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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Dragon Force

Posted on June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

When we think about old classic turn-based Japanese Role-Playing games, Final Fantasy Tactics and the Shining Force series come to mind. A game that is not often mentioned, and it should be (mentioned) among those great titles, is Dragon Force.  Dragon Force is a tactical Sega RPG. It was published by Sega in Japan, but…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Revelations: Persona

Posted on June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The original PlayStation was the home to many great Japanese Role-Playing games. Some of these games (Wild Arms, Suikoden) were modestly successful on their PS debuts and spawned franchises before dying off in the mid 2000s. Today’s subject in the weekly “Games that will cost you a kidney” series is a game that didn’t have…

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Games that Will Cost You a Kidney: Shining Force III

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The Sega Saturn is, at least to me, the most legendary of the 32/64-bit era machines. The reason? I didn’t own one, and I only know a single person who did. Furthermore, this person lost the console two decades ago.  As a JRPG fan, it was painful that the Sega Saturn was also the home…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Vanguard Bandits

Posted on June 7, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Another week, and another ill-fated Working Design’s PlayStation 1 release. Vanguard Bandits was a decent JRPG/Strategy game based on stereotypical anime mech troupes. Vanguard Bandits had a little more ‘flash’ than most Japanese strategy games of the time. It featured multiple story events with different ramifications given the choice of the protagonist, and consequently, multiple…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Thousand Arms

Posted on May 31, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Thousand Arms, like other games on this weekly feature, is not prohibitively expensive. If you are willing to gamble with your money on “resurfaced discs”, you can get the game on Amazon for about $189.00. This (the price point) is a whopping $169.00 more than I paid for my physical copy of the game about…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Alundra

Posted on May 23, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Editor’s Note: We have read your comments from our previous “Games That Will Cost You a Kidney” features, and most have been positive, and thoughtful. However, some of our readers have complained that a few of these games “do not cost a literal kidney” because they could be found for much less than $600 in…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Suikoden II

Posted on May 16, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Konami’s Suikoden is a respected franchise within the Japanese role-playing game genre. The series has been dead in the west for about a decade and a half as its last title Suikoden V was release in 2006 to little fanfare.   As it often happens with dead role-playing game series, its older titles gain monetary…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Skies of Arcadia 

Posted on May 9, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The Dreamcast’s greatest Japanese role-playing game, and perhaps the best JRPG of the 2000s, is not as costly as other entries on this weekly series. However, purchasing a working copy (with case and booklets) of Skies of Arcadia remains a considerable investment in both of its versions.   Skies of Arcadia the Greatest JRPG of…

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Games That Will Cost You A Kidney: Tales of Destiny

Posted on May 3, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

It could be said that Namco’s Tales series might have reached its zenith in terms of popularity last year with Tales of Arise (2 million units sold to date). However, what perhaps remains the franchise’s most valuable game is a 25-year-old entry.  1997’s (1998 in the U.S.) Tales of Destiny is a game that will…

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Games That Will Cost you a Kidney: Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete

Posted on April 25, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

For week number two of our new weekly feature “games that will cost you a kidney,” we have another Japanese role-playing game from the genre’s golden decade. The game? Lunar 2: Eternal Bue Complete. While our focus will be on the PlayStation 1 version, know that the original Sega CD version is retailing for $499.99…

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