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Throwback Bit Thursday: 1998 For a JRPG Fan!

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Samuel Rivera

So, it is hard to believe, but it has been a quarter century since 1998. I have very fond memories, perhaps my fondest memories, as a gamer are from that year.  While most of my time was spent playing (oh blessed days!) WCW/NWO Revenge, Ocarina of Time, and Golden Eye.  I did play some JRPGs…

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TBT: Five Critically Underrated 32-Bit Era JRPGs

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

Generally speaking, the mid to late 1990s are considered the golden age of the Japanese Role Playing game genre. High Quality JRPGs flooded the PlayStation in quantities not seen since on any system. Amongst the sea of stars, some of these titles were poorly received by critics despite the fact that they were quite good…

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Five Underrated J-RPG Heroes From the Genre’s Golden Age

Posted on August 17, 2021January 21, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

When we think of Japanese Role-Playing Games (turn based or action), and some of its most iconic heroes/heroines most of us think of Cloud, Terra, Locke, Zidane, Link, etc.  The Final Fantasy series has been the most popular JRPG franchise on the west (let’s pretend for a moment that Pokemon doesn’t exist), and as  a…

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Five Average PS1 JRPGs That You Might Have Enjoyed (and Even Loved)

Posted on February 25, 2021January 21, 2022 by Samuel Rivera

*The criteria used for the selection of the five JRPG titles in this article is as follows: Any game that was scored under an 80 out of 100, but above a 60 out of 100 in its review ‘overall’ tally on the Never-Ending Realm is considered average. Games that appear on the list that have…

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Throwback Bit Thursday: The Granstream Saga

Posted on August 6, 2020January 5, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

  1998’s The Granstream Saga, is not a remarkable game, it was (even 1998) a deeply flawed action RPG, that featured many good (if not great) ideas that were not executed properly. Shade (the developers) left us instead, with what in my opinion is one of the most glaring examples of wasted potential in an…

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The Granstream Saga Review: Poor Execution Ruined Great Ideas

Posted on February 10, 2019April 25, 2021 by Samuel Rivera

The Granstream Saga is an RPG that every time I play (I have played through it 4 times now) angers me, because it is a game that had loads of potential to achieve greatness but the developers never seemed to followed through with their great ideas. The Granstream Saga was released in Japan in 1997…

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