Christian Bognar is a Contributor at DualShockers with over three years of experience covering the gaming industry. Since 2022, he has written guides and reviews for publications including ...

During a talk at the Korean gaming conference G-Star 2025, Katsura Hashino — director of Metaphor: ReFantazio and the last three mainline Persona games — expressed his vision for the future of JRPGs.

For a long time, every JRPG was automatically associated with turn-based gameplay. If it had anime characters, a fixed cast, and turn-based combat, then it was automatically labeled a JRPG. I won't ...