Breath of Fire

Breath of Fire

Developer: Capcom     Publisher: Square Soft    Released: 08/10/94    Genre: RPG Capcom is one of the most versatile developers in the world. From platformers to shooters and fighting games in their heyday they covered nearly every genre. The one notable...
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Drakkhen

Drakkhen

Developer: Infogrames     Publisher: Kemco/Seika     Released: 1991     Genre: RPG It was an unwritten law that RPGs were usually the last genre to release for a new platform. By their very nature role playing games take longer to develop and...
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Final Lap Twin

Final Lap Twin

Developer: Namco     Publisher: NEC     Released: 1990     Genre: Racing In the long and storied history of the game industry the Car RPG (or Carpg for short) is one of the least explored. Developers have turned the most unlikely activities into a....
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Shadow Hearts

Shadow Hearts

Developer: Sacnoth    Publisher: Midway    Release: 12/12/01   Genre: RPG One of my biggest disappointments with the RPG genre has always been its steadfast reliance on either a fantasy or sci-fi setting. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good Final...
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Valkyrie Profile

Valkyrie Profile

Developer: Tri-Ace    Publisher: Enix    Release: 08/29/00    Genre: RPG Valkyrie Profile is one of the most unique RPGs ever released. It has nothing to do with its setting; plenty of games crib from Norse mythology. No, Valkyrie Profile innovates by....
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Parasite Eve II

Parasite Eve II

Developer: Square    Publisher: Square EA    Release: 09/12/00   Genre: Action RPG Parasite Eve is one of my favorite PlayStation games of all time. At a time when Square were rapidly expanding off the back of Final Fantasy VII it...
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Time Stalkers

Time Stalkers

Developer: Climax    Publisher: Sega    Release: 03/28/00    Genre: RPG Rpgs on the Dreamcast were few and far between, at least in the US.  While I would have loved to play titles like Langrisser Millennium and Sorcerian I knew they wouldn’t...
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Azure Dreams

Azure Dreams

Developer: KCET    Publisher: Konami    Release: 06/30/98   Genre: RPG Konami were on a bit of a hot streak in terms of RPGs on the PlayStation. Suikoden beat the odds and was successful in 1996 while Vandal Hearts was a...
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The Magic of Scheherazade

The Magic of Scheherazade

Developer: Culture Brain    Publisher: Culture Brain    Released: 1989    Genre: RPG I never knew what to make of Culture Brain. Where Capcom and Konami had signature brands everyone associated them with as well as arcade ports Culture Brain were just...
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Parasite Eve

Parasite Eve

There was a lot of anticipation for Square’s next releases after Final Fantasy VII.  Saga Frontier was interesting but like most of Akitoshi Kawazu’s games was impenetrable to the masses.  The fall of 1998 would see a quartet of higher...
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