Final Fantasy XVI Producer, Maoki Yoshida, has been vocal over the last few months about his upcoming game, and what he thinks Japanese Role-Playing Games should be in the context surrounding his decision making on Final Fantasy XVI’s development. In an interview with the Japanese podcast, Hentai No Hikaru, Yoshida went in depth about his…
Sony is the Best Metacritic Rated Publisher of 2022
Sony’s first party line up has been consistently stellar since the second half of its PS3 days. On 2022, Sony was crowned by Metacritic as the best rated publisher in the world with 15 titles averaging 85.6% rating. God of War: Raganarok Saves the Day for Sony In a year where Nintendo had no Mario…
Sonic Frontiers (PS5/XSX) Review
My 6 year old son’s obsession with Sonic is what drove me to purchase, and play Sonic’s newest entry with him. Truth be told, while I have played nearly all of the entries within the Sonic series; I haven’t been excited about a Sonic game since 1998, and Sonic Adventure’s Dreamcast reveal. Sonic (Despite its…
Square Enix: FFXVI Ditched Turn-Based Combat to Attract GTA Fans and Forspoken Fails
Final Fantasy XVI producer, Naoki Yoshida, is not shy about making big waves on the news. After going on a strange rant about how the term “JRPG” was discriminatory; a rant that stirred controversial takes amongst the JRPG fanzine. Yoshida takes controversy to a new level, yet again, by suggesting that Final Fantasy XVI took…
Sonic Frontiers: A Rising from the Ashes for the Series
It’s no controversy to suggest that for over a decade, Sonic the Hedgehog has experienced a major slump in the standard of games produced. Sure, Sonic Colors and Generations garnered praise from the majority and games such as Sonic Riders and Sonic Unleashed had its fair share of admirers, but not to the level of…
Final Fantasy XVI Producer: Calling Japanese Made RPGs ‘JRPGs’ Was Discriminatory
And so, the eternal “is it a JRPG or just an RPG” discussion might be coming to a sudden end, as Final Fantasy XVI Producer, Naoki Yoshida, doesn’t want to box its upcoming game in the popular JRPG (there I said it!) franchise within the “JRPG” stereotypes. Yoshida, in a recent interview with Skill-Up, as…
The Legend of Dragoon is Out Now as a PS Classic! Is This End of the Line for the IP?
The Legend of Dragoon’s fanzine is quite loud, and these fans have made their presence well known within our JRPG Group on Facebook, and within our main site. Most of these fans have waited for a remake (or even a sequel) of the game for the last 23 years, or so. This week’s release of…
The Top 5 RPGs I Must Replay Now and Then
Last week, I wrote a column about the JRPGs that I would like to replay some day, but most likely would never get around to replaying for a variety of reasons. Today, I will list a completely opposite collection of games. These are RPGs (not all are JRPGs) that I must replay every 1-2 years….
God of War: Ragnarok (PS4/PS5) Review
2018’s God of War is one of the best game of all time, and certainly, one of the best games on the PlayStation 4’s stellar catalogue of exclusive games. Its sequel does nothing to take the series somewhere new. It is a continuation of the first game’s storyline, and its gameplay mechanics. Raganarok is slightly…
Forspoken Might Flop While Sonic Frontiers Sells 2.9 Million Units, and The New Zelda Will Be $70
Square Enix, Sega and Nintendo, have all made head lines this week. One would think that we might have travelled back to the 1990s, but sadly, that is not case. Out of the three headlines that we will discuss here, only one is positive, and that’s Sonic Frontiers’ commercial success despite the game’s ho-hum critical…