RPGs Coming This Week, 1/8/23

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And we’re again! It’s a brand new 12 months and whereas the RPG releases went by a little bit of a lull in the course of the holidays, we’re again on monitor with two new video games, an intensive new content material bundle for a giant sport and a port. Let’s get into the RPGs coming this week!

Last Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Patch 6.3 – Gods Revel, Lands Tremble – January tenth (PS5, PS4, Home windows, macOS)

Last Fantasy XIV: Endwalker gamers, your journey isn’t over. Patch 6.3 will carry a bevy of latest content material, together with predominant and facet story quests, raids, dungeons, and high quality of life upgrades. If you wish to know the nitty-gritty particulars (right down to essentially the most minute changes to animations), Sq. Enix posted a listing of preliminary patch notes that you may learn by.

Oh, I’m not crying. My eyes are simply watering on the quantity of content material I must get by to meet up with everybody else.

Path of the Midnight Solar – January tenth (Home windows)

Right here’s an indie turn-based JRPG with a novel origin story. Path of the Midnight Solar began growth as a romhack of Hearth Emblem: The Sacred Stones earlier than blossoming into its personal distinctive factor. And what a factor it’s; hand-drawn illustrations and animations, voice appearing, in depth relationship administration choices, and a meaty 30-hour runtime scream excessive manufacturing values, making this sport one to regulate. It’s wishlistable on Steam. (Is “wishlistable” a phrase? Now it’s.)

One Piece Odyssey – January thirteenth (PS5, PS4, XSX, Home windows)

Of all of the RPGs coming this week, One Piece Odyssey must be the one most poised to make a splash. I imply, it’s beautiful, it seems polished, it sports activities some distinctive mechanics, and it options some energetic turn-based fight. It’s launching throughout a comparatively quiet time of 12 months as effectively, so I hope the heavenly our bodies align and this will get the eye it deserves.

Additionally Coming This Week

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot – January thirteenth (PS5, XSX)

Talking of anime video games, we’re getting Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot once more for current-gen! We thought it was enjoyable, if just a little janky. Bandai Namco guarantees to make good use of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X with a 4K decision, 60-fps efficiency, shorter load instances, and extra graphical particulars, so perhaps it’ll play just a little higher than it used to. Homeowners on PS4 and Xbox One will get to improve free of charge, so benefit from that!

As I write this, I’m ending off a heat cup of genmaicha and having fun with the comparatively cool January air. The Silent Hill 2 soundtrack is enjoying within the background. Life is nice, however I prefer to remind myself about its horrors on occasion. And that’s what I wish to impart on all of you immediately, on this version of RPGs Coming This Week.

I’m kidding. SH2 simply makes for efficient work and research music.