The small studio trying to keep classic Japanese role-playing games alive

On June 16th, 2015, a new division within Japanese publishing giant Square Enix posted a short, handwritten message online. “The ‘good old days’ are coming back,” it read. “To every RPG fan in the world… this is for you.” Square Enix made its name in the ‘80s and ‘90s with classic JRPGs like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest, and around 2013 president Yosuke Matsuda had noticed that a number of Western developers were finding