Pocket Gamer: Japanese and Korean role-playing games have always been a breed apart from their western counterparts.
Not only do they elicit a Marmite reaction from gamers across the board, but it’s not cut and dry even for the people who purport to love the things.
Gamevil has confirmed support for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play by committing its current top-selling games to the platform. Zenonia, Zenonia 2, Baseball Superstars 2011 and Soccer Superstars will all be available, and Gamevil will continue support for the Xperia Play going forward with future titles, including their newest role playing games, Illusia and Zenonia 3.
Android Rundown - Large-scale role playing games don’t generally make their homes on mobile platforms. By nature, mobile gaming takes place in small bursts – while you’re waiting in line at the store, or on the bus, and RPGs generally lend themselves to longer play sessions. Illusia attempts to bring the genre onto the Android platform with action-oriented gameplay. Is the result worth the investment in time?
TMA - Action RPGs are a tricky lot to get right. You have to have the perfect balance between RPG and action in order to appease both types of players. On top of that you have to be careful to avoid a common feature that plagues both style of game: repetitiveness.
