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Serial World is Pokemon meets Slay the Spire, meaning another roguelike deckbuilder JRPG is already vying for my heart

Hands-on | Cute critter collecting makes Serial World a roguelike deckbuilder JRPG worth opening your heart to

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 director says fan feedback can only go so far, the upcoming JRPG "should be a better experience" but the "creative vision" at Square Enix won't change

"That creative vision you have has to come from the creative team"

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They made a non-gacha sequel to the mobile game that soured me on my favorite JRPG series – Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & The White Guardian is a true make-good

Now Playing | Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & The White Guardian doesn't just have a long title, but it feels a long time coming for series fans like me, and I'm happy to take it

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After Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's controversial ending, director insists Part 3 is "in safe hands" and the JRPG's finale will "really reward everyone for sticking with us to the end"

The climax will be "a really great send-off for the game"

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director would love to work on "something completely new" after a decade of FF7, but if he had to choose another remake it would be Final Fantasy 6

It's also Naoki Hamaguchi's favorite mainline Final Fantasy JRPG

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Hades 2 Metacritic score makes it the new highest-rated game of 2025, so Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's inevitable Game of the Year award pile might be a little smaller

It's also better or as good as the original Hades depending on who you ask

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs say "being recognized in Japan" is "very personal to us" after making a game "inspired by so many incredible JRPGs we grew up with"

"We could not be more grateful"

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After 25 years, Dragon Quest creator debunks Dragon Quest 7 fan theory about the real identity of the classic JRPG's final boss: "That's completely wrong. I didn't consider that even slightly"

Apparently there was never a world where Orgodemir's true identity was Kiefer

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The perfect JRPG remake just dropped – Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter threatens to put Final Fantasy 7 and Persona 3 to shame with its masterful approach to revitalizing a classic

Now Playing | Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter isn't just a return of the blue sky, green grass JRPG style I love, but a masterclass in how remakes should be done

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"I felt like playing 30 hours of story mode was actually the tutorial": Too many RPGs and JRPGs end after their combat really gets good, Vampire Survivors creator says, which is where the roguelike formula is so great

"I mean, it comes from someone who made Vampire Survivors. Of course I think it's the natural course of a game."

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RPG 'Starbites’ Director Says The Turn-Based Genre Is Now In A Renaissance

'Starbites' is a ambitious new turn-based RPG from Korean studio Ikina Games, and it might be just the right game to latch onto the current zeitgeist.

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Square Enix has a crucial day-one patch for Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles that restores an essential trick from the original 1998 version of the strategy JRPG

Genji equipment, my beloved

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Square Enix would rather ask all its legendary JRPG devs the meaning of life than announce an FF9 remaster, and Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida says he's found no meaning "at all"

Yoshi-P is still looking

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Metaphor: ReFantazio's distinct musical blend of traditional JRPG vibes and contemporary flow continues to live in my head rent-free nearly a year later

It's some of Shoji Meguro's finest work.

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This niche JRPG franchise is quietly becoming my favorite thanks to peak acting and animation

I just realized I'm hooked.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says the hit French JRPG is just "one of the stories that we want to tell in this franchise," but thinks "the only way" to succeed "is to ignore the first game completely"

"We have to find this place of sincerity and authenticity again," says Guillaume Broche

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21 years later, remake of beloved JRPG classic Trails in the Sky gets first playable demo – it's 5-7 hours long, and fans say it's a certified banger: "Oh my god it's phenomenal"

Explore Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter's prologue in its entirety on PC and PS5, with a Switch version due out later

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Overwatch 2 heroes bust out the bikinis and swimsuits for season 18, plus a collab with a fan-favorite JRPG

Some may call this their Joker origin story.

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One of the best JRPGs ever may have its remaster unveiled tomorrow as Bandai Namco prepares an official announcement following months of speculation and a supposed leak

Tales of Xillia remaster, when?

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The original Final Fantasy launched with a game-breaking bug that Square noticed too late to fix, so devs had to slip a warning into 500,000 copies of the JRPG: "Do not delete this..."

"If this happens, the game will break"

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After promising more re-releases, Bandai Namco seemingly leaks a remaster of one of my all-time favorite JRPGs, which still has some of the best combat in the genre

Tales of Xillia is still one of my top three Tales games

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Welp, another JRPG is coming to devour my whole entire life as Trails in the Sky remake dev says you'll need about 80 hours to beat the game – twice as much as the original game

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter should take about 80 hours to clear

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Deltarune's beloved Spamton is everywhere and Persona 3 fans are turning Japan's real-life Port Island into a JRPG mural in this viral web app that's seeing pixel artists literally take over the world

Wplace.live lets you cover the world map in pixels, and people have been making some seriously impressive stuff

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This Final Fantasy 10 Easter egg is a reference to the JRPG the 2001 installment never became, and it's so obscure that even Square Enix forgot to include it in its remaster

Seventeen Angelic Impact x Devil's Shock never came to be

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio is "just the right size" for a "full-priced turn-based RPG," so don't expect its success to lead to AAA ambitions: "I'd prefer working as a small team"

Sandfall Interactive is happy as it is

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