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1 month ago | 
rpgfan.com | Zach Wilkerson |Wes Iliff |Paul Skevington |Michael Sollosi
Tales titles are typically reliable RPG comfort food. You go on a journey for a few dozen hours, get to know a group of quirky anime teenagers, and save the world while navigating a world full of color and made-up nonsense words that explain the settingās unification of technology and magic.
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1 month ago | 
rpgfan.com | Zach Wilkerson |Paul Skevington |Wes Iliff |Michael Sollosi
Article / Highlight · Podcast · Retro Encounterby , , and on March 13, 2025I’ve traveled back in time from next week. Please listen to this episode. This week on Retro Encounter, the panel gets back together to discuss the second half of Tales of Graces f. Our discussion ranges from the increasingly excellent combat, the less than excellent dungeon design, and the good, the bad and the ugly of the Future Arc. Which game would we like to see get the remaster treatment next?
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1 month ago | 
rpgfan.com | Zach Wilkerson |Wes Iliff |Michael Sollosi |Paul Skevington
Article / Highlight · Podcast · Retro Encounterby , , and on February 27, 2025We have to look for the podcast, Cheria. It’s the only way. On this week’s Retro Encounter we get together to talk about the first half of Tales of Graces f, a game renowned for its combat system, and maybe less so for its storytelling.
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2 months ago | 
rpgfan.com | Mike Salbato |Hilary Andreff |Michael Sollosi |Gio Castillo
It’s time for Music of the Year! 2024 was absolutely stacked with game releases. Some even felt it was one of the all-time best years in gaming. And the side effect of a year filled with excellent games means a year of excellent soundtracks. For this annual special, we let each panelist bring on three songs. Even so, how did we pick just nine today? It wasn’t easy.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
rpgfan.com | Michael Sollosi
Article / Highlight · Podcast · Retro Encounterby and on January 2, 2025“Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.”In a reminiscence-heavy episode of Retro Encounter, four panelists discuss the podcast’s origin story, recording process, and favorite episodes and memories of nearly ten years of podcasting.
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Michael Sollosi
Article / Highlight · Podcast · Retro Encounterby , , , and on December 28, 2024Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. 2024 is (finally) behind us, and there is plenty to talk about. In one of the strongest years for RPGs in recent memory, five Retro Encounter panelists bring ten games to show and tell in discussing a few of their favorite RPGs of the calendar year.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Michael Sollosi
Do you remember the experience that solidified your love of video games? For me, it was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo. When released in the early days of the SNES, it exemplified everything this new generation of 16-bit gaming could be. Building on everything found in the original The Legend of Zelda for the NES, ALTTP refined the formula of dungeon diving for progression items to a masterful degree.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Michael Sollosi
Article / Highlight · Podcast · Retro Encounterby , , and on December 19, 2024Life is like a hurricane / Here in TownburgDragon Quest III’s open-ended exploration and high-stakes story comes to a conclusion for our four intrepid panelists, who struggled through volcanoes, ghosts, and unchecked capitalism to obtain the six orbs and take on Dragon Quest III’s final run of antagonists.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Michael Sollosi
Article / Highlight · Podcast · Retro Encounterby , , and on December 12, 2024A podcast episode appears! Dragon Quest III was a blockbuster success in Japan in 1988, and its nonlinear progression, fun job system, and spirit of adventure influenced every Dragon Quest game to come. DQ3 also has a shiny new 2024 HD-2D remaster, and today on Retro Encounter different panelists play the NES 1988 and 2024 versions to compare, contrast, and celebrate this landmark Japanese RPG.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
rpgfan.com | Michael Sollosi |Tin Manuel |Zach Wilkerson
Article / Highlight · Podcast · Retro Encounterby , and on December 9, 2024“My favorite book is Moby Dick; no symbolism, just a simple tale about a man who hates an animal.”Metaphor: ReFantazio is one of 2024’s most acclaimed RPGs, about a royal succession that spirals out of control into a struggle for the soul of the world’s people. Clashes of ideologies, dramatic character turns, and robust combat and job systems are highlights of this modern classic.
