10 Japan-Only RPGs That Need English Remakes

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This week sees the release of Live A Live, a role-playing game from Square Enix that's been eagerly coveted by American fans for decades. Originally released in 1994 for the Super Famicom, the unique adventure that takes place across seven time periods is finally getting an English release in high-def 2D splendor, thanks to the success of Square Enix’s Octopath Traveler. But if the gates are open for projects like Live A Live to finally cross the ocean to US fans, here are some other long-overdue remakes we'd love to see.

If you ask JRPG fans for their white whale, the one game they’d want officially released in the States above all others, chances are they’d say Mother 3. The long-anticipated sequel to cult classic EarthBound was released in Japan for the Game Boy Advance at the end of that system’s life, right before the DS would supplant it. Mother 3 had been in development for 12 years, spanning numerous consoles, but the final product is a clever, quirky, emotionally affecting game with a unique music-based battle system. A fan translation exists, but if Nintendo put some time into a Switch version it would sell like gangbusters. Why don’t they? It is a mystery.

There are a few settings that RPGs return to again and again—fantasy kingdom, post-apocalyptic wasteland, stuff like that. But this is the first JRPG we’ve heard of set in Victorian London. As an orphaned street urchin, you meet legendary detective Everett and become his apprentice, solving a number of cases that deal with crime and the supernatural. Gorgeous pixel art puts this 1999 PlayStation game on our want list, and it’s bizarre that an adventure set in England was never translated into English.

Konami has had a few successful role-playing franchises