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Surprise! Sega Revitalizes the Tactical RPG.
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/20/2011
The company that brought us Blast Processing is best known for games featuring their mascot, a certain blue hedgehog (who shall remain nameless). Sega is also known for bungling, both with their endless stream of add-ons and too-soon console successors and with their inability since 2001 to make a blue hedgehog game without screwing up the core gameplay and/or adding horrible, fan-fiction-quality story segments. What most people overlook when examining Sega is that the company has a rock-solid track record for RPGs. Starting with the Shining and Phantasy Star series, Sega was one of the first companies to produce console RPGs, of both the traditional and tactical sub-genres, and almost always of high quality. Sega has continued to produce a few RPGs into the modern era of videogaming, …