Operation Backlog Completion 2025

Let’s Talk About FuRyu’s Recently-Announced RPG Varlet

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Apr 302025
 

Last week, publisher FuRyu announced an upcoming new school life RPG called Varlet.

It’s being developed by Aquria and Team Noir, and it’s due out on August 28 worldwide for Switch, PS5, and PC.

The story follows a new student at Kousei Academy, who learns that the school overlaps with another world and some students have been replaced by monsters. It features both school life systems where you’ll take on requests and spend time with friends, and a combat system where you can use either “leader” style to grant buffs to allies or “ruler” style to crush enemies.

According to the website, there are also six social stats that change based on your choices and open up different options to you.

They recently shared the opening movie, as well.

Varlet sounds pretty interesting and looks like the sort of RPG I’ll want to keep my eye on. I’ve heard mixed things about Team Noir’s previous RPG, Monark, however, so I’ll probably wait to see what Varlet’s reception is like first.

(It’s not as if I’m lacking games in my backlog, after all.)

What do you think of Varlet?

428: Shibuya Scramble Executive Producer Announces New Live Action Adventure Game

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Apr 282025
 

You might remember us briefly discussing 428: Shibuya Scramble back when it was first translated, and ever since then, I’ve had it on my list of games to play.

428: Shibuya Scramble is an adventure game that uses live action footage and follows multiple characters with intersecting stories.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about it, but I just haven’t gotten around to playing it yet.

Well, the game’s executive producer, Jiro Ishii, has announced a crowdfunding campaign for a new live action adventure game. According to the translation from Gematsu, 428: Shibuya Scramble was developed with the goal of surpassing the older live action adventure game Machi, but live action game has surpassed 428: Shibuya Scramble in turn yet.

It sounds like that will be the goal with this new project, which will also be set in Shibuya and feature multiple protagonists.

The crowdfunding campaign will be through Ubgoe, a Japanese crowdfunding site. Here’s hoping it sees a lot of success and eventually gets a translation!

In the meantime, I should finally play 428: Shibuya Scramble…

Breath of Fire IV Now Available on GOG

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Apr 252025
 

Not too long ago, we were talking about Silent Hill 4 on PC having its missing content restored thanks to the GOG Preservation Program, and now that same program has brought us more exciting news.

GOG has something they call the Dreamlist, where fans can vote for games they’d like to see added.

With over 23,000 votes, Breath of Fire IV was able to get enough attention to be released through GOG.

The Breath of Fire series has been slightly dead for a long time now. Technically the last new game in the series was Breath of Fire 6 in 2016, but that was a mobile game that never got localized and was shut down a year later, after such a terrible reception that its average review score was 1.5 stars. The last proper new entry before that came out in 2002.

So any Breath of Fire news is a positive sign, and I’ve been hopeful ever since Capcom featured Breath of Fire in a poll a couple years back.

Up until today, Breath of Fire IV was most readily accessible through the PSN copy playable on PS3 or Vita, which means the new availability of the PC version is great news. Here’s hoping it sells well and shows Capcom that Breath of Fire is definitely one of those series they should revive!

Are you planning to play Breath of Fire IV?

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