7 Best Gaming Books To Take On Vacation This Summer
Summer is well underway, and vacations are in full sway. Yet wherever you may go, you'll surely want to bring a bit of gaming along for the ride. Sure, that can include toting around your Nintendo Switch. Yes, technically, you can lug your Xbox Series X through the airport, too. But why not enjoy some relaxing reads instead?
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Reading is good for the brain, after all, and these gaming books are good times. Whether they're the latest video game series tie-in novels, deep dives into the movers and shakers of the industry, or exhaustive compendiums stuffed with the sort of lore that lights up our gamer imaginations to the max, be sure to make some room in your suitcase for some good old-fashioned nerdy page-turners.
We begin our list with an incredibly detailed look at nearly three decades of JRPGs. Bitmap Books has pulled out all the stops to showcase this gem of a genre from its ambitious early-eighties roots all the way through to the end of 2020, contextualizing the gradual shift from mimicking Western RPGs to creating something distinctly Eastern.
Remarkably, A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games contains reviews for over 600 titles, covering a range of subgenres. Pokemon, Dragon Quest, and classic Final Fantasy lead the huge list of traditional turn-based RPGs, but there is plenty of room left in the book for tactical fare like Fire Emblem and more action-oriented entries such as Kingdom Hearts and Ys. You'll learn loads of neat details about your all-time favorites and discover a ton of titles that are perhaps too niche to have caught your eye until now.
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