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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 »

RPGs Coming This Week, 3/16/25

Posted by Gio Castillo on March 16, 2025

Just past the Ides of March, we arrive at a very stacked week. Three sprawling open worlds invite you to sink dozens, potentially hundreds of hours into exploring every last nook and cranny. Plus, we’re getting a new action roguelike that just might scratch that Supergiant-shaped itch. RPGs Coming T… Read More »

Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter

Posted by Matt Wardell on March 15, 2025

Like many of you, I discovered 2021’s Tails of Iron when it was available as a PS Plus freebie in 2023. That oddly stark, gritty, medieval mouse game sat untouched in my library, glaring out at me when I occasionally scrolled by. I had low to nonexistent expectations for its… erm, squeakquel, Tails… Read More »

Scarlet Hollow – The Roads Untraveled (Episodes 1 – 4)

Posted by Jonathan Logan on March 15, 2025

Small towns are scary, and they’re trying to kill you. Those who didn’t grow up in a small town might think that’s ridiculous, but if you have, you know better. You know the horrors of walking through the night with no streetlights. Or suspecting that the forest behind the old elementary school is i… Read More »

Retro Encounter 455 – Tales of Graces f Part II

Posted by Zach Wilkerson on March 13, 2025

I’ve traveled back in time from next week. Please listen to this episode. This week on Retro Encounter, the panel gets back together to discuss the second half of Tales of Graces f. Our discussion ranges from the increasingly excellent combat, the less than excellent dungeon design, and the good, th… Read More »

Tokyo Indie Games Summit 2025 RPG & Adventure Game Roundup

Posted by Mike Salbato on March 12, 2025

Hello and welcome to our roundup of this past weekend’s Tokyo Indie Games Summit 2025! This two-day event featured talks, presentations, and a ton of indie games on display. The 2024 event drew over 9,000 visitors, and the show seems to only be growing each year, with 2025 being its third year. Whil… Read More »

Expelled! An Overboard! Game

Posted by Jonathan Logan on March 12, 2025

When inkle releases a new game, I sit up and pay attention. This UK-based studio has developed some of the most innovative and engaging visual novel/adventure games of the last decade, including Sorcery!, 80 Days, and Heaven’s Vault. However, it was their 2021 release of Overboard!, a time loop game… Read More »

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Posted by Abraham Kobylanski on March 11, 2025

I wasn’t sure how to feel about a sequel to Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The first game delivered on the “novelty” of a massive, open Elder Scrolls-esque game about realistic medieval times: no magic, no dragons, and characters based on real people who lived in the 1300s. But though it was an impressi… Read More »

Wanderstop

Posted by Tom Naylor on March 10, 2025

After being somewhat absent from the limelight for several years since making waves in the early- to mid-2010s, the indie dream team of Davey Wreden (The Stanley Parable, The Beginner’s Guide), Karla Zimonja (Gone Home, Tacoma), and C418 (Minecraft) have joined forces under the banner of Ivy Road to… Read More »

Random Encounter 318 – Monster Hunting the Most Elusive Game: A New Suikoden

Posted by Jonathan Logan on March 10, 2025

On this episode of Random Encounter, it’s time to chat about a remaster and a new game in two long-running series! First up, Zach’s prayers have been answered: Suikoden I&II HD Remaster: Gate Rune & Dunan Unification Wars is finally out! This remaster of the first two Suikoden games has been… Read More »

RPGs Coming This Week, 3/9/25

Posted by Audra Bowling on March 9, 2025

In this edition of RPGs Coming This Week, triple-A takes a backseat. We got our Monster Hunters and Suikodens out of the way. Now is the time for smaller studios to take the spotlight, and it’s our pleasure to get the word out! So, please sit back and enjoy this week’s exceptionally strong indie lin… Read More »

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