While many modern gamers find enjoyment within First-Person Shooters, fighting games, and even sports titles, not that many gamers are actually into role-playing games, especially of the Japanese influence. While there have been exceptions like Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star and a few others, JRPGs don't receive the attention they truly deserve within North America. NIS America has had a pretty good track record with releasing JRPGs within North America and they look to continue this trend with the release of the Ar Tonelico sequel, Ar Tonelico 2: Melody of Metafalica.
I (Robin Ek, TGG) was just informed that the Ar Tonelico 2 translation project (Project Metafalica) is now available for download. So don´t miss out on that one people.
I've long considered myself a JRPG fan, but for many years it was actually much more accurate to say that I was a Final Fantasy fan, devouring anything and everything Square-Enix put out with the Final Fantasy name on it. In the last couple of years or so, though, I've been exploring many of the less well-known delights of the genre, and making some wonderful, memorable discoveries in the process.
Gaming Target begins their alphabetical weeklong look at their favorite games from 2009.
