JRPGs

Square Enix plans to add Google gen AI to Dragon Quest 10

Dragon Quest creator says English is "a simple language," so "the flavor tends to get lost" when translating games

Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined convinces Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi to do the unthinkable and drop FF14 for now

Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined producer says the dev tried to preserve the "cuteness" of Akira Toriyama's original designs

Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined "isn't meant to supplement or improve upon" previous versions of the classic JRPG

Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined is having a great time on Steam, but it's no Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D

Dragon Quest 8 translator's decision to make the JRPG British English didn't go down well with Square Enix's US office

I've fallen in love with Dragon Quest 7 – not the JRPG's breezy new remake, but the 25-year-old PS1 original

Dragon Quest visionary Yuji Horii is getting his own RPG-style manga detailing his journey to creating the iconic JRPG

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director has "no intention" of altering the OG JRPG writer's "overarching story"

Yoshi-P hoped we wouldn't notice, but Final Fantasy 14 Evercold is inspired by Norse mythology

Final Fantasy 14 Evercold promises to scrap the MMO's 2-minute meta and change jobs for the better

Yoshi-P teases new Final Fantasy 14 Evercold jobs, says fans have already guessed the weapon for one

Final Fantasy 14 boss promises to pester devs about a butt slider, warns fans of big booty dangers

Final Fantasy 14 is finally letting healers be healers by removing cast times for attack spells and changing GCD heals

Yoshi-P has considered a single-player Final Fantasy 14 as some fans think MMOs are "not a Final Fantasy"

Final Fantasy 14 boss Yoshi-P "can't really imagine" the MMO coming to an end

Final Fantasy 14 dev got his job when he interviewed Yoshi-P as a journalist and asked him for a job

Hopes for Persona 1 and 2 remakes crushed as Atlus mysteriously alters the JRPGs' new merch listings

I'm staring at new Persona merch and willing myself to believe that the PS1 JRPGs are coming back

JRPG icon behind Persona and Shin Megami Tensei breaks his 16-year hiatus from games with an upcoming "school life RPG"

The best Persona games, ranked

As the wait for Persona 6 continues, developers tease "opportunities in 2026 to talk about future developments"

Persona 5 and Metaphor director hasn't been "super involved" in the Atlus JRPG series since P5 Royal

A year later, Persona 3 Reload gets a fresh update bringing back the PS2 JRPG's original vocalist: "I'm truly overjoyed and grateful to be reunited with everyone again"

Following performance complaints over Persona 3 Reload's Switch 2 demo, Atlus promises "future patches" are on the way but they won't be "in time" for the JRPG's launch

Atlus considered a Persona 3 Reload port for both the OG Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, but opted for only the latter as the JRPG's devs couldn't manage both "without any significant delay"

Xenoblade Chronicles X Switch 2 Edition is "disappointing," say saddened fans – Nintendo apparently offering refunds

Xenoblade Chronicles X becomes first in the series to get a Switch 2 Edition, fans beg for main trilogy to get the same

One of my most minor complaints about Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition was a bug all along, and it's now been fixed in the JRPG's latest patch

After 9 years in Wii U prison, sci-fi JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X debuts as March's best-selling Switch game in the US, kicking Mario Kart 8 into second place

I spent 10 years waiting for the answers to Xenoblade Chronicles X's haunting cliffhanger ending, and it was worth the wait

Sci-fi JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X's overpowered combat system is back in Definitive Edition, and it's taken fans mere hours to deal millions of damage in 1 hit: "New Arts are so broken"

Sci-fi JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is tied with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 as the 3rd highest-rated game of the year on Metacritic so far

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition looks like an incredible revival of one of the best Wii U JRPGs, but fans might be most excited about one simple thing – the larger text size

After pumping out Xenoblade Chronicles games for a decade and helping out on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Monolith Soft is now fully owned by Nintendo

Forget Animal Crossing, my favorite life sim of 2026 is tucked inside a controversial remake

The best Yakuza games, ranked

Yakuza lead is proud "people can finally say they enjoy the Like a Dragon series more openly"

Sega is delisting Yakuza 0 in favor of its divisive Director's Cut, risking locking PS4 and Xbox One users out of the RPG entirely

After 16 years, Yakuza 3 is getting a much-needed remake and RGG going the extra mile with a new expansion making one of the series' most popular villains playable for the first time

The worst Yakuza game is finally getting a remake: RGG Studio accidentally leaks Yakuza Kiwami 3

Giving that Elden Ring co-op modder a run for their money, there's now a Yakuza 5 mod that lets you play with a friend or AI-controlled Ichiban

10 years after Yakuza 0, Majima's swashbuckling return finally puts a bowline knot on decades of character growth

Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza is longer than the last Yakuza spin-off, but it's not the dev's fault: "The volume increased by itself"

Marvel Rivals publisher reportedly cuts funding for Yakuza co-creator's studio 3 months after debuting its first game

Yakuza lead is proud "people can finally say they enjoy the Like a Dragon series more openly"

Sega is delisting Yakuza 0 in favor of its divisive Director's Cut, risking locking PS4 and Xbox One users out of the RPG entirely

Like a Dragon fans, please stop saying Kiwami 3 is a remake of the worst game in the series when Yakuza 4 is worse

After 16 years, Yakuza 3 is getting a much-needed remake and RGG going the extra mile with a new expansion making one of the series' most popular villains playable for the first time

Sega wants you to make your own Like a Dragon games in Roblox, but your creations need to "stay true to the world and lore" established in the Yakuza series, so please don't make Kiryu and Majima kiss

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii lead avoided ship-based games like Sea of Thieves and Assassin's Creed to make "something uniquely Yakuza-like"

10 years on, Yakuza 0 is still one of the strongest entry points to a franchise ever made

Years before we learned of Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Majima's voice actor pitched a JRPG about the fan-favorite anti-hero and was told "that's not going to happen"