Review by Nick H. Dating all the way back to 1990, Final Fantasy III helped to take the storyline and character progression of the series further than ever before. I had always enjoyed the first two Final Fantasy games, but their stories were sparse, relying more on conversations with random…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There is a classical beauty about Dragon Quest games. Square Enix’s venerable franchise has remained resolutely traditional throughout its long history, even as its stablemate, Final Fantasy, has taken some risks and offended some people in the process. Because the Dragon Quest games have always adhered…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I cannot believe that anyone would take a look at the Persona series, which has surely been one of the most difficult set of JRPGs to create, and think that it was a good idea to copy the theme of those games wholesale. When I say…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Years ago there was an interesting game that was light and fun and had completely taken me by surprise with the depth and emotions that the story brought to me. The game in question was Whisper of a Rose from Rose Portal Games which is the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Even though the iPad and other mobile devices should be perfect for tactics gaming, we haven’t seen that many Japanese tactics games on the platform. There’s Spectral Souls and a Final Fantasy Tactics port, but there aren’t any new tactics JRPGs coming to the iPad. This…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Yoko Taro, the mind behind the Drakengard series (and, of course, Nier, which is all but a Drakengard game), is one of the industry’s true mavericks. He seems to delight in confounding expectations and delivering games that are thematically unique and remorselessly intense. Drakengard 3 is…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The challenge that the developer of Mugen Souls Z, Compile Heart, was always going to face was in coming up with a sequel that succeeded in appealing to the same people that enjoyed the original. Mugen Souls was a game that was all about extremes; it…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Just a month before E3, Nintendo has unceremoniously revealed two games that Pokémon fans have been clamouring about for years via a brief press release and a trailer. The third generation of Pokémon titles (originally released in 2002 on the Game Boy Advance) is officially coming…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Interesting bit of trivia here; back when I was starting out in the world of professional games criticism, one of the first games that I got to review for a magazine that I really loved was Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. Called Lucifer’s Call in Australia, my…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Millennium: A New Hope is the re-release of the first game of the Millennium series from Aldorlea. Released back in 2009 the reason we have this re-release is courtesy of a Greenlight through Valve’s Steam download platform. As previously mentioned when we reviewed another of Aldorlea’s…
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