RPG Backtrack – Episode 157: “Take This Job and Love It”
The fifth Final Fantasy was left in Japan for years, though nowadays it’s available on a plethora of platforms. It may not be exactly what...
The fifth Final Fantasy was left in Japan for years, though nowadays it’s available on a plethora of platforms. It may not be exactly what...
The Elder Scrolls began with obtuse games that are customarily bundled with later titles nowadays rather than being sold alone. For sheer quantity of material...
The Hard West ain’t so much a place to spend Christmas. It’s more a place for dodging bullets, summoning demons, and leading a posse of miscreants into certain danger. You must be thinking of the Soft West, with its deputy puppies and its cactus pies. Both places have their charms, really.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong offers a steady evolution of Harebrained Schemes’ Shadowrun experience. It’s such an enjoyable game that a director’s cut wouldn’t need to do much to boost it from an excellent, tactically engaging family conspiracy to a must-have.
Jingle bells, tarutaru smell, people played FF 14. Alex played more Xenoblade and Alice played Warframe. Happy Holidays!
Some people answer some questions. Chris tries to give us a Just Cause for why he attached that cow to that helicopter. Alice gets Fruity...
This week in Q&A Quest we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of consoles and PCs for gaming. We also discuss what RPGs make a good...
It might not be apparent at first, but further into the second Trails game something becomes clear: Estelle is so Bright that one guy’s gotta wear shades. It only occurs to one person though.
What happens when representatives of numerous companies get tossed together in a crossover title? There is no one correct answer to this question, except when Idea Factory enters the mix, and then the result is foreordained.
Hot, hotter, hottest: that’s how hot it is!
Pirates, but in Space Double Damage Games, a studio founded by two former developers of Diablo and Torchlight, steps away from fantasy and leaps into...
The dreaded Paper Gang is on the loose, and it’s up to the Knights of Pen and Paper to shred them into thin pieces. But does Kyy Games’ sequel roll a natural twenty in this reviewer’s eyes? Roll initiative to find out.
People are the worst, but how can we write reviews around those facts? These and other complaining question answered by our panel.
Somehow the work of Idea Factory has been crossing the Pacific much more frequently in recent years. This is a look back at certain titles...
Sam Wachter tries to convince us that Moco Moco Friends’ Plushkins are not Pokémon. Anna Marie goes through all the feels. Chris continues his therapy...
This week in Q&A Quest we all board the Dragon Quest hype train. We also discuss Dragon Quest.
Chris enters the confessional and spills the beans about what evil deeds he’s been up to in Fallout 4 and Tales of Zestiria. Alex Dances...
Bethesda’s latest bomb has dropped, and we crawl out through the fallout to see how it holds up. Is the game a sixty-minute man or a two-pump chump?
This week in Q&A Quest we learn the perils of spending promotional credit from fast food restaurants on video games. We also discuss Star Wars...
Nintendo does its best to get Chris to stop building beds in Fallout 4 by offering more Amiibos. Anna has to put down her Animal...
At the end of the day, Legend of Legacy provides a satisfying experience, with plenty to explore, and lots of challenging combat to experience. It may not bear the SaGa name, but it carries on the best aspects of the series. Akitoshi Kawazu would be proud.
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