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Xenoblade Chronicles JRPG trilogy gets Nintendo Switch 2 editions this year, and the first one is out today

Now it's Shulk time

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Best GameCube Games: 25 Essential Titles That Still Hold Up Today

The story goes that if you had a GameCube, you adored it. If you didn’t, you couldn’t understand the affection those who played the cube-shaped toybox lavished on it.

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director says fans will "see for themselves" if the JRPG remake trilogy links to Advent Children, though other Square Enix veterans may have spoiled that already

Nomura and Kitase have already let it slip

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's story changes based on your choices, but director Naoki Hamaguchi says the JRPG will have a "singular ending"

Square Enix didn't want to limit the final part of the trilogy to a "singular storytelling experience"

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Everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026

From Gears of War: E-Day to Persona 6, we've covered it all

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Hopes fly for a new Persona 4 Revival trailer as the JRPG remake gets another age rating ahead of Summer Game Fest and Xbox Games Showcase

Is it time to make history?

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One of the best games of the decade joins Chained Echoes and over 16 other JRPG love letters in this upcoming crossover

CrossCode is coming to Infinite Alliance

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An infamously useless Dragon Quest weapon that's been a series mainstay for 39 years owes its existence to a Famicom limitation, according to the JRPG series' creator

It's name contradicts its weakness, but you can thank the lack of Kanji for that

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Former Square Enix exec says backlash over Final Fantasy 6 AI mock-up shared by the JRPG series' creator "shows how far down the rabbit hole the madness goes"

The father of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, has since addressed the backlash himself

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Final Fantasy 6 remake AI slop wows series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, fellow JRPG veteran tells him to stop but agrees the game deserves the Final Fantasy 7 treatment

The AI got another one

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Persona 5 Royal lead says the JRPG series' growth might have "contributed to the recent spread of turn-based combat," but for Atlus, it's just "an expression of our game-design philosophy"

"For us, turn‑based elements are simply a means to an end"

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10 Best Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 RPGs to play in 2026

Discover all the best RPGs hiding on the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 today, from Xenoblade to Fire Emblem.

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Dragon Quest creator believes AI can make JRPG characters "feel even more human" and "listen to people's concerns with empathy," hopes to add it to "other series too"

Dragon Quest 10 is getting a chatbot made with Google

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Former Dragon Quest director says JRPG icon Yuji Horii taught him the series is "not about the storyline, the experience is what matters"

A lesson that was "drilled" into Jin Fujisawa

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'Tales of Eternia Remaster' Leaked by PEGI Rating, Hinting at Upcoming JRPG Revival For Nintendo Switch

PEGI rating leaks "Tales of Eternia Remastered", hinting at a Switch release and possible JRPG revival under Bandai Namco's remaster project.

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director has "no intention" of altering the OG JRPG writer's "overarching story," but small adjustments are needed for your "emotional engagement"

Naoki Hamaguchi assures it's "one of the aspects of development we were most sensitive about"

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Hopes for Persona 1 and 2 remakes crushed as Atlus mysteriously alters the JRPGs' new merch listings, despite seeming determined to tease a re-release

At least Persona 4 Revival is coming for sure

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As Kingdom Hearts 4 fans eagerly await an update, director Tetsuya Nomura celebrates the classic JRPG's 24th anniversary by telling everyone to check in next year

Square Enix serves up gourmet crumbs

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's lead writer "never even considered" a true, happy ending for the hit RPG

Whichever one you prefer, you are correct

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The final Trails game will be announced in 2031 and released in 2032, Falcom president confirms, so you have 6 years to catch up on 1000 hours of JRPGs

The ending of the 22-year-old Trails series has already been decided

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Clair Obscur Expedition 33 took inspiration from a surprising anime - Soul Eater creator's Fire Force: "Because it was a JRPG, we tried to find a mix"

"Guillaume was like, let's do more of that, and it shaped the direction of the game"

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Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection review: "This Pokemon-like creature-collecting JRPG evolves to almost match the highs of the main series' hunts"

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First Persona, now Nier Automata - Overwatch is collecting the JRPG crossover icons like Infinity Stones, but fans aren't happy the same heroes keep getting skins

"Think of the poor Kiriko mains who went 5 seconds without a skin"

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Monster Hunter Stories 3 will take 30-50 hours to finish the main story, and the JRPG's devs want you to "feel satisfied" with the plot instead of just dragging you straight to the endgame

Demo players have already proven there's a lot more to do than main quests, though

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Nier Automata "to be continued," Square Enix says, giving stunned fans some hope as the Yoko Taro-led JRPG flies past 10 million copies sold

Nier Automata 2B continued

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