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Thoughts on the Harvestella Demo

We’ve talked about Harvestella a few times now, and since there’s a demo out, I decided to give it a try.

I was intrigued by Harvestella before, but now I’m more interested than ever.

Going into the demo, I expected a farming sim where I’d be going out to fight monsters and gather materials, maybe with some story details related to Quietus (the season of death).

Instead, I got a lot more JRPG than farming.

Harvestella feels like it has a fairly strong emphasis on story. The story also went in some directions I didn’t expect even this early on, since I thought it was purely a fantasy story. I also found a note that made me wonder just how involved the lore of this game might be.

The farming aspect feels like it’s mainly there to earn money, with a nice little gameplay loop of buying or finding seeds to plant and grow more crops to sell. Progressing through the dungeon felt like the more important part of the gameplay – in part because the demo has a limited number of days and spends a lot of time gradually introducing new systems, so the balance might feel different once the game fully opens up.

Time passes quickly, and you need to get back home before midnight to rest for the next day. The quick passage of time bugged me a bit, but in general I felt the dungeon had shortcuts available readily enough that it wasn’t a big deal.

The one complaint I have is that you can’t dodge in combat. Combat feels somewhat basic in general, but the lack of a dodge button bothered me the most.

Overall, I enjoyed my time with the Harvestella demo and found the emphasis on story to be a pleasant surprise. I probably won’t pick up the game at launch, but it’s one I’ll definitely want to get eventually. Have you tried the Harvestella demo?

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A New Silent Hill Game Was Rated in Korea

I’ve nearly stopped paying attention to Silent Hill rumors.

They seem to crop up every month or so, without any official announcements coming of them.

A lot of fans have taken the latest rumors to be fact. Those rumors claim there are three Silent Hill games in development: a main entry from an unknown developer, a Silent Hill 2 remake from Bloober Team, and an episodic series of short games.

I’m still skeptical. I’ll believe it when I see it (and even then I’ll have doubts about whether or not it will be good).

Anyway, now something has happened that’s a bit more than just a rumor. As reported by Gematsu, Korea’s game ratings board rated a game called Silent Hill: The Short Message.

I’m not sure a game has ever gotten a rating and then turned out to not exist, so this probably means Silent Hill: The Short Message is a real game. The title has led some fans to believe it’s part of the episodic series from the rumors. This is on top of other supposed leaks related to the other two rumored titles.

So for all my skepticism, it sounds like something related to Silent Hill really is happening.

I wish I was more excited, but it’s been so long now that I can’t muster up much enthusiasm. I never thought I’d respond to Silent Hill news with apathy. Maybe once one of these games is actually announced, with official details to give us an idea of what to expect, I’ll feel excited about it again.

What do you think Silent Hill: The Short Message is? Do you believe the other rumored Silent Hill projects are real? And most importantly, are you looking forward to this theoretical Silent Hill revival?

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Outer Wilds Has Wonderful Ideas… and My Least-Favorite Mechanics

After our celebration of mystery games earlier this year, one of the winners selected as his prize that I should play and review Outer Wilds.

I finally finished it two days ago, and rarely has there been such a gap where I understand why people love it so much, but I’m also so glad to finally be free of it.

Outer Wilds is a game with fascinating ideas that sometimes felt like it was designed to annoy me, personally.

You play an astronaut in a developing space program and blast off in your rickety lander to explore your solar system. All of this is great; I love space! However, it’s also open world, which is a hard sell for me.

It’s a curious type of open world, though. You’ll hit a lot of roadblocks along the way, yet areas are only gated off by knowledge.

It does an impressive job of creating situations where you can’t progress just because you don’t know how. All you gain as you progress is information, so you could reach late-game areas first thing if you knew how.

I do like that sense of exploring, reading lore, and gathering information, and it might have been enough to push off my open world fatigue if not for its focus on time.

A time loop is a central part of the gameplay. Every time you die – and you will die often – you loop back to just before you took off in your tiny spacecraft. Fortunately, your ship’s computer tracks new discoveries, so you don’t have to rely on your memory as you pick up various clues about the solar system.

But it’s not just that. Planets change as time progresses. There are places you can only reach early in a loop, because they’ll become inaccessible, and there are places you can only reach late in a loop. You’ll start over from your home planet every time, and I didn’t enjoy the time loop gameplay here any more than I did in Majora’s Mask.

Outer Wilds has this very strange dissonance where it feels like it wants you to relax, take your time, and absorb new information as you explore, but at the same time demands that you rush and hurry to learn what you need before time runs out (not to mention all the ways you can die).

It’s also the sort of space game that makes abundant use of zero gravity, which I always have trouble with and never find enjoyable, although I did at least reach a point where I could navigate my ship without crashing every time.

So it’s an open world time loop game with frequent zero-g sections, which pretty much means it’s built from mechanics I dislike.

Despite all of this, there were times I had fun in Outer Wilds. I was always happy to find new lore or meet new characters. I loved the Quantum Moon section, which was probably the most fun I had in the entire game. There were some light horror elements, which came as a nice surprise. And from the moment I realized I was near the end, the entire final stretch was pretty exciting.

Click for Outer Wilds spoilersIn fact, I got an extra bit of excitement in Dark Bramble by not being able to correct course in time to avoid hitting one of the anglerfish, yet having it only breach my ship’s hull, at which point I escaped the ship and managed to avoid detection. As I drifted toward the Vessel with my ship lost behind me, it really felt fitting for my final run.

There are so many wonderful ideas in Outer Wilds, yet so few times I was actually having fun. I understand why people love this game so much. If I was a bigger fan of certain critical mechanics, I probably would be too. If you like that sort of time loop stuff like in Majora’s Mask, you might love Outer Wilds!

But I’m so glad to finally be done with it.

In unrelated news, apparently Detective Pikachu 2 still exists and is almost complete, go figure. Maybe we’ll have actual news to discuss about that soon. Anyway, if you’ve played Outer Wilds, what did you think of it? I know I’m in the minority for not enjoying it, so feel free to make your case for it in the comments.

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Updated List of the Top Untranslated Games I Want to See in English

It was only January 2021 when I wrote a list of the top games I wanted localized. Now, one year and eight months later, the list is already ridiculously out of date.

Two entries from the list have been wholly removed, as Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse and the Trails Crossbell arc are both on their way! Meanwhile, two others that remain on the list have to be updated to account for the games that were localized.

So let’s take a look through and update the list, once again organized by series.

5. Surge Concerto DX

Gust is releasing Atelier games at an alarming rate, but they do make non-Atelier games as well.

Once upon a time, they developed a life sim game called Surge Concerto: Ciel Nosurge, which was never released outside of Japan. It was followed by a JRPG sequel, Surge Concerto: Ar Nosurge, which did get localized.

Both are part of the larger EXA_PICO series, which began with the Ar Tonelico trilogy.

(Yeah, I just wanted to type all those titles.)

Last year, both Surge Concerto games received remasters, Ciel Nosurge DX and Ar Nosurge DX. I’d love to see the remastered titles be brought west, including the first game for the first time.

4. Sakura Wars

I still need to play 2019’s Sakura Wars entry, and I’d love to see a port or remaster of Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love. But did you know that there are four earlier Sakura Wars games?

The game released in the west as Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love was actually Sakura Wars 5. Four main series entries came out before it, and none of them have been localized. While I’m not as anxious to see these come west as I am for some of the games on this list, a translated remaster of the earlier games would certainly be welcome news.

3. Tales of Destiny 2, Rebirth, Innocence R

The only entry that remains wholly unchanged from the original list is the one from Tales, because the numerous unlocalized Tales games are still unlocalized with no news in sight.

So once again, I would love to see the true Tales of Destiny 2 remastered and released in the west. Maybe they could bundle it together with the Tales of Destiny remake, which was also only ever released in Japan.

Tales of Rebirth is possibly the unlocalized Tales game I’d like to see the most, and then there’s also the nearly-forgotten Tales of Innocence R.

I don’t have high hopes for Bandai Namco returning to these older titles, but I still have a lot of Tales games left to play. Maybe by the time I finish them, some new localizations will be on the horizon.

2. Ace Attorney Investigations 2

Just think, last January it was still a dream I clung to that The Great Ace Attorney and The Great Ace Attorney 2 would be localized. Now they’re out and dominate my thoughts constantly.

But the same can’t be said for Gyakuten Kenji 2, aka Ace Attorney Investigations 2, which remains unlocalized!

The localization of the Great Ace Attorney games renewed my hopes, and now I continue to wish that Capcom will revive its other spin-off duology and bring Investigations and Investigations 2 to modern platforms – with a translation for Investigations 2, of course.

There’s no sign of it happening yet, and I keep thinking about the fan translation, but I want to believe that there’s still a chance.

1. Yakuza Kenzan, Black Panther, Black Panther 2

And it was just last week that Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin got to leave the list, with its remake announced and confirmed for a worldwide release next February!

That still leaves the other historical spin-off, Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan. When we last spoke about it, RGG Studio had said Kenzan’s best chance of localization would be if it got remade. A recent interview, with the details translated by a fan on Reddit, addressed the matter of Kenzan again in the wake of Ishin’s announcement. A Kenzan remake would require a lot of work, and they would want to change some aspects of the story, especially around the ending.

Personally, I think if Like a Dragon Ishin sells well, that will increase the chances of Kenzan getting the same treatment. What once seemed impossible now feels like it’s on the table again.

Then there is Kurohyo: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho and its sequel, popularly referred to as Yakuza: Black Panther and Yakuza: Black Panther 2. These PSP games don’t even come up in interviews, but RGG has been on fire lately, so who knows?

I still have three Yakuza games and three spin-offs to play before I run out, and that’s not counting the new games they just announced, so here’s hoping for more news by the time I’m finished.

Conclusion

I’m floored by the fact that in just over a year and a half, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, The Great Ace Attorney, The Great Ace Attorney 2, Trails from Zero, Trails to Azure, and Like a Dragon Ishin all were either localized or have upcoming localizations announced. And titles that might have made the list in their absence, like Chaos;Head, are on the way as well!

Let’s see if in a couple years’ time, we can say the same about the Tales games, Investigations 2, and the remaining Yakuza spin-offs, plus the other new entries for this list.

What as-yet-untranslated games would you most like to see in English?

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Will We Ever See a Skies of Arcadia Remaster or Sequel?

Yarr, today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties, so why not talk about our favorite air pirates?

(I hoped I might have a short pirate-themed game to review, but I couldn’t find one in time.)

Over two years have passed since a Skies of Arcadia programmer said he hoped renewed attention toward Skies of Arcadia could lead Sega to make a sequel. Nothing has happened since then.

Meanwhile, a few months ago, Sega’s financial report mentioned that they intended to release more remasters and remakes. We’ve seen some of that already, with the Persona remasters and the newly-announced Like a Dragon Ishin remake. Could Skies of Arcadia have a chance of being included?

Currently, the only way to play Skies of Arcadia is to either get the original Dreamcast game or the improved GameCube port, Skies of Arcadia Legends. Neither of those is exactly easy to do nowadays.

I loved Skies of Arcadia, and I want it to get the attention it deserves. I’d also love to see its characters return for a new adventure.

So on this International Talk Like a Pirate Day, let’s show a little love for the pirates of Skies of Arcadia and hope that next year at this time, we’ll have Skies of Arcadia news to celebrate.

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Suikoden I and II Remasters Announced

Believe it or not, Konami actually pulled through with an exciting announced at this year’s TGS.

While it wasn’t the rumored Silent Hill revival that I’m still not sure I believe in, they did announce a remastered collection of the first two Suikoden games.

Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars will launch for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC in 2023.

It features graphical improvements, redrawn portraits, field sounds, improved battle sounds, and gameplay improvements such as a dialogue log, an auto-battle option, and an option for double-speed battles. In an interview with IGN, they also confirmed that they will improve the translation for the remaster.

What’s even more promising is that they hope to make more Suikoden games in the future.

I played and enjoyed Suikoden, but have yet to play Suikoden II. Maybe I should wait for the remaster to come out after all. Here’s hoping this will only be the start of Suikoden’s revival.

Are you going to play the Suikoden remasters?

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Fatal Frame 4, Yakuza Ishin, and More Exciting Announcements!

We ended up with a Nintendo Direct yesterday morning, a State of Play yesterday evening, and then the RGG Summit this morning, and we have so many exciting announcements to talk about, I can’t stand it!

So let’s go through these events and take a look at the highlights!

Nintendo Direct

The Nintendo Direct began with the announcement of the latest Fire Emblem game.

Now, it was actually leaked a while back, but most people dismissed it as being fake. Turns out it’s real, and the protagonists really do have that red-and-blue look seen in the leaks.

It seems there’s some sort of crossover aspect where you can summon characters from past Fire Emblem games… which is a little odd, but I’ll keep an open mind. The one thing I’m not crazy about, though, is the title. Fire Emblem Engage just sounds boring for a main series entry.

Anyway, after a couple of announcements, the next major game was indeed the one I saw leaked the previous day, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse.

That’s right, the never-localized Fatal Frame 4 is being remastered for all major platforms and translated. It will be out in early 2023. It’s digital-only, but I’ll take what I can get!

The next wave of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 DLC was also announced for October 13, and I have every reason to believe I’ll still be playing by then.

Fist of the North Star is getting a boxing game, which I’m not interested in, but I had to mention just because of how unexpected it was.

Tunic is coming to the Switch as well.

And hey, remember when Square Enix announced a Front Mission remake for this summer and then never mentioned it again? It’s now set for October, and then the Front Mission 2 remake will be out in 2023. Oh, and they announced a Front Mission 3 remake, as well.

Speaking of remakes, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life is being remade (as Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life), but that’s not all. They also announced Rune Factory 3 Special for 2023, and then teased more Rune Factory in development.

They specifically said “a new Rune Factory series,” so I’m not sure if that is just an odd way of saying Rune Factory 6, or if they mean a new subseries within Rune Factory.

In between Marvelous announcements, Square Enix revealed Octopath Traveler II and Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line.

(The trailer and description for Octopath Traveler II both mention intertwining stories, so I’ll keep an eye on it.)

After several more announcements, we got to the reveal that Ib is coming to the Switch. It’s a creepy game that looks like my sort of thing.

And it turns out the new Atelier game is Ryza 3 after all, as Gust revealed Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key for February 24.

(Meanwhile, the Atelier 25th anniversary website was updated so that it now lists only 4 total projects, not 6. That still leaves one unannounced project, but… did they just change their minds? Then again, the Japanese website still lists 6 total but has the fourth filled by a Ryza 1 & 2 dual pack of some sort.)

Moving on, I’ve never played Pikmin, but I’m happy for Pikmin fans that Pikmin 4 was at least acknowledged.

Square Enix was back with another Harvestella trailer, along with the announcement of a demo that’s out now.

We got a new Bayonetta 3 trailer, and it’s looking great!

Not only that, they also released an 8-minute gameplay video after the Nintendo Direct. I might have had concerns at one point, but Bayonetta 3 really looks fantastic.

Moving on, remember when we discussed the announcement of Rain Code, from the creator of Danganronpa? It was at the Nintendo Direct too! Now under the title Master Detective Archives: Rain Code, it definitely looks like a game I’ll be interested in.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion got a new trailer and a December 13 release date, and then they announced Tales of Symphonia Remastered, which I was super-excited about since Tales of Symphonia is one of my favorite games of all time…

…although right now, it’s unclear if this is an upgrade over the existing PS3/PC version or not. The official details claim it has visual improvements and “new gameplay enhancements,” but it also appears to be 30 fps.

There is a “Chosen Edition” available to order as well, but it’s not compelling enough to convince me despite how much I love the game.

Anyway, that’s it for the exciting Nintendo Direct announcements for me, although people excited for Breath of the Wild 2 can rest easy now that it’s officially titled The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and has a May 12 release date.

That was an excellent Nintendo Direct. There are so many games I want, and the Fatal Frame news is fantastic! I was much less excited going into the State of Play last night, but little did I know what was in store…

State of Play

WE ARE GETTING YAKUZA ISHIN; THIS IS NOT A DRILL, ISHIN LOCALIZATION IS REAL!

I was idly watching the State of Play when suddenly it happened and I nearly lost my mind.

Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin is being remade and coming west under the title Like a Dragon: Ishin. In Japan, it’s called Ishin Kiwami.

The title concerned some people, but it still has action combat like it did before. It seems like they’re shifting away from the Yakuza title for the west and translating the Japanese title from now on.

It’s really happening! Ishin in English is no longer a dream! It’s coming out next February!

And then some other games were shown.

Okay, it was more exciting than that, but really, I was barely able to concentrate on the State of Play after Ishin. It was already the best State of Play ever, and it didn’t matter what else was shown.

But I did manage to scrape up some remaining focus for a few other games, such as Project Eve, which now has the title Stellar Blade and is set for 2023.

Team Ninja also announced a new action RPG called Rise of the Ronin that seems like it could be cool, although it’s open world, so we’ll see.

They ended with a new trailer for God of War Ragnarok, which I really should have been more excited about since it’s one of my most-anticipated games, but I was too busy screaming over Ishin.

And so, I left the State of Play satisfied and went to sleep last night with the knowledge that I need not feel tempted to wake up at 6 to watch the RGG Summit. They would show more Ishin, likely reveal Yakuza 8, and maybe announce PC ports of the Judgment games, as those had potentially leaked earlier in the day.

RGG Summit 2022

The RGG Summit did indeed bring new information about Ishin, along with a new trailer and some surprising details. Like a Dragon: Ishin will be released on February 21, and several characters have been recast with characters from Yakuza 0 and Yakuza: Like a Dragon.

Notable replacements include the three lieutenants from Yakuza 0, but a gameplay trailer that surfaced later on also showed characters like Bacchus (along with a plethora of delightful mini-games).

They also officially announced, uh… Like a Dragon 8. No, that’s really what it’s called in the west. That’s why I mentioned earlier in this post that they seem to have dropped “Yakuza” as the localized title. It will be out in 2024, and is said to be the largest game in the series to date.

Also, it seems Kiryu will be back with a new haircut (disguise?) as a second protagonist.

It should be fun to explain to people that the series order goes Yakuza 6, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Like a Dragon 8. They should never have dropped the 7 for the English title.

And with Ishin and 8 both shown, that was tha–

Nope! They also announced Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, a game set after Yakuza 6 that follows Kiryu in the events leading up to 7 and 8. It is said to be about half the length of a regular Yakuza game, and will be out in 2023. Like Ishin, it will be an action game.

And that was the end of the RGG Summit. No Judgment news, so–

Then Sega shadow-dropped Judgment and Lost Judgment on Steam, both separately and in a new bundle called The Judgment Collection. If the rumors of Judgment being in danger of cancellation were ever true, this should put an end to that now.

Conclusion

My poor backlog.

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Nintendo Direct Announced for September 13

The long-awaited (like every other one) Nintendo Direct has been announced for tomorrow!

September is a common month for Nintendo to hold a Direct, so people were anticipating it for quite a while.

The Nintendo Direct will be held tomorrow, September 13, at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET.

It will be a 40-minute live stream “mostly focused on Nintendo Switch games launching this winter.” With that criteria, Bayonetta 3 is a likely candidate to be shown, and possibly another Pokémon trailer as well.

There’s also been a credible leak about a certain game, which could plausibly be Nintendo Direct news. Of course, I’ll also be hoping for Ace Attorney news, even though I don’t actually expect it.

40 minutes is pretty long for a Nintendo Direct, so here’s hoping there are some exciting surprises in store!

So we’ve got a Nintendo Direct tomorrow, the RGG Summit on Wednesday, and then we’ll be in the thick of TGS. What games are you hoping for across this cluster of game events?

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RGG Summit Announced for September 14

Okay. So the sneak peek trailer broadcast included neither a trailer nor a sneak peek, making me wonder if the title’s translation was misinterpreted somehow.

(Getting shades of the “unmissable” TGS panel from a few years back from this one.)

Anyway, while they didn’t show a sneak peek of anything, they did announce an event for next week.

RGG Summit 2022 will be held on September 14 at 19:00 JST, which is 3 AM PT / 6 AM ET. So I probably won’t be watching it live (although that’s exactly what I said about yesterday’s broadcast before tuning in for the non-existent trailer).

The official title of this one is “Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio New Title Presentation,” and both the Japanese and English accounts for RGG Studio shared the announcement. It’s also going to be translated, so it sounds like big news.

This will almost certainly be the official reveal of Yakuza 8. Since we know Yakuza 8 exists and this isn’t being announced specifically as a Yakuza 8 reveal, though (in contrast to “Judgment Day” for the reveal of Lost Judgment), I hope they’ll actually have multiple announcements. Multiple announcements at the RGG Summit would more than make up for my disappointment yesterday.

It looks like this is the first ever “RGG Summit,” so we don’t have any past examples for comparison.

Yesterday, Youtube was associating Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin with the video for next week’s broadcast, but now no specific game is linked to its page at all. I assume that was just Youtube automatically making the connection due to the series/channel name. I won’t get my hopes up.

…but that doesn’t mean I won’t still wish with all my heart for multiple announcements from this event!

Here’s what I’d be most interested in seeing:

Yakuza 8 (all but guaranteed)Hint of the future of JudgmentKenzan and/or Ishin localization pleaseDead Souls remasterNew spin-off

Of course, it could end up just being a Yakuza 8 reveal and nothing more, which will still be exciting, just not as exciting. What do you think will be shown at RGG Summit 2022?

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Process of Elimination Looks Like an Intriguing Detective Game

NISA held a showcase today that included a few new game announcements.

Of them, the one that stood out to me the most was Process of Elimination.

(It wasn’t a huge shock, since they accidentally leaked their own lineup after announcing the showcase, so I knew it would be there.)

Process of Elimination is a visual novel about a group of 14 detectives searching for a serial killer on a mysterious island, only to learn the killer is one of them.

It was released last year in Japan under the title Tantei Bokumetsu. Looking back at details revealed leading up to its launch shows that it has a mix of visual novel segments and investigation segments. During investigations, you control the detectives on a map of the area and use their strengths to find clues.

As soon as the trailer started, I knew this was my sort of game.

It sounds pretty neat, and I’m especially pleased to see a visual novel from NIS actually being localized. Maybe that’s a good sign for the future.

Although it has no release date yet, Process of Elimination is planned for early 2023 for the Switch and PS4. There’s also a limited edition that comes with a soundtrack, art book, and keychain, so I’ll be looking into that. Meanwhile, we’ve got another little cluster of game events here, as tomorrow should bring us that new trailer from RGG Studio. Fingers crossed for good things!

What are your thoughts on Process of Elimination?

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