Retro Review: Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls (GBA)

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact With my recently finishing Final Fantasy IX, I started to get into an RPG mood. I decided to replay the Game Boy Advance remake of the first Final Fantasy. While this remake, titled Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls comes with both Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II on it, I will […]

Review: Final Fantasy IX (Switch)

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Well, it might not be much of a secret now, but I am a big fan of RPG’s. I have enjoyed the Final Fantasy series since playing Final Fantasy IV on the SNES (called Final Fantasy II in the west, originally). However, my love of RPG’s clashed with my owning primarily Nintendo consoles when […]

The Anatomy of RPG’s, Part 4: Interaction

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Today, I will wrap up this series on the anatomy of RPGs. The point of this series was to look at and analyse the many moving parts of my favorite genre of video games, RPGs. This final part takes a look at how the player interacts with the game world in an RPG. Of […]

Preview: Deltarune Chap. 1 (Switch)

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact With my recently playing and falling in love with Undertale, I figured I would look into the first chapter of Deltarune, the next game to be made by Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale. I wanted to see what was next for this talented indie developer, and want to share a little bit about […]

Review: Undertale (Switch)

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Okay, so today’s review is on the Switch version of Undertale. I had heard of the game for some time, and despite its connection to Earthbound (a personal favorite of mine), I never got around to playing the game. Maybe I’m not much of a PC game player, but with it on as many […]

The Anatomy of RPGs, Part 3: Customization

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Okay, it took me some time to get to writing this article. I had been finishing a fair number of games recently, and wanted to review them so I could have more time to look into part three of The Anatomy of RPGs. Luckily, many of the games I recently reviewed were RPGs, so […]

Retro Review: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (SNES)

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Recently, I have been covering a lot of RPGs. This genre of game has had a big impact on my gaming habits. So I decided to replay the first RPG I ever played, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, on the SNES. The only version of the game I have available right […]

Retro Review: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (DS)

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Well it is finally time to finish my coverage of the Golden Sun series with a review of the third and final game in the series. This game is Golden Sun: Dark Dawn for the Nintendo DS, a game that was released in 2010, roughly seven years after Golden Sun: The Lost Age. I […]

Retro Review: Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA)

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Alright, it is time for part two of my Golden Sun coverage. Today, I will review the sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age for the Game Boy Advance. Like the previous game, I first heard of this one from an issue of Nintendo Power Magazine. Not long after getting the game, I had acquired […]

The Anatomy of RPGs, Part 2: Battle

Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact It is time for Part 2 of a multi-part series on the anatomy of RPGs. This series looks at the many moving parts of turn based RPGs in order to shed some light on how they work. Today’s focus is on the actions that take place in an RPG battle. RPGs have many battles […]