After Tales of Arise marked Tales’ 17th Main entry (these main entries are complemented by a nearly uncountable number of remasters, and ports), the Tales series has established itself as one of the biggest JRPG franchises around. Now, it is as good a time as any, to reminiscence about the series, and what better…
Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom Prince’s Edition Out Now on Switch
The newest entry in the Ni No Kuni Series (Cross Worlds) is a mobile multiplayer game. Level-5 (Ni No Kuni, Dark Cloud, Rogue Galaxy) announced a few months ago that it was leaving the U.S. market in order to focus on the Japanese market, and the rapidly growing mobile gaming space. The move has paid…
The Top Five Best PlayStation 1 Fighting Games According to Critics
The 1990s were awesome. Music was great, the Power Rangers were cooking, and video games had entered a new dimension. Magical times, indeed. Because the video game industry was in its infancy stages, genres that today are either extinct, or have gone into a niche segment of the gaming population, ruled the day during the…
Pitching a Zelda Cinematic Universe – The Plane of Masked Yearning: Chapter Two
Link and Zelda looked on in shock. It felt like a mere few seconds ago when they were in pursuit of this masked figure. However, it seemed like the tables had radically turned, with them as the captured fugitives of the masked figure. But something seemed very different. The attire the masked figure was…
Sega’s New Mystery RPG? Tales of Arise is Quickest in Series to Hit 1 Million
Tales of Arise’s stunning commercial success (1 million copies sold in 7 days), assures that the series will continue into the future (yay!). So far (I am writing the game’s official review for the site), Arise, is by far, the best Tales game that I have played since Tales of Vesperia. That said, Namco clearly…
Top Ten Best Nintendo 64 Games Ever According to NER
Unlike our previous ‘Best Nintendo 64 Games‘ list, which was mostly objective (we just listed the game based on professional critic averages score). Today’s list is -nearly – fully subjective. These are my personal favorite Nintendo 64 Games. The criteria used for the placement of these games is the following: How good (and impactful in…
Throwback Bit Thursday: Breath of Fire IV
Breath of Fire III is often remembered (perhaps, rightfully) as the more legendary game of the pair of PlayStation entries in this series. However, I truly found myself enjoying, for the most part, Breath of Fire IV. A Mid Tier RPG? One of the reasons why I enjoyed Breath of the Fire IV, is that…
First Look: Forspoken (Project Athia) Square Enix’s Impressive PS5 Exclusive
While most of the focus of the recent PlayStation 5 game showcase has gone to titles like God of War: Ragnarok, and Spider Man 2. As an open-world action RPG fan, Forspoken, Square Enix’s newest PS5 exclusive title, has me nearly as excited about its prospects as God of War: Ragnarok itself. The Final Fantasy…
Rumor: Remake/Remasters of Legendary PS1 J-RPGs Leak
This leak comes by way of Ighor July (programmer) who managed to break into NVIDIA GeForce Now Service, and consequently, uncovered an interesting list of games in the process. Ighor explained how he accomplished this feat on his own blog site. The list of games that he uncovered is vast, but three games (on the…
First Look: God of War: Ragnarok Story/Gameplay Trailer
Is God of War: Ragnarok Another Cross Generation Game? While Spider Man 2, and Wolverine were also announced in Sony’s last week game showcase ( each with its respective trailer) as PS5 exclusives, not much actual gameplay was shown, so it is hard to gauge how “next generation” the two games will look. However,…