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Tales of Hearts R: Infinite Evolve, or what an old sidegame can tell us about its series' history and current woes
Developer: Namco Tales Studio - Seventh Chord
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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 decades ended up treating Front Mission Second as a sort of afterthought, if not as the red-headed stepchild of Toshiro Tsuchida’s mecha-based sci-fi tactical JRPG franchise.
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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 RPGs I usually discuss on this platform, my Substack’s focus on videogame history, not to mention my own thoughts as a videogame collector and preservation enthusiast, mean this is a topic I want to address
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The art of Shinobu Tanno, a Vandalier in Parros
In the long history of artists contributing to the aesthetic trajectory of videogame RPGs, there are a few instances where one can observe the same trend that already affected classic art for centuries, with young painters learning from the masters and building their own manieristic islands by preserving their style while slowly improving on it in a variety