{"id":6971,"date":"2022-09-08T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/08\/live-a-live-review-a-lost-japanese-rpg-gem-from-the-1990s\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:37:26","slug":"live-a-live-review-a-lost-japanese-rpg-gem-from-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/08\/live-a-live-review-a-lost-japanese-rpg-gem-from-the-1990s\/","title":{"rendered":"Live a Live review: a lost Japanese RPG gem from the 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nintendo Switch; Square Enix\/Nintendo<br \/><\/strong>Seven beautifully unpredictable genre stories, each designed by a different manga artist, are playfully rendered in this novel remake<\/p>\n<p>In a year where Kate Bush and Metallica re-entered the charts, it\u2019s fitting that 2022\u2019s most intriguing game so far has been plucked from the past. Directed by Takashi Tokita of Chrono Trigger fame, for decades Live a Live appeared destined to remain the RPG that time forgot. Its initial Japanese release on the Super Famicom (SNES) in 1994 was a commercial flop, ensuring it never left its homeland \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Resurrected for Nintendo\u2019s fittingly anachronistic current console, the Switch, this eyebrow-raising relic has been reanimated using Square Enix\u2019s gorgeous 2D-HD engine, a graphical style that melds rich high-definition backgrounds with retro 16-bit sprites. The results are glorious, injecting once-flat environments with a playful, eye-catching charm that never quite loses its magic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/sep\/08\/live-a-live-review-nintendo-switch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9e07d62772d9e1e2188f8d80a8cd9a1a9809624c\/80_0_1200_720\/master\/1200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=83d5df25eb4d4d909832751871c13d73\" title=\"Live a Live review: a lost Japanese RPG gem from the 1990s\" \/>Nintendo Switch; Square Enix\/NintendoSeven beautifully unpredictable genre stories, each designed by a different manga artist, are playfully rendered in this novel remake<br \/>\nIn a year where Kate Bush and Metallica re-entered the charts, it\u2019s fitting that 2022\u2019s most intriguing game so far has been plucked from the past. Directed by Takashi Tokita of Chrono Trigger fame, for decades Live a Live appeared destined to remain the RPG that time forgot. Its initial Japanese release on the Super Famicom (SNES) in 1994 was a commercial flop, ensuring it never left its homeland \u2013 until now.<br \/>\nResurrected for Nintendo\u2019s fittingly anachronistic current console, the Switch, this eyebrow-raising relic has been reanimated using Square Enix\u2019s gorgeous 2D-HD engine, a graphical style that melds rich high-definition backgrounds with retro 16-bit sprites. The results are glorious, injecting once-flat environments with a playful, eye-catching charm that never quite loses its magic. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo Switch; Square Enix\/NintendoSeven beautifully unpredictable genre stories, each designed by a different manga artist, are playfully rendered in this novel remake In a year where Kate Bush and Metallica re-entered the charts, it\u2019s fitting that 2022\u2019s most intriguing game so far has been plucked from the past. Directed by Takashi Tokita of Chrono Trigger &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/08\/live-a-live-review-a-lost-japanese-rpg-gem-from-the-1990s\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Live a Live review: a lost Japanese RPG gem from the 1990s<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}