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Harvey Randall

Turn-based RPGs are officially back in fashion, but I want more: It's time for modern developers to take another pass at FF12's gambit system

Balthier, a dashing rogue, smirks in Final Fantasy 12.

So, we can well and truly state that turn-based RPGs are back in fashion, right? Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are some of the industry's most successful entries in the genre—the argument has well and truly been won.

Whether a game's turn-based or not matters less than whether the game itself is good: Make a good turn-based RPG, and people will play it. Make a bad action RPG, and people won't. Case closed, debate over, we can all go home.

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