Ever cyclical, the film industry uses up movie genres like Kleenex, crumpling and tossing them away until audiences are ready for a fresh box. Sword-and-sandal epics. Buddy-cop pics. Gross-out teen ...

As many of you may know from reading my past articles, I'm a huge advocate of Japanese RPGs. I'm quick to defend the genre, but I'm also not unreasonable about its flaws, even though what constitutes ...