2022 has been an amazing year for gaming. With established titles trying new things, interesting niche titles, innovative new titles, and some amazing indies, there’s plenty to enjoy. As 2022 ends, we’d like to highlight a few of these. As with our Yearly Top Visual Novels lists, these are our subjective choices and are based only on games we have […]
Taking place between the Utawarerumono Prelude and the Mask visual novels comes a new JRPG. Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten by Aquaplus tells the story of a younger Oshtor, Mikazuchi, and Munechika before taking up their roles in the Mikado’s inner circle. I previously wrote about my early impressions of the game, which you may […]
The RPG Maker engine has unfortunately got a bit of a stigma attached to it. While it’s a powerful engine that gives creators simple tools to craft their own stories and adventures, it’s also a program that is commonly associated with games made for a quick buck from lazy developers or as the means to […]
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist & The Mysterious Dream feels like it slipped under the radar in comparison to the Atelier Ryza titles. One of our team once mentioned it as a candidate for GOTY and scored it very well in his review of this JRPG, so between that and my own love of the Atelier series, I knew I had to […]
Starting back with Pokémon Blue in 1999, I’ve been a fan of the series. Still, as I got older, I stopped collecting the trading cards and while I still enjoyed it, I grew a little bored of the standard Pokémon formula. That is until Pokémon Legends: Arceus shook things up and became my favorite Pokémon title yet. […]
A new JRPG from Aquaplus, Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten works as a prequel to the Utawarerumono Mask series of visual novels. I had the chance to play the first few chapters of this story shortly before launch and wanted to share some early impressions as it becomes available. A full review has been […]
The Legend of Heroes: Trails is a massive, sprawling series of deeply interconnected RPGs. Starting all the way back in 2004, it’s seen massive growth and now has a whopping 12 games under its belt. While the series has seen its share of success outside of Japan, one set of games managed to slip through […]
The Xenoblade series only seems to be growing larger and larger by the day. It wasn’t that long ago where fans of Monolith Soft had been fighting to see the first game be released in the west. Now, it’s the darling child of Nintendo’s RPG lineup. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is yet another massive, sweeping epic […]
Live A Live has long remained one of the crown jewels in the fan-translation treasury. Now, decades on, Square Enix have decided to bestow on the world a remake of the classic that had never officially left Japan. How does this once illusive title stack up in modern JRPG times? Let’s Live A Little and […]
The NeoGeo Pocket Color is the little handheld that could and is seemingly a great fit for Nintendo’s Hybrid that does. Following in the footsteps of the NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection Vol.1, SNK VS. Capcom: Card Fighters’ Clash and Big Bang Pro Wrestling, the Nintendo Switch now has one of the few JRPG titles the NeoGeo Pocket had – […]