Review: Oninaki (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S. 

Tokyo RPG Factory has, over the span of three titles, developed a distinct voice in its approach to the JRPG. I’m not talking about the team’s commitment to retro-styled gameplay systems and aesthetics, though there’s certainly an element of that. No. The distinctive thread that links these games together is a thematic one; the writers at Tokyo RPG Factory seem committed to a poetic kind of sadness – a melancholia in the vein of Edgar Allan Poe or T.S. Elliot. However you feel about how these games play, the result of that thematic direction is that each title is always beautiful, heartfelt, and has something meaningful to say. Oninaki is yet another brilliant example of this commitment in motion.

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