RPG Backtrack – Episode 132: “Then Some Heroes Come Along”
The bar for bringing Legend of Heroes titles across the Pacific had been set rather low, making it easy for XSEED to impress gamers when...
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RPG Backtrack – Episode 131: “Infinite Inapplicability”
Dealing with games made by tri-Ace usually requires a bit of effort, and in recent years it hasn’t gotten any easier. Maybe this attempt to...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 130: “Night of the Living Vagrants”
Yasumi Matsuno’s work includes a title from the late PS1 era that defies easy explanation. Attempting to describe it anyway may require a flow chart...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 129: “My Fist Your Face”
There’s something addictive about walking forward while beating everyone encountered along the way into a bloody pulp. This procedure has occasionally been used in titles...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 128: “House of the Devil”
It’s time once again to venture into the vast Megami Tensei universe. This particular grouping involves tactical maneuvers of people and their demons summoned through...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 127: “Sheparding the Flock”
Get set for some more explosive outer space adventures courtesy of BioWare, as the second installment of its massive trilogy comes under scrutiny. Does it...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 126: “What Happens in New Vegas, Stays in New Vegas”
Of course there are people and things to shoot around New Vegas, but this most recent incarnation of the Fallout universe doesn’t stop there. Enjoy...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 125: “How Many Dragons in an Age?”
The start of BioWare’s ongoing series brought a lot of thoughts to the surface. Some are profound and challenging, others lewd and depraved, with plenty...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 124: “Mapping the World Tree”
In the world of gaming, anything that can be described as educational is a definite turn-off. First-person dungeon crawlers count as learning experiences in a...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 123: “Konami’s Trail of Tears”
One final hurrah for the Stars of Destiny came out of Konami, though it wasn’t officially intended as such. Then the DS got a game...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 122: “Follow the Captain Shepard”
BioWare wanted to convey the ineffectual nature of the human race when compared to other species populating the galaxy. This naturally took the form of...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 121: “The Rock Goes in an Arc”
Ah, Sony, holder of many now-dormant IPs. One of those was a pretty good tactical series that hasn’t been seen for a number of years,...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 120: “You Could Wake Up Dead Tomorrow”
Blizzard once had an idea to send players through the realms of the afterlife, beating up the locals and grabbing whatever desirable things they happened...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 119: “We Can Be Heroes”
Falcom has a storied development history, and one of its larger series saw multiple versions before ending up on the PSP for a few installments....
RPG Backtrack – Episode 118: “Can’t We Get Beyond Thunderdome?”
The ruins of the central Atlantic region of the US are open to in-depth exploration, as Bethesda takes a crack at the post-apocalyptic future. Thinking...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 117: “The Shadow Knows”
Hironobu Sakaguchi, Nobuo Uematsu, and Akira Toriyama got together again to inaugurate Mistwalker as a studio. The results were unfortunately not up to the standard...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 116: “The Secret Ingredient”
Gust makes a long-running, plentiful series that doesn’t adhere to many of the usual RPG stereotypes. Here’s a trilogy of them on the PS3, sporting...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 115: “Dust in the Wind”
After the first Fallout, eight decades passed before a new hero had to undertake a quest. That quest involved meeting a number of strange new...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 114: “Ogres in My Pocket”
It’s Yasumi Matsuno’s vast Ogre world, but the game format for this bunch is rather different than March of the Black Queen. Just because things...
RPG Backtrack – Episode 113: “Over Level 9000!”
Nippon Ichi has made a number of other titles over the years, but a certain series took off in the public imagination and continues to...
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