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Among early Japanese RPG artists working from the mid ‘80s to the early ‘90s, it’s quite common to see a marked influence of Western sword and sorcery and pulp aesthetic, amid other influences that gave each one their own unique stylistic and thematic traits.
Unbeknownst to most outside South Korea, the ‘90s saw the rise of a number of diverse and ambitious single-player PC RPG efforts from local developers, inspired by both contemporary Japanese titles, though often not the ones one would expect, and a number of Western design traits, mixed with some unique Korean flair.
Writing is love, both for the topics one ends up discussing and for the act of turning thoughts and theories into words and words into long-winded essays.
Developer: Yoshio Nishimura - Digitalis Publishing
A rhythm RPG's development, and the discipline of stripping inherited rules down to the parts that still hold.
Developer: Nihon Falcom
Developer: Namco - Team Souls
Today, the first (and last) DLC for Spiders’ swashbuckling fantasy RPG, Greedfall: The Dying World, a sequel to the multi-million seller Greedfall, was finally released.
Continuing my series on RPG towns by getting to the heart of the matter
[May the 4th Special] Reviewing one half of my favourite RPG ever made.
Quantity, as they say, can have a quality of its own, or at least that’s what I ended up thinking (rather self-indulgently, I admit) after I realized I had just published my hundredth long-form piece about videogame RPG history here on Substack.
Even fairly unique cultural contexts like RPG art can end up following broader economic trends, like with Turkish immigration contributing a fresh workforce to Western Germany's economic boom after the Third Reich’s defeat in the Second World War saw the death of millions of Germans under its arms.
Those invested in videogame RPGs have learned since the earliest days of this genre to expect tabletop RPGs being adapted into digital adventures, a trend whose most obvious exponents ended up being Dungeons & Dragons and a number of its campaign setting, like
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