Taiko no Tatsujin may be best known for its arcade-style rhythm game action, but it’s also a series with a long history of RPG-style story modes, at least in its console releases. Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS: Great Adventure of the Seven Islands! established a RPG-rhythm mash-up formula that’s been …
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age is one of the best JRPGs of the generation. Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition, first released on Switch last year, truly puts the “definitive” in “Definitive Edition” with a wealth of new features and tweaks …
As part of a surprise Nintendo Direct this morning, Square Enix announced Collection of SaGa: Final Fantasy Legend for Nintendo Switch. The collection is due out December 15, and will bring the first three games in the SaGa series to modern audiences. The bundle, priced at AUD $29.95 / NZD …
I’ve never been able to get into Fairy Tail, despite giving both the manga and anime a few goes over the years. On paper, it seems like my kind of thing, but the characters and storylines never grabbed me, and there’s something about the art style—I still can’t quite put …
Koei Tecmo and Gust have shared the first English trailer for Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends and the Secret Fairy, alongside the launch of the game’s official website. Taking place three years after the previous game, Atelier Ryza 2 opens the door to a new adventure for Reisalin Stout (aka …
Last week, the creators of the Suikoden series announced a spiritual successor in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, with plans to launch run a Kickstarter campaign this week. That campaign launched this morning, and in less than a day, it’s raised over NZD $2 million—almost triple its initial goal. The Eiyuden …
It looks like the English Nintendo Switch release of Onion Games’ satirical JRPG moon: Remix RPG Adventure is not far away. We still don’t have a release date, but the first official English-language screenshot and a new teaser site suggest we won’t have to wait much longer for the first …
Square Enix has filed for trademark of the name “Live A Live” in Australia, hinting at the possibility of reviving a long-dormant JRPG that’s never officially been released outside Japan. As reported by Gematsu, the trademark was filed in Australia on July 2. While it’s not unusual, in the interests …
The Nintendo Switch version of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III will release in New Zealand and Australia on July 10. It’s already available in North America and Europe, where it released on 30 June, and in Japan, where it came out in March this year. Related: …
Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe is now available globally for Android and iOS, following a Japanese release in 2018. Set in the same world as Romancing SaGa 3, Re;univerSe sees Morastrum—a cyclical apocalypse event that occurs ever 300 years—once again threatening to destroy the world. New heroes join characters from numerous other …
