Role-playing

Coming from indie developer Dreams Uncorporated is the charming JRPG, Cris Tales. With a striking art style and exciting storyline, Cris Tales looks to breathe new life into the well-established JRPG genre. Not an easy feat to do, in a niche that so many people are passionate about, and one that has been the muse of many a dev before. Can this indie title carve a spot for itself in the esteemed world of timeless JRPGs, or will it be buried in the mountain of games that just didn't quite hit the mark? Let's dive in and take a look!

Fort Triumph is a strategy rpg in the vain of Mario and Rabbids or Xcom. Will fans of those games like this game too? Let’s take a look at Fort Triumph for the Nintendo Switch! Fort Triumph is a strategy rpg that will remind a lot of Nintendo Switch fans of Mario and Rabbids. However, Fort Triumph doesn’t have the same quirky humor or charm of Mario and Rabbids. Instead, it is set in Adventure game like world full of…

Fort Triumph, a strategy rpg, is now available for the Nintendo Switch eShop! Check out our first impressions of the game below. Fort Triumph is now available on the Nintendo Switch eShop. We received a review code of the game and have been playing it a bit. Fort Triumph is a strategy rpg in the vain of Mario and Rabbids and Xcom. Players use cover to hide from enemies attacks and various abilities to take foes down for good. Fort…

Nintendo announced today that there would be an IndieWorld Showcase video on 8/11. Hey thats tomorrow! We have the details below. An IndieWorld Showcase will air tomorrow at 11am central. According to Nintendo it will be “roughly 20 minutes of information on upcoming indie games heading to #NintendoSwitch.” No details were provided on what indie games will be shown. Judging by previous IndieWorld Showcases, it will be a mix of new announcements and updates on titles we’ve seen before. There…

Button City, a cute adventure game, is now available on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox system, Playstation systems, and PC. Check out the launch trailer and then come back here for some thoughts on the game. Button City is available now on all platforms! What is Button City? On Youtube its described this way: “Join Fennel the fox and his friends as they try to save their local arcade in Button City, a low poly narrative adventure. Explore a diorama world,…

Wait. What? Its been twenty years since Final Fantasy X came out?! What?! Wow. It doesn’t feel like that long at all. Time really flies. But you know, I do remember how I got the game. Let me tell you all about it. It started with a Playstation 2 demo disc. I think I got it at Babbage’s. Gamestop did not exist yet. I saw that there was a demo of Final Fantasy X there and I had to have…

Its finally time for our Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin review! For even more thoughts on the game, please check out our review-in-progress articles. How is Monster Hunter Stories 2 overall? Let's take a look!

In our first review-in-progress of Monster Hunter Stories 2, we talked about the game’s graphics. In our second one, we focused on the battle system. For our third part, we will talk about the story with as few spoilers as possible. Still if you want to know nothing whatsoever about the story, then you may want to skip this article. Monster Hunter Stories 2 has a very Pokémon-like story. Instead of “gotta catch ’em all”, its a “gotta hatch ’em…

In our first review-in-progress for Monster Hunter Stories 2, we talked about the game’s graphics. This time, we’ll dive into its combat. Is its turn-based combat fun? The regular Monster Hunter series are in the action genre. The Monster Hunter Stories series is in turn-based jrpg genre. And think thats yet another reason I like Monster Hunter Stories 2 more than the regular series. For a long time I’ve been a jrpg fan. Everything expect Pokémon. Of course, it has…

Monster Hunter Stories 2 is out now for the Nintendo Switch. Thanks to Nintendo Canada we received a review code of the game. And in our first review-in-progress, we’ll talk about the game’s jaw-dropping graphics. The regular Monster Hunter games have people and monsters that look fairly “realistic” and cool. They’re really nice looking games…but… I prefer Monster Hunter Stories 2’s graphics. Monster Hunter Stories 2 is cel-shaded with a very animated/anime look to it. Fans of Pokémon might think…