I spent the final few months of 2015 obsessed with The Legend of Legacy for 3DS. As I noted in my review, I played it every time I had even just a few minutes to spare. The game is often considered to be a spiritual successor to SaGa, though it…
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I tend to be indifferent to remastered versions of older games. In fact, I don’t think I own a single one. But that will change with The Legend of Legacy HD Remastered, because the game is quite frankly brilliant. And it should be: it was made by some impressive industry…
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The Trails series has a long, long history that dates back to the early ’90s; it currently sits at close to 20 titles. The next one coming West will be The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak. It first launched in Japan back in 2021; it’s been so long since…
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The Rhapsody games are some of the best RPGs out there… yet the second and third games in the series never launched in the west. In January, Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles was announced; it puts Rhapsody II: Ballad of the Little Princess and Rhapsody III: Memories of Marl Kingdom together…
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We got our first look at Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook in last September’s NIS America Showcase featuring games coming west in early 2023. Well, the “early” part of the year has nearly passed, and the games have mostly been released… except Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook. It’s a new…
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I think I blinked and missed out on the announcement of Crymachina, which is a bummer because it looks quite good and I would have liked to write about it sooner! The “serenely dark” action RPG is about mechanical girls trying to survive a post-apocalyptic world and become “Real Humans.”…
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Disgaea 7 launched a few days ago in Japan, which makes the announcement of its western release perfectly timed. Trailers have been dropping consistently over the past several months, including this one from November 9. Now, with its western launch window announced, the English trailers will start coming in for…
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In September, NIS America’s showcase featured games coming to the west in early 2023. Among them was Process of Elimination, a murder mystery game reminding me very much of the Danganronpa series (and that’s not a bad thing). The murder mystery game launched in Japan in May of this year,…
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It’s the old world but a new fungi in void* tRrLM2(); //Void Terrarium 2. I was chuffed to hear about this sequel coming to the west early next year, which was announced at an NIS showcase earlier this year. The games are best described as roguelite dungeon RPGs, which is…
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If you are yet to play The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero, I highly recommend it. In his review, Matt stated “this is what a masterpiece looks like.” That masterpiece’s story is continuing in The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure, which we know now will be launched early…
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