Articles tagged jrpg

P4 is a role playing game (RPG) set in a fictional town in Japan.You  shouldn't be put off by the fact it's part of the Shin Megami Tensei metaseries as the game stands alone. The protagonist, is sent to stay with his guardian, a detective. People start going missing and links are made by your friends and yourself to the "Midnight Channel", a TV station which shows disturbing images of the missing until they turn up dead in the real world. To say any more would render the start of the game even duller but the whole story is interspaced with some nice Anime from time to time.

You'd be forgiven if you thought that the combination of a famous 19th century composer and spiky haired anime characters wouldn't really work but oddly, it actually does. Eternal Sonata plocks us down in the midst of the 19th century, where a terribly ill Frédéric François Chopin lies in a coma, surrounded by his family and his doctor. Meanwhile deep inside his head lies a world of dreams, music and adventure in which magic is a fatal illness and weapons are built out of guitars, trumpets and clarinets.