RPGs

Nintendo has made a number of big announcements about upcoming Switch titles. This includes a Nintendo Switch release date for one of the best role-playing games ever made. Revealed in time for Mario Day on March 10, the previously announced Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door remaster has been given a May 23 launch date for the handheld/home console hybrid. The Thousand Year Door is easily the best game in the series, and honestly, one of the most interesting and entertaining RPGs of all time.Anybody hoping to pick up the…

Capcom I was only 90 minutes into Dragon’s Dogma 2 when I accidentally let a child die. The trouble started when a local shopkeeper asked me to find his son who had been dragged off by wolves. He asked me to question the locals for clues about his disappearance. I only had three hours with Capcom’s open-world RPG, so I naturally found myself skimming through some dialogue, assuming a waypoint would pop up on my map once I sleuthed out his location. But that’s not how Dragon’s Dogma 2 works. Had I been paying more…

Square Enix Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is out now, but it’s only available on PlayStation 5. As is the case with Helldivers 2, Xbox players might be feeling left out of the fun as one of the year’s most critically acclaimed games isn’t on their platform. Although the original Final Fantasy VII is no longer on Xbox Game Pass, quite a few other fantastic RPGs from or inspired by Japanese developers are. If you’re looking for a great RPG on Game Pass that’ll fill the void, try these titles, listed in no particular order,…

Bandai Namco Entertainment The next batch of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass this month was just revealed. Leading the pack of games being added to the subscription service today is Tales of Arise, a critically acclaimed RPG from Bandai Namco Entertainment that Xbox previously leaked was coming to the service. Tales of Arise was released in 2021. The latest entry in a long-running RPG series, it follows a slave and girl inflicted with a curse as they rise up against the kingdom of Rena. It sports real-time RPG…

If someone told me there's an upcoming tactics RPG full of anime-inspired characters, I would immediately respond, "Hell yeah, give it to me" and fully expect it to be a new Fire Emblem. Or I'd hope for another Valkyria Chronicles. Instead, what's filling that void is Unicorn Overlord, the next joint from Japanese developer Vanillaware. While it's best known for the cult side-scrolling action-RPGs Odin Sphere and Dragon's Crown, and most recently the mind-bending story-driven 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, it…

Last month’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog additions were decent. But this month, PlayStation really brought the goods if you’re an RPG fan. While the headliner for the month is the newest Need for Speed title, Need for Speed Unbound, the true gems in my opinion are the addition of Tales of Arise, The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Image via PlayStation An RPG-loaded Month Tales of Arise is the latest entry in the Tales series and is an absolute banger of an RPG. Our very own Eric…

The February additions to the PlayStation Plus Premium and Essential were unveiled by Sony on Wednesday morning, and it’s a great batch of games for RPG fans. Thirteen games will hit the service on February 20, many of which come from Bandai Namco Entertainment’s Tales Off series. The most exciting addition for me is The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition, which is the complete version of a fantastic sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment. The Outer Worlds first released for PC, PS4, and Xbox One in October 2019,…

Super Mario RPG: Legend Of The Seven Stars is one of my favorite games of all time. I've played it once a year for over a decade, and as such I am very familiar with this offbeat take on the Mario universe. I loved the characters, I loved the battle system--my first foray into turn-based RPGs, in fact--and I loved the idea of expanding on a franchise I'd been visiting since I was three years old. Before SMRPG, the Mushroom Kingdom and its surroundings was a collection of flat worlds where I'd move from…

More than just about any other game studio, Vanillaware is known for its style. At the same time, the developer is constantly shifting between genres. It originally made waves with the side-scrolling action RPG Odin Sphere, and more recently released the sci-fi epic 13 Sentinels, which is part visual novel, part turn-based mech-vs-kaiju combat. Holding all of these disparate ideas together is Vanillaware’s incredible 2D art, along with a clear to desire to experiment.Given how the studio loves to jump around so much, it’s…

Nintendo This month has been an exciting one for fans of old-school Square Enix role-playing games, as two of its classic RPGs got impressive remakes. On November 2, Gemdrops and Square Enix’s Star Ocean: The Second Story R gave the PS1 cult classic the HD-2D treatment, while ArtePiazza and Nintendo’s remake of Square’s SNES classic Super Mario RPG dropped on November 17. As both games have rarely been rereleased, it’s great to see each getting the drastic modern visual overhauls they deserved. These are far from the…