Shop Watch July 2025
By Russ | June 29, 2025 at 3:38 pm
Secure your resources.
This month’s standout release on consoles is MADO MONOGATARI: Fia and the Wondrous Academy available June 25 for the PS4/5 and Switch.
The rest of the year is much more busy. Two Trails titles and the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster for starters. A light month is a good way to shore up some cash for the future.
Its months like these where I question “what so I consider a Role Playing Game any more?” The Soulslike and Metroidvania genres often count, but those genres are also Their Own Thing; and like Super Metroid may not have the RPG elements Symphony of the Night did. Soulslikes could (and have) conceivably broken off from the action RPG genre. And then there’s the perks systems in many shooters; similar to tabletop-inspired RPGs like Fallout.
It’s a good time for selection or branching out. Personally, I have either been playing older games, or seem to be a year behind the curve with newer titles.
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