Sony's PlayStation 1, intimately known as the PSX, was a magnet for top-tier roleplaying games. A golden age, if you will. It was by playing and living within their worlds, absorbing myself in their i
Take this! Updated on 15 March 2021
Hello! Welcome back to Music Week. Aamir Mehar explains how Zelda did for him what Chopin couldn t.
I ve come across so much great music in the video game medium. Darren Korb and Ashley Barrett created beautiful and reflective work for Transistor, and while I have yet to play Chrono Cross, the tracks I ve heard from it (by Yasunori Mitsuda) are dazzling. Nobuo Uematsu s work for Square has stayed with me to this day: Roses of May is as charming a tune as its name implies, while there is a menace to Succession of Witches and a subtle, disturbing feel to Listen To The Cries of the Planet.
Behind the waterfall
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In the world of video games, a waterfall is a dead giveaway for secret passages and secret goodies. Any time you are walking around an area and you see a waterfall, there is a 81.4% chance that there is a secret behind it. What type of secret lies on the other side of the falling waterfall depends on the type of video game we are talking about:
Most likely an alcove or passage leading to extra life/ammo/weapons. The only examples I can think of are Duke Nukem 3D, and Serious Sam, which leades to health. (Oh yeah, Daikatana too, but I never bought that game, I swear!)
Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space Coming to Steam
Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space, a fresh take on classic JRPGs from famed storyteller Masato Kato (Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Xenogears) is coming to PC via Steam in Spring 2021 for free, with applications to play early now open. The plot may seem like it has some familiar elements to long time JRPG fans. Aldo, a boy from a small village, is thrown 800 years into the future where he discovers a nefarious plot interwoven through several eras to destroy the world. Only by traveling through time to the past, present and future with a party can Aldo hope to save time and space itself. The vast map spans multiple continents and time periods, with over 100 playable party members with their own unique special abilities that can used for devastating combo attacks with classic turn based combat.
Every Single JRPG Should Have a 3x Speed Option
I’ve been replaying a lot of classic JRPGs lately. Getting lost inside a massive adventure is a good way to experience a bit of virtual tourism and forget that we’ve all been locked inside our homes for the past year. From formative SNES classics, to forgotten PlayStation 1 gems by Square Enix, to Atlus’
Persona series, each of these games has given me an excellent adventure that further illuminated what game design was like during its era and how each went on to influence games to this very day.
These games varied drastically in setting, tone, and mechanics. From the RPG zenith of