On this episode of Random Encounter, it’s Random Book Club once more!

Here at RPGFan, we love our JRPGs: Tales, Trials, and every part in between. But to know the place the style got here from, we have to look again virtually forty years to 2 legendary Japanese creators: Yuji Horii (Dragon Quest) and Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy).

In the latest JRPG historical past guide, Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs within the West, creator Aidan Moher explores not simply the origins of the style but additionally the way it advanced by the twentieth and twenty first centuries. This week, Jono and Hilary get the chance to interview Aidan about his new guide, his personal historical past with JRPGs, and the place he thinks the online game guide publishing business shall be going sooner or later!

Featuring: Jono Logan, Hilary Andreff, Aidan Moher; Edited by Jono Logan

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