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RPGs Coming This Week, 10/19/25
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Shuffle Tactics
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Random Encounter 333 – Gotta Beat ‘Em All
On this week’s Random Encounter, we are catching ’em all and beating ’em up! When Pokémon Legends: Arceus was released in 2022, it signalled a newer, more experimental type of Pokémon game. Now, Game Freak is back with Pokémon Legends: Z-A, the second entry in the Legends series. With a new real-tim… Read More »- Article
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RPGs Coming This Week, 10/19/25
In this edition of RPGs Coming This Week, spooky season kicks into high gear. From vampires and ghosts to superheroes and fantasy maidens, there’s no shortage of Halloween costume inspos right now. Not for me, though. I’ve mostly been parked in front of the TV playing horror games. I’ve been neck de… Read More »- Review
Shuffle Tactics
From screenshots and gameplay clips alone, Shuffle Tactics looks like an extremely sensible combination of Slay the Spire, Into the Breach, and Final Fantasy Tactics. The endless replayability of roguelite deckbuilding meshed with the added depth of turn-based combat on an isometric grid sounded lik… Read More »- Music Review
Indivisible Original Game Soundtrack PLUS
Very few games have such sweeping soundtracks that offering all of the alternate, prototype, and otherwise unused music seems a sensible option. Think Final Fantasy XIII OST PLUS albums. Now imagine it’s even more thorough, and it’s from Indivisible by Hiroki Kikuta! Indivisible Original Soundtrack… Read More »- Review
Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game
One of my favorite book series growing up was E.W. Hildick’s McGurk mystery novels. Protagonist Jack McGurk and his friends were elementary school-aged detectives who solved kid-level crimes, such as kidnapped dolls or a missing baseball glove. Trifling matters that adults easily dismiss are big dea… Read More »- Article
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Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy Announced for iOS, Android in 2026
Square Enix has announced that the iconic Dissidia franchise will receive a new entry, Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy, set to release for iOS and Android devices sometime in 2026. This time, the story unfolds in modern Tokyo, where legendary Final Fantasy warriors assemble to save the world from des… Read More »- Review
Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree
Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree feels as if playing an anime town builder with Hades-like combat on the side. While enjoying aesthetics, humor, and story beats similar to slice-of-life anime in parts, I find it difficult to know exactly where TGST’s central voice lands. That said, games do… Read More »Feature
Crowdfunding Chronicles: Fallen Fates
If you show me a colorful alien world peppered with strange plants and even stranger rock formations my eyes will immediately grow by three sizes, so when I first discovered today’s game of choice I knew I had to tell you all about it.- Article
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Rhythm Encounter 168 – Dear me, I was… Not Born Yet in 1995
With another quarter come and gone, we reflect on the games and music released in the last three months to showcase some of our favorite discoveries! From new takes on classics, to brand new music IN classics, alongside straight up new games, there have been several notable happenings in RPG music.… Read More »- Article
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RPGs Coming This Week, 10/12/25 [UPDATE]
This week, I fully expect a certain game to dominate everything else in terms of attention, mind share, revenue — name any business metric you can think of. That’s the reality of Pokémon being the juggernaut franchise that it is. But here we try to give every release a fair shake, and try we will ri… Read More »Music Review
SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered Original Soundtrack
After Square Enix shadow dropped SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered earlier this year, I patiently waited for Square Enix Music to publish this new version’s full soundtrack. Why? Well, not for a remastering of the original audio. My excitement was entirely for the ten new tracks, which make up disc four. I… Read More »- Review
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
I’m something of a newcomer to Fire Emblem, having heard of Nintendo’s flagship SRPG series but only discovering its tactical intricacies for myself with Fire Emblem Awakening on the Nintendo 3DS. Since then, I’ve been enamored with the franchise’s more recent titles, but hesitant to try out its ear… Read More »- Article
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Final Fantasy to Get Slew of Physical Releases This Holiday Season
Physical game collectors, rejoice! Square Enix has announced that fan favorite titles Final Fantasy VII, FFVIII Remastered, and FFIX are getting physical releases in North America on Nintendo Switch. The company is also releasing a new bundle of FFVII Remake Intergrade and Rebirth on PlayStation 5.… Read More »- Article
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Mina the Hollower Needs More Time in the Oven
Developer Yacht Club Games has announced that the initially planned October 31st release date of Mina the Hollower will be pushed back to a later date. According to the team, the delay comes due to extra time being needed to polish and balance the game before launch. For now, the developer hasn’t pi… Read More »- Article
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Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault Delayed to November 19th
Publisher 11 bit studios and developer Digital Sun have announced that their upcoming RPG Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault has been delayed from its original early access date of October 23rd to November 19th. Fortunately, they plan to run closed playtests on October 10th via Steam and the Microsoft… Read More »- Review
Absolum
Dotemu, game developer and publisher of some repute, has proven its design acumen with Streets of Rage 4, a game that breathed life into a beloved series thought dead and the beat ’em up genre as a whole. Fast forward to today, and we are staring at what is assuredly another hit: Absolum. While not… Read More »- Article
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Retro Encounter 470 – Star Ocean: The Second Story Part I
The Second Story, but first in our hearts! On this week’s episode of Retro Encounter, we got marooned on an underdeveloped planet called Expel and discussed Tri-Ace’s western debut title Star Ocean: The Second Story. We compared the finer points of the PSX original with Second Evolution and Second S… Read More »- Review
Illusion of Itehari
An illusion is imagery that appears, for all intents and purposes, to be real. But what if, beneath the facade you’ve known your entire life, buried truths could fundamentally reshape and break all that you know and hold dear? Otome visual novel Illusion of Itehari explores its themes in an altogeth… Read More »- Review
Lucy Dreaming
There’s no shyness in Lucy Dreaming regarding its influences. When I’d wake from slumber as a teen in the nineties, my remembered nighttime gaming visions looked like this. Back then, the quality of video game storytelling drove many of us away from action titles and towards more accommodating forms… Read More »- Article
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Random Encounter 332 – Tactical Fantasies
On this week’s Random Encounter, we have a remaster of one of the greatest strategy RPGs of all time! When Final Fantasy Tactics was released on the PSX in 1997, it marked the entry point for countless RPG fans into the world of SRPGs (aka TRPGs), and what an entry point it was. By piggybacking off… Read More »- Article
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RPGs Coming This Week, 10/5/25
In this edition of RPGs Coming This Week, October immediately gets in full swing. From timely spooky and spooky-adjacent games to homages to old titles of times past, this week has seemingly everything you could ever ask for (or realistically play). So let’s dive in! House of Necrosis – October 6th… Read More »- Review
Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless
Disgaea has had a bit of an odd journey as a franchise over the last few years. After the monumental success of Disgaea 5 Complete on Nintendo Switch, developer Nippon Ichi Software made some pretty significant changes to the series with Disgaea 6, much to the chagrin of the series’ fanbase. Perform… Read More »- Article
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The Indie Side of Tokyo Game Show 2025
Tokyo Game Show 2025 has concluded, and a few days out I still find myself sorting through the many goodies I received, photos I took, and notes I wrote. Beyond the pomp and spectacle of giant stage displays and events from companies like SEGA, Capcom, Square Enix, Konami, Level-5, and Koei Tecmo, I… Read More »- Review
Wander Stars
No matter how far apart they become, wandering stars will always seek each other out. Indie RPG Wander Stars tasks players with embarking on their own sci-fi action anime adventure using the power of words to battle opposing forces encountered along the way. A delightful homage to classic anime, man… Read More »- Article
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Stray Children’s Western Release Set for October 30th
After months of working on the localization, developer Onion Games has confirmed that Stray Children will finally be heading west on October 30th, on Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam. The game will be available for $29.99 USD on both platforms. Stray Children first debuted in Japan on December 26th,… Read More »Twitch
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