Posts Tagged ‘Role Playing’

Mazes of Fate was one of the last good games for the Game Boy Advance and happened to be one of the system’s best RPGs. Unfortunately, a good many of you probably never heard of it, as it quickly tripped, rolled down a hill, and fell into obscurity. This puts me in a difficult position [...]

Western RPGs are a rarity these days, probably because nobody likes them. Admittedly, the first-person dungeon-upon-dungeon fest is a little harder to swallow than something like Final Fantasy, RPGs sugared up with FMV cut scenes, fastidious characters, and intricate battle systems. Orcs & Elves is nothing of the sort. It is, however, a great tribute [...]

Harvest Moon is a terrible series. Monotony isn’t supposed to be so addictive, but you’ll put 20 hours into one of these games before you start to question whether or not you are accomplishing anything and another 10 hours to reach a point where no more progress can really be made. Oh, and Rune Factory [...]

Baten Kaitos Origins may have come out after Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Yadda Yadda Yadda, but it actually acts as a prequel. Hence the Origins, you see. While people from the first game will make cameos as their younger selves, the story mainly focuses on three new individuals: Sagi, Milliarde, and Guillo. That’s [...]

I had the opportunity to speak with Buena Vista Interactive about their upcoming title Spectrobes for the Nintendo DS. Spectrobes is an original IP being developed by Jupiter Corp. in Japan. It’s an action RPG designed from the ground up to be a unique experience only available for the Nintendo DS. Spectrobes will follow two [...]

Final Fantasy. You’re either sick of this franchise or can’t get enough of it. There isn’t much room for middle grounds, here. Unless, of course, you are a Nintendo fan, because we all know Square Enix and Nintendo haven’t been the best at sharing. Sure, the GameCube saw Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, but that was [...]

The first console my family owned was a TI-99/4A. At my young age, it was hard to enjoy any of the games we had, but one I always came back to was Tunnels of Doom. It was an RPG dungeon crawler that frustrated me to no end. The game expected me to remember what I [...]

Chocobos. Moogles. Neither is a very crucial part of any Final Fantasy game, and yet their popularity is quite abundant. There’s even a series of Chocobo Mysterious Dungeon video games (Wait a minute… Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon? I sense a trend…). So for those of you not familiar with Dragon Quest, just know that the slime, [...]

Once upon a time there was a company called Squaresoft and they made a very well known game called Final Fantasy. That game became so popular all over the world that it spawned many sequels. Many of them were then ported to other systems, both home consoles as well as portables, but one of those [...]

The RPG is a genre which can easily grow stale. I mean, the formula remains nearly unchanged over the course of hundreds of franchises. Not to mention there are those franchises which never stop reeling out seemingly “new” entries: Final Fantasy, Pokemon, Dragon Quest, etc. etc. So a quirky RPG spin-off which combines classic RPG [...]

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