Radiant Historia
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2 documents in the library are about Radiant Historia, from writers such as DiGRA. Each has a summary and key insights with the page they come from.
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Documents about Radiant Historia
Time vs. History in JRPGs
This paper examines how Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPGs) that use time travel as a narrative or gameplay mechanic represent history, and what those representations imply for both players and scholars of Historical Game Studies.
- The paper argues that fantasy JRPGs with time-travel mechanics shape how players understand history, rather than merely being interpreted through modernist academic frameworks.
- It introduces the concept of chrononormativity, the conventional linear expectation about time, and asks whether departures from it lead players to see history as fractured and in need of repair.
- The analysis closely reads a selected set of titles, including Final Fantasy XIII-2, Radiant Historia, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, Tales of Phantasia, and Tales of Destiny 2.
History, Time and the Past in Radiant Historia
The document analyzes how the Japanese role-playing game Radiant Historia (2010, 2017) explores themes of history, time, and the past, arguing that it functions as a historiographical game.
- Radiant Historia, a Japanese RPG released for the Nintendo DS in 2010 and reissued as Perfect Chronology for the 3DS in 2017, is argued to be a historiographical game rather than merely a time-travel narrative.
- The paper contends that the game's non-historical premise frees it to engage with questions of history, time and the past more openly than conventionally historical games, which are constrained by player expectations about accuracy and 'facts'.
- The central claim is that playing Radiant Historia constitutes an act of writing history, since much of the gameplay involves reconfiguring events toward outcomes the player finds acceptable.
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