A double whammy of music and RPG goodness awaits in NIS Classics Volume 3, two games you’ve might’ve missed the first time around.
JRPG
Does the world truly end with you? Coffee from The Pixels dives into the UnderGround in this critique of The World Ends With You.
Ultimately, Genshin Impact is a well-made, wonderful Gacha experience mired by dubious business practices.
Video Game Fables stands tall among the RPG juggernauts it parodies as a charming, lighthearted, and perfectly paced adventure
While Live A Live was definitely unique for its time, it’s got some competitors like Octopath Traveler in this day and age. Does it hold up?
On this Breath of Fire II podcast, how Capcom’s classic Super NES JRPG proved to be such a formative title in our education and career.
If you want a multi-protagonist narrative that fully fleshes out the characters, Live A Live may not be the game for you.
On this Crystalis podcast, ties to Nausicaa and Laputa, retro inventory management, and the method of NES storytelling.
On this Final Fantasy VI podcast, pixel remaster anticipation, character development and why Kefka works, and Uematsu’s master works.
On this Octopath Traveler podcast: the grind, passive characters, HD-2D, and more than you ever wanted to hear about Slash.
It may be impossible to separate Deltarune from Undertale, but if we could, would that make the unfinished work any better?
FromSoftware’s Eldin Ring is almost here and the network test gave a few players the chance to experience it first!
Final Fantasy III is a piece of FF history that’s more accessible than ever thanks to the Pixel Remasters.
Final Fantasy II gets the Pixel Remaster treatment with a wealth of QOL and visual upgrades. Is it enough for this black sheep of the series?
Time to come clean. I was wrong about Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster but it took playing the game for myself. Well, half-wrong.
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin is a new breed of Monster Hunter that dramatically improves upon its 3DS predecessor.
Ys Origin is familiar but reliable and really, need anyone ask for more from a JRPG honoring long and rich series traditions?
On this Vagrant Story podcast, we handle one of Square’s most difficult games with care. Having trouble beating Vagrant Story? Have a listen!
Are we living in the golden age of gaming right now? The Infernal Accountant Mage makes a point via Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen.
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition brings one of the most underrated modern classics in the JRPG genre back to life.
Sakura Wars skirts the line between visual novel and mech combat, and while some continue to ask “what is a game?”, fans of visual novels will eat this up.
In this Final Fantasy VIII podcast: Squall as a hero that some people strongly identify with, the game’s divisiveness, a few fan theories, & series context.
First impressions for FF7R Demo: Trim the fat and kill the darlings. Humungous boss fights. Seamless battle system. Forgetting about moral ambiguity. Barret’s glasses look fly. But where do we go from here?
In this Xenogears podcast, the host of Bookwarm Games & TWRM join forces to discuss religion in games, art history, systematic theology, and classic JRPGs.
“Exchange information, learn to talk sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept…
I hope you came hungry for this Breath of Fire podcast! Time to tackle…
On this Final Fantasy podcast, @AncientLitDude and I discuss what is arguably the most important game to The Well-Red Mage as a concept.
The epic conclusion of our Chrono mini-series is finally here!
“This time, The Warrior of Light must become The Warrior of Darkness.”
PlayStation games without a case find a new home: I affordably custom printed new inserts and salvaged new cases myself!
