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Sound Cycles – The Re-Re-Invention Of JRPG Soundtracks

By Michael Weber • August 24th, 2020

“We have to make even further developments from here on, but I would like to strive for the mix of “haphazardness” and “inevitability.”

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What I Think About When I Think About Grandia

By Ben Sailer • February 10th, 2020

What can we learn about social activism from an aging 32-bit-era role-playing game? According to one writer who probably needs to get more sleep, maybe more than one might think.

Blue Reflection

By Gingy Gibson • February 1st, 2019

The kids aren’t alright, and that’s ok.

A woman with long red hair types excitedly on a keyboard, the white screen reflected in the glasses.

The Tragic Tale of Futaba Sakura

By Sam Desatoff • January 15th, 2018

Persona 5 is a game rife with emotion. Each major story arc presents players with impressively-written characters and themes other RPGs are afraid to touch, and Futaba Sakura’s arc is the best the game has to offer.

A large figure in a golden hued stone room.

Battle Chasers: Nightwar is a JRPG Without the Filler

By Sam Desatoff • November 27th, 2017

In Battle Chasers: Nightwar, all the standard RPG elements are present, albeit in a distilled, no-frills way.

JRPGs is a Genre Without a Meaning

By David Shimomura • May 1st, 2017

“So what is a JRPG? The J just means Japan, right? So they’re RPGs from Japan? No, not at all.”

The Case For Style as Substance

By Matthew Byrd • April 13th, 2017

In Persona 5, even doing your laundry is accompanied by unique melodies and outrageous animations not found anywhere else in the game.

Invincible Teenagers Saving the Cosmos

By Jeremiah Cheney • May 2nd, 2016

The root cause of what can make JRPGs so irksome has been discovered! And it’s not the characters’ hairstyles.

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