Where are the Japanese Tactical RPGs we grew up with?

There was a time when the majestic Tactical Role-Playing Game (TRPG) roamed the landscape and were abundant in numbers. Battle were fought and positions were held, even if it meant your forces falling in desperate battles.

That time was the 90s and while some may try to forget the decade of grunge bands, soul patches, and phrases like “da bomb,” we remember it fondly for its games.

These games haven’t vanished, but their numbers have been thinned — culled even — if only in the West to make way for shooters and AAA games with budgets larger than a small country.

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