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Tokyo Xanadu is a part based action role-playing game set in a fictional Morimiya City set in the suburb of Tokyo. In 2005, an earthquake devastated Tokyo claiming thousands of lives. 10 years into the future, the area has been reconstructed and enhanced to endure high magnitude earthquakes, and people have all but forgotten about the … Continue reading “Tokyo Xanadu”
Year: 2015
Platforms: PS Vita
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
Ao no Kiseki is a sequel to The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki and continues the story of Lloyd Bannings, Elie MacDowel, Tio Plate and Randy Orlando, leading characters we got to know in the previous game. The game continues the next chapter in Crossbell State while introducing new menace which will lead the … Continue reading “The Legend of Heroes: Trails To Azure”
Year: 2011
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PSP, PlayStation 4, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki is a direct sequel to The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd and follows the story which starts several months after the events in that game. The story takes place in Crossbell City where light and darkness are together and places the player in a … Continue reading “The Legend of Heroes: Trails From Zero”
Year: 2010
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PSP, PlayStation 4, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Half a year after the events of Trails in the Sky Second Chapter, Liberl has settled into peace once again—but even during peaceful times, there are many among the distinguished and fortunate burning with greed thanks to the influence of ancient artifacts. Most of the population remains unaware of their abuses of power, but to the … Continue reading “The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd”
Year: 2008
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
The coup d’état that threatened to shake the foundation of the Liberl Kingdom has now come to a close and Her Majesty the Queen’s birthday celebrations are in full swing throughout the streets of Grancel. During that same night, a boy who vowed to make amends for his past disappeared before the girl he loved. … Continue reading “The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC”
Year: 2007
Platforms: PS Vita, PSP, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Song of the Ocean is the third installment in Nihon Falcom’s RPG PSP trilogy, a third remake based on the games in the early nineties. Despite the number 3 (as the third part of the Gagharv Trilogy), it is in fact a remake of the fifth title in the series, Umi no Oriuta. This part … Continue reading “The Legends of Heroes III: Song of the Ocean”
Year: 2006
Platforms: PSP
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
The Legend of Heroes is old-school JRPG with new-school sensibilities and graphics. The old-school elements of the game are its turn-based combat, linearity, long dialogue scenes, a digital pet system and lots of similar things that seem to date from the 1995-ish RPG era. There are no random fighting encounters however. In this game you … Continue reading “The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion”
Year: 2005
Platforms: PSP
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
The game opening quickly introduces us to Jurio and Chris, two teenagers who are just about old enough to set on the pilgrimage to five shrines, thus proving to themselves, in a traditional way to their village, that they have become adults. But that is far from their final goal as their task will become … Continue reading “The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch”
Year: 2004
Platforms: PSP
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
In Legend of Xanadu, the player controls a young adventurer named Areios. Monsters attack his homeland, and he is forced to flee. After traveling by ship and arriving at the town Bolda, Areios finds out that strange things have been happening in the North Cave near the town. His first mission will be to venture to … Continue reading “The Legend of Xanadu”
Year: 1994
Platforms: DOS, TurboGrafx CD, Wii
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes tells the story of a young prince named Selios. One day his old teacher Raiyas sends him to a nearby cave to retrieve a magic weapon. When the prince returns, he finds the house attacked by monsters. Raiyas tells him to seek help in the castle of a baron, … Continue reading “Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes”
Year: 1989
Platforms: DOS, FM Towns, Genesis, MSX, Nintendo Switch, PC-88, PC-98, SNES, Sharp X68000, TurboGrafx CD, Wii, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy