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NIS Announces “Fairy Tale-Destroying Adventure” Game Shinigami Hime to Ishokan no Kaibutsu

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Nov 212025
 

Nippon Ichi Software has officially announced Shinigami Hime to Ishokan no Kaibutsu for the Switch, Switch 2, and PS5, a game described as a “fairy tale-destroying adventure.”

According to the translated information from Gematsu, you play as a girl named Mono who learns that her sister has an illness that turns people into picture books from which they emerge as monsters.

She forms an alliance with a monster called Mel to enter the picture book worlds and save her sister.

Why am I so intrigued by this game that I’m already writing a blog post about it, you might ask? Because it’s the third game from the team behind Liar Princess and the Blind Prince and The Cruel King and the Great Hero.

I love both of those games, and when I finished Cruel King, I mentioned that I wanted to see what the team made next. This looks once again to be a new style of gameplay, but I’m really intrigued by it.

You’ll destroy parts of the picture books, gain skills to manipulate the world, and learn the pasts of the girls infected by this illness to free them from their trauma.

Both of their previous games were beautiful and emotional, and while the premise of this one didn’t immediately capture me in the same way, I’m sure it will be just as strong.

Now I just have to hope NISA announces localization. Are you interested in this new game?

The Next Tales Remaster… is Berseria?

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Nov 192025
 

So we’re fresh off the release of the Tales of Xillia remaster, which came out at the end of October, and the last we heard was that a Xillia 2 remaster was in progress and the next remaster would be announced soon.

The phrasing made it sound like Xillia 2 wasn’t the next in line, so everyone speculated about which Tales game might be remastered next…

…and the answer turned out to be Tales of Berseria.

Tales of Berseria Remastered was announced today for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, and PC. It will be out on February 27.

I’m sort of baffled.

I know Berseria came out in 2016, so it’ll be almost 10 years old by the time the remaster comes out, but only one mainline Tales game has been released between then and now. On top of that, it’s still readily available thanks to its PS4 and PC version. It just feels like one of the Tales games that needs a remaster the least.

The remaster has some quality-of-life additions, such as a plot destination icon, and all the original DLC (costumes and items) is included.

Unlike Xillia, where I had mixed feelings, I have no need to get Tales of Berseria Remastered. But that’s fine. My backlog will keep me busy for a while anyway. I just wonder when we’ll hear about the next Tales game… and if any of the older titles will ever be remastered.

What do you think about the Tales of Berseria remaster?

Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Cancelled for the West

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Nov 172025
 

Back in August, we discussed both bad news and good news for the Corpse Party series: although Corpse Party II was delayed to 2026, the Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack had been confirmed for a western release.

Well… not anymore.

About a month ago, Xseed Games tweeted that they had “run into an unanticipated complication” that could prevent them from releasing the Tetralogy Pack and stopped pre-orders as a precaution.

And this past Friday evening, they followed up with the unfortunate update that the games’ contents “did not comply with current platform guidelines.”

The Tetralogy Pack, as well as the digital release of the games that weren’t already on the Switch, has been cancelled.

Corpse Party and Blood Drive are both on the eShop already, so since their tweet says the problem was with multiple games in the collection, it sounds like both Book of Shadows and Sweet Sachiko’s Hysteric Birthday Bash break content guidelines.

(I would have otherwise guessed it was just Birthday Bash, since that one has so much fanservice compared to the others.)

On the other hand, I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that even content in the other games is no longer acceptable, and the games already on the eShop just aren’t being removed even though they wouldn’t be accepted if they were new games.

There’s no denying it, something has definitely changed with Nintendo of America’s content guidelines. For the whole Switch era, Nintendo was the more relaxed platform when it came to censorship. Third-party games could do just about anything as long as it was covered by an M rating. But this year, several companies ran into trouble with western Switch releases, Idea Factory being the most prominent one. Now this incident leaves no room for doubt.

Fortunately, the Japanese version of the Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack supports English. As soon as Xseed made that first tweet in October, I ordered a copy from VGP. They’re all sold out now, but you should keep an eye on Play-Asia and VGP if you want the Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack.

What will this mean for Corpse Party II, though? I’d hate for them to tone down its content in anticipation of problems. Right now all we can do is wait.

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