And while Ni No Kuni wasn't written by anyone at Ghibli, Akihiro Hino, who worked on games such as Dark Cloud, Dragon Quest 8 and 9, and the Professor Layton series, managed to hit the same heartwarming notes. The makers of such beloved movies as My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away were involved in Ni No Kuni's creation, producing its animated cutscenes. With Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch a game finally captured the trademark charm of Studio Ghibli. Release date: 2019 | Developer: Level-5 | Steam Read more: What makes a great anime game Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch But more than just the visuals, it's the feeling of a grand adventure in faraway lands complete with everything from pirates to dragons and mysterious magical forces that makes Tales of Vesperia such a great JRPG.

Tales of Vesperia also features fairly classic 2D visuals, with characters designed by mangaka Kousuke Fujishima and cutscenes by popular animation studio Production I.G.

Its protagonists are a group of lovable misfits who for the most part just happen across each other, the battle system is a mix between turn-based and real-time, and there's a traditional kaleidoscopic fantasy world to explore. Read more: EVO 2019's best story was the unstoppable rise of Pakistani Tekken player Arslan Ash The best anime JRPGs Tales of Vesperia – Definitive Editionīandai Namco's Tales series has introduced us to plenty of worlds that need saving since 1995's Tales of Phantasia, but Tales of Vesperia, originally released as an Xbox 360 exclusive in 2008, stands out thanks to the way it hits that old school JRPG sweet spot. Well, that and to watch over-the-top cutscenes where Heihachi kicks missiles back at the people who shot them.ĭeveloped for PC, and with a boisterously thriving online community dedicated to the platform, Tekken 7 is a fighting game worth dedicating hours and hours of your life to. (The fact it then sells frame data display as DLC is ridiculous, of course.) It's honest about its difficulty though, treating story mode as a tutorial because it knows most people play story mode to learn how to play. Tekken 7 expects you to learn punishes and staple combos, to pay attention to frame data. Tekken 7 has assists and autocombos, but enabling them takes away buttons you need for other moves. Release date: 2017 | Developer: Bandai Namco Studios | Steam

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