The RetroBeat: Tales of Vesperia is the best JRPG you can play on Switch

In an earlier RetroBeat this year, I talked about how I wanted to get back into Japanese role-playing games in 2019. But the way I game has changed since 2017, back when I was playing my Vita almost every night as I went through classics such as Suikoden II, Breath of Fire IV, and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.

These days, I do a lot of my playing on my Switch. While it’s an awesome system, Nintendo’s console doesn’t have a lot of JRPGs on it. And those that have come out for it — specifically Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Octopath Traveler — didn’t blow me away.