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RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Sleeper Hit

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on January 10, 2023

Winner: Chained Echoes I don’t think anyone expected Chained Echoes to be such a hit so quickly, even with the positive buzz before its release. After watching my partner play it for five minutes, though, I knew its status as an immediate hit was completely earned. I just had to play it. Like many r… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best DLC

Posted by Des Miller on January 10, 2023

Winner: Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak is, quite possibly, the ultimate DLC. It adds new locales, new monsters, new mechanics, new weapons, new armor, and, best of all: new difficulty. It also offers a whole new story, great new characters, and a dizzying array of new fe… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Combat

Posted by Tyler Trosper on January 10, 2023

Winner: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 With each entry, the Xenoblade Chronicles series has been expanding upon its core battle system. The first game started with a system akin to an MMORPG with auto attacks and cooldowns for special moves. Xenoblade Chronicles X increased the scale with giant robots (plea… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Visuals

Posted by Des Miller on January 10, 2023

Winner: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 The Nintendo Switch is well over five years old at this point, so it’s not too surprising that some games have to make notable concessions to run on the platform. Simpler geometry, reduced resolutions, shorter draw distances, and even lower framerate targets are just a… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Protagonist

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on January 10, 2023

Winner: Noah (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) The Xeno series has given us many fascinating and excellent protagonists, but I think Noah is the best one yet. Where others have personal drives that are understandable and relatable, Noah really is us. Or at least who we want to be. He sees the world the way w… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Story

Posted by Des Miller on January 10, 2023

Winner: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s story is easily one of its greatest strengths. Despite the game crossing the hundred hour mark, the story remains incredibly well-paced, focused, and, most important of all, intriguing. With all its wild twists and turns, the main story keeps p… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Ongoing Game

Posted by Mike Salbato on January 10, 2023

Winner: Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Was there any doubt? We joked about calling this an annual Final Fantasy XIV award. But jokes aside, there’s a reason so many of us (and 20+ million more) are in love with the game: it’s the real deal. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is unique in that its main story… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Localization

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on January 10, 2023

Winner: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Oi! Just wot is up with these sparkin’ accents? You mean to tell me they managed to blend a variety of world dialects, like Welsh, London, Australian, and even American, put in some fun language of their own, and it all coheres into something wholly its own thing… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Traditional RPG

Posted by Gio Castillo on January 10, 2023

Winner: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Few original games this year harkened back to the grand scale of old-school JRPGs more than Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Sprawling open world? Check. Glorious twelve-hour soundtrack with contributions from Yasunori Mitsuda, ACE, and more? Check. Epic story that boils down t… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Antagonist

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on January 10, 2023

Winner: N (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) In a game where many of the villains fall a little flat, N is a revelation. If Noah is who we aspire to be, N is who we’re afraid we’ll become. After everything he’s experienced, would we do anything differently? Would we make the right choice, or would we hold ont… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Action RPG

Posted by Jonathan Logan on January 10, 2023

Winner: Elden Ring Elden Ring may be FromSoftware’s newest IP, but it’s a spiritual successor to the Dark Souls series in all but name. Rather than resting on the Souls series’ many laurels, however, FromSoftware have expanded pretty much everything the games have to offer. The combat of Elden Ring… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Supporting Character

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on January 10, 2023

Winner: Eunie (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) “Hear that, Noah? Lanz wants something a bit meatier.” It would be easy to boil Eunie down to her attitude, her ridiculous British-isms, or even her amusing one-liners. In fact, Takahashi and the rest of Monolith Soft could have left her at that, and I bet she’… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Graphic Adventure or Visual Novel

Posted by Michael Sollosi on January 10, 2023

Winner: AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative The sequel to Kotaro Uchikoshi’s 2019 murder mystery, AI: The Somnium Files, is still full of murder and mystery, but this time presented in twos. Two protagonists investigating, two time periods connecting the two parts of the story, and a serial k… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Animal or Mascot Character

Posted by Niki Fakhoori on January 10, 2023

Winner: Koraidon and Miraidon (Pokémon Scarlet & Violet) How do you get around a massive region filled with seemingly insurmountable mountains and vast rivers? With a little help from your treasured friends, of course. Instead of delegating the box art legendary Pokémon to post-Gym-seven trophie… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Strategy RPG

Posted by Tom Cox on January 10, 2023

Winner: Triangle Strategy Combining the best elements of Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Fire Emblem, Triangle Strategy takes the crown for RPGFan’s best strategy RPG of the year! It’s clear that Team Asano has deep knowledge of the genre, resulting in some of the most exhilarating turn-bas… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best RPG (or Adventure Game) of 2022

Posted by Des Miller on January 10, 2023

Winner: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is a game nearly twenty-five years in the making. Within it are bits and pieces of every single Xeno property that Tetsuya Takahashi has ever worked on, and they all shine through ever so brightly. It takes the best elements of Xenogears, Xenosag… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Indie Game

Posted by Caitlin Argyros on January 10, 2023

Winner: Chained Echoes Year after year, we fantasize about finding an RPG that scratches that nostalgia itch — a new game with a retro look and feel that takes us back to those halcyon days of the SNES and PS1, before AAA games became the be-all, end-all, and microtransactions were commonplace. Well… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2022: Best Mobile Game

Posted by Sam-James Gordon on January 10, 2023

Winner: Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent Fans of the original Octopath Traveler may be champing at the bit in anticipation for its sequel, Octopath Traveler II, but Square Enix’s mobile title Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent is a very worthy entry in the series to bridge th… Read More »

RPGFan’s 35 Most Anticipated Games of 2023 (Part 2)

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on December 14, 2022

Here we have games we’ve been anticipating for years, games in some of our favorite series, and arguably the most anticipated game of the year…period. Go to Part 1 Go to Part 3 Granblue Fantasy: Relink Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Sony PlayStation 4, Sony PlayStation 5 It’s almost tradition at th… Read More »

RPGFan’s 35 Most Anticipated Games of 2023 (Part 3)

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on December 14, 2022

You like classics? We have the best classics here. Additionally, we have some fun romhacks, and some games that want to look and feel like the some of the other classics on this list. Go to Part 1 Go to Part 2 Path of the Midnight Sun Platforms: Microsoft Windows, macOS, Consoles Later Originally a… Read More »

So you want to get into the Final Fantasy Series… Part 2 (FFV–VIII)

Posted by Wes Iliff on December 7, 2022

Final Fantasy V-VIII covers a lot of ground graphically and features a wide variety in narrative and gameplay styles. Many of them have also been released several times on several different consoles. Many people consider VI or VII their favorites, so there are some frontrunners here. See if they app… Read More »

So you want to get into the Final Fantasy Series… Part 3 (FFIX–XII)

Posted by Wes Iliff on December 7, 2022

The FFIX–XII era saw a lot of change for the Final Fantasy series, not only in terms of hardware to develop for but in story and game design directions as well. This gives us a collection of fascinating and perfectly imperfect entries to look at. This also means that one of them is likely to be a wo… Read More »

So you want to get into the Final Fantasy Series… Part 4 (FFXIII–XVI)

Posted by Wes Iliff on December 7, 2022

Now let’s turn our attention to recent happenings in the Final Fantasy universe and toward the future with Final Fantasy XVI. ONWARD! FFI–IV FFV–VIII FFIX–XII Final Fantasy XIII Original Release: 2009, Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360Also Released On: Microsoft Windows, iOS and Android (Str… Read More »

The 25 Best PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 RPGs (PS3 Exclusives)

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on October 19, 2022

Below, you’ll find our ten best games released on the PS3 (and not the 360). There are notably more Japanese games on this list, and the PS3 has more solid RPGs than a lot of people give it credit for, so we have a ranked list of 10 for you! Cross Platform RPGs Xbox 360 Exclusives 1) Persona 5 Writt… Read More »

The 25 Best PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 RPGs (360 Exclusives)

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on October 19, 2022

And here’s the end of our list! The Xbox 360 had comparatively fewer “exclusive” RPGs, so we decided to limit the list to five. But there are still some all-timers here that are worth checking out even today! Give our list a look below. Cross Platform RPGs PlayStation 3 Exclusives 1) Tales of Vesper… Read More »

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