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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is "finally starting to match the vision I had for it," director teases
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NewsFormer Square Enix exec says that's nothing new as major investor calls out the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest creator for high development costs and lackluster sales
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NewsSquare Enix director Naoki Hamaguchi considered giving Cloud Strife a more realistic sword for Final Fantasy 7 Remake, but decided JRPG fans "wouldn’t accept it": "We stayed faithful to the OG"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 lead says the Highwind is an important part of the upcoming RPG, and it sounds like Square Enix is close to deciding on a name
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InterviewThe turn-based RPG secret sauce is that "you have time to engage on your own terms", Octopath Traveler 0's director tells me, which makes them perfect for "a wider age range"
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave actor Charlie Cox says he was "nervous" to play the RPG, which might be why he still hasn't touched it: "I don't actually know what the story is"
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NewsDigimon Story: Time Stranger DLC features a deep cut from the manga's early years that fans have wanted to see for ages, and it arrives in just a few days
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OpinionOctopath Traveler 0 fulfils a wish I've had since the first JRPG in the series, but it also loses something that made its predecessors special
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NewsRomancing Saga, a Square Enix JRPG released in 1992, remade in 2005, and remastered in 2022, gets yet another re-release: "I had always wanted to make a grand fantasy RPG in the style of The Lord of the Rings"
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InterviewOctopath Traveler 0's devs see it as "new game" despite its mobile origins: "We wanted to go back to the beginning – to start from zero"
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NewsThis NES horror JRPG spent 32 years as lost media, but once it was preserved it only took 33 days to get a complete fan translation
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NewsAs Octopath Traveler 0 launches to great reviews, the JRPG's producer says "we may have truly delivered what we set out to create" and "it feels as though I've finally returned to my hometown"
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ReviewOctopath Traveler 0 review: "The strongest entry in this retro-styled JRPG series yet, I love the greater focus on tactical battles"
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NewsAerith does not want to see your fanfic – Final Fantasy 7 Remake actor reminds fans "the meaning of the word inappropriate," asks them to stop tagging her in "smut"
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newsDragon Quest creator Yuji Horii isn't saying there's a Chrono Trigger remake, but he's not saying there isn't one: "I can't say ... I'll get told off!"
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NewsFinal Fantasy creator finds plans for his first-ever game with Square while "decluttering," featuring detailed instructions like "give apple" to get a "kiss" and "kill lion with revolver"
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News"'Here is existential pain, live with it'": Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr says the JRPG's powerful story "represents so much of the reason why I continue to play games"
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 actors Ben Starr and Jennifer English worry the J’RPG wouldn’t be “as sexy” if it wasn’t French: “French people are just sexier”
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NewsClair Obscur: Expedition 33 actor Ben Starr is still ready to "lose to Megabonk" at The Game Awards, since one "person's game of the year is going to be another person's worst game of all time"
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NewsFinal Fantasy 7 writer says Dragon Quest taught him that protagonists should be "self-insert for the player", but realized "I shouldn't be so set on the idea that a silent protagonist is the only way"
By George Young Published
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