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As Final Fantasy VIII arrives (in remastered form) to PlayStation Now (Sony’s subscription service), long time Final Fantasy director, Yoshinori Kitase, made a blog entry on Sony’s blog page about the game. Kitase’s recollections were mostly positive, as the blog entry is clearly meant to be an advertisement for FFVIII’s remaster. Still, it is an…
Last week, I took it upon me to list the best five turn based JRPGs (of all time) according to Gamerankings.com’s vast database of critic reviews. Some of our readers agreed with the rankings, others complained that the list belonged to ‘Squaresoft’ and ‘Persona’ games. Today’s list is a little more varied, though Square games…
Last week, I made a case for The Legend of Zelda being an Action-RPG. To me, this classification makes Zelda a JRPG, as it is an action-RPG made in Japan by Japanese developers. However, from these debates (on social media) I have seen another Japanese role-playing franchise come under fire by the “This is not…
The Star Ocean series is a bit hard to discuss for me. On one hand, I consider Star Ocean: The 2nd Story one of the very best JRPGs that can be played, even today. On the other, starting with the The Last Hope (some would say since the “Till the End of Time“), the series…
The Nintendo Switch, with over 92 million units sold in just four and half years, is on its way to becoming Nintendo’s most successful ‘Home’ console (though it is a portable). Nintendo’s Switch Online subscription service was seen as a great opportunity for the company to entice gamers into its ecosystem with Nintendo’s amazing back…
2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn is one of the most successful Action-Role Playing Games around. By 2019, it had sold over 10 million copies, and it has continued to move units, and the titles has even made a PC appearance since its initial PS4 launch. Naturally, the game is receiving a much anticipated sequel in Horizon…
So far, when we have done these types of ” best according to critics” lists, we have utilized Metacritic as the ultimate source for the listings. Today, however, we are taking a different approach. We dug back into the defunct Gamerankings.com archive to unearth their best turn based Japanese-Role Playing games of all time. Why…
Her eyes suddenly began to open. As opposed to the hostile and threatening atmosphere where she had lost consciousness, Zelda sensed something more calm and peaceful. For sure there was an air of tension, but nothing close to where she was before. Her body felt as if a thousand arrows had pierced through her. However,…
The Nintendo 64 was not known for its RPGs. While it’s best three are some of the greatest games of all time (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, and Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber), apart from those, all that we are left with is Quest 64,…
Obsidian’s Avowed was formally announced more than a year ago. It was an important announcement for Role-Playing Game fans everywhere because Obsidian has a very good game development pedigree. Fallout fans have found Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds to be a godsend, and many of these fans swear by Fallout: New Vegas (developed by Obsidian) being…