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With the caveat he got "really, really, really lucky," Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director shares classic advice: "You have to make a game that you will like"
News "I think it will always resonate if there's a sense of honesty and truth and joy in the game"
Metaphor: ReFantazio combat lead has crushing news for JRPG theorycrafters: lots of people think "I found a way to win that even the developers didn't anticipate!"' but "most of those methods are actually ones that we knew about"
News "That said, on rare occasions, players really do discover methods we hadn't considered"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says what we all know is true: "Persona 5 is the best game in the world when it comes to battle depictions and UI"
News Straight facts
"There's nothing about JRPGs that requires them to be made in Japan," says ex Dragon Age writer, speaking nothing but facts – and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just proves it again
News "It's not a Japanese RPG, it's a Japanese-style RPG. And so that can be made anywhere"
Square Enix considered shutting down the original Final Fantasy MMO years ago, but the devs received "a lot of support" to keep it going
News Final Fantasy 11 owes plenty to its fans
3 years later, these JRPGs from genre veterans are stuck in purgatory despite raising nearly $2.6 million in a combined Kickstarter campaign
News The new games from Wild Arms and Shadow Hearts devs, Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood, have been getting love online recently
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"
News Ryosuke Horii wanted to do things the Yakuza way
After a year of living vicariously through translated screenshots, Persona 5 fans are going feral as The Phantom X finally has a global release date – but there are already gacha concerns
News "Is this F2P friendly?"
