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These are the best 16-bit JRPGs for those who are nostalgia-starved or want to experience some of the genre's pioneering series.
Fallen Symphony is a retro-modern JRPG inspired by the golden era of the genre where a group of involuntarily heroes stumble upon a plot to change the course of history.
When I reviewed the original Octopath Traveler almost five years ago, I absolutely loved it. I was completely smitten with its art style, its spiritual and artistic connections to the 16-bit JRPGs ...
Chained Echoes, a lone developer’s love letter to classic SNES JRPGs, has launched day one on Xbox Game Pass.
This quality is a hallmark of what I call the era of “classic” 16-bit JRPGs in the tradition of the early Dragon Quests as well as Final Fantasies 1 through 6.
Of course this meant when a wave of indie developers made nostalgic 16-bit JRPG homages, they came from North Americans inspired by the SNES JRPG canon we Europeans mostly missed.
While we await more news on Final Fantasy 16's possible PC port, we can look forward to Atlus' upcoming JRPG Metaphor ReFantazio instead.
Whereas that game successfully channelled old-school Ninja Gaiden into a modern release, Sea of Stars hues more closely to the kind of 16-bit JRPGs like Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger that ...
Octopath Traveller is a turn-based JRPG that harkens back to Square Enix ’s golden age of 16-bit JRPGs with gorgeous HD-2D sprite artwork presented in a lush 3D world.
What better way to kick things off than with the GOAT? Conspicuously absent from consoles like Switch and PlayStation, this all-time great 16-bit JRPG is available on mobile devices and PCs.