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Catching Up on All the Recent Otome News

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Aug 092021
 

With an Idea Factory live stream on July 28 that promised more otome news and a live stream from Aksys last Friday, it’s been an exciting time for otome news!

So let’s catch up on all of the recent announcements, because there’s a lot more than anyone expected.

Before we get into those, Bustafellows is out now and PQube said they’ll pick up more otome localizations if it sells well. So they could become a new otome publisher to keep an eye on.

(Bustafellows is waiting in my backlog, since it came out nearly on top of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and NEO: The World Ends With You.)

Now let’s get into the two events I mentioned previously.

Idea Factory hasn’t localized much otome in quite a while, so people weren’t expecting much… but they announced Cupid Parasite for this fall, teased Birushana Senki, and said they have another unrevealed otome on the way as well.

Then on Friday, Aksys came out swinging with release dates for their previously-announced otome titles (September 9 for Olympia Soirée, December 2 for Dairoku, and sometime in February for Variable Barricade) and went on to announced four new otome localizations: Lover Pretend, KimiYuki, Paradigm Paradox, and Piofiore: Episodio 1926.

(The first Piofiore is, you guessed it, sitting in my backlog. We’ll get there eventually.)

So between the two companies, that’s 7 upcoming otome games, even if one of them is still a mystery for now, in addition to the 3 that were already announced.

With so many upcoming otome games, I might need to do a little more research beyond “Visual novels, woo!” before I buy them, especially since these events also included several non-otome announcements that have my attention as well, much to the dismay of my ever-suffering backlog.

Who said this year would be slow for games, anyway? This year is so packed with exciting games, I need to ignore games that would have been day-one buys just because of how much else is coming out at the same time!

Are you excited for these upcoming otome titles? Which ones are you looking forward to the most? And what do you think Idea Factory’s unknown otome could be?

Japanese Horror Series Tsugunohi Coming to Steam Next Week

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Aug 062021
 

The Japanese horror series Tsugunohi is now coming to Steam on August 13.

I wasn’t familiar with Tsugunohi before, but apparently it’s a series of short browser games that were available on free game websites.

They are simple horror games where you walk to the left, with a focus on daily events as creepy things begin to occur.

They seem to have a cult following.

I don’t know how many original Tsugunohi games there are, but the Steam release will include remastered versions of the first three episodes, four others, a new one called Tsugunohi -The Ethereal Railroad Crossing- that has been created for the Steam release, and another original episode to be released later.

So that’s a total of 8 episodes already announced, with a 9th coming as well.

Tsugunohi will be out on August 13 for $9.99.

Although I’d never heard of this series before, I’m intrigued by it now. It sounds like it might be fun to dive into (maybe for our horror celebration in October). Are you familiar with Tsugunohi? Will you be playing it when it comes to Steam?

Fatal Frame Producer Hopes to Make a New Entry

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Aug 042021
 

As announced during E3, Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is getting a second chance at life later this year.

The Wii U exclusive will be remastered for all major platforms on October 28, although sadly it’s still digital-only in the West.

While I have Maiden of Black Water on the Wii U, I was thrilled to see the news because it increases the chances that the Fatal Frame series will make a comeback… and it sounds like Koei Tecmo wants that, as well.

According to Siliconera, Fatal Frame producer Keisuke Kikuchi said in an interview with Famitsu that the performance of the upcoming remaster could help pave the way for future Fatal Frame games.

In particular, by releasing it on multiple platforms to celebrate the series’ 20th anniversary, they hope to bring it to many more players and “connect it to the next title.”

So Fatal Frame is still alive! Not only is the latest entry being remastered, but there’s a good chance we could still see a Fatal Frame VI!

Are you planning to pick up Maiden of Black Water?

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