The best tactics RPGs that we’ve ever seen

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List by Matt S.  With the release of Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark this week, I’ve found myself musing over tactics JRPGs all week. It’s not a genre that we see that all that frequently, but is has been around for  many years now, and has, over that time, developed a…

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Retro reflections: Where the hell is a new Final Fantasy Tactics, Square Enix?

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Retro reflections by Matt S. The last couple of months has brought us a pretty substantial influx of tactics RPGs. On the Nintendo Switch there was the excellent port of the excellent Disgaea 5, the 3DS got a remake of one of the early Fire Emblems in Fire Emblem Echoes,…

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The 100 canonical games: 50-41

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There are thousands upon thousands of games that have been released over the years. Narrowing them down to a “top 100” was always going to be a challenge, but the whole DDNet team has come together to build a list of the 100 most canonical games that we feel all…

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The Friday Ten: The ten finest games to bear the Final Fantasy name

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List by Matt S.  It’s one of the most iconic names in the games industry. Square Enix needs only slap “Final Fantasy” on the box to almost guarantee to generate a fever hype behind the game. And Square Enix knows that all too well, which is why there is an…

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The Friday Ten: Ten of the finest Nintendo DS JRPGs

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The Nintendo DS was an absolute beast of a console when it came to JRPGs. The console itself was the first handheld that was really capable of 3D graphics and so the games, as primitive as they looked, did indeed look and play like modern games. And there were so…

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Friday 10s: The ten finest Nintendo DS JRPGs

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List by Matt S. Without a doubt the Nintendo DS was a JRPG powerhouse. Developers were able to create meaty, in-depth experiences for a relatively low cost on the console, making it perfect for cash-strapped JRPG houses. Coming up with a list of my favourite ten JRPGs for the little…

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