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What’s The Best JRPGs For Beginners?
29OK. You’ve never played a JRPG before. You have no idea what a chocobo is. You’ve always thought Final Fantasy was the name of a metal band. This is going to be the place for you.
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Japan’s Big RPG Bubble
Earlier this week, Square Enix boss Yosuke Matsuda said some things that left a whole lot of RPG fans scratching their heads. “Due to having split [the development mindset] according to regions around the world, we weren’t able to see this clearly up until now, but fans of JRPGs are really spread around the world,”…
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The Good And Bad Of South Park’s Combat
There was a point in South Park: The Stick of Truth — somewhere between performing an abortion and farting on Nazi zombies — when it occurred to me that Obsidian’s new RPG isn’t just ridiculous — it’s also kind of brilliant.
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The GTA V Of JRPGs?
I’ve been playing a lot of Threes lately — to the point where every time I close my eyes I just see numbers sliding together — and all I can think is that it’d make for the perfect JRPG mini-game.