Cardice

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

The Record of Lodoss War: Advent of Cardice was a strange title for me. I purchased it went it first came out, but I was about 16 years old then, and was disappointed by its graphics, the fact that it didn’t play like the J-RPGs that I had become accustomed to playing, and the allure…

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PS5 XSX

Cross-Generation Games and the Struggle to Find a Next-Gen Console

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

How many times have you walked into your local big retail chain in hopes of finding either an Xbox Series X or a PlayStation 5, and found yourself walking out empty handed? The answer for me is that: I have lost count! It took me nearly 9 months to find an Xbox Series X, and…

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Dragon Force

Top Five Sega Saturn RPGs According to Electronic Gaming Monthly

Posted on August 30, 2021January 21, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Now, that Gamerankings.com has been defunct for years. We don’t really have a good data-base of Sega Saturn critical scores for its games out there. Metacritic, is relatively new and doesn’t really track games for the system. So, finding a source to make this list was more difficult than previous top fives that we have…

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Cloud and Zack

Zack Vs. Cloud A Purist’s Take on a 24 Year Old Rivalry

Posted on August 27, 2021August 28, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Before we get into the meat of the argument, this entire analysis and its eventual outcome is solely based on the original game. Why the Original Game is the Only Piece of Final Fantasy VII Related Work that Will Be Taken Into Account Final Fantasy VII was a complete work, and it is the only…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Halo: Combat Evolved

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

Once upon a time, the industry (home console makers) were all associated with certain mascots. Nintendo had Mario, Sega had Sonic, and for a time Sony had Crash Bandicoot (though to its credit the PlayStation Brand managed to break away from a single ‘face of the console’ franchise). Microsoft entered the home console battle with…

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