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JRPG stands for Japanese Role-Playing Game. This unique genre of game combines the Western RPG or Role-Playing Game genre first popularized by Dungeons and Dragons with Eastern storytelling and cultural references often seen in anime or manga. JRPGs are almost exclusively made in Japan.
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Before we go any further, I want to make clear that these numbers were pulled out of Wikipedia (in large part), so some of these tallies might be either inaccurate or not up to date. An example of this is the Assassin’s Creed sales tally. The game had sold 155 million units prior to Assasin’s…
Let us get this out of the way, since its inception, Pokémon has been the best selling Japanese Role-Playing Game franchise in the world. It is rarely mentioned alongside Final Fantasy by JRPG fans, but the reality of the situation is that Pokémon is bigger than Square Enix’s biggest franchise. Pokémon Was the JRPG King…
The first part of the ten of the best JRPG songs was a hit with readers, but many complained (and rightfully so) about the omission of certain great tracks. Thus, we have taken it upon ourselves to list ten more JRPG tracks that should be on everyone’s music playlist . Luna’s Boat Song (1999) –…
Tetsuya Takahashi is the lead writer and creator of Xenoblade Chronicles (and all things ‘Xeno’ starting with Xenogears). The man had some interesting takes on his work on Xenoblade Chronicles on an old “Iwata Asks” (A series of in-depth interviews conducted by the late Satoru Iwata) segment. One the things that caught my attention during…
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…
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…
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,…