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Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster Is Coming to Switch 2

Posted by Tin Manuel on April 2, 2025

In the recent Switch 2 presentation, Square Enix revealed Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster, launching on June 2nd for the Nintendo Switch 2. Preview the official trailer below and check out all the additional features added to the game. Besides new HD graphics and two additional minigames,… Read More »

Deltarune Chapters 1-4 Will Launch on June 5th [UPDATE]

Posted by Gio Castillo on April 2, 2025

Chapters 1 to 4 of Deltarune are launching as a single package on June 5th. It’ll be a launch title for Nintendo Switch 2, but it’s also coming to PlayStation 5 and 4, PC and macOS via Steam, and, of course, the original Switch. This confirms what creator Toby Fox confirmed last year, that chapters… Read More »

Mouthwashing

Posted by Stephanie Sybydlo on April 1, 2025

In space, no one can hear you gargle. Mouthwashing sees you as a spaceship captain aboard an interstellar freighter on its long journey home. The ship’s computer warns that a minor course correction is needed to avoid an asteroid. But for reasons unknown, you decide to steer into the asteroid instea… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 158 – Winter 2025: Pirates, Urban Myths, Magnolias, and More

Posted by Mike Salbato on March 31, 2025

Continuing our new run of quarterly new music updates is our first episode for 2025, and it’s a truly notable start. We have a range of new music today, from well composed soundtracks that play homage to earlier console generations to new projects from popular Minecraft composer C418. We also contin… Read More »

RPGs Coming This Week, 3/30/25

Posted by Audra Bowling on March 30, 2025

In this edition of RPGs Coming This Week, we are in the midst of the calm before the storm. The Switch 2 presentation looms, which will certainly make it tough for anything else in gaming to garner eyes. But a few intrepid developers have dared to brave Nintendo’s gravitational pull, and we’re all t… Read More »

Pentiment

Posted by Matt Wardell on March 29, 2025

Pentiment is coated, like a canvas under layers of paint, with astute depictions and examinations of 16th-century history, religion, art, literature, class, and gender roles within the Holy Roman Empire. It’s also a murder-mystery adventure game that opts for character role-playing over puzzles and… Read More »

Voice Love on Air

Posted by Audra Bowling on March 29, 2025

Voices can convey hidden emotional meanings if you’re attuned to listen, even if the speaker tries to conceal them. Protagonist Aki of romance visual novel and management simulation Voice Love on Air knows this all too well: after a past tragedy, he can pick up on the hidden cues in a person’s voice… Read More »

1000xRESIST

Posted by Neal Chandran on March 28, 2025

1000xRESIST: now here is a game that completely flew under my radar in 2024. I value and work hard at acknowledging indie games that get overlooked, but I completely missed 1000xRESIST until 2024’s end-of-year buzz caught my ear. I thought, “Hmm, I should play this.” And so I did. Bold colors and va… Read More »

Here’s Our First Look at Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake

Posted by Tin Manuel on March 27, 2025

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake kicked off today’s Nintendo Direct, giving us our first look at the first two games in the Erdrick Trilogy. The remakes of the first two Dragon Quest titles will debut this year as a single package for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.… Read More »

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Set for June 19th Launch [Updated]

Posted by Gio Castillo on March 27, 2025

ATLUS is bringing back a deep cut from the PlayStation 2 days with Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army, launching June 19th on Nintendo Switch 1 & 2, PlayStation 5 and 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam. Check out the announcement trailer below. Unleash the supernatural and und… Read More »

SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered to Release Today [UPDATE]

Posted by Gio Castillo on March 27, 2025

UPDATE: In addition to Nintendo Switch, SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered will also come out today for PlayStation 5 and 4, PC, iOS, and Android. Credits to Gematsu. SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered was unveiled at the latest Nintendo Direct, and it’s coming sooner than anyone expected. In fact, it’ll be availab… Read More »

Retro Encounter 456 – The RPGs That Made Us

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on March 27, 2025

I wanna be an RPG fan when I grow up. This week on Retro Encounter we gather to discuss the RPGs that defined our taste. Not necessarily our favorites, but games that helped us understand what we value in an RPG or in games in general. Does Final Fantasy show up? Who likes the most obscure Metroidva… Read More »

Starfield: Shattered Space

Posted by Noah Leiter on March 26, 2025

Starfield’s first major story expansion is here, and it is predictably handsome and shallow. Moreover, Shattered Space is an imperceptive, often tone-deaf, attempt to reorient fan and critical reception after the base game’s botched launch (I even acknowledge this as a person who… Read More »

AI LIMIT

Posted by Dom Kim on March 26, 2025

If your first thoughts upon seeing the trailers for AI LIMIT are “another one?” I wouldn’t blame you as it is indeed another Souls-like, blending Bloodborne-esque combat and anime aesthetics as its selling point. But what else does it bring to the table besides a surprisingly rare combination of gam… Read More »

The First Berserker: Khazan: First Impressions

Posted by Paul Skevington on March 25, 2025

There is a lot of excitement around The First Berserker: Khazan in the subset of gamers enjoying that most rarified of genres, the Soulslike: sharp-eyed heroes with better reflexes than a battle-hardened warrior, eager to get their hands on what could be their next brutally challenging experience. R… Read More »

Random Encounter 319 – I’d Kill for a Good Cup of Tea!

Posted by Jonathan Logan on March 24, 2025

On this episode of Random Encounter, it’s time to sink into the shadows and brew some tea, because we’re talking about Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Wanderstop! Assassin’s Creed Shadows is finally here! This long-awaited game has been delayed multiple times over the last year, but was that extra time… Read More »

RPGs Coming This Week, 3/23/25

Posted by Jimmy Turner on March 23, 2025

Honestly, we’ve been taking it a little too easy lately. Back-to-back weeks with the likes of Atelier Yumia and Wanderstop… what are we, a bunch of cozy gamers? Kidding, I love those games too, but the pendulum has decisively swung back to the opposite end with three Souls-likes guaranteed to test… Read More »

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes: The Chapter of Marisa

Posted by Audra Bowling on March 22, 2025

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is a nostalgic throwback to JRPGs of yesteryear, with some entertaining and polished elements and others leaving much to the imagination. I enjoyed playing the game and liked its large, colorful cast of characters, even though I wished several of them had more narra… Read More »

Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land

Posted by Des Miller on March 21, 2025

Over the past twenty-eight years, the Atelier franchise has reinvented itself with each new series. While the core themes and elements of the franchise remain intact, characters, combat, synthesis, and mechanics are often wildly different from one series to the next. Mechanically, the Arland series… Read More »

Retro Encounter Final Thoughts: Tales of Graces f

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on March 20, 2025

Michael Sollosi Tales titles are typically reliable RPG comfort food. You go on a journey for a few dozen hours, get to know a group of quirky anime teenagers, and save the world while navigating a world full of color and made-up nonsense words that explain the setting’s unification of technology an… Read More »

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

Posted by Paul Skevington on March 20, 2025

Have you heard the one about the couple in the car and the escaped murderer with a hook for a hand? You haven’t? It’s terrifying; a friend of a friend told me about it. Don’t worry, though. You won’t encounter this tale in Urban Myth Dissolution Center, but you will find a host of other examples fro… Read More »

In Defense of Linearity in RPGs

Posted by Matt Wardell on March 19, 2025

As a little kid growing up on the PlayStation 1 and my father’s NES, I was accustomed to replaying the same short experiences again and again. Not knowing how to work a memory card—and fearful of overwriting dad’s Metal Gear Solid save—I was content to start my handful of games fresh each day. If it… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 157 – Visual Novel Soundscapes

Posted by Patrick Gann on March 18, 2025

It’s visual novel day at Rhythm Encounter! Following one of the quickest sign-up processes ever for our show, four visual novel fans have come together to share thoughts on the music of eight visual novels, but they discuss so many more in the process. We all quickly learned that this topic will hav… Read More »

Starlight Legacy

Posted by Neal Chandran on March 17, 2025

Starlight Legacy is a retro-inspired turn-based JRPG from indie Japanese developer Decafesoft and publisher Eastasiasoft. It features obvious nods to many classic 1990s Japanese RPGs and anime while sporting its own personality. Starlight Legacy may look and feel familiar, yet it gave me a few subtl… Read More »

Freedom Wars Remastered

Posted by Sean Cabot on March 16, 2025

I’d considered playing Freedom Wars years ago, back when it was locked to the PlayStation Vita. I didn’t have much reason to besides the fact that it was one of the few Vita-exclusive games with an anime aesthetic that I’d never heard of before. That it’s received a re-release after years trapped on… Read More »

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