
Everything about this title is the way JRPGs should be.


Chained Echoes is a name that actually makes sense once you get 10 hours into its run time but until then you’re playing a title that sounds like Kingdom Hearts DLC and, instead of being that, is serving you the best stuff front to finish from every game you played - here, you are currently 35 years old - when you were gaining your sealeags with Japanese RPGs. The boys hit the toys and we snap to a princess and her snarly manservant, and the game just runs out from there. The game opens with a Chrono Trigger homage, then an FF8 homage, then a Xenogears homage, then - we’re not outside of the first prologue, mind you.

Jonathan Bernhardt: Speaking about the righteousness of a singular obsessive, this game was essentially made by one Matthias Linda - and he’s played every single Square Enix RPG from the NES era through the late Playstation 2 era at the very least.
