Sympathy Kiss is Coming Out on February 27 (Why Would I Expect Anything Else)

Back at Anime Expo, Idea Factory announced two new otome localizations: My Next Life As a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! – Pirates of the Disturbance and Sympathy Kiss.

Ironically, I commented in that post on how My Next Life As a Villainess’s winter 2023 release window (which turned out to be November 28) added yet another game I was interested in to the second half of this year. Little did I know early 2024 would soon be even more packed…

Yesterday, Idea Factory announced that Sympathy Kiss will be out on February 27, 2024 and also revealed the Limited Edition.

It’s a pretty fantastic Limited Edition, too. Not only does it come with a collector’s box, trading card, soundtrack, drama CD, and a hardcover art book, which are fairly standard Limited Edition contents for IFI, but it also has a notebook, a tumbler, paper tabs, sticky notes, and a memo pad.

That’s a lot of stuff! I guess they’re going all in on the office worker theme!

(The Villainess Limited Edition feels almost barebones in comparison.)

Idea Factory raised the bar for Limited Editions in my eyes a while ago, and this latest one has kept that going.

While I have mixed feelings on Sympathy Kiss having an eyeless protagonist design, I’ll probably go for this. I’m interested enough in the game for such a nice Limited Edition to grab my attention. However, this makes my early 2024 gaming predicament even more dire than it was already!

For whatever reason, every developer releasing a game I’m excited for seems to have decided the roughly month-long span between the end of January and the end of February is when their game should come out. Just take a look:

January 25 – Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy (which I wasn’t going to replay until I heard people speculating that what if the unlockable art for beating all three games teases a new entry)January 26 – Like a Dragon: Infinite WealthFebruary 1 – Granblue Fantasy: RelinkFebruary 2 – Persona 3 ReloadFebruary 15 – Spirit Hunter: Death Mark IIFebruary 27 – Sympathy KissFebruary 29 – Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

This will be one of those times where a game that would otherwise have been an immediate buy, like Granblue Fantasy: Relink, will have to be pushed aside in favor of the games I’ve prioritized ahead of it. Even if I had all the free time I could want, there’s no way I’d manage to play all of those in such a short span of time.

(And there’s still weeks in February that could be filled up with more games! At this point, I wouldn’t even be surprised, just sadly laugh while staring at my backlog.)

With the addition of Sympathy Kiss, my game priorities for February 2024 have yet another contender. Are you planning to pick it up?

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