Matt Karoglou

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When I got the chance to preview Reptilian Rising just a couple of months ago, what stood out most to me was the game’s unique identity. Turn-based tactics roguelikes aren’t exactly anything new, but what Reptilian Rising was bringing to the table (both literally and figuratively) was — here was a board game and tabletop RPG-inspired tactics game with a cool toybox aesthetic and story that felt like a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi play on

It takes a little bit of bravery and a whole lot of guts to make a game that so openly evokes Mega Man X as one of its primary inspirations. The second that a game references Capcom’s legendary 1993 SNES spin-off (and its many sequels), its developers are inviting comparisons to one of the most beloved and legendary action-platformers ever made. And, occasionally, those comparisons are less than flattering. After all, try as it might, how could another game stack up to the likes of

You ever play a game and get so blown away by the concept that you’re maybe willing to overlook some of its more obvious faults? That’s the position I find myself in with Vultures: Scavengers of Death, the turn-based tactics-and-survival-horror hybrid from the aptly named Team Vultures.

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The spiritual successor to Tactics Ogre and quite possibly the greatest Final Fantasy spin-off of all time, Final Fantasy Tactics is Square’s other PS1 masterpiece from 1997. The title would release in the wake of Final Fantasy VII ‘s breakthrough success on the PlayStation, earning it a significantly larger audience than it would have otherwise. The game was initially conceptualized by Yasumi Matsuno after finishing his work on both Ogre Battle