Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Batman: Arkham Asylum drew me in years ago to the point where I became intoxicated by the lore surrounding the world’s greatest detective. As a video game setting, Arkham is packed with a strange and detailed history of Batman, one been detailed in decades of comics but one I regardless had avoided. For fans of DC, it was a treasure trove of referential collectibles and discoveries. Despite ...[Read More]
Life is Strange: True Colors
Once Alex Chen left her bus and stepped foot in the small Colorado town of Haven Springs, I clicked the touchpad on my DualSense, checking her phone. I was greeted to a cluster of text messages to a character I had never met from characters I had never met, many that I never would across Life is Strange: True Colors‘ five chapters. The snooping would have to wait. Alex was on her way to meet...[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, I’ve invested countless hours grinding through Final Fantasy and Tales games to “level up” my characters, often disappointed in how much time I was spending repeatedly defeating monsters for an upper hand in a massive (and potenti...[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 quickly became a best-selling DS game in Japan and North America. In 2018, TWEWY was ported to the Nintendo Switch, reminding players of an incredible JRPG from before 2010. Now, fourteen years after the release of the original game, Square Enix has b...[Read More]
Legend of Mana
Legend of Mana is a remaster of the fourth game in the Mana series. It is a beautiful treat that fans of the series will adore. And though my experience with JRPGs is limited, I found myself enjoying Legend of Mana much more than I had anticipated. Beautiful graphics and music pair well with interesting gameplay in a spectacular remaster. Just take a small peek for yourself: To say that Legend of ...[Read More]
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade/INTERmission
Waxing poetically nostalgic on Final Fantasy VII is a difficult task for me. As a longtime gamer, one of the most culturally significant JRPGs is, in fact, a massive hole in my book of accomplishments. For all its availability on multiple platforms, for the numerous magazines I owned with it gracing the cover, for the dozens of hours I’ve watched Advent Children, I’ve never played the ...[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 become twitterpated in the late 80s with Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System. I know a good RPG when I see one and I am confident in my expected structure of them. Today, you have clicked here for the JRPG SaGa Frontier Remastered review. This gam...[Read More]
Outriders
Outriders is the latest co-op, third-person, RPG, looter-shooter from Square Enix and People Can Fly. Now, before I go any further in this review, I want to make note of something: I am not going to bring up a certain other game that my friends keep comparing this to. Yes, some mechanics and ideas are similar between the two. But you don’t compare an apple and an orange, you just eat them. To be h...[Read More]
Square Enix Announces Space Invaders AR Game
Space Invaders are coming to conquer mobile! Check out the details below. Montréal, March 18th, 2021 – Today, Square Enix® Montréal and TAITO announced a collaboration on a new vision for the Space Invaders brand with a mobile game that includes innovative augmented reality (AR) features. This new game takes the Iconic franchise in an exciting new direction, delivering players a compelling and com...[Read More]
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade gets more new screens
This is a gorgeous-looking game that will certainly make fans of the remake and the series incredibly happy. It will be nice to see all of these in motion when the release happens. Until then, sit back and enjoy the screenshots shown below. About FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE In FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE, players will be drawn into a world where the Shinra Electric Power Company, a shadowy corporation, ...[Read More]
NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… announced at TGS 2020
I know a few people on the site who are looking forward to this one. Enjoy the goods below. LOS ANGELES (Sept. 24, 2020) – Today SQUARE ENIX® kicked off Tokyo Game Show 2020 Online with the announcement that NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139… will launch for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One family of devices including Xbox One X, and PC (Steam®) on April 23, 2021. N...[Read More]
Marvel’s Avengers
Among the flurry of fists, muon beams, and godly thunder of Marvel’s Avengers, I wonder how many people at Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal spent their youthful weekends furiously mashing controller buttons to the droves of atrocious and amazing licensed games available during their childhood. Who was tarnished by The Uncanny X-Men? That barely competent brawler was one of the first insta...[Read More]