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Cover art of Square Enix's Saga Frontier 2

Square Enix teases a remaster for a 25-year-old JRPG gem that experiments with branching storylines, open-world exploration, and watercolor design: "Please wait a little longer"

By Iain Harris published

News Saga Frontier 2 Remastered, when? Hopefully sooner rather than later

Unicorn Overlord

RPGs are so hot right now: Dragon’s Dogma 2 sells 2.5 million copies in a week, while Unicorn Overlord races past 500,000 copies sold

By Hirun Cryer published

News Capcom and Vanillaware's new games are off to flying starts

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is "off to the races already," according to its director, who also wants to be "done with this absolute marathon of projects"

By Hope Bellingham published

News Nomura says he and Nojima are already "hard at work" on Part 3

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Sephiroth looking at their hand in contemplation

After Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Nobuo Uematsu says he started adding Latin to epic songs because "if no one understands the language, then it's fair for everyone"

By Jordan Gerblick published

news There's a diplomatic reason you can't understand the words to 'One Winged Angel'

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth hero Cloud shown against purple light

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth actor says Cloud's most infamous line was "was so drilled into me for the first like 3 months"

By Kaan Serin published

News Two words with scary staying power

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Vincent didn't know he was voicing the JRPG's fan-favorite antihero until he was in the studio: "It kind of broke me in a beautiful way"

By Jordan Gerblick published

news Watch Matthew Mercer learn he would be the voice of Vincent Valentine in real time

Blue Dragon

Microsoft pays tribute to Akira Toriyama with new background featuring the Dragon Ball creator's designs from cult classic Xbox 360 JRPG Blue Dragon

By Dustin Bailey published

News "Honoring a true legend"

Star Ocean: The Second Story R

I want so many of my favorite JRPGs to get the kind of update that just dropped for already-stellar remake Star Ocean: The Second Story R

By Hirun Cryer published

News There's new bosses, endgame gear, and more

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Yuffie actor was too good at fake vomiting during recording, told "actually, you need to tone it down - they don’t really like that"

By Hope Bellingham published

News Suzie Yeung was committed to bringing Yuffie's motion sickness to life

Persona 3 Reload

Persona 3 Reload somehow wasn't long enough for this JRPG diehard, who made it "last as long as possible" with a grind to level 99: "I regret only a few things"

By Hirun Cryer published

News They managed it in roughly 55 Tartarus trips

Zidane and Vivi look startled in a cutscene from Final Fantasy 9.

Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P adds fuel to the Final Fantasy 9 remake rumors, teases that the reason for all the Dawntrail references is "a secret"

By Kaan Serin published

News Digital bonuses include Zidane and Garnet minions

Persona 3 Portable

Persona 3 Reload producer apologizes for excluding the JRPG's female protagonist, but explains that adding her would cost "two to three times that of Episode Aigis"

By Kaan Serin published

News Persona 3 Portable's Kotone isn't (officially) joining the remake

Persona 3 Reload

JRPG speedrunner destroys Persona 3 Reload's hardest difficulty in under 10 hours in one of the most impressive displays of button mashing I've ever seen

By Catherine Lewis published

News You can usually expect a normal run to be over 60 hours long

Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

Coincidentally avoiding Elden Ring's DLC release date, promising JRPG Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance is now launching a week early

By Hope Bellingham published

News Elden Ring has a habit of eclipsing the other games around it

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion voice actor says Square Enix repeatedly told him to stop being too sexy: "We need you to tone it down"

By Jordan Gerblick published

news The voice actor for Genesis was told he sounded too seductive

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Sephiroth looking at their hand in contemplation

Final Fantasy 7's Sephiroth is on a tour through Baldur's Gate 3, Pokemon, and more thanks to a beautifully chaotic viral Twitter trend

By Hope Bellingham published

News Sephiroth isn't in Nibelheim anymore

Breath of Fire 4

Revisiting this 24-year-old JRPG classic from the PS1 era proves there's no smoke without fire

By Jon Bailes published

Features Opinion | Breath of Fire 4 is somehow almost a quarter of a century old – here, Play magazine remembers what made it so great

Astlibra Revision

Japanese solo dev behind surprise Steam mega-hit weighs in on the term JRPG: "This is a term I heard for the first time since it's not used in Japan"

By Austin Wood published

Features A useful chat with Astlibra Revision creator Keizo

Astlibra Revision trailer girl

The solo dev behind one of the wildest narratives in JRPG history agrees "it was a miracle that the story came together in the end"

By Austin Wood published

news Astlibra Revision creator Keizo was also reeling from the story a bit

Astlibra Revision

Meet the Japanese solo dev who spent 15 years making the bizarre game that's secretly one of the highest-rated JRPGs on Steam and a personal favorite of mine

By Austin Wood published

Features Astlibra Revision creator Keizo explains the making of the unexpected epic

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