If you’re playing Final Fantasy 8 (FF8), you’re going to want to pick up the Lion Heart, Squall’s best weapon, as early as you possibly can. Not only does it provide a significant boost in attack power, but it also unlocks Squall’s strongest limit break which is… also called Lionheart. If you’re like me, and…
I’m a long-standing, somewhat failure of a student at Japanese. I’ve been studying it on and off for years. My reading is okay, my writing is alright, but my listening and speaking skills are garbage. That said, when I play jRPGs these days, I tend to play them in Japanese for the practice. Recently, I…
Looking for some great projects to support on Kickstarter but don’t know where to… kickstart your search? (I apologize for nothing). Here are 5 standouts from this month that you still have some time left to get in on. Some of them I like, some I don’t, but here are the top 5 games being…
I was excited to play Legrand Legacy, the debut game of an Indonesian studio called Semisoft Studios. I was excited because this game rings back to the PS1 era of jRPGs like Legend of Dragoon, Final Fantasy 7 and Shadow Hearts, all while having a very high production quality for a first time indie dev…
Splitting the POV between multiple main characters is a device used in storytelling that I simply love. It allows you to get an increased sense of perspective with the regard to the complexity of events and blurs the lines of good and evil, giving readers better insight and empathy into the motivations of characters whose…
Growing up in the 1990s, Playstation 1 was where it was at. It was a perfect blend of creative and pushing technology. In today’s environment, there’s a lot more segmentation. Huge studios push the boundaries of technology, and most creativity is found in the mid-level studios pushing their games on Kickstarter. Of course, there are…
A followup to my last article about the SNES Classic, here are even more game suggestions for you to look into. As I mentioned before, you can hack the device to install more great SNES roms on there. The SNES Classic is already chock full of great entries, but there are only 21 games. It’s…
The SNES Classic is out and, good news, you can hack it and install other games on there. You may be wondering, “Hey, I was born in 1997, what games should I put on there?” Glad you asked, because that’s exactly why I’m writing this — just for you. Obviously people have their own tastes,…
This list of the best jRPGs from the 90s is mostly for the kids coming up who never got to have a PS1. It’s the first entry into what I hope will be a short series of posts for different game genres to give my Gen Zers a look into the things they may have…
In 2013, a little company called Harebrained Schemes released a game called Shadowrun Returns. The game was great, and it received a DLC update called Dragonfall which was bigger than the original game itself — in fact, it probably should have been the main release, and Shadowrun Returns (or rather the initial campaign ‘Dead Man’s…
