This year had a distinctly retro gaming vibe when it came to Japanese game releases, and here are some of my favorites.

There was a time when solid combat mechanics and an epic story were enough to carry most Japanese role-playing games, but times have changed since then. Now, a lot of JRPGs combine this tried-and ...

Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from ... this is still an amazing role-playing game that I had a lot of fun with. The music and the voice acting were also surprisingly ...

Some of the most gorgeous games released in the past decade have been in Square Enix‘s HD-2D line of Japanese role-playing games. While these have mostly been original titles, such as Octopath ...