Back to normal Monday Updates about video games and stuff! Yay! Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Jetstream Sam DLC – I honestly haven’t played MGR:R since a few weeks ago. It wasn’t for lack of trying, but playing a JRPG tends...
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Tagged: JRPG
Yet another Wild Author appears! Eun Woo Chung, who I have never met in real life (must be the ocean between us), currently works in the South Korean Army. However, his true passion comes from observing and criticizing video games...
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As anyone knows, I’m a huge fan of JRPGs for a variety of reasons. If it isn’t the story-book qualities of Dragon Quest, or the turn-based/pseudo-real time combat of Final Fantasy (depends on your game), I cannot wrest myself from...
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Patrick Gann, in discussing my article The Japanese Style (Part 1), had this to say about my claims regarding Super Meat Boy: Super Meat Boy has achievements where you have to go through all 20 levels of a world with...
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I’m a fan of the Japanese style of video games. Though surely, to some degree, influence by Western culture and its social mores, Japanese developers still have a slew of unique characteristics that Western culture either doesn’t understand or totally...
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Since I’m still in the process of thinking what Saturdays will become, I figured I should make Saturdays a repository for Theology Gaming contributors and friends. Their work that wasn’t displayed here in its full glory will be linked so...
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Please welcome yet another guest contributor, Yann Wong. Yann writes on his own blog Redeemed Gamer, which focuses on video games and their theological themes (hey!). In his own words: This blog is written primarily for folks who consider themselves...
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TL;DR – Chrono Trigger was, and is, a fantastic and well-crafted Japanese role-playing experience. With the expertise and craft of Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yuji Horii at the helm, two luminaries of Japanese RPG design, each complements the other’s weaknesses, creating...
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10 “Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers? - Malachi 2 Wow, do I know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about CRPGs. It’s almost...
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It’s difficult to imagine my life without JRPGs – both my love for video games and my development as a Christian stem from them. Being a console gamer in my youth, there weren’t many choices for games other than platformer...
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