On the surface, Persona 5 and Warriors don’t seem like an obvious mix. One is an RPG that’s about as turn-based as you can get, with dungeons designed to labyrinthine and laden with puzzles; the other is a series noted for frantic action combat and huge battlefields that encourage strategic …
Kowloon Highschool Chronicle, a PS2 first-person dungeon crawler from Atlus that’s never been released outside Japan, is finally making its Western debut next month, with a Switch release planned for February 4 thanks to Arc System Works. Originally released for PlayStation 2 in 2004, Kowloon Highschool Chronicle puts players in …
The rumours were true: Persona 4 Golden is coming to Steam. Or, more accurately, it’s available on Steam right now for US$19.99 / NZD $31.99. For its PC release, Persona 4 Golden has been updated with Full HD resolution, unlocked framerates, additional text languages, the option to switch between English …
I wish more crossover games took the Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE approach. Typically, when a game wants to blend multiple different properties, there’s some sort of very contrived incident that quickly smashes two universes together so that we can get as quickly as possible to the fan-service that arises from …
The original release of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE on Wii U didn’t get nearly as much attention as it deserved. The people who loved it loved it—myself included—but it didn’t make a huge splash when it came out, even by Wii U standards. As the latest in Nintendo’s ongoing effort …
Coming out very late in the PlayStation 2’s life cycle, Odin Sphere perhaps didn’t get as much attention as it deserved. It was a critical darling (and rightly so) and sold fairly well, but it was niche game fighting against a newly-released PlayStation 3 and all the hype that goes …
Tokyo Game Show is all wrapped up for this year, and if there’s one important takeaway from it, it’s that 2016 is looking amazing for fans of Japanese games, and JRPGs in particular. Between new announcements, new footage for previously-announced games, and one delay that everyone saw coming, this year’s TGS gave us …
Yesterday, Nintendo and Atlus shared the first proper trailer for Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem since they teaser they showed off more than two years ago. It looks amazing. Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei are both relatively serious, dark franchises, but from the new trailer, the crossover game looks …
