Tag: JRPG
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Persona 5: Spoilers Galore
Adam joins the Phantom Thieves and takes a spoiler filled look at Persona 5.
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Spoiler-Free Mini-Cast – Undertale
In this video “mini-cast”, Scott, Kitty and Susan attempt to sell you on Undertale – without spoiling anything!
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Unsung Story Kickstarter Reveals “Spiritual Successor” to Final Fantasy Tactics
The title, a proposed collaboration between Yasumi Matsuno (the mastermind behind Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story) and developer Playdek, promises the same sort of “complex and rich game worlds” and “inspiring class based tactics game play” as their past projects. Target platforms for the project currently include PC, Mac, iOS and Android. In an interesting…
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PlayStation 3 Title Tales of Zestiria Announced
The announcement was made at a Japanese reveal event last night by developer Namco Bandai Studios. A trailer for the new title was also shown, embedded below. European fans will be pleased to learn that the game is already confirmed for Europe – albeit at an unknown date – on the PlayStation 3. Speaking on…
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Atelier Meruru Plus: The Apprentice of Arland
The Vita isn’t a system thats short of JRPGs. Outside of specific Vita releases, access to digital PSP games and PS1 classics means a terrific title isn’t more than a few quid and half an hour of download away. It’s into this already expansive genre then that Gust and Tecmo Koei have released what I’m…
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Ubisoft working on a JRPG-inspired fairy tale
During GDC Europe today, Far Cry 3 creative director, Patrick Plourde, has given an early look at Child of Light, a JRPG-inspired fairy tale project he is leading at Ubisoft Montreal. Though very little was disclosed, Plourde did share a few details on the game, and these included that it was inspired by classic Square…
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Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition
I should confess that I’ve never played a full table-top RPG. While I’ve always been fascinated with the mechanics of Dungeons and Dragons and the like, I live in a tiny village on the west coast of Scotland, where organising a party of four bodies of sentient flesh to engage in an imaginary adventure is…
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Evoland
What was birthed as a 48-hour Ludum Dare concept has evolved into a full game, available now through Steam Greenlight and GOG.com. As a fellow indie-dev myself (admittedly, a far lazier one), seeing this process come to fruition is particularly inspiring. Evoland is not only a journey into the past and present of the role-playing…
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Fire Emblem: Awakening
You wouldn’t think it with how long it took to get localised here, but the Fire Emblem series is the grand-daddy of the tactical JRPG genre. It pre-dates every QUEST game out there, and even SEGA’s Shining Force franchise wasn’t around when Marth was first charging the fields of Archanea on the Famicom. Even so,…