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When someone is androgynous, they have a mix of masculine and feminine aspects, or they have the appearance of being in between male and female. A common aesthetic in Japanese media and games.
An enemy from multiple Final Fantasy games that is usually a fast beast that resembles a canine. Its name comes from the Lewis Carroll poem Jabberwocky.
The ability to save a cartridge-based game to the cartridge. The battery is usually good for tens of thousands of saves, and made ridiculously long character passwords obsolete.
A type of video game ending common in the 8-bit era where characters are just... hanging out on a cliff, usually looking into the distance in a resolute manner.
A specific number that briefly floats above an enemy after an attack which displays the exact amount of damage the attack has done.
After the cancellation of E3 2020 due to COVID-19, E3 returned as a digital-only event taking place from June 12-15.
These games were popular enough to warrant an anime, whether it was a full television series, an OVA (original video animation), or a feature-length movie.
Grid-based movement limits players, and other entities in a game, to moving through the game world in increments of whole squares on a grid. It has been a common staple of turn-based strategy games since the earliest board games of antiquity. It was also used by early RPGs.
Description of an healing spell that works over time, that is it brings small chunks of health repeatedly within a certain time-frame.
The Hecteyes is a frequent enemy in the Final Fantasy series. It's a pile of goo with a lot of eyes. Hecteyes can usually inflict the party with many different status ailments.
A heavily armored soldier in the service of a lord or cause. Typically a champion of good and a defender of the innocent.
Mercenaries, Soldiers for Hire, have been found fighting in conflicts since the dawn of human warfare. These hired guns show a desire to turn their talent in the art of death to a more profitable profession.
You're minding your own business looting well-earned containers and chests, but instead of gold or jewels or weapons, out jumps a deadly monster from inside the box!
By definition, a pirate is a (mostly naval) robber without commission from a sovereign nation. While maritime robbery has been around since ancient times, Piracy had its highpoint during the 17th century. They are easily identified by the "Jolly Roger", which is the traditional name of the famous skull flag.
PlayStation Plus is a premium PlayStation Network subscription service.
The PlayStation TV is a media streaming device based on the PS Vita. It can play many (though not all) Vita game cards, as well as supporting some PSN games and PS4 Remote Play.
The ability to take direct control of another person's body, or an inanimate object, in order to further your own goals. Usually an ability found only in spectral characters.
PSone Classics are titles that were initially released for the original PlayStation, and re-released digitally for later PlayStation hardware.
Rabbits, or bunnies, are smallish mammals with long ears and a cottony tail.
A boss that players fight multiple times throughout the game. They usually follow the player as they progress.
Retroachievements is a community created and curated site that adds Achievements and Online Leaderboards for supported emulators and platforms like Raspberry Pi
Many games feature a story which involves saving the world and its inhabitants, often single handedly.
A gameplay mechanic in many RPGs and action RPGs today is the idea of silencing a foe or being silenced. Usually shown as a debuff, this causes the subject to be unable to cast spells for a period of time.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
Otherwise ordinary trees that possess the ability of speech.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
Unit Formations are pre-set ways of laying out a group(s) of units in strategy games.
In order to circumvent various obstacles, some protagonists must travel through ventilation systems.
A fanfare played at the end of a battle in which the player is victorious.
The Virtual Console is a platform service that first appeared on Nintendo's Wii and later on the 3DS and Wii U. Games from past consoles are emulated to run on the new hardware with the added benefits of system-level save states and other features.
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