Japanese role-playing games frequently fall into the same cliches and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find new ideas within the genre. Thankfully, Radiant Historia provides us with something innovative and ...
Fantasy farming is only slightly more exciting than you’d think.
If you’ve got a DS and $30 to spare, get Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals. This is a charming, beautiful, and accessible title that dares to be different while paying ...
The Final Fantasy family tree gets a little bigger with this cute-looking spin-off. The adorable graphics are oddly out of step, in a good way, with the curious injection of ...
Many years ago, series creator Kazuma Kanako stated in an interview that the Shin Megami Tensei series was for players who looked at other JRPGs on the market and thought, ...
Since Awakened Shadow is so traditional, and since it explicitly continues the, er, continuity of the Blue Dragon series, its biggest audience is going to be people who are already ...
After almost a decade, Pokemon trainers can finally return to the Johto region, making hard-to-obtain Gold/Silver Pokemon like the starters (Chikorita, Totodile and Cyndaquil) much more accessible. This remake promises ...
Though not the most inventive RPG, it begins with an interesting world to base it on and gets enough fundamentals right to be a real good time.
A spin-off from the Atelier Iris series, this mixes the franchise's alchemy-based RPG strengths with a sim about building a vacation resort.
Based on a classic fantasy book series, this first-person RPG has many dwarves and warlocks, and boasts that it may be one of the best looking DS games yet.
Taking the classic first storyline from DBZ, this old-school, turn-based RPG has you controlling Goku and friends as they defend earth from Saiyan invaders. It's reliable fun, if a tad ...
Find fossils, build dinosaurs and add them to your collection in this Poke-wannabe, which is odd coming from Nintendo. Though not bad, it is far too rote in its recreation, ...
This new RPG plans to be more inviting to players afraid of the genre and stars the amnesiac Greek demigod Heracles.
It looks very much like the kind of thing you could create with some sort of game-maker program. Feed it some graphics, write a bit of text and press the ...
Believed forgotten, a sequel to the amazing GBA RPG series is coming to the DS with graphics that maintain the high standards of its history.
The popular and highly addictive online RPG comes to the DS, with the spirit of co-op gameplay intact.
This Pokemon-lite game has empty, repetitive fights as things seem to happen around you, making the whole thing incredibly boring. For non-Bakugan followers this is, quite literally, balls.
It's not a perfect game, but Black Sigil has a definite charm, and fans of the SNES era RPGs will probably find a lot to like.
Tokyo has been locked down as devils invade the city. You have to try your best to make it out alive with as many others as you can in this deep ...
Buyer beware: Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier starts out strong, but falters. You’ll soon grow so bored with the repetitive boss fights and brain-numbing exploration that only the ...
Although its party-game-meets-hardcore-RPG concept is commendably innovative, Dokapon fails to live up to its potential due to its lack opportunities for players to interact with each other.
The world is ending and all you can do is take notes on the things worth saving in this passable DS RPG.
A great dungeon runner made to take advatage of your friends on two systems and all over the world.
It is, without a doubt, the most social game available on DS (be prepared to edit friend code listings like there’s no tomorrow), with a welcoming community of players happy ...
The Dark Spire certainly attained its goal of creating an homage to classic dungeon-crawling RPGs, but its confusing design choices and unforgiving gameplay may turn off anyone born after 1990.
This game should’ve stayed in the past, as it has little reason to exist now, other than as a historical oddity.
Lots of little things have been “freshened up” in Platinum, but there aren’t any major changes or additions – it’s really Diamond and Pearl again, dusted off, sprayed with some ...
One of the best DS RPGs all year has Mario, Luigi and Bowser working together to save the Princess as the Bros manipulate the Koopa King from the inside.
With a well-told story and an elegant battle system; Suikoden Tierkreis is one of our favorite DS RPG's in recent months.
Monster Racers is nice for short bursts of gratuitous entertainment, but not much more.
Not a bad RPG, but definitely too light for most RPG fans. Naruto fans might also be disappointed with the so-so story.
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