Tag Archives: JRPGs

When I was six, my dad gave me a Super Nintendo with Super Metroid. My life changed. Since games were really expensive, every weekend we’d go to a local store to rent new titles like Mega Man X, Rock n’ Roll Racing, and many others. One day, we rented a game with “Final Fantasy III” written on the cover (which …

As a JRPG player for years, I can safely say that 90 percent of them, or maybe even more, will have some pacing issue for whatever reason. Be it backtracking, lore dump, random encounters, or having to study for a math test in between saving the world. Because of that, discussing JRPGs that have no padding or fat at all …