A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games TAXES systems like Sony’s PlayStation had

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A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games TAXES systems like Sony’s PlayStation hadWelcome to the world of Japanese Role Playing Games! Video role playing games, adapted for computers from their pen and paper forebears, have been around since the earliest days of digital gaming. Despite initial similarities to Western games, Japans output began diverging in dramatic ways, inspired by its own culture and art, producing a style of game thats often wildly different from its Western counterpart. From Dragon Quest to Final Fantasy, from