JRPGs

Over the past few years, there have been many complaints about video game endings—that they’re rushed, that they’re…

JRPG victory music is one of the best types of video game music. Every time you emerge from battle victorious, a…

I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that this was one of the most significant years for Japanese…

The demo for Nier: Automata released last week. Playing as a super fashionable android, players slice and dice their…

Thanksgiving is tomorrow. It is a day of stuffing, gravy, and turkey. A glorious day where we yell at each other…

All of this freedom to explore in No Man’s Sky is giving me a headache.

Just what makes games like Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Trigger so special? What sort of attributes would a game…

You have probably noticed, being the lovely JRPG connoisseur you are, that September is going to be busy. In just…

In the last couple of years, I’ve developed a strange relationship with JRPGs. I found myself tiring of their…

You’ve heard of Final Fantasy VII. Everyone’s already told you to play Chrono Trigger. But what about the…

While the story and the setting are always different, the main Final Fantasy games have a lot of reoccurring…

Fire Emblem Fates is out today, and it comes in two different versions: Birthright and Conquest. Which one should…

Two old role-playing games—Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Breath of Fire III—are coming to modern consoles in the…

On September 11, 2013, the Kickstarter project Project Phoenix successfully ended, raising just over $1 million for…

Legend of Legacy, a terribly titled new video game that’s out for the 3DS today, is as close as we’ve gotten to a…

Last night I started playing Final Fantasy VI, a video game about suplexing locomotives. I had never played it…

Here is a fact: There are a lot of incredible cities in Japanese role-playing games. From the simplicity of Pallet…

JRPGs are games designed to use a bunch of talking and combat as an excuse to blast killer soundtracks at you for…