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Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, Yoshio Nishimura and Salvador Dalí's Japanese take on digital Gamebooks
Developer: Yoshio Nishimura - Digitalis Publishing
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A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV, the lone Western Final Fantasy spinoff where a young Noctis dreamt of unruly octopuses
Developer: Empty Clip
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Found in translation: how Front Mission Second's English patch was remade after its Remake
Despite being a decent success in Japan and sporting some rather awesome character designs by Wizardry veteran Jun Suemi, many Western fans over the…
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The life and suffering of physical gaming, between preservation issues, consumer rights and collector hermeneutics
While the issues around the looming end of physical support for the videogame medium in the console space aren’t specifically related to those videogame…
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Popful Mail, Falcom's side-scrolling hilarity that almost became the first Sonic RPG
Developer: Nihon Falcom
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Black Rock Shooter, from Hatsune Miku's choreography to a PSP alien apocalypse
Developer: Imageepoch
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Tobira no Densetsu, Denjirou Jr's sandbox journey through paintings and dreamscapes
Developer: Door
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Soul Calibur Legends, the siege of Vienna on Wii and how I discovered Charles V was a masked homunculus
Developer: Namco - Team Souls
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The overlooked art of Yoshitaka Amano - Part I: Elric of Melniboné, Sword World and Kure Software's experiments
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The art of Hitoshi Yoneda, a leap into the world of watercolor sci-fantasy
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The art of Jun Suemi, Wizardry's Japanese Dungeon Master
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How Gamefaqs changed RPG consumption - an history of RPG walkthroughs, from clue books and hearsay to the digital age
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My Substack journey after a hundred pieces, or the ongoing quest for RPG syncretism
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Nier's bittersweet anniversary and the woes of a franchise that couldn't stay niche
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