If you've ever wondered what Chrono Trigger would look like in the HD-2D style popularized by Octopath Traveler, one fan has ...

HD-2D is the natural culmination of looking back to the NES and SNES eras of gaming for inspiration. In the 1980s and early 1990s, games sported pixelated art styles out of necessity. In 2024, that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The upcoming Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake still continues to ...

Matt Karoglou is a freelance writer and musician who has been playing video games for 36 years and writing about them for almost as long. When he's not editorializing about the intricacies and ...

While Final Fantasy has been popular in the US since the first game hit the original Nintendo Entertainment System decades ago, another franchise that equally shaped the roleplaying game genre, Dragon ...

The Dragon Quest series ended 2024 in grand fashion when Square Enix released Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake, a faithful and modern telling of the original 8-bit era classic. Some wondered why the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Following the release of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, which was ...

With the release of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, it is now time to look to the future. We know two more Dragon Quest remakes are on the way in the gorgeous, unmatched HD-2D Remake art style. But ...

A professor once told me that one of the defining moments of becoming your own person is when you find music that isn’t what your parents listened to and make it your own. I’ve always felt the same ...

Let's start with a confession about one of my greatest weaknesses. I absolutely adore the HD-2D visual aesthetic from the Octopath Traveler series, and I'll play anything that employs it. Is your game ...

Following up on last year’s wonderful Dragon Quest III remake, Square Enix is now launching updated versions of the first two games in the role-playing game franchise. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake ...

With last year’s Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, Square Enix managed to successfully tow the line between recreating that authentic, old-school RPG experience while still offering plenty of modern ...