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Twenty-five years ago Empress Endora conquered the entire continent of Zetegenia. Her reign proved to be tyrannical, and people of different social classes and positions began to long for a better future. Eventually, a resistance movement called the Liberation Army was formed. The protagonist (whose name and background are chosen by the player) takes command … Continue reading “Ogre Battle”
Year: 1993
Platforms: PlayStation, SEGA Saturn, SNES, Wii, Wii U
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Vandal Hearts is a turn-based strategy RPG. It follows a fixed plot-line with set battles, focusing more on strategic elements than adventure elements. The combat takes place in a series of 3D grid based maps and each character in the party has a certain amount of movements they can perform each turn. As the game progresses, … Continue reading “Vandal Hearts”
Year: 1996
Platforms: PlayStation, SEGA Saturn, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is the second game in the PlayStation exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man series, following Marvel’s Spider-Man (2018). It is centered around Miles Morales, a fictional comic book superhero who becomes Spider-Man as a Black teenager of Puerto Rican ancestry on his mother’s side, following the death of Peter Parker. The game handles it differently compared to the original … Continue reading “Marvel Spider Man: Miles Morales”
Year: 2020
Platforms: Playstation 5
Genre: Action
Theme: Sandbox / open world, Stealth
Demon’s Souls is an action RPG focusing on brutal hack-and-slash gameplay in a fantasy world and a high difficulty level with few introductions. It is a remake of the 2009 game of the same name. It stays faithful to the original vision, only adding smaller additions and changes to the gameplay, but visually redone entirely including new … Continue reading “Demon’s Souls”
Year: 2020
Platforms: Playstation 5
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG, Hack and slash
Eamon was one of the earliest role-playing games available for the Apple II. It was also perhaps the first ever adventure game construction set. The game was public domain, so it was mainly distributed in Apple user groups and by trading with friends. The main game consists of the Eamon Master disk, which has the Main … Continue reading “Eamon: Beginner’s Cave”
Year: 1979
Platforms: Apple II
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Dog Star Adventure is a text adventure game inspired by Star Wars. In the commercial TRS-80 release all references to Star Wars have been changed. Princess Leia has changed to Leya, Darth Vader to General Doom, Stormtroopers to Roche Soldiers, the Rebel Alliance to Forces of Freedom, etc. In the Commodore PET conversion, most (but not … Continue reading “Death Planet: The Dog Star Adventure”
Year: 1979
Platforms: Commodore PET/CBM, TRS-80
Genre: Adventure
An interactive text adventure that finds you on an island near an abandoned house. The goal is to collect seven different treasures and then deposit them in the safe or prescribed area. You can read my review and experience with Burial Ground Adventure HERE
Year: 1979
Platforms: TRS-80
Genre: Adventure
The sequel to Dungeon Campaign takes graphical role-playing games on a very early foray to the great outdoors, with extra enhancements and added game mechanics inspired by the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. Wilderness Campaign is another turn-based affair set in a fantasy world, this time starring a party of adventurers on a mission to save the once-prosperous realm of Draconia from … Continue reading “Wilderness Campaign”
Year: 1979
Platforms: Apple II
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Rudy is a fifteen-year-old orphan who discovers that he has been endowed with the ability of using powerful forbidden weapons called ARMs (Ancient Relic Machines); forced to use an ARMs technique when fighting a demon, he is cast out of his home village. Jack is a treasure hunter who is seeking for an ancient device … Continue reading “Wild Arms”
Year: 2020
Platforms: Android, PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 3
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
In Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee Abe shut down RuptureFarms and saved his buddies from becoming snacks. But Rupture farms was just the beginning; the Glukkons are digging up bones at the ancient Mudokon burial grounds. They use the bones to make Soul Storm Brew. Abe must travel to the Soul Storm Brewery, stop those corporate villains and save … Continue reading “Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus”
Year: 1998
Platforms: PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, Windows
Theme: Platform