Persona 5 Royal – 44 hours in, tons of fun! (mid-game spoilers)

I’d forgotten how much fun it can be to play a JRPG with an actual start and finish. Persona 5 Royal‘s story is still immature, bordering on the ridiculous, but I keep reminding myself that they’re just kids and then it becomes slightly bearable. For example even a toddler knows better than to get into […]

Shio to Ayakashi no Mori – A bit tedious, but not bad.

Shio to Ayakashi no Mori (Shio and the Mysterious Forest) is a dungeon exploration game from my favorite indie developers, Inu to Neko. Normally I portion out their Ishwald games here and there instead of playing them back to back, but shortly after I posted about Rakunou Princess, a power outage destroyed my save progress […]

Disliked Shining Resonance Refrain and Labyrinth of Refrain demos

Going 2 for 4 on Switch RPG demos now. The first batch was good, this second batch was a disappointment. Thank God for demos is all I can say, because Shining Resonance Refrain and Labyrinth of Refrain are the games I was more likely to shell out for sight-unseen, the former because I liked previous […]

JRPGs that still need localization in 2020

After writing my “10th Anniversary” post, I scrolled through my list of posts and noticed a couple of Japanese games I really enjoyed but that still aren’t available in English (AFAIK). With the advent of Kickstarter and Steam and other similar platforms, I thought for sure that more old games would have been licensed and […]

Thoughts on the “10th Anniversary” of My RPG Blog

My RPG Blog 10th anniversary

Psst, did you know that November 1st, 2020 was the official 10th anniversary of My RPG Blog? Neither did I, which is why I’m posting this on November 9th. TBH I don’t acknowledge Nov. 1st 2010 as the start of this blog, because it actually started about a year and a half earlier. The Nov. […]