You won't find it on Steam, Uplay, Origin or any other digital storefront. I want to talk about one of the best examples. There’s a sense that anything could happen. They shift radically in tone so seamlessly it leaves you wide-eyed in awe rather than suffering from whiplash. At their best, they turn the hoary old tropes of the hero’s journey into something both emotional and epic the mundane reality of battle into super-heroics. But when they get it “right”, there’s no other genre I find quite so gratifying. I sometimes struggle to articulate why I love them and their more esoteric qualities, or how I can overlook their pandering. Japanese role-playing games are a funny lot.
