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Monsters, led by the demon lord Tanzra, are terrorizing the world, and you, the Master, must put an end to this. However, Tanzra has also sealed your powers, and to regain them, you must unseal the...
Shortly after Final Fantasy VII made its splash on the Playstation, Matrix Software, a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment, developed Alundra, which many proclaimed to be a Zelda killer and...
I’ll admit it: I’m not a very huge fan of tactical RPGs; most of the biggest letdowns I’ve played have in fact been of the subgenre. Even supposedly-good tactical RPGs such as Final Fantasy...
A girl named Kukuru, a member of the Sacred Clan in the nation of Seirya, is sent by the mayor of her village to extinguish the Flame Cion, consequently unleashing a monster. Meanwhile, a young...
With the dawn of the Sony Playstation came Arc the Lad, one of the very first RPGs released for the system in Japan back in 1995, with its sequel following the next year and the third installment...
Elc is a young hunter who dreams about his past, where his family and tribe were massacred by soldiers attempting to take the Fire Guardian. He soon becomes involved in a larger chain of events,...
Alec is a boy who dreams of becoming a Hunter after being rescued by one when he was much younger during an incident known as the Great Disaster, which ravaged much of the world. Thus, he sets off...
For a long time, humans and beings known as Deimos have loathed one another and battled over a precious resource, Spirit Stones. A human, Kharg, ambitions to destroy the Deimos, while one of the...
Being the most fruitful contributor to RPGamer’s Points of View section, it’s only fitting that I write an editorial expressing my views on RPG and game reviewing as a whole, given the number...
The inhabitants of a floating world have long dreamed of a legendary utopia, Metafalica, created by singing a Song in the Hymnos language. They tried to sing this Song several times, though every...
The world of Sol Ciel consists of a floating continent known as the Wings of Horus and a tower known as Ar tonelico. Near the top of the tower lies the city of Platina, home to the Apostles of...
For several centuries, the floating continent of Eden has been a peaceful paradise for humans and Mana Spirits. However, several parts of Eden have begun disappearing, and a boy named Felt parts...
In the world of Regallzine, a select few individuals, with the help of Mana, can harness the power of alchemy, with Klein, a fledgling alchemist, seeking to master the ancient art. A fateful...
Long ago, a cataclysmic battle raged between the Beings of Light and the Warlocks of the Underworld, although both sides ultimately came to a truce, with the former agreeing to stay on the surface...
A hero lives peacefully in a town inhabited by descendants of the White Dragon Clan, which survivors of the Dark Dragon Clan invade. The hero’s sister, Sara, fights to protect the town, but is...
Ecological disaster has forced the human race far underground, where they gradually rebuilt their civilization in the depths of the earth. While on patrol, a security guard named Ryu and his friend...
A boy from Gate Village has a vision of a horrifying demon, with his family disappearing and all memory of them being erased after an inexplicable event. He befriends a fellow orphan named Bow,...
In a chrysm mine in a far corner of the world, powerful minerals are being harvested from the remains of dragons known as the Brood. When a large deposit is cracked open by dynamite, a baby dragon...
Nina, Princess of Wyndia, along with her companion Cray, is searching for her lost sister Elina, who has gone missing for several weeks during a diplomatic mission, when they stumble upon a crater...
The year is 2035 in Japan, and crowds are anticipating the first solar eclipse of the century. An exchange student named Soma Cruz and his friend Mina Hakuba visit the Hakuba Shrine to witness the...
In the year 1830 in an antiquated Austrian castle, a woman named Camilla performs a ritual to resurrect her lord, Count Dracula, with a vampire hunter named Morris Baldwin and his apprentices, his...
A year has passed since Soma Cruz battled the forces of darkness at Dracula’s castle, which appeared during a solar eclipse in 2035. Now a cult wishes to release the powers within Soma, who must...
Fifty years after Simon Belmont vanquishes Dracula, one of his descendants, Juste Belmont, is hunting the Count’s lost relics, when Maxim, a family friend, informs him that Lydie, a childhood...
After his first battle with Count Dracula, Simon Belmont has received a terrible curse, and must gather his parts to battle him again in order to rid himself of the curse. Castlevania II: Simon’s...
Every time Count Dracula arose to threaten the world, a member of the Belmont Clan defeated him with the Holy Whip, although in the mid-1800s, the Belmont Clan vanished, and several organizations...
During World War II, two friends, vampire hunter Jonathan Morris and magician Charlotte Aulin, venture to Dracula’s castle to stop a vampire named Brauner, who uses mystical paintings to open...
Konami’s Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, released on both the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation, is the direct sequel to the Japan-only game Dracula X: Rondo of Blood. Although Castlevania II:...
Ever since Secret of Mana appeared on the Super NES over a decade ago, Squaresoft’s Seiken Densetsu franchise, before Kingdom Hearts the company’s flagship action RPG series, has developed a...
Serge, a resident of the tropical archipelago El Nido, one day stumbles upon a parallel world in which he died as a child, also encountering Kid, leader of a group of thieves known as the Radical...
In the year 1,000 A.D., a boy named Crono awakens, anticipating the Millennial Fair where his friend, Lucca, is showing off a new invention. At the fair, Crono bumps into a girl named Marle,...
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Shortly before the 16-bit era of console gaming got underway back in 1990, SNK, a company known primarily for its arcade games, made what I believe was its first attempt at an action RPG, God...
A group of militants from an eastern continent revives an ancient evil known as the Dark Genie, which their leader wishes to use for world conquest. The Dark Genie first attacks Norune Village,...
Before the Playstation 2, Level-5 wasn’t a household name when it came to RPGs, only starting to come into the spotlight when they produced Dark Cloud, one of the first titles for the system....
During the Taisho Era, the people of Japan’s Capital take obsession in various fads, among them being luck, with the people finding a great disparity between those with infinite good fortune and...
It is the year 20 of the Taisho Era in Japan (equivalent to the Gregorian year 1931), and you pass a series of trials that earns you the title of Raidou Kuzunoha the 14th, making you part of a long...
Fifteen years ago, an Overlord named Zenon appeared in the world of Veldime and transformed its inhabitants into demons, although a young man named Adell escaped this curse, and wishes to defeat...
King Krichevskoy, Overlord of the Netherworld, has died. However, his son, Prince Laharl, has been sleeping for two years for mysterious reasons, during which chaos has erupted in the Netherworld....
In the not-too-distant future, The World is a popular MMORPG developed by the CC Corporation. You control a character named Kite, and, along with your friend’s character Orca, explore an in-game...
Bandai’s .hack series for the Playstation 2, based on the Dot Hack Sign anime, provided gamers the experience of an MMORPG without the need of an Internet connection for their game consoles,...
In 2003, Bandai began to bring the .hack games to North America, starting with Infection and continuing with Mutation, with data transfer allowable between games. August that year saw the North...
After about a year of being unfolded, Bandai’s .hack series for the Playstation 2 reached its conclusion with Dot Hack Quarantine, which saw its release in North America at the beginning of 2004....
A mob of monsters known as the Plob has kidnapped all hundred residents of Boingburg, capital of Slimenia. Only a slime named Rocket has managed to escape the massive heist, and it’s his duty to...
Before the merger of Squaresoft and Enix, the latter’s Dragon Quest franchise didn’t exactly have the best of luck outside Japan: when the company announced a remake of the fourth installment...
The Green Bays, a chain of mysterious islands, are home to the famous Monster Scout Challenge, held once every few years. Here, Warden Trump, the leader of CELL, sends his son to infiltrate the...
A man named Papas awaits the birth of his son, after which something mysterious happens to his wife. Years later, Papas travels with his son across the world in search of something. Dragon Quest V...
For about a decade, Enix’s Dragon Quest franchise was largely shunned in North America, with the temporary closure of the company’s American branch not helping matters. However, after the...
A hero and his companions venture to the castle of an evil lord named Mudo, only to mysteriously disappear and separate. The hero soon awakens in his hometown and performs a few tasks for his...
An evil jester named Dhoulmagus steals a magic scepter in Trodain Castle, transforming all its inhabitants into plants and morphing the King and Princess into a troll and a horse respectively. A...
A warrior in training named Alex, from the village of Rysis, relishes every minute he spends with his girlfriend, Katarina. One evening, Alex gives her a pendant passed down through his family for...
The wicked DracoLord has stolen the Light Orb from Tantagel Castle and kidnapped Princess Lora. A descendant of the legendary hero Loto arrives and receives the task of defeating DracoLord,...
The forces of Hargon have destroyed the Kingdom of Moonbrook, with a surviving soldier conveying the news to the Kingdom of Lorasia, whose Prince thus embarks on a quest to find his cousins,...
Shortly after the birth of his child, the hero Ortega of Aliahan receives the duty of defeating the demon lord Baramos, who threatens the world. During his quest, however, Ortega falls into a...
Enix originally released the first two installments of its Dragon Quest series, very popular in Japan, on the Famicom, but would, years later, remake both games together on the Super Famicom,...
While Enix’s Dragon Quest series was a cultural phenomenon in Japan, given the popularity of its creators, it would never gain the same level of success in America. Dragon Quest IV for the NES,...
A boy named Terry and his sister Milayou are about to call it a night until a monster from another world kidnaps Milayou, with Terry following along to rescue her, finding himself in a kingdom in a...
Two siblings, Cobi and Tara, travel to an island that’s in danger of sinking. Beneath the surface of the island lies a pair of doors that, with the help of Magic Keys, leads to other worlds,...
Estard is the only island in the world, where a fisherman’s son occasionally explores mysterious ruins with his friend Prince Kiefer. One day, the two finally uncover the mystery of the ruins...
The Super NES era during the first half of the 1990s was perhaps a golden age for Nintendo, with the system having received many masterpieces of various genres. Even in its early days, the system...
In 2002, Matrix Software, the same company that created Alundra, which many of its fans consider a Zelda-killer, developed its first RPG for the Playstation 2, Dual Hearts, published in Japan by...
In the year 199X, a boy named Ness is awakened by a meteor crashing near his home, where he finds a fly from the future, Buzz Buzz, who tells him that an evil being named Giygas has taken over the...
The town of Etria sits on the edge of a deep maze known as the Yggdrasil Labyrinth, which many adventurers have attempted to explore, although few have survived. One day, you arrive at the town,...
In the Grand Duchy of High Lagaard, the legendary tree Yggdrasil watches over its central city, Lagaard, with its branches reaching into the sky, forming a path to a floating castle. Recently, a...
Four Light Warriors, each with a darkened Crystal, arrive at Cornelia, whose princess, Sara, has recently been kidnapped by a knight named Garland. After they save the princess, the warriors set...
A young gladiator is forced to fight for Dark Lord’s personal entertainment, yet one day escapes, overhearing him conspire with a mysterious wizard named Julius to seize the power of Mana and...
Several years ago, Square, for some reason, decided to remake the first two installments of their Final Fantasy franchise on Bandai’s ill-fated Japan-only handheld system, the Wonderswan Color,...
The emperor of Palamecia has called forth monsters from the underworld to begin his campaign for world conquest, and a rebel army from the kingdom of Fynn has arisen to thwart his plans. Though the...
An orphan named Luneth has fallen deep into a cavern, which he explores, trying to find his way out. Near the end, he finds a large crystal, whose spirit tells him he is a Warrior of Light,...
When Square-Enix announced that they were remaking the fourth Final Fantasy for the Nintendo DS, one thought came to many gamers’ minds: were they insane? After all, they had just ported the...
Cecil, a Dark Knight from the Kingdom of Baron, loyally serves his king and becomes commander of the Red Wings. However, when the king orders him to steal a crystal from the town of Mysidia, Cecil...
Princess Garnet of Alexandria is celebrating her sixteenth birthday, with the Tantalus Theater Troupe arriving to put on a show, during which they kidnap her, sparking a long chain of events where...
In 1989, Square, having made decent headway into the gaming industry with their fabled Final Fantasy series, decided to produce a different kind of RPG entitled Makaitoushi SaGa for the Gameboy,...
A little before Christmas in 1990, Square released the second installment of its critically-mixed SaGa series, which came to America roughly a year later as Final Fantasy Legend II. Like its...
An Entity is flooding the past, present, and future, and four children, each with special powers, are humanity’s only hope, traveling through time and space to discover whence this Entity came...
After the release of Final Fantasy IV in both Japan and America, Square decided to make another Final Fantasy, especially targeted towards U.S. audiences, entitled Final Fantasy Mystic Quest,...
To come down on this game like a professional wrestler was nothing short of tempting; after all, this reviewer had horrible adolescent memories with it, chiefly pounding his Playstation after a...
Towards the end of the 16-bit era, Square and Nintendo’s relationship dwindled significantly, with the former company emphasizing development for the rising Sony Playstation, giving it such...
The world’s wind currents are dying, and four travelers find their way to the Wind Shrine, where the King of Tycoon tells them that they are chosen warriors who must protect the world’s four...
A millennium ago, the War of the Magi reduced the world to ashes, and magic disappeared from the world. Since then, iron, gunpowder, and steam engines have been rediscovered, and high technology...
The eco-terrorist organization AVALANCHE is in conflict with the Shinra Corporation, which is draining the world’s lifeforce with its Mako energy plants. Among its members is Cloud Strife, a...
Squall Leonhart is a student of a military school, the Balamb Garden, who becomes a member of an elite mercenary force, SeeD, after helping halt the invasion of the Dollet Dukedom by Galbadia....
Zanarkand is a massive city home to Tidus, star player of its most popular sport, Blitzball. As he plays a game one night, a mysterious beast known as Sin invades the city and sends Tidus to a land...
In 2002, Squaresoft shocked the gaming world by announcing they would be developing the very first true sequel to a Final Fantasy game, with all previous installments having had no connection...
The Archadian Empire has begun a campaign to seize its neighbors, among them being the small kingdom of Dalmasca. Two years after its fall, the people of Rabanastre, once capital of Dalmasca, await...
A year has passed since the events of Final Fantasy XII, and Vaan is now a sky pirate with his best friend Penelo as his navigator. After stumbling upon the legendary floating continent of...
The Fire Emblem series, developed by Intelligent Systems, has long been Nintendo’s flagship tactical RPG franchise, with most of its installments remaining in Japan until the Gameboy Advance era,...
While RPGs have advanced considerably since the 8-bit era, many contemporary titles insist on continuing archaic traditions that can in some instances needlessly burden the player and waste their...
Given the flurry of tactical RPGs that had come out in 2003, it was perhaps unsurprising that LucasArts, a company with no experience in the genre, would attempt to ride the tide to glory and...
In the land of Weyard, the force of Alchemy allowed for the development of great civilizations, although this gave way to worldwide conflict that ultimately led to Alchemy being sealed away. The...
Golden Sun on the Gameboy Advance was reasonably well-received in Japan and North America, so it was only natural that its developer, Camelot Software Planning, produced a sequel, Golden Sun: The...
Justin is a young boy who dreams one day of going on a grand adventure like his father, and loves to embark on pretend-quests in his hometown. One day, however, after a scavenger hunt, he decides...
An arrogant Geohound named Ryudo performs random jobs for a living, until a request from a priestess named Elena takes him across the world, where he and other allies ultimately come into conflict...
Because of his elemental abilities, the Nortis Army has drafted Evann, a Ranger, to help neutralize the Elemental Disorder, a series of ecological disasters ravaging the land. However, Evann has...
In its final years of operation, Working Designs rose to notoriety by openly clashing with Sony over their desire to localize certain titles Sony’s American branch deemed technically unfit to...
North America got its first taste of Atlus’s Growlanser franchise thanks to Working Designs’ Growlanser Generations, despite the very first installment remaining absent from U.S. shores. The...
In a world where the sun’s power is fading and the land is dying, an amnesiac warrior named Slayn Wilder finds himself working for the Xironia Federation, whose president seeks to stop a war over...
Wein Cruz is a young man who aspires to be a knight for the Kingdom of Burnstein. However, tensions have recently risen with the neighboring Kingdom of Rolandia, while darker powers are at work...
Thanks to the likes of Final Fantasy VII, the original Playstation had pretty much started to become a powerhouse of RPGs, and countless developers naturally flocked to the system to make their own...
Since many RPGs originate in Japan, they typically have to endure localization, long or short, easy or hard, with a main concern being the adaptation of the names of various characters, places,...
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In 2001, Square announced the unthinkable: that they would be jointly producing an RPG with Disney. Many hailed this union; after all, this was a union of Square, maker of many superb RPGs, and...
For fans of Square and Disney’s well-revered crossover RPG Kingdom Hearts, the long wait for its sequel has been nothing short of agonizing. When word of the Playstation 2 sequel first came out,...
Given the surprise success of Square and Disney’s joint RPG Kingdom Hearts, it was only natural for them to begin work on a sequel, with an intermediary between the first and second games, Chain...
Square/Square-Enix, during the Playstation 2 era, developed a nasty habit of releasing enhanced special editions of high-profile releases such as Final Fantasy XII but then keeping them in Japan,...
On October 31, 1899, three investigators visit Nemeton Monastery in the countryside of Wales: Koudelka Iasant, a girl with supernatural powers; Edward Plunkett, an adventurer; and James O'Flaherty,...
Prier and Culotte are orphaned siblings belonging to the demon-hunting squad La Pucelle. An investigation of ruins near their town ultimately turns into a long clash with a rival church and its...
Mystics are humans, typically treated like outcasts, who can summon spirits within them known as Origins. Among these Mystics is Lang, adopted by the militia leader of the village of Nohl, who...
Since the dawn of history, humans have lived together with creatures known as the Seru, greatly advancing their civilization and making them stronger. However, out of nowhere comes a Mist that...
Many gamers considered Secret of Mana, when it came out on the Super NES over a decade ago, one of the greatest action RPGs of all time. Its sequel, Seiken Densetsu 3, unfortunately wouldn’t see...
For ten millennia, a Raigan named Farus has slept in suspended animation, until one day awakened to bring about the Great Union in the dark world of Andel by collecting four artifacts; little does...
Without warning, a floating continent appeared in the sky that four wicked beings seized, terrorizing the people in the world below and becoming known as the Sinistrals. In response, the people of...
During the Super NES era, Taito attempted to break into the RPG genre with Lufia & the Fortress of Doom, which, despite its flaws, managed to develop a decent following, with some hailing it as...
After Lunar: The Silver Star, originally for the Sega CD, got its remake on the Sony Playstation, it was only fitting that its one and only sequel, Eternal Blue, get its own PSX reincarnation....
In 1992, Game Arts’ Lunar: The Silver Star saw its release in both Japan and America, among the company’s very first titles, and one of the bestselling games on the Sega CD. In 1994, they...
The release of Konami’s Bokura no Taiyou (Boktai) in Japan and North America caused mixed reactions in the gaming world: some hailed the unique sun-sensing gameplay mechanism, while others...
While the series is apparently dead nowadays, the two installments of Game Arts’ Lunar franchise received remakes years after their original debuts on the Sega CD over a decade ago. The first...
Early in the 1990s, at the height of the 16-bit console wars between the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, a company called Game Arts was born. Around the time of this new company’s arrival, Sega...
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An Overlord named Zetta wishes to prevent the destruction of his world as predicted by Pram the Oracle. After discovering the Sacred Tome, he finds a passage saying his own stupidity would be the...
Al-Revis Academy, known for producing some of the greatest alchemists in the world, has experienced a decline in quality teachers. There has also been a decline in the power of Mana throughout the...
Vayne Aurelius is a boy with little memory of his past or family who lives alone with his cat, Sulpher. One day, he is invited to attend the Al-Revis Academy, specializing in alchemy, by one of its...
Ever since Nintendo joined with Squaresoft to produce Super Mario RPG towards the end of the Super NES era, the Big N has gone solo in producing RPGs starting their trademark plumber, with Paper...
2004 was a somewhat busy year for franchise-based RPGs: Lord of the Rings received a much-hyped RPG across all consoles, as did the X-Men. Capcom also joined the fray with Mega Man X Command...
An ancient prophecy holds that several disasters will ravage the world, and that the survivors will become kings. The destruction of the Valentine Kingdom falls in accordance with this prophecy,...
Demons known as Genma are terrorizing Japan, led by Oda Nobunaga, and a warrior, Onimaru, and his sister, Oboro, must gather warriors to stop them, with the former gaining control of a relic called...
Thirteen years ago, a strange disaster befell the world of Lennus, killing many inhabitants, and upon the ruins of a great city, a school of magic was built, which an aspiring spiritualist named...
Christmas Eve, 1997. Aya Brea, a rookie in the New York Police Department, attends an opera with her boyfriend, during which everyone in the building spontaneously combusts, except Aya, her date,...
Nearly three years have passed since Aya Brea’s encounter with mutated beings in New York City, with Aya now working for the FBI’s MIST (Mitochondrial Investigation and Suppression Team)...
Pause to Reflect: RPGs, Pausing, and the Lack of Thereof
As much as many of us enjoy games of various genres we will at some point or another experience interruptions in our hobby. The convenience...
A group of students at St. Hermelin High School in Lunarvale play a game called Persona, during which they become unconscious, encountering a mysterious man named Philemon who gives them the...
In Japan, Maya, the editor of a teen magazine, becomes involved in a series of murders committed by a killer known as the Joker. While covering an assignment at Seven Sisters High School, a new...
Enhanced re-releases and director’s cuts of games have become somewhat common among RPGs as of late, with the latter, given the tedium and expense of localization, typically not seeing the light...
A boy is sent to live with his uncle in the Japanese town of Inaba, where two murders happen during foggy nights. The boy and his new friends soon discover the Midnight Channel, a world on the...
The forces of Lassic have killed Nero, brother of Alis, who is told to seek out a warrior named Odin in her quest for vengeance. Alis’s journey will take her across several planets, where she...
Ever since Phantasy Star IV appeared on the Sega Genesis over a decade ago, the RPG franchise took a new direction towards online action-oriented gameplay, leaving gamers to wonder if there would...
The desert planet Mota has been transformed into a thriving, flora-laden planet thanks to a computer named Mother Brain. In the planet’s capital, Paseo, an agent named Rolf is tormented by...
Rhys, Prince of Landen, is about to marry his love, Maia, whom he found lying on a beach a few years before, with no memory of her past. However, during the ceremony, a dragon kidnaps Maia, with...
The Algo Solar System was once home to a brilliant civilization, where art and science flourished, until disaster struck: Mother Brain, a system-wide management system, was destroyed, along with...
On an island in the world of Ivoire lives an orphaned thirteen-year-old girl named Marona, who has the special ability to communicate with phantoms such as Ash, who when alive worked with...
Ever since its conception during the previous decade, Nintendo’s Pokémon franchise has captivated gamers worldwide with its addictive gameplay chiefly centering on capturing every kind of its...
History has brought with it many great combinations: Adam and Eve, Romulus and Remus, Romeo and Juliet, peanut butter and jelly, Beavis and Butt-head, and so forth. The year 2007 brought with it...
In 2002, developer tri-Ace announced the production of a “mystery RPG” that remained under secrecy for a few years. Over two years later, they finally revealed the game as Radiata Stories,...
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Once upon a time, there was a company known as Nippon Ichi. Long before they splashed onto American shores with the unusual tactical RPG Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, they produced a trilogy of...
In 2002, Japanese developer Sting produced an RPG for Bandai’s Wonderswan Color entitled Yakusoku no Chi: Riviera, which saw two years later a port for the Gameboy Advance, and the next year,...
Jaster Rogue is a boy on the planet Rosa who dreams one day of exploring the galaxy. One day, a band of space pirates recruits him, mistaking him for a legendary hunter named Desert Claw, and takes...
SaGa has always been the dark horse of Square’s RPG family, given the franchise’s anything-but-conventional gameplay mechanisms. While the first three installments came outside Japan under the...
When Squaresoft’s SaGa Frontier reached American shores in 1998, it didn’t exactly receive the best of ovation, what with its queer, complicated mechanisms. Nonetheless, the game did develop a...
Once upon a time, Nintendo was in talks with Sony to develop a CD-based add-on for the Super NES, although said talks were ultimately for naught, and Nintendo stuck with cartridges for its systems...
In ancient times, the Mana Goddess defeated the eight God-Beasts with the Sword of Mana, trapping them in eight stones across the world. However, some have sought the power of the stones, heralding...
In 1913, a man calling himself Roger Bacon kills a French priest, whose daughter, Alice Elliot, flees to Asia to escape her father’s murderer. However, Bacon still pursues her, finding a train in...
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated by Slavic anarchists, beginning the First World War. As the war begins, the Imperial German Army sends one...
New York City, 1929: Johnny Garland, a teenage gumshoe who lost his memories and family in a car accident a few years ago, is hired to capture an escaped convict. When Johnny finds him, though, a...
Ages ago, Light and Darkness fought for control of the world, with the Light led by the Ancients and the Darkness led by the Dark Dragon. The Ancients defeated the Dark Dragon, who vowed to return...
Sega’s Shining Force for the Genesis was one of the first tactical RPGs released in North America, which they would follow up with a pair of gaiden titles for the Game Gear, although only the...
A storm is gathering over the Kingdom of Granseal, and a thief steals a pair of jewels from ancient ruins, unknowingly releasing an ancient evil, as well as several disasters, across the land of...
Ages ago, Light fought Darkness for control of the world, with the Dark Dragon leading the forces of Darkness, and the Ancients leading the forces of Light. The Ancients defeated the Dark Dragon,...
In the Kingdom of Thornwood, the knight Sir Mortred and Princess Jessa are visiting the Queen’s Shrine, only to vanish mysteriously. Shining in the Darkness follows the quest by Sir Mortred’s...
A high school student is looking for his cousin with his friends Atsuro and Yuzu in the streets of Tokyo, although he never appears. The only thing hinting at his disappearance is his portable...
In a mysterious, dreary city known as the Junkyard, rival tribes are battling one another for the right to ascend to Nirvana. After a mysterious light appears, however, many in the Junkyard begin...
The mind is its own place, and it itself can make Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
-John Milton, Paradise Lost
A vagrant is wandering the streets of a deserted city, where the people have turned...
A Japanese high school student pays a visit to a hospital to see his sick teacher, only to find the place deserted. The student does ultimately find his teacher, only to witness a disaster called...
Shortly after a teenager who was orphaned as a young boy transfers to Gekkoukan High School, he is attacked by Shadows, though this assault awakens his Persona, Orpheus, his only chance at...
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In the world of Arcadia, people live on floating islands and travel the world via airship. Air pirates and the Valuan Empire rule the skies, with Vyse and Aika of the Blue Rogues attacking a Valuan...
Although Americans never got the Dragon Quest games that appeared on the Super Famicom, they did get a few other RPGs for the system developed by Enix studio Quintet. Among these were the first two...
The Rezonian race has unleashed a biological weapon on the planet Roak, gradually petrifying its population. Captain Ronixis J. Kenny and one of his assistants, Iria Silvestoli, set out to...
Claude Kenni, son of Ronixis Kenni, is exploring a mysterious planet with his father and fellow cadets, where he encounters a device that takes him to an underdeveloped planet, Expel, where he...
The Star Ocean series, developed by tri-Ace, began as one of the final RPGs on the Super Famicom back in 1996, eventually extending to a sequel, The Second Story, on the Playstation, and a gaiden,...
The world of Solum is being devoured by the Miasma, a mist that destroys all life it touches, with several factions responding differently. The Aeque Church believes the Miasma is God’s will to...
The son of General Teo McDohl of the Scarlet Moon Empire has come under service of his homeland, and at first works loyally until he witnesses firsthand its increasing corruption, which soon lands...
The son of Genkaku and his best friend Jowy serve in the Unicorn Brigade of the Kingdom of Highland. One night, power-hungry Prince Luca Blight leads a massacre of the Brigade and blames it on the...
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
-William Blake, “Jerusalem”
Hugo, son of a Karayan chieftain;...
The Rune of Punishment, one of the 27 True Runes, has traveled across the Island Nations, finding hosts who can use its powerful yet parasitic force, before ultimately turning to them ash, after...
The Suikoden series, lately, has come under fire by reason of growing gamer and critic dissatisfaction with the franchise’s offerings. Thus, the announcement that Konami was producing a tactical...
The Suikoden series, in the past few years, has developed something of an unpleasable fanbase, what with polarized reaction to the third installment and even more mixed reception of the fourth...
Ever since it hit the Playstation 2, Konami’s Suikoden series has met with growing dissatisfaction among its fanbase, especially after the fourth installment, which provoked many to bemoan that...
After Secret of Mana, the Seiken Densetsu (or just Mana) series went into something of a slump, with Legend of Mana in particular evoking mixed reaction from the gaming world, receiving praise for...
A country boy, Stahn Aileron, has hitched a ride on an airship, the Draconis, but is soon discovered as a stowaway. When monsters attack the vessel, he stumbles upon a Swordian, a talking sword,...
Eternia is a world consisting of two planets: Inferia and Celestia, which are separated by a forcefield known as the Orbus Barrier. A girl from Celestia named Meredy travels by spaceship to...
A boy named Senel Coolidge is sailing through turbulent waters with his sister, Shirley, escaping enemies, when they encounter a giant island that seems to appear out of nowhere; the island is...
Two friends, Cless Alvein and Chester Barklight, go hunting in the woods one day, during which villains raze their hometown for want of a pendant Cless’s father gave him for his birthday. Cless...
Sylvarant is a dying world, where a prophecy speaks of a Chosen who will revitalize the planet. A boy named Lloyd Irving and his companions will embark on a journey to help the Chosen, Colette,...
Ever since the Malkuth Empire kidnapped him as a child, Luke fon Fabre, son of a Duke and nephew of the King of Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, has remained confined to his manor, having little memory of his...
King Lemele has summoned seven warriors to his castle to help him search for seven runes scattered throughout the world of Ticondera; the one who holds them all is said to gain unimaginable power,...
Outside a town lies the Woods of Mist, a foreboding place obscured by thick fog; one day, the mist suddenly parts, and an enormous tower rises from the ground: the Dark Spire. The Archmage Tyrhung,...
A warrior named Dart has been pursing the Black Monster, which destroyed the town of his birth, Neet, for five years, after which he returns, unsuccessful in his search, to his current hometown,...
Years ago, Gannon, the Prince of Darkness, stole the Triforce of Power. Princess Zelda bears one of the artifact’s counterparts, the Triforce of Wisdom, and divides it into eight pieces to hide...
In the land of Hyrule, legends tell of a Golden Power in a place known as the Golden Land, which many aggressively sought to enter, only to never return. One day, evil power began to flow from the...
After Link saves Hyrule from Ganon, he sails across the seas to face further threats, although a storm destroys his vessel, after which he awakens on Koholint Island. There, he is taken to the...
A young Link rides his horse, Epona, through the Lost Woods after his time-traveling adventures in Hyrule thanks to Princess Zelda’s Ocarina of Time, in search of an old friend. There, he...
In the land of Hyrule lies Kokiri Forest, populated by children with fairy companions. Among them is Link, a boy who ironically doesn’t have a fairy, until one named Navi joins him, helping him...
The Triforce calls out to Link, and he is transported to a forest in the land of Labrynna, where he rescues Princess Zelda’s nurse, Impa, and helps her find Nayru, the Oracle of Ages. However,...
The Triforce calls out to Link within Hyrule Castle, transporting him to a forest where he meets a traveling group led by Din, the Oracle of Seasons. Din is quickly kidnapped by Onox, General of...
Link and a pirate leader named Tetra are sailing along the vast blue ocean, when they encounter a mysterious ghost ship. After Tetra boards the ship, she screams for help, with Link attempting to...
In Shibuya, Tokyo, an antisocial teenager named Neku Sakuraba finds himself at an intersection full of people, alone and unaware of how he got there. Then he receives a message: “Clear this...
In 1998, Red Entertainment, responsible for Sega’s Sakura Taisen series, developed the unique RPG Thousand Arms, featuring a strong dating aspect. The next year, Atlus localized it, making it the...
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The terrorist group Muellenkamp has seized the Duke of Bardorba’s mansion and killed several innocents, with its leader mysteriously disappearing afterward. Although the Duke is away at the time,...
Ragnarok, the apocalypse, is drawing near. Odin, King of the Gods, sends Lenneth Valkyrie to Midgard to gather the souls of deceased warrior, Einherjar, to train and send to Asgard to turn the...
For treason against Asgard, Odin the All-Father has banished Silmeria, one of his Valkyries, to Midgard to live as a human; however, something went wrong during her transmutation, and she finds...
About a year after Konami released Suikoden, the company’s first foray into the RPG genre, they made their first attempt at a tactical RPG, Vandal Hearts, which saw its American release only a...
Prince Sandor of Lorath is about to marry his beloved, Lady Elin, when invaders from the Danek Empire, with the help of mechanized technology, storm the kingdom and kidnap Elin. Sandor will soon...
There is a slight tendency of RPGs and games from other genres to take players for complete idiots in various forms, be it saying things that are painfully obvious, bombarding them with information...
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Three Dream Chasers, a mysterious young boy named Rudy with the ability to operate powerful weapons known as ARMs (Ancient Relic Machines), a treasure hunter named Jack, and a princess named...
A terrorist organization known as Odessa is trying to conquer the world, and in response, a counterterrorist group known as ARMS (Agile Remote Mission Squad) is formed to combat them, with three...
One night on a train, four drifters named Virginia, Clive, Jet, and Gallows cross paths while seeking an artifact, the Ark Scepter. All ultimately join forces to discover the reason why their...
Jude Maverick is a young teenager who lives in the village of Ciel, living peacefully until cataclysmic events separate him from his home, landing him in the world of Filgaia, which he, and several...
A boy named Dean Stark dreams of one day leaving his hometown to become a Golem Hunter like his idol Nightburn. While exploring mountains, Dean and his best friend Rebecca Streisand see a Golem’s...
Remakes of RPGs have become fairly common in recent years, with prominent titles such as those in the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest franchises receiving graphical and musical upgrades alongside...
Fei Fong Wong lives in the peaceful village of Lahan, with no memory of his past, although his town becomes the battleground of a conflict between the nations of Aveh and Kislev, leading him on a...
Ever since the ending credits of Xenogears proclaimed it to be the fifth episode of a larger saga, fans have eagerly awaited a prequel. Early in 2001, Namco’s subsidiary Monolith Soft, formed by...
Though Monolithsoft originally intended its Xenosaga series to span six games, lackluster sales made this possibility ambiguous. Thus, it came as little surprise when they announced that Xenosaga...
In 2002, Namco released the long-awaited first episode of Monolithsoft’s epic Xenosaga series in America. Reasonably well-received, there were nonetheless a number of complaints about various...
After Link destroys Ganon, a sleeping spell was cast on Princess Zelda, and only the power of the Triforce of Courage can awaken her. However, the Triforce is sealed in a palace in Hyrule, and Link...
