Operation Backlog Completion 2025
Feb 122025
 

PlayStation is having a State of Play tonight at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET, and while we don’t know what will be announced, one unexpected title just got a whole lot likelier.

Listings have appeared at GameStop for Digimon Story: Time Stranger, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

That doesn’t necessarily mean it will be announced tonight, but an unannounced game appearing at a retailer on the same day as a showcase means there’s a good chance.

We’ve known for a while now that a new Digimon Story game was in development. In 2022, it was revealed to take place in the Digital World and feature the Olympos XII.

Now, I’ll be honest, I know next to nothing about Digimon. That description means nothing to me.

But I love RPGs and story-driven games, so I’ve been wanting to play both the Cyber Sleuth games and Digimon Survive. They’re all in my backlog, but this potential upcoming news of the next game has me excited to finally try them. Hmm… perhaps Cyber Sleuth as one of our May mystery games this year?

State of my backlog aside, I’ll be looking forward to news of the next Digimon Story game, whether it’s announced tonight at the State of Play or another time. What do you think about the sudden appearance of Digimon Story: Time Stranger?

Feb 102025
 

I love collecting Nendoroids, and for a while now I’ve been hoping for one specific thing: Great Ace Attorney Nendoroids.

They’ve already made a few Nendoroids for the main Ace Attorney series – Phoenix, Edgeworth, Apollo, and Maya – and every time they make announcements, I’ve hoped for more.

This time, it finally happened.

Good Smile has announced Nendoroids of Ryunosuke Naruhodo and Kazuma Asogi, and while I was really hoping for a Barok van Zieks Nendoroid, I’ll absolutely be getting these.

(And then I’ll hope for more.)

Their full selection also includes Nendoroid Dolls for Phoenix and Edgeworth and the first look at the Nendoroid Kei Okazaki from Collar x Malice, among others. And although they aren’t on that page, they also shared new images of the Yakuza Nendoroids (Kiryu, Majima, and Ichiban), which I’ll also want to pick up.

Now, recently there have been concerns about data breaches through Good Smile, and it’s not clear if they ever fixed the problem or not, so we’ll have to be cautious. I’m just happy that the Great Ace Attorney Nendoroids I’ve been hoping for will finally exist!

(Fingers crossed we get Van Zieks next.)

Feb 072025
 

Back when I played the remaster of Onimusha, I mentioned my hope that the sequels would be remastered as well.

I’d never had a chance to play them, and I enjoyed the first game enough that I wanted more.

At the time, it seemed unlikely. There were a lot of concerns that the remaster simply hadn’t sold well enough for Capcom to make more.

But when the new game in the series was announced at The Game Awards, I expressed that hope again. After all, remasters would be the perfect way to fill the long gap before Way of the Sword’s 2026 release, and a new game announcement showed they still had confidence in the Onimusha IP.

Well, although the Capcom Spotlight mostly focused on already-announced titles (and certainly had no Ace Attorney news), it did include one surprise – an Onimusha 2 remaster announced for later this year.

It will be out on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC, so I’ll probably play it on the Switch like I did the first remaster.

There are two other mainline Onimusha games after 2, Onimusha 3 and Dawn of Dreams. It remains to be seen if Capcom intends to remaster them as well or not, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re waiting to see how well 2 does. I’ll definitely be picking up the Onimusha 2 remaster when it comes out.

(Oh, and they made a point of saying that Onimusha: Way of the Sword won’t be “an impossibly difficult game”, which should lay to rest the concerns that it would be a Souls-like).

Are you planning to pick up Onimusha 2 once the remaster comes out? Do you think the other games in the series will be remastered as well?