Review: Dragon Quest IX

I’ve been sitting on this review for a while now. Not because I have many strong feelings about Dragon Quest, IX in particular, but because it’s a game that is so flabbergastingly difficult to discuss. It’s the Level 5 problem:

Cladun: This is an RPG

EXCITING title aside, this is a Nippon Icchi game you may not want to miss. It’s a hack-n-slash RPG made by the minds behind the wacky Disgaea, so think classic Zelda with plenty of twisted humor, plus some serious RPG

Yoishi Wada Thinks Japan's Weak Spot Is Core Gameplay

Wada, Square Enixs’ president, divides game design into three distinct pillars: “the core gameplay element, community features, and the hardware platform it’s for.” While he thinks Japanese developers have the latter two down pat, he thinks improvements could be made

We Don't Understand Change

Brief life story moment: at present, I’m replaying both Golden Sun games. We’ve just got to the point where we’ve input the password into Golden Sun: The Lost Age. So, I remember these games *very* well, because the first one

How to Fix the JRPG

Anyone who has played Final Fantasy XIII probably recognizes it as Square Enix’s attempt to fix what is largely a stale, dying genre. Sure, there have been bright spots, but for the most part the genre is going the way

The Sunday Gaming Club #3:

Welcome back for another scintillating listing of games you’ve never played, and may well never play in your lives! These games are hand packed by migrant laborers from Canada, and are approved for your consumption by the Secretary of Defense.