Ryan Costa

Oct 23, 2024 | rpgamer.com | Ryan Costa

An Unsinkable ShipLong heralded, the Ys franchise has been around for decades, providing action RPG enjoyment to fans like clockwork. While developer Nihon Falcom’s The Legend of Heroes series is where it primarily shows off its narrative chops, Ys has also benefitted from the expansiveness of modern storytelling, and its latest title Ys X: Nordics is no different. Like Adol, there’s a sense of revelry in being an adventure.

Sep 11, 2024 | rpgamer.com | Ryan Costa

The combat is almost there, adding a few more skills while taking away some cooldowns to make things stay snappy and fresh enough to find an audience. Sensibilities in video games change frequently as time goes on. Gaming genres have had to grow and adapt to survive, particularly if they want to keep hold of players. This is all especially true with MMORPGs.  With this in mind New World: Aeternum tries to revamp itself and inject fresh life into the game.

Sep 9, 2024 | rpgamer.com | Ryan Costa

Welcome to Adventure Corner, a column where members of the RPGamer staff can give their thoughts, impressions, and pseudo-reviews for various adventure titles that don’t come under our usual coverage. Adventure Corner is aimed at delivering opinions on a wide range of titles including visual novels, point-and-click adventures, investigative mysteries, and so forth. In this edition of the column we take a look at the sci-fi point-and-click visual novel Times & Galaxy on PC.

Jul 27, 2024 | rpgamer.com | Ryan Costa

Lost in TranslationThe world has become a very creative place. As creativity grows so does globalization to make these works available to anyone. RPGs continuously find new ways to push the boundaries of storytelling. However, translation gaffes still come through that cause immeasurable harm to games that may otherwise find solid footing.

Jun 27, 2024 | rpgamer.com | Ryan Costa

Sally Forth Brave AdventurersThe video game industry is constantly shifting. As an entertainment medium it has only been around for half a century, and yet, even the earliest of titles have grand legacies. Wizardry has been around since 1981, dazzling audiences with a tabletop-style dungeon crawl brought to life. Digital Eclipse has elected to bring back these early days of gaming with a remake of classic turn-based dungeon crawler Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord.