Fantasy Mosaics 44: Winter Holiday

Which Final Fantasy game should you play first?

Before Frieren, Witch Hunter Robin offered a mature, thoughtful take on fantasy that still stands apart from modern supernatural anime.

We got hands-on with a very early build of Monster Fantasy, a hybrid adventure that gives players the flexibility to choose whether they want to seek the thrilling challenge of big game beast-hunting or the laid back chilling of just catching bugs and good vibes with their fellow villagers.

I think my favourite thing about the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy so far is the specific ways in which the developers at Square Enix inject nostalgia. The games launched to date - Remake and Rebirth - manage to nod warmly towards aspects of the original RPG without it ever feeling trite. You can see it in so many aspects of the way the games are curated: the way certain musical sequences are teased as motifs, and then brought in, full-throated, for certain boss fights; the redesigns of (in)famous monsters, and how certain major enemies are deployed in slightly remixed ways for maximum effect

Bethesda's classic RPG and Square Enix's first MMO have more in common than you think, two mods for Morrowind prove.