JRPGs

A screenshot from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 showing Maelle fighting an enemy.

With the caveat he got “really, really, really lucky,” Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director shares classic advice: “You have to make a game that you will like”

Following on from its breakout success, the director of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has shared his ...

Screenshot from Penny Blood, showing a third-person view of a black-dressed protagonist staring up at a red moon, darkened sky, and ominous chapel in the night. There's also a mini-map in the top-right corner.

3 years later, these JRPGs from genre veterans are stuck in purgatory despite raising nearly $2.6 million in a combined Kickstarter campaign

Two JRPGs from some genre veterans still seem to be stuck in purgatory, despite both having ...

Clay figures of the principal characters from Earthbound

“I just want people to be able to enjoy the game”: Earthbound legend Shigesato Itoi is “glad” the SNES JRPG got the English localization changes it did

The Super NES is known for legendary RPGs, and there are few as beloved as Earthbound, ...

Vivi

After Final Fantasy 9 remake hopes were crushed by the Switch 2 Direct, Square Enix reignites the hype with a cryptic post: “If you know, you know”

Final Fantasy 9 remake hopes may have been crushed during the recent Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, ...

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

Danganronpa creator’s new tactical RPG features 100 endings dense enough to be considered “true” routes, with no “easy” or quick bad finale

As the mastermind developers behind games like Danganronpa and Zero Escape prepare to release The Hundred ...

Screenshot from Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster's announcement trailer, showing Agnes looking up in a darkened room.

For a wondrous moment, 2 seconds of Bravely Default’s trailer in the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct had the internet convinced the Final Fantasy 9 Remake was real

There was a moment during the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct where I stopped everything I was ...

Best 3DS games - Bravely Default

With its Nintendo Switch 2 remaster on the horizon, Bravely Default producer hopes “we can carry on this lineage into the future”

Bravely Default is making another comeback, and the series’ producer hopes the team can continue making ...

Final Fantasy 7 Remake screenshot showing Aerith staring ahead, a concerned expression on the young woman's face

Final Fantasy 7 Remake is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 and its sequels might too, as Square Enix says to “look forward to the continued development” of the JRPG series

The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct finally arrived, and with it came a first look at what’s ...

A screenshot from Metaphor: ReFantazio of Strohl's awakening scene.

Metaphor: ReFantazio had to dial back an early battle system inspired by a notoriously brutal 2003 JRPG, because 20 years later, players found it “irrational” and “just not fun”

Metaphor: ReFantazio originally had a much more brutal battle system that took notes from the notoriously ...

Lunar Remastered Collection

“Should JRPGs be considered a distinct genre?”: Lunar icon Kei Shigema reflects on the genre with new remasters on the way and how RPGs have changed 33 years later

Lunar Remastered Collection lands in April, finally releasing two beloved JRPGs from the jail of the ...

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom screenshot showing Princess Zelda with tied-back blonde hair and emerald green eyes, wielding a sword before her face

Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s Aerith actor is throwing her hat into the ring for the Legend of Zelda movie: “I just wanna audition for Zelda so bad”

The upcoming live-action Legend of Zelda movie finally has a release date, and fans are now ...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

It’s not just your favorite JRPGs, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes notes from Studio Ghibli movies like Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle too

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a modern take on the classic JRPG formula that takes inspiration ...

Metaphor: ReFantazio director wants to turn it into "Atlus' third RPG series after Shin Megami Tensei and Persona"

The lead UI designer on Metaphor: ReFantazio had never designed for a game before – he just rolled up and made some of the best UI I’ve ever seen in a JRPG

Koji Ise, lead UI designer on hit 2024 JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, joined Atlus in 2018 after ...

Screenshot from Raidou Remastered, showing main man Raidou in his detective uniform.

Shin Megami Tensei’s overlooked action spin-off is coming back this summer after almost 20 years, and the OG JRPG’s director hopes “things don’t end here”

Atlus is remastering another Shin Megami Tensei spin-off, and it’s set to land later this summer. ...

Somehow this keeps happening: Another game with a Persona 5 collab is going under, and this time it's JRPG comrade War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

Somehow this keeps happening: Another game with a Persona 5 collab is going under, and this time it’s JRPG comrade War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

I’m not normally a very superstitious man, but it seems that Persona 5 is cursed. A ...

Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail

Final Fantasy 14 patch makes an effort to combat mods that can enable harassment, but players report it’s “very easy” to reverse newly hidden account IDs

Final Fantasy 14‘s latest patch was supposed to make an adjustment to the MMORPG to help ...