The Japanese RPG genre has been in a sticky spot for almost a decade now. The popularity of the genre has been declining as of late, and if people aren’t playing them these days then the genre is bound to disappear down the road. Though Nintendo, Atlus, NIS and MonolithSoft has been doing their best …
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The War on Gaming
This is something that I have wanted to write about for a long time now. I’ve wanted to write this since before I started visiting Playeressence and before this site was even created. This is something that I know that I know I’m going to get shit on for endlessly, so if you disagree with …
Is Anime Killing Video Games?
On the first week of September 2019, youtuber ConnorEatsPants posted a video showcasing his highlights during his reaction to the September 4th Nintendo Direct. Throughout the video, he constantly jabs at anime style video games announced in the direct as “weeb sh*t,” which has upset a couple of people from twitter. Connor responded to the …
Thoughts on the .hack Game Series?
So a few months ago, one of the guys at my local retro game store recommended a series to me as I was looking for another good game to add to my PS2 collection. That was the .hack game series, and I just recently picked up the anime .hack//Sign.
Tales of Phantasia review
alex9234’s Sunday Review Back with another review, and have decided to review a game from a system that I haven’t covered for a while – the Super Nintendo! Time to review the game that indirectly gave birth to TWO major game franchises – Tales and Star Ocean. Due to internal conflicts between Wolfteam (this game’s …
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