Video game
Ask someone to recommend a great game, and plenty of people will point to gorgeous graphics or a satisfying combat loop. But the thing you truly can’t shake years later? Nine times out of ten, it’s the story. I’m in my mid-40s and have been chasing games since the Dreamcast and PC Engine days. Honestly,…
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The Famicom version of Wizardry III: Knight of Diamonds is one of the easiest games in the series to get wrong before you even start it. First, this “III” is actually the second scenario of the original — the Japanese releases swapped the numbering. Second, where the original demanded a maxed-out party imported from the…
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The Famicom version of Wizardry II: Legacy of Llylgamyn is a game that confiscates your weapons the moment you walk in the door, especially if you beat the first scenario. That Level 13 Samurai you spent months building? Transfer him over with a Turbo File and he drops straight back to Level 1. Adventurers who…
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Born in 1981, it’s the game that defined the RPG genre itself — that’s Wizardry. More than 40 years later, in May 2024, a full 3D remake titled Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord landed on Steam, Switch, PlayStation and Xbox. “I’m used to modern RPGs, this is going to chew me up, isn’t…
NINTENDO
Remember those nights crammed into a friend’s living room, fighting over controllers and eating a Spiny Shell right before the finish line? Or maybe you just booted up Mario Kart World on your Nintendo Switch 2, took one look at that massive open world, and said “whoa” out loud. No shame. We’ve all been there….
PlayStation
“So which classic PS1 RPG should I actually start with?” If you ask me that, honestly, one night isn’t enough to cover it. And no, this isn’t about emulators or digging through bargain bins for used discs. It’s about the fact that we now live in an era where official remasters and remakes let you…
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Do you remember the first time you heard the words “Dragon Quest”? Japan’s so-called national RPG has been the beating heart of the country’s gaming culture for nearly 40 years, ever since its birth in 1986. You’re hailed as a hero, you gather companions, you slay the Demon Lord — that simple skeleton hasn’t changed….
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There’s a genre called the tactical RPG, or strategy RPG (SRPG). You move units across a grid, read your opponent’s next move, and build a plan around it. It delivers a kind of “cerebral pleasure” that action games just can’t. Classics like Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre have built up a long…
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July 2027: that’s the day an era ends. On July 1, 2026, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that the PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita will shut down completely in July 2027. Once it closes, games for those systems can no longer be purchased. Remember all those games you figured would “get ported eventually”? Some…
Anime
CLAMP is an all-women manga creator collective made up of four members: Satsuki Igarashi, Nanase Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Mokona. Since their commercial debut in 1989, they’ve kept turning out masterpieces across a huge range of genres, from shojo to seinen. Their catalog of anime adaptations now runs to more than ten titles. “I want…
