Creating an old-fashioned role-playing game that reminds fans of the classics they loved as kids seems like it would be a simple matter. You'd expect dated-looking graphics, a streamlined structure, ...

The latest adventure from Tokyo RPG Factory has arrived, and once again players have been granted access to a school of game design that hearkens back to the glory days of the JRPG genre. Like with ...

Michael Ruiz is a Senior Staff Writer at DualShockers. He likes video games. He likes wrestling. He likes beer. He likes music. Fast forward just a year and a half later, Tokyo RPG Factory's sophomore ...

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, is working on a new title called Lost Sphear featuring classic RPG gameplay. This week’s issue of Famitsu magazine shares more on its story and characters. This world is created by memories. As ...

Lost Sphear may be be a nostalgia-saturated throwback to classic Japanese role-playing games, but that doesn’t mean it’s a completely predictable (or easily understood) game. Even in homage, it has ...

Many would say that the SNES and Super Famicom era of Japanese role playing games (JRPGs) was one of the best in the almost 50 years that video games have been around on the planet. Square Enix – then ...

Last time out, Tokyo RPG Factory (as foreshadowing as names get it turns out) pulled off a nice balance between JRPG nostalgia, and a touch of modern flair with I Am Setsuna. This time, with Lost ...

When I wrote my I Am Setsuna review back in 2016, I was actually genuinely surprised to see my fellow reviewers didn’t cozy up to the first effort from Tokyo RPG Factory as much as I did. I thought it ...

Lost Sphear is a more ambitious JRPG than its predecessor, yet it risks abandoning its purpose to return to the genre's simpler days. In most video games we play the role of restorer. The world we ...