Tag Archives: Role Playing

Andromeda should have been a smart new chapter for the Mass Effect series. As far as the story goes, it is. 634 years since setting off into deep space, a colony of ships from the Milky Way – representing most of the major species from our galaxy – arrives in …

Well that was unexpected Sometimes a change of pace is good. We may love a game to pixels and be happy to while away our days in its digital landscape, but once you start hitting 10, 20, 50-hour benchmarks, variety starts to become a necessity. It’s not hard to inject …

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8: Final Chapter Prologue, like all Kingdom Hearts games for the past decade and a half, prominently features Utada Hikaru’s pop song ‘Simple and Clean’. Now more than ever, it’s clear that this theme song is not just catchy as hell, it’s also some kind of ongoing …

Final Fantasy 15 is a stylish, smart reminder of an era when Japanese games  dominated the industry, but sweeping JRPGs aren’t new to Xbox. As proof, here’s a fond look back over the best Japanese role-playing games ever to grace Microsoft consoles. 01: Blue Dragon When Final Fantasy‘s creator, Hironobu …

Don’t want to spend hours brushing your Pichu to help it evolve in Pokemon Sun and Moon (opens in new tab)? Reddit user Leafeon111 (opens in new tab) has discovered an eminently easy trick to short-circuit any Pokemon’s happiness cycle, quickly boosting Pokemon who evolve based on happiness like Munchlax …

Final Fantasy 15 (opens in new tab), like the series it belongs to, has undergone numerous transformations. It began life as Final Fantasy Versus 13 (opens in new tab) – a spin-off that began development 10 years ago – eventually being rebooted as an official mainline entry, complete with a …

Ask a Nintendo fan about what makes their games so great and the answer is often “innovation”. And yet, ask a Paper Mario fan what they want from the latest installment, and they’re likely to demand Nintendo JUST MAKES ANOTHER BLOODY THOUSAND YEAR DOOR OH MY GOD STOP TRYING NEW …

Pokemon Go (opens in new tab)’s battle system feels pretty hectic at first. Most people get the idea to tap as fast as you can pretty quickly, and if they’re truly Poke Masters they’ll start working in special attacks and dodges. But just like in the main Pokemon games, there’s …

There’s a reason that most people play video games instead of making them. Making games is hard. Really hard. It requires time, skills and dedication that most people simply don’t have. And even if you do, there’s no guarantee of success. For every Minecraft and Shovel Knight, there’s dozens of …

It was somewhere between rescuing a burly American moe-obsessive dressed like a Saturday morning cartoon version of a Gwar member and helping a friend audition for a role in a TV procedural about a magical sneezing detective directed by Kuen Taranchino that I realized something: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE shouldn’t …