When it comes to JRPGs, not that many see a release outside of Japan. But for some reason these past few years we’ve been seeing a rise of JRPGs getting Western releases for the last generation of console, mostly on the PS3. Now that we are about five month into this new generation of consoles and Japan is three months in, new JRPGs and RPGs in general have slowly started to get released. One of those games is Natural Doctrine by Kadokawa Games. Natural Doctrine is a SRPG for the PS4, PS3 and Vita that has elements seen in games such as Valkyrie Chronicles, in which you move your party one at a time in a third person few and have control over their actions depending on how many action points are used. It also mixes in dungeon crawling and rouge-like elements as well. Here’s a gameplay trailer that shows the game in action and gives you a better idea at how the elements are combined:
Bringing balance back to gaming