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Xenosaga Episode 1 Screenshots
This is a collection of 50 high-quality screenshots from the Playstation 2 JRPG Xenosaga Episode I. They were taken in PCSX2, some at the native resolution and resized, and some at 2x the internal resolution. It’s not a comprehensive tour of the game, but simply a variety of shots I found nice to look at,…
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Best Videogame Adaptations on Netflix (New and Old)
Videogame adaptations were terrible until they weren’t. In the 90s we suffered through the likes of Super Mario Bros (1993) and Street Fighter (1994). In the 2000s Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) tanked the fortunes of one of the biggest videogame companies in the world, and the best we could say about Doom staring…
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Is Fire Emblem: Three Houses a JRPG?
No, Fire Emblem: Three Houses is not a traditional JRPG (like Dragon Quest is). The campaign is a series of grid-based battles, making it an SRPG — a Strategy RPG. The story and levelling of Fire Emblem are similar to a JRPG, however. There isn’t one firm definition of JRPG. To some, SRPG is a…
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Is Blasphemous a metroidvania?
Yes, Blasphemous is a metroidvania, and also a soulslike. The 2D world of Cvstodia is made up of interconnected areas, accessed by the Penitant One gaining new abilities from relics. However, its ability gates are inferior to other metroidvanias. There isn’t one agreed-upon definition for metroidvania. Though many people will claim their definition is the…
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Thor: Love and Thunder Review
Hated it. Everything is so frivolous and superficial. Every line is tongue in cheek. In every character interaction, they just explain their feelings outright. No subtlety. The characters each have a single personality to demonstrate, which they do so tediously. Valkyrie is cynical, Korg has a rock for brains but can be bluntly insightful, our…
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Darksiders Genesis vs Warcraft III story comparison (Video)
Note: the following text is the script of the video. The lore and characters of the Darksiders franchise are pretty epic, but I don’t feel the same way about the plots of the individual games. A lot of story time in Darksiders is spent doing errands for other characters before they will help you, which…
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What is a JRPG
JRPG stands for “Japanese Role Playing Game”. Fans disagree over the exact boundaries of the genre, but a typical definition might sound something like this: a story driven game, with character stats that can be substantially improved, that was made in Japan or is inspired by earlier Japanese examples of the genre. A wide range…
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What was the last PS1 JRPG?
The last adventure-style JRPG released for the Playstation was One Piece: Oceans of Dreams! from Bandai in May 2003. This was over two and a half years after the Playstation 2 had been released. You might think a licensed game is an unremarkable swan song for the genre on the PS1, and you’d be right.…
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What was the first PS1 JRPG?
Most people will say Beyond the Beyond, released in November 1995, was the first JRPG for Sony’s Playstation. However, there other contenders for the title, depending on what definition is used for JRPG. The first PS1 RPGs In December 1994, two quick-off-the-mark Japanese developers released Crime Crackers (from Media.Vision), and, about two weeks later, King’s…
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Alan Wake: An Action Game (Video)
On the Summer Game Fest 2023 stage, Sam Lake said that Alan Wake II will be Remedy Entertainment’s “first survival horror”. So what is the first Alan Wake? Video script It’s best not to think of Alan Wake as a horror game or as a cinematic game, two categories it is closely associated with. It…