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Game » consists of 16 releases. Released Jul 19, 1991
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.
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.
Betrayal is when a person breaks the trust and faith that others have placed in them.
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.
Women in Refrigerators (or "Fridging" for short) is an unfortunately popular plot device in storytelling where female characters are killed off or brutally harmed for the sole purpose of having an impact on a male character. The term was coined by comic book writer Gail Simone.
Frequently used in 16-bit and 32-bit era JRPGs, this is when an NPC is rendered at a height similar to the player's character(s) while not in combat, but when transitioning to combat they become huge.
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.
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!
PSone Classics are titles that were initially released for the original PlayStation, and re-released digitally for later PlayStation hardware.
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 sequel (also called a follow-up) is a game that carries forward the gameplay concepts, and often the story, of a previous game to which it is officially linked.
Games officially verified by Valve to be fully playable on Steam Deck.
Popularized by Square Enix's Dragon Quest series, a Textcalibur is when a sword (or other weapon) appears in the game's title in place of one of the letters, usually the T or the I.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
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.
A legendarily tough and rare enemy in the Final Fantasy series. Even though in some incarnations its appearance differs wildly, in most cases it resembles its initial incarnation from the original game.
Knights in white or shiny silver armor. The term "White Knight" is often used to denote an exceptionally noble or chivalrous individual, synonymous with the similar descriptor of "Knight in Shining Armor". Despite this, not all White Knights in fiction are heroes...
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