The Daunting Sagas of Gaming (AKA calm down RGG Studio / Falcom)
This is my first blog post in well over a decade, after I totally erased my extremely embarassing late 2000's blog. I have no idea how or why that thing was still live. Anyway, I'm here to have a ramble about something that's been on my mind for a few years now - very long video game series with interconnected lore that get new entries far too regularly . Don't get me wrong, I love me some long-running franchises with ridiculously complex lore. I'm an unabashed fan of Kingdom Hearts! But there's one thing Tetsuya Nomura and company aren't - efficient. It's been how many years since Kingdom Hearts 4 was teased and we've gotten basically nothing except mobile game cancellations and blurry screenshots? By stark contrast we have my two white whales - Like a Dragon AKA Yakuza and Falcom's Trails series. I've played numerous games from each series but they have such a consistent yearly release schedule it feels genuinely impossible for me to ...