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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 Review)
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 […]
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How to get back into FFXIV after a break
Sounds like it would be tricky, right? Final Fantasy XIV is a big, complex, multiplayer game. Since you last played, they might have added an expansion with 100+ hours of new content. They might have added two or three expansions! Where do you even start. Actually, playing FFXIV after a break is easy. There are […]
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Persona 3 Screenshots
This is a collection of 50 high-quality, (hopefully) exciting screenshots from the Playstation 2 game Persona 3 FES. They were taken in PCSX2. This is not a comprehensive tour of Persona 3, but it does feature a variety of areas including some from late in the game. Feel free to use these screenshots on your […]
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MCU Phase 4 Complete List (Combined Series, Films and Specials)
In Phase 4 of the MCU, for the first time, Marvel Studios made television series (streamed on Disney+) that were tied to the stories of the films as much as the films had been with each other. They set up storylines for the movies and even shared actors. Most lists of Marvel Cinematic Universe stories […]
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Prioritising Games
Fun fact: each of us is going to die before we get to play all the games that we want to! Here’s my way of dealing with that: People talk about their “backlog” of 20,000 games and sometimes ask the internet the best way to “get through” them all. Wait, what? The sad fact is, […]