What It Is: Tactics Ogre is the second game from director Yasumi Matsuno (Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story). The strategy-based JRPG lets you lead an army in a quest to liberate a nation. It's both ground-breaking and old school, with a non-linear storyline, eight different endings, and over a hundred hours of gameplay. On the downside, you have to play as a boy named Denim.

Why It Is Neato: Quest's Ogre Battle series is as close to Freddie Mercury: The Tactical JRPG as you're ever going to get. The subtitle of this game is taken from Queen's song "Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together)", a track from A Day at the Races that features two verses sung entirely in Japanese. The first game in the series, Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen, is named for two Queen songs: "Ogre Battle" and "The March of the Black Queen." If you can believe it, this is only the tip of the Queen reference iceberg.

Why Else It Is Neato: Square Enix announced that they'll soon be giving us North Americans a chance to play Tactics Ogre without taking out a second mortgage on a house we don't' even have anymore. An extravagantly updated port is currently in the works for the PSP and set for a Spring 2011 release.