February 2009
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Famicom Chip-Love
Composer Yuzo Koshiro has seen the games industry through its infancy to its present incarnation. Beginning with the action RPG series Ys, through ActRaiser and the Streets of Rage series, he is probably one of the most diverse composers in games in terms of adaptability and variety of musical style. Most recently, he was behind the soundtracks for both Etrian Odyssey I and II for the DS.
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Just petals in the wind...
I grew up in the city; lived here all my life. It may or may not be related, but I’ve always had dreams of flying. Soaring up, beyond the buildings and into a limitless sky. There’s a certain kind of resonance then, on a personal level, that I have with the dreams of the city-bound potted ones in That Game Company’s Flower.
To back-track, Jenova Chen and fellow developers have...
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The Grind
Roleplaying Games belong to a vast genre that spans a good variety of media: table-top dungeon romps, epic linear adventures, free-form character development sandboxes, or flailing at eachother in fields. Aside from the latter, a relatively new blog that’s popped up at 1up.com called The Grind aims to cover the best of what RPGs have to offer.
Headed up by Jeremy Parish — an online...