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After the 90s – early 2000s the Japanese Role-Playing Game golden age ended, we saw many a great series go the way of the Dinosaur. Suikoden, Grandia, and Wild Arms, to name a few are some of the more beloved series that just went under. Unfortunately, it now seems that Ni No Kuni is likely…
The Legend of Zelda, is not necessarily the most commercially successful franchise for Nintendo, but it is probably its most respected and revered franchise of all. At least critically speaking, rarely if ever, does a main console Zelda entry score under a 90 Metacritic rating. In fact, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remains…
VGM, a company dedicated to market research, conducted a recent study in an effort to better predict the outcome of the pre-order battle between Sony’s PlayStation 5, and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S home consoles. The numbers are in, and it seems that Microsoft’s purchase of Bethesda/ ZeniMax has yet to register in the consciousness of…
Our weekly Thursday ‘Throwback Bit’ section has gathered a good deal of popularity over the past few months. Remembering old games is always good – if nostalgic – and today’s chosen game is no different. Lunar: Silver Star Story is a monumental RPG that some presentation standards in place, standards that have been attributed to…
Much has been said about the power, and necessary – state of the art – cooling units being utilized in the next generation consoles. Both Machines – The Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5 – are bigger in size than anything we have seen since the OG Xbox, and it seemed that both ran…
Ever since the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 era, each subsequent generational jump has felt smaller, and smaller by comparison. There has never been a more impressive console jump between hardware generations than the one performed by the Nintendo 64 over the Sega Genesis, and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. I could, in fact say, that even…
Nintendo is known for stellar first party games, and some of the most beloved video game franchises in history. The company is also known for its secretive nature when it comes to unveiling new titles. In this day and age of social media and internet news outlets, we have gotten used to following our favorite…
Enix’s Star Ocean series is one of the few J-RPG franchises that originated in the 16-bit era that remains, to this day, somewhat relevant on home consoles. While the latest entries have been disappointing as SO: The Last Hope, and Integrity and Faithlessness, have for the most part been fairly average RPGs. One thing that…
Everyone who regularly reads the site can attest to the fact that I am not a big fan of the Final Fantasy series post the departure of its creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. I am not alone in that line of thinking either. In fact, apart from Final Fantasy XII ( the game absolutely felt nothing like…
14 years after Grandia III (PS2), and we never got Grandia IV. We might have to blame the aforementioned 3rd iteration of the franchise (I refuse to acknowledge Grandia Xtreme’s existence) for the death of the series. True, the JRPG genre in general, peaked in the late 90’s and early 00’s, then gradually declined back…