jrpgs
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I Love When A Book Feels Like A Good Role-Playing Game
Role-playing games are one of my favourite genres. They’re also the genre I came latest to. I didn’t play video games for most of my teenage years, the time when I would have lost entire weekends and nights to them. Coming to love them as an adult has been a minor tragedy, because the amount…
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I’m Playing Six JRPGs At Once And You Can’t Stop Me
There are about four or five things I tell my friends that make them look at me like I’m deranged, and one of them is how I’m fond of playing the few hours of a Japanese role-playing game and moving on to another. (“It’s kind of like edging,” I say, “but with video games,” as…
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One JRPG Designer Has A Good Explanation For Not Telling You What Items Do
Every JRPG fan’s pet peeve is this: You go into a weapon shop and start browsing, only to find a list of names with no other information or context. The only way to know whether those new weapons are better than your current ones is to guess. Here, now, is a compelling explanation for that…
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Poll: Japan’s Favourite Role-Playing Games
[Images: Platinum Games | Atlus | Platinum Games] Gamers in Japan love RPGs. But which ones are their favourites? Weekly Famitsu set out to answer that question in a recent poll.