It’s pretty well established at this point that Final Fantasy VII Remake isn’t actually an attempt to replace the badly-aged 1997 release with a fresh coat of paint, but is rather a very ambitious spinoff that starts out in a…
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A certain omission from my upcoming Top Ten JRPGs list invites a deeper conversation about battle system design philosophy, so I’ll break the ice.
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Just like Hajime Tabata’s “Final Fantasy Disease” comments, it’s hard to take Naoki Yoshida’s statements about the JRPG genre label entirely in good faith, given the circumstances…
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There’s no question the Dreamcast was a great system, but does the whole postmortem deification of it strike anyone else as a bit creepy?
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Sega may never get as big an opportunity to announce Virtua Fighter 6 in front of unified FGC attention as they had at Evo Japan. That they failed to do so is maddening.
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That video where I talk about Yosuke Matsuda without making a single NFT joke. Because the broader implications of his departure from Square Enix aren’t funny.
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I deal in realism, not hype. There’s a lot of buzz about a Nintendo Switch successor at the moment, but not a lot of reasonable expectations surrounding it. I guess that’s where I come in.
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Now that we know $70 is a thing for the Nintendo Switch moving forward, it’s time to examine some of the real likely causes and implications.
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Back to system launch commentaries. Wasn’t planning to take part in this one, but Nintendo was insistent and knew exactly how to bring me around.
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I love that a new Virtua Fighter looks inevitable with Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown headlining EVO Japan 2023, but upwards of a decade is a long wait for a new game in any series, and I can’t help wondering…
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The news that E3 is back this year, but that the big three aren’t participating, is being spun every which way by news outlets and content creators. Either it’s treated as a declaration of E3’s irrelevance or a sign that…
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Being an early adopter comes with some implicit risks. The first of anything to come off of the production line could be especially faulty, and I ran face-first into that reality on November 15, 2001…and the weeks that followed.
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