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Welp, another JRPG is coming to devour my whole entire life as Trails in the Sky remake dev says you'll need about 80 hours to beat the game – twice as much as the original game

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter should take about 80 hours to clear

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Deltarune's beloved Spamton is everywhere and Persona 3 fans are turning Japan's real-life Port Island into a JRPG mural in this viral web app that's seeing pixel artists literally take over the world

Wplace.live lets you cover the world map in pixels, and people have been making some seriously impressive stuff

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This Final Fantasy 10 Easter egg is a reference to the JRPG the 2001 installment never became, and it's so obscure that even Square Enix forgot to include it in its remaster

Seventeen Angelic Impact x Devil's Shock never came to be

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio is "just the right size" for a "full-priced turn-based RPG," so don't expect its success to lead to AAA ambitions: "I'd prefer working as a small team"

Sandfall Interactive is happy as it is

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star says the French JRPG hasn't brought back turn-based combat as bangers like Octopath Traveler have been here all along: "I'm glad that people are discovering it again"

Final Fantasy 16's Ben Starr doesn't think the genre has gone anywhere

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 update removes immortality, finally adds the "Battle Retry" option I want in literally every JRPG from now on

The Pictos and Lumina menu also got a nice little tweak

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I loved Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and as a Final Fantasy fan, here's what the long-running JRPG series could learn from 2025's unexpected hit

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 brings some fresh air to the JRPG world. Final Fantasy should take some notes.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads follow up meeting their JRPG idols at Square Enix to exchange "visions and ideas" with praise from another genre icon over dinner: "My favorite game"

Sandfall Interactive developers have been busy

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Author responsible for JRPG icons like Shin Megami Tensei and Persona says Atlus game royalties aren't as big as you'd expect: "That's why people call me a novelist"

Aya Nishitani wrote Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei almost 40 years ago

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Final Fantasy 9 director goes full ape, says the JRPG's iconic Trance mechanic channels a Space Odyssey scene where apes use tools not as a new skill, "but rather a depiction of an ability they had always possessed being awakened"

Absolute cinema

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I can’t be the only one who desperately wants a Breath of Fire IV remake

I really, really want it to happen.

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Bravely Default's remaster is secretly the Switch 2's must-play RPG, but it's still flying under the radar

Opinion | Finally, a JRPG that understands how busy we all are

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Persona offers a new contender for silliest JRPG villain with Persona 5: The Phantom X and its "Subway Slammer," who declares "the whole subway's mine for the slammin'!"

Persona 5: The Phantom X has a rather different debut antagonist compared to Kamoshida

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Persona 6 hopefuls spiral as Sega reveals Persona 4 Revival isn't coming out before April 2026

"Persona 6 will come out after I'm dead on PS9"

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Atelier producer says the next game will "take a completely different direction" than the last one after mixed reviews, teases a more "old school" JRPG with turn-based combat

Sounds like Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian will be pretty different from Yumia

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After conquering Clair Obscur and Persona 3 Reload, I'm continuing my JRPG discovery journey with Final Fantasy 16 on Xbox – and I'm very impressed

Now Playing | Final Fantasy 16 might not be turn based, but it's teaching me a lot about the genre's fluidity

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After raising over $300,000, Kickstarter-funded JRPG love letter "is now on an indefinite pause" as studio closes down: "Know that we share your sorrow"

"The video game industry is currently going through a crisis"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs tease "new content" as they eye up "a wide range of future improvements" for their hit JRPG love letter

"It's very much on our radar"

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Hollow Knight: Silksong has its own GTA 6-like release date blast zone – "I hope Silksong will release this year coz we are avoiding them," says boss of lovely JRPG-flavored Metroidvania

Fallen Tear: The Ascension looks to dodge Hollow Knight: Silksong

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Another Suikoden game is coming to PC as Konami continues the JRPG's resurgence, but the monkey's paw curls: it's a free-to-play mobile gacha game

Suikoden Star Leap still doesn't have a release date, however

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Persona 4 Revival trailer uses Golden-exclusive content, suggesting we might be getting a remake of Atlus' expanded JRPG – unlike with Persona 3 Reload

Persona 4 Golden content could be in the remake

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn’t invent Final Frenchtasy or the J'RPG: the newly dubbed subgenre has a long and complicated history

Pas mal, non? C'est français.

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Former Persona 4 actors seemingly keep revealing a new JRPG remake from Atlus – by confirming they won't be in it: "I have not been asked to reprise my role"

The rumored Persona 4 remake feels more real than ever

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It's not just Final Fantasy and Persona – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is also inspired by my favorite JRPG gem Shadow Hearts, confirming a theory I've been sitting on for weeks

Judgment Ring, is that you?

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio already has "great ideas for the next game" after its debut release "smashed our forecasts pretty fast"

Expedition 33's producer "can't wait to dig more into the ideas we already have"

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