In 2006 a small group of ROM hackers released a much-improved English translation for Phantasy Star, Sega’s…
Last week, during a surprise Nintendo Direct, Square Enix gifted the world with a demo for Bravely Default II. The…
In the wake of the international success of Persona 5 and Dragon Quest XI, perhaps it’s time for publishers to take…
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On a whim last night, I downloaded a copy of Vagrant Story to my PlayStation Vita (may it never, ever break). It’s…
I love picking fights with tough monsters in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, even when I don’t have…
Boy, do people love Final Fantasy Tactics. They love it so much they’d marry it, if human-video-game marriage were…
As one of the few proud PlayStation Vita holdouts (chants: Vita means life! It only rhymes with wife!) I spent a lot…
The last two games I played on my Switch were the original Dragon Quest and Breath of Fire, two early examples of…
There comes a time when every person must sit back, think about their life’s accomplishments, and wonder, “What…
Longtime Kotaku heads will know that I’m a big fan of the Trails series, an ambitious set of Japanese role-playing…
This week, the charming role-playing game Ni no Kuni will come to three new platforms. On two of those platforms…
Role-playing games are one of my favorite genres. They’re also the genre I came latest to. I didn’t play video games…
When I think back to my childhood and teenage years, when my literary tastes were being forged in the crucible of…
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There are about four or five things I tell my friends that make them look at me like I’m deranged, and one of them…
After a tremendous 2017, Japanese role-playing games were due for some regression, and that’s exactly what happened…
There are 6,970 ellipses in the main story of the epic Japanese role-playing game Xenogears, according to one…
Every JRPG fan’s pet peeve is this: You go into a weapon shop and start browsing, only to find a list of names with…
From Tales to Dragon Quest to a brand flippin’ new Persona, this has been a stellar year for Japanese role-playing…
When I was about ten years old, my brother Mike introduced me to my favorite game, a JRPG for the PS2 called Radiata…
Gamers in Japan love RPGs. But which ones are their favorites? Weekly Famitsu set out to answer that question in a…