A world overview of the genre.
It’s all about JRPGS! Japanese Role-Playing Games, what’s the deal with that? What makes a JRPG a JRPG? What’s the difference with other Role Playing Games? These questions and many more will be answered and discussed by Retrogamepapa together with special guest-knight Leah Haydu (Character Issues, Cane & Rinse). Of course both knights also name off their personal favorites and explain why JRPGs have been so important for them.
The games and game series discussed (among others) are: Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy series, Persona series, Secret of Evermore, Illusion of Gaia/Time, Terranigma, Dragon Quest games, Squaresoft games, Enix games, Chrono Trigger, Nier series and many more.
Retrogamepapa’s Addendum: This was a bit of a relatively quick overview of a giant genre with giant games. Typically with giant topics like this, even with a lot of preparation, you forget a lot of stuff. Many great JRPG series and devs went unmentioned. I therefore hope to come back to JRPGs fairly soon, where we discuss JRPGs of a certain era, console or developer. There’s no doubt I will at least try and do this with Leah again, because she’s always an amazing insightful and funny guest!
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De Ridders van de Retro Tafel podcast is also on:
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