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.
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.
