random encounters
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A Tale Of Two Final Fantasys
7In 2003, two companies named Square and Enix merged, and everything went crazy. It was one of those transformative genre moments, you know? The world’s two biggest JRPG franchises — Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest — now belonged to the same company.
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How A Team Of Two People Is Bringing Us 2014’s Largest JRPG
There are a lot of big, highly-anticipated games coming out next year: Watch Dogs, Titanfall, Dragon Age Inquisition. But in certain circles, there’s only one game worth counting down the days for: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC.
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How The Last Generation Changed JRPGs For The Better
One of this generation’s most controversial JRPG trends might also turn out to be its best. When Team Kotaku first started planning out our Last-Gen Heroes feature, I started thinking about how JRPGs have evolved over the past generation — a generation that some would argue has been disastrous for the genre. Between a polarising…
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One Of The Weirdest JRPGs We’ll See Next Year
Some of us like video games that we might call “insane”. We mean this in the best of possible ways. Video games can be weird — fever-dream weird, something’s-not-quite-right-with-the-people-who-made-it weird — and when we see one, we want to play it.