The main line of Namco's Babylonian Castle Saga of groundbreaking role-playing and action games wraps up with something out of left field.
The black sheep of the original Phantasy Star games is loaded with ambition and skill, but it's the odd one out for a reason, too.
The original Playstation 2 version of Yakuza remains fun, but it's the idiosyncratic bits that stand out 18 years later.
Some great, new ideas that don't quite land.
Or, The Tower of Babel, as it was originally known in Japan, where it stayed for nearly 40 years before finally releasing worldwide on Nintendo Switch Online.
Super Metroid took the spirit of the original's mood-setting music, added its own unsettling atmosphere, but left enough space for a metal band to thrive on the sound.
One of the few Goemon games to ever make it out of Japan is also a classic.
The rare NES game that didn't get a Japanese release. Or any other since its initial one
The Ace Attorney series spun out a more adventure-based outing featuring a beloved prosecutor back in 2009, but it's never received the same kind of constant re-releases as its cousins.
Toaplan closed down in March of 1994, but the employees split off into a number of studios that kept their spirit, and history of innovation, alive.
Regardless of which name you're using, it signaled a change in Toaplan's shoot 'em ups, which would become fully realized only with the legendary successor studio, Cave.
Toaplan's action games often had puzzle elements to them, so of course they eventually made an actual puzzle title.
