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A thousand years ago there was a city. One day the city was buried. Another city was built on top, and all that remains of the previous city is a door. This is where the title “the thousand-year door” comes from. It’s not known what could be behind this door, but everyone has different theories. … Continue reading “Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door”
Year: 2004
Platforms: GameCube
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Super Mario RPG is a console RPG starring none other than Nintendo’s popular character Mario. This game starts off like almost every other Mario game, with Bowser kidnapping Princess Toadstool. However, when Mario goes to Bowser’s Keep to save her, a giant sword made by the evil Smithy crashes into the castle and sends Mario, the … Continue reading “Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars”
Year: 1996
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
The world is called Deep Earth. The world is a huge underground complex of cities and labyrinths. The world is populated by people who have never seen the sky and the sun in their lives. The world is dark and hostile, and knows no mercy. Technology is well developed in this world, but the society … Continue reading “Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter”
Year: 2002
Platforms: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Ryu was a young boy who has memories of a strange village far away and a magical doorway which sucked him through. However those are only distant memories. Ryu and his best friend Bow are apprentices in the Ranger’s Guild. As adventurers they take on posted jobs needed by the townspeople. However it isn’t long … Continue reading “Breath of Fire II”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, SNES, Wii, Wii U
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Dragon Song is an installment in the long-running Japanese role-playing series Lunar. Delivery boy Jian Campbell gets caught up in a quest to save the world, after a monster fighting expedition with his friend Lucia becomes more dangerous than they had expected. The quest revolves around the four dragons who were sent by the goddess … Continue reading “Lunar: Dragon Song”
Year: 2005
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
This prequel to Lunar: The Silver Star begins in the same town of Burg hundreds of years earlier. Two teenage girls, Elie and Lena, set out to join the Magic School of Ien. There they meet new friends and go on lighthearted adventures around the world. Lunar is a traditional Japanese RPG, featuring random battles … Continue reading “Mahou Gakuen Lunar”
Year: 1997
Platforms: SEGA Saturn
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
This is the original version of the second title in Lunar series. The events of the game take place a hundred years after those of the first Lunar. You control Hiro, a young treasure hunter who likes exploring various caves and ruins with his trusty companion, the wise-cracking pink flying cat Ruby (who claims to … Continue reading “Lunar: Eternal Blue”
Year: 1994
Platforms: SEGA CD
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
This is a Nintendo DS remake of Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals for the Super Nintendo, featuring an alternate fighting style: instead of turn-based RPG elements like in its predecessor, it features real-time action. The basic story line is also similar to its SNES counterpart, but with variations at certain points that create a … Continue reading “Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals”
Year: 2010
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
The events of this game take place twenty-five years before those depicted in Fortress of Doom. You control a young man named Eldin. His father was a great treasure hunter who once ventured into ancient ruins and never came back. Eldin became a hunter himself, and is looking for an adventure together with his friends … Continue reading “Lufia: The Ruins of Lore”
Year: 2002
Platforms: Game Boy Advance
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
The third title of the Lufia series gives us an entirely new battle and dungeon system. All of the dungeons in this game are randomly generated, which can get annoying at times. Otherwise, it’s a lot like Lufia 2 in the dungeon department. You see the monsters, they move when you move and you can … Continue reading “Lufia: The Legend Returns”
Year: 2001
Platforms: Game Boy Color, Nintendo 3DS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Dungeon crawler, Japanese-style RPG (JRPG), Turn-based strategy