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The Top 5 RPGs I Must Replay Now and Then

Posted on February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

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….

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TBT: Final Fantasy VII: That Time a Popular Game Killed its Princess

Posted on January 19, 2023January 20, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

So, at this point, it is well known in the gaming world (it has been nearly 26 years), that Aeris (now known as Aerith) died (was murdered really) in Final Fantasy VII. Gamers born after the fact, or near it, will not quite appreciate the shock and awe factor, of watching a heroine, or better…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: Remembering a Merry 1998 Christmas 

Posted on December 22, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

It is known (if you are a long time reader of the site), that 1998 is, in my honest opinion, is the greatest year in gaming, bar none. Most us will look back at that time when we were 10-14 years old, as the best time for video games, regardless of the year. That said, 1998…

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Final Fantasy VIII: The Most Underrated Final Fantasy?

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Now, the heading above, will sound hypocritical to some who have read our reviews over the past 20 years (the site turns 20 in 2023). Until very recently, I did not like Final Fantasy VIII; at least, not nearly as much as I did its legendary predecessor. Final Fantasy VIII was the first video game…

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Top 5 JRPGs That Deserved, but Didn’t Get a Sequel

Posted on July 28, 2022July 29, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

This one was a fun article to write and one that required a great deal of thought. The 1990s were filled with JRPGs, and most titles of the era received sequels…even within the span of a year or two after the release of the first game in their respective series. The games listed here are…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Tales of Destiny 2 (Eternia)

Posted on July 7, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Namco’s Tales series is popular these days thanks to the recent (successful) release of Tales of Arise. However, JRPG fans have been around this series for a quarter century. Despite the long running nature of the series, the PlayStation pair of “Destiny” titles both remain the most legendary and hard to find, making them “kidney”…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Revelations: Persona

Posted on June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

The original PlayStation was the home to many great Japanese Role-Playing games. Some of these games (Wild Arms, Suikoden) were modestly successful on their PS debuts and spawned franchises before dying off in the mid 2000s. Today’s subject in the weekly “Games that will cost you a kidney” series is a game that didn’t have…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Thousand Arms

Posted on May 31, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Thousand Arms, like other games on this weekly feature, is not prohibitively expensive. If you are willing to gamble with your money on “resurfaced discs”, you can get the game on Amazon for about $189.00. This (the price point) is a whopping $169.00 more than I paid for my physical copy of the game about…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Alundra

Posted on May 23, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Editor’s Note: We have read your comments from our previous “Games That Will Cost You a Kidney” features, and most have been positive, and thoughtful. However, some of our readers have complained that a few of these games “do not cost a literal kidney” because they could be found for much less than $600 in…

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Games That Will Cost You a Kidney: Suikoden II

Posted on May 16, 2022June 10, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Konami’s Suikoden is a respected franchise within the Japanese role-playing game genre. The series has been dead in the west for about a decade and a half as its last title Suikoden V was release in 2006 to little fanfare.   As it often happens with dead role-playing game series, its older titles gain monetary…

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