Video by Matt S. Rideon Japan is one of those super-indie developers from Japan that really fly under the radar, but the company has actually been around for a long time now – it was founded back in 2004! Now it has over a half dozen games on Nintendo Switch,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Rideon Japan, the developer behind the quality mobile riff on Final Fantasy Tactics, the Mercenaries series, has a second focus; it also creates mobile riffs on the Atelier-style “item-creation” JRPG. Marenian Tavern Story, which came to us on Nintendo Switch two years ago courtesy of Kemco,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Over a number of years now, Japanese developer, Rideon, has steadily built up a quality little property for itself in the Mercenaries tactics series. Mercenaries Blaze is the fifth in the series, and while it’s still not of the standard of the premium examples of the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Marenian Tavern Story is basically classical Atelier but with a different name. The team at Rideon took a crack at it with Adventure Bar Story a few years ago, which showed a lot of promise but ultimately fell short of its goal. Marenian shows a lot…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Circle Entertainment has done a clever thing in packaging up the three Mercenaries Saga games for release on the Nintendo Switch. On the one hand, each game in the series is almost a painfully generic take on the tactics JRPG genre. On the other, bundled up…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Finally! Finally Circle Entertainment has its name attached to a game that I actually enjoy. That might be because the publisher’s only role in the production of Adventure Bar Labyrinth is that it’s the publisher of the 3DS version of the game (it’s developed and self…
Read MoreLast year’s mobile-exclusive RPG Adventure Bar Story wasn’t the finest example of the genre, but it had a charm about it, in no small part because the game’s scenario was written by Shinichi Yoshiike – a minor legend in Japan’s game industry for his work on the Atelier series, amongst…
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