JRPG
Keylocker (Nintendo Switch) Review
Keylocker claims itself to be a Cyberpunk turn-based rhythm JRPG inspired by the Mario & Luigi series and Chrono Trigger. Knowing this, I went in ...[Read More]
WitchSpring R (PS5) Review
WitchSpring’s first title came out in 2015 – nearly a decade ago – on mobile devices in Korea. Its remaster made its way stateside in 2018. By then, t...[Read More]
Grandia HD Collection Review (PS5)
Grandia, unfortunately, has not had the staying power of numerous other long-running JRPG series players likely recognize. Unlike Final Fantasy, Ys, D...[Read More]
Octopath Traveler II (PS5)
Octopath Traveler II is less of a direct sequel to 2018’s Octopath Traveler and more of an anthological entry into the series, featuring an enti...[Read More]
Persona 4 Golden Review
It has been two years since I jumped into the Persona world. Back in June 2020, I reviewed the PC version of this and came out of the experience with ...[Read More]
Persona 3 Portable (PS4)
The PSP-era of gaming was a weird one, chock full of ports, remasters, and PSP-specific editions that lacked some of the unique content from titles th...[Read More]
Neo: The World Ends With You Review
Neo: The World Ends With You was a welcomed surprise to play for the 10 hours I was able to run through, as it was a surprising experience of combo ba...[Read More]
Bravely Default II (PC)
The best JRPGs are those that give you a good reason to “grind” away through enemy encounters beyond “git gud.” Over the years...[Read More]
NEO: The World Ends with You (PlayStation 4)
Fourteen years ago, Square Enix and Jupiter released the World Ends with You for the Nintendo DS, an action-JRPG set in modern-day Shibuya that very q...[Read More]
SaGa Frontier Remastered Review
I love RPGs. I have a long history with them growing up in the 80s and 90s. Starting with the Pool of Radiance for the Commodore 128 which led me to b...[Read More]
Persona 4 Golden (PC)
What in God’s name have I gotten myself into? For the better part of FOREVER, I have somehow not played any Persona games. Generally, I pass these off...[Read More]
Atelier Dusk Trilogy Deluxe Pack
Spanning some twenty games now, the Atelier series by Gust and Tecmo KOEI is a JRPG franchise that most PlayStation gamers have at least heard of, if ...[Read More]