JRPG

9 games reviewed, ranked by score.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

A turn-based RPG that parries you straight into grief

Watercolor war with a brutal trial-and-error streak

Gacha stripped out, tag-team combos left gloriously intact

Best story the spin-off's told, with nothing waiting past the credits

Wiring chain reactions that pay off, once the bugs settle

A trapped-room romance that earns its second-run reveal

The Midgar chapter earns it. The padding between does not.

A brilliant combat RPG drowning in checklist sludge

Paradigm-switching brilliance locked behind twenty hours of hallway