Earlier this month, Square Enix Japan released a new mobile game, Samurai Rising. While the title certainly make any allusion to Final Fantasy, there’s enough throwback to Square’s flagship to make it a Final Fantasy game in all but name. Familiar character jobs, like the Black Mage, White Mage, Dragoon, and so on. Recognisable monsters like …
This week, Square Enix released Romancing SaGa 2 on iOS and Android. With the publisher’s obsession with porting older games to mobile, there wouldn’t be anything remarkable about this release, if not for the fact that this is the game’s first official localisation in 23 years since it came out in Japan. …
I went into Rise of the Tomb Raider with a lot of mixed feelings. On the one hand, I loved Tomb Raider a lot; it was a fascinating, excellent reboot of a franchise that, until then, I didn’t have a whole lot of care for. A follow-up comic series, written by the great Gail …
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 …
Spoiler warning: This whole article is about a major spoiler for Dragon Quest III. As if the title didn’t give that away. Fake endings aren’t exactly a rarity in video games, or any narrative for medium. This is particularly true of RPGs, where “surprise! here’s the real final boss” is such a worn-out trope …
Playing through Dragon Quest for the first time in 2015 was a weird experience. It’s a game that hasn’t exactly aged well, but somehow, that made it a fascinating and rewarding experience. It’s a snapshot of the early days of console RPGs, an insight into where many of the genres standards originated. Despite …
An English version of Bravely Second: End Layer, the sequel to the hit JRPG Bravely Default, is probably a ways off yet. An international release hasn’t even been announced yet, though it’s looking highly likely that it will happen at E3 later this month. There’ll be at least a few …
If there’s a formula for collector’s editions of games, it’s this: Steelbook case Season Pass Statue/Figurine Poster Art Book ???? Profit Almost every CE that comes out checks most, if not all, of those boxes, and rarely is there anything else on offer. Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris Gold Edition …
