JRPGs

Dragon Quest's Yuji Horii realized his JRPG series was a "cultural phenomenon" after DQ3

Dragon Quest 7 was going to be an open-world game, series creator Yuji Horii says

Dragon Quest boss says AI "hardly ever makes things up" anymore, even if it once made up that he works for Nintendo

Like Final Fantasy 7 Revelation boss, Dragon Quest creator worries live streams don't sell games

Dragon Quest 9 has been trapped on the Nintendo DS for 17 years, and fans never wanted that

RPGs like Dragon Quest 11 and Nier: Automata are heavily outsourced, Square Enix producer says

Dragon Quest fans are being mean to the new protagonist: "Bro thinks he's on the team"

Dragon Quest's Pokemon-esque spin-off series Monsters gets another game in The Withered World

Dragon Quest 12 Beyond Dreams announced, replacing the previous version of the JRPG as Square Enix hits the reset button

Final Fantasy Resonance is part of a "resurgence of turn-based RPGs and JRPGs," lead dev says

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director personally vetoed having to unlock new jobs for each character throughout the game

Square Enix's "graphical goal" for Final Fantasy 7 remakes was 2005 spin-off film Advent Children

Square Enix wants to turn Final Fantasy 7 into "an IP with an ever-evolving future"

JRPG fans are unhappy that Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's cutscenes can be fast-forwarded

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's physical edition comes on "one disc," and there's a mandatory download

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Collector's Edition is $350 and comes with a huge Cloud, Sephiroth, and Zack statue

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation DLC confirmed: premium Story Expansion Pass covers 2 expansions

Final Fantasy 14 fans spot Evercold character in Patch 7.56 screenshots, theorize new DPS class

Persona 1 and 2 remakes will "probably" happen for "cultural preservation," says Atlus lead

After Persona 3 Reload, Atlus "put all the effort into making a full remake" of Persona 4 Golden

Persona 4 Revival will integrate Marie more naturally than she was in P4 Golden, producer says

Persona 4 Revival is the best looking Persona to date, and after 1 hour playing, I'm desperate to return to Inaba

Persona 4 Revival makes some dialogue more "modern," but the characters are the same, lead says

Persona 4 Revival replaced the RPG's English voice cast after Atlus struggled to get everyone back

Persona 4 Revival boss knows you want to romance Yosuke, but "that is a lot of work"

Persona 4 Revival is a faithful remake because the original's only gotten more relevant, dev says

Persona 6 boss doesn't want "to make games for the global market," only something "we ourselves genuinely find exciting"

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Switch 2 update makes a huge quality-of-life change fans wanted 8 years ago

Nintendo awakens JRPG hopes as Xenosaga gets a fresh cameo in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on Switch 2

My favorite JRPG ever added a wildly out-of-place racing minigame and I'm so glad it exists

Xenoblade Chronicles JRPG trilogy gets Nintendo Switch 2 editions this year, and the first one is out today

Xenoblade Genesis is coming in 2027, and it looks very different to Monolith Soft's last JRPG trilogy

JRPGs struggle to break 3 million sales, once said Xenoblade lead who was hesitant to focus on tech

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

The best Yakuza games, ranked

Snoop Dogg and his son join Stranger Than Heaven cast as Yakuza devs' new game gets a winter release window

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

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

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"