JRPG

Watch out Secret of Mana. Secrets of Grindea is coming for you

There are certain things you just expect from your classic 16-bit action-JRPGs. These include grinding and secrets and battling giant transparent-green Jell-o molds, all of which Secrets of Grindea delivers in spades.  But when your classic 16-bit action-JRPG is coming from a team of Swedes twenty y

This winsome RPG has Earthbound written all over it

You can get a distinctive whiff of Earthbound-ness in the new trailer for Citizens of Earth, which if you recall is the scent of scratch-and-sniff pizza. The endearing cult JRPG that bombed on Super Nintendo but lives on on Virtual Console and in the collective heart of the Internet hasn’t seen too

Did Squall die in Final Fantasy 8? This blog sure thinks so

When Squall took an ice shard to the chest at the end of the first disc of Final Fantasy 8, you were probably secretly wishing that the most emo dick Square ever created would be blotted from existence. (Uh, 15-year-old spoiler alert?) Apparently some people wanted this so badly that they’ve postula

Square president has epiphany: people outside of Japan like JRPGs

Seems obvious, but apparently not.  In an interview with the Nikkei, translated by the good people at Siliconera, Square president Yosuke Matsuda admits, “We weren’t able to see this clearly up until now, but fans of JRPGs are really spread around the world.”  He seems genuinely baffled at how title