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Suikoden Creator Yoshitaka Murayama Has Passed Away

Posted by Gio Castillo on February 14, 2024

Rabbit & Bear Studios has announced the passing of Yoshitaka Murayama, creator of the Suikoden series and director of the upcoming Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. The developer said he died on February 6th “due to complications with an ongoing illness.” Here is an excerpt from the full statem… Read More »

Ys X: Nordics Cruises West This Fall

Posted by Gio Castillo on February 14, 2024

Ys X: Nordics is finally hitting Western shores this fall, and I swear this feels better than receiving chocolates on Valentine’s Day. Publisher NIS America shared that the tenth entry in Falcom’s illustrious Ys series will come to PlayStation 5 and 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, GOG, and the… Read More »

An Engine By Any Other Name: Interview with RPG Maker Developer zDS

Posted by Nick Mangiaracina on February 13, 2024

It’s an inevitability: someone points out that a game you’re interested in has a distinctive look that reveals the engine the game was built in. If you’re lucky, the person is surprised this game was built in a specific engine because it doesn’t look like THOSE types of games. What may have started… Read More »

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Posted by Abraham Kobylanski on February 12, 2024

Life to the living, death to the dead. So goes the banishers’ credo. Red mac Raith and Antea Duarte have been called upon to deal with a ghost situation in New Eden, a fledgling New England town, in 1695. The spirits of the dead are running amok. It’s snowing in June, and the veil between the worlds… Read More »

RPGs Coming This Week, 2/11/24

Posted by Gio Castillo on February 11, 2024

And we’re back! RPGs Coming This Week took time off last week since, well, hardly anything came out. In case you were wondering, Potion Permit got ported to iOS and Android, and Pixel Noir came out of Early Access (finally, after a last-minute delay from January 18th). This week’s release schedule i… Read More »

Immortality

Posted by Wes Iliff on February 9, 2024

I’m not super familiar with Sam Barlow’s games. I’ve never played Her Story, I’ve only recently heard of Telling Lies, and only really had Immortality on my radar recently. That means that I’m looking at Immortality with fresh eyes as it releases for PS5 and Switch, and let me tell you, the experien… Read More »

Lunacid

Posted by Ben Love on February 9, 2024

It’s hard to think of a game developer more influential to the modern indie game development scene than FromSoftware. Clicking on the “Souls-like” tag on the Steam store will greet you with thousands of games influenced by FromSoft’s action RPG series that feature weighty melee combat, copious amoun… Read More »

TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children

Posted by Mark Roddison on February 8, 2024

It’s always been an intriguing thought exercise of mine to imagine a near-future, “JRPG”-inspired roleplaying game setting working alongside the sort of crunchy, tactical combat more associated with genre heavyweights such as FF Tactics, XCOM, or Disgaea. South Korean developer Dandylion published T… Read More »

Retro Encounter 403 – Unpopular RPG Opinions

Posted by Michael Sollosi on February 8, 2024

Opinions are like cats. The internet is full of them. We mostly fall into conventional wisdom here on Retro Encounter when it comes to what games deserve celebration and which games do not (there will not be an episode on Beyond the Beyond anytime soon), but we don’t always go with the grain.… Read More »

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Pre-Launch Hands-On Impressions

Posted by Abraham Kobylanski on February 6, 2024

I admit, I wasn’t sure how to feel about Final Fantasy VII Remake before it came out. Splitting the original game into multiple parts with completely new action-based combat could have been disastrous. Thankfully, my many concerns were misplaced. It was a joy to explore Midgar more thoroughly, and t… Read More »

Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: The Indigo Disk

Posted by Patrick Gann on February 6, 2024

The time has come: the second and final chapter of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC is here in the form of The Indigo Disk. What does it offer players? My colleague Niki argued that the game didn’t need “more” so much as it needed “better” in her review of The Teal Mas… Read More »

Phantom Brigade

Posted by Abraham Kobylanski on February 5, 2024

Mechs. Mechs never change. What is there that hasn’t already been done with mechs in video games? Brace Yourself Games imagined up something new in tactical RPG Phantom Brigade with an ambitious battle system. Ambition is great, but it doesn’t always translate to something enjoyable. In Phantom Brig… Read More »

Random Encounter 288 – Relinked and Reloaded

Posted by Jonathan Logan on February 5, 2024

On this episode of Random Encounter, we’re looking at a remake of an 18-year-old game and the release of a game that felt like it took 18 years to come out. Since its announcement in 2016, Granblue Fantasy: Relink has been on many RPG fans’ most anticipated lists (it was on ours in 2020, 2022, 2023,… Read More »

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Patch 6.5 – Growing Light

Posted by Caitlin Argyros on February 3, 2024

After ten years of playing Final Fantasy XIV, I’ve seen enough patch cycles to learn what to expect from the final major update to an expansion. There’s a dramatic event and a final fight, a cooldown period, and then someone new or unexpected shows up to invite or sometimes force the Warrior of Ligh… Read More »

Persona 3 Reload

Posted by Aleks Franiczek on February 2, 2024

Oh baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby: Persona 3 is back and better than ever. The original Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 is one of the most important and influential RPGs of all time. In 2006, at a time when dating sims were still largely shunned or misunderstood by Western gaming audiences, Person… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2023 ~ Editors’ Awards

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on February 2, 2024

And we’re back today with our individual Editors’ Awards for Games of the Year 2023! This year we have as many editors contributing as I can remember: 16! That’s a lot of cool lists to read. You will notice that we give our writers a lot of freedom with how to approach these, but that’s part of the… Read More »

Rhythm Encounter 127 – Music of the Year 2023

Posted by Mike Salbato on February 1, 2024

It’s finally time to celebrate the music of the (last) year! As you know by now, a great deal of incredible games released in 2023, and with them, many notable soundtracks. Our panel today brought some of their favorite songs of 2023, featuring music from some Square Enix heavy hitters to some lovel… Read More »

Retro Encounter 402 – The RPG Drafty Awards

Posted by Michael Sollosi on February 1, 2024

Should we double check the envelope? We’re in the middle of entertainment awards show season, and it’s high time Retro Encounter decides a worthy ballot for the RPGs with the best characters, music, visuals, gameplay, and story. But to make things interesting, we’re drafting four games for each cate… Read More »

Granblue Fantasy: Relink

Posted by Des Miller on January 31, 2024

Granblue Fantasy: Relink is here after just over seven long, long years. From its original announcement in 2016, the game had a developer change in 2019 and delays in 2022 and 2023, leading to an incredibly turbulent development cycle. Despite all the chaos in development, the long-awaited Granblue… Read More »

Crowdfunding Chronicles: The Secret of Timberland

Posted by Tina Olah on January 30, 2024

Creepy forest towns are relevant to my interests, especially if they contain small animals and/or a number of mysteries to solve. I’m happy to report that you’ll find both in The Secret of Timberland, a spooky and beautiful visual novel from Polish developer Amethy Soft.

Retro Encounter Final Thoughts – moon: RPG Remix Adventure

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on January 28, 2024

Aleks Franiczek As someone who loves to play videogames that try something different narratively, mechanically, and thematically, my exposure to Love-de-Lic and their oddball development legacy across multiple studios has been long overdue. I’m glad I finally got around moon: Remix RPG Adventure, th… Read More »

RPGs Coming This Week, 1/28/24

Posted by Gio Castillo on January 28, 2024

Welcome to a lean and mean edition of RPGs Coming This Week, the column where we give the most noteworthy new RPG (or RPG-adjacent) titles the coverage they deserve. And boy are these particular ones noteworthy. Not to be presumptuous, but I fully expect all three to be Game of the Year award conten… Read More »

RPGFan Games of the Year 2023: Overall Awards

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on January 26, 2024

Welcome to RPGFan’s Games of the Year 2023! And man, has it been a doozy. Is it the best year for RPGs…ever? Maybe. Time will tell. What we can say for sure is that this year has been absolutely stacked with fantastic games. Whether you’re a fan of more traditional turn-based goodness, more intere… Read More »

Retro Encounter 401 – Moon: Remix RPG Adventure

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on January 25, 2024

Fill my heart with Retro / And let me play RPGs forevermore We’re back this week to discuss the second half of Moon, a game that parodies RPGs so much it almost becomes an Adventure game. How does the second half of the game compare with the first? Did we get all the love? Just how many frustrating… Read More »

Another Code: Recollection

Posted by Joshua Lindquist on January 24, 2024

Everyone has a beloved game that feels forgotten. It feels like those games will never receive a port to newer hardware—certainly not a complete remake. But the impossible happens every once in a while, a forgotten game resurfaces, and a group of fans cheer because the game gets a second chance. Ano… Read More »

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