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Nintendo Direct Announced for September 13

Sep 122022

The long-awaited (like every other one) Nintendo Direct has been announced for tomorrow!

September is a common month for Nintendo to hold a Direct, so people were anticipating it for quite a while.

The Nintendo Direct will be held tomorrow, September 13, at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET.

It will be a 40-minute live stream “mostly focused on Nintendo Switch games launching this winter.” With that criteria, Bayonetta 3 is a likely candidate to be shown, and possibly another Pokémon trailer as well.

There’s also been a credible leak about a certain game, which could plausibly be Nintendo Direct news. Of course, I’ll also be hoping for Ace Attorney news, even though I don’t actually expect it.

40 minutes is pretty long for a Nintendo Direct, so here’s hoping there are some exciting surprises in store!

So we’ve got a Nintendo Direct tomorrow, the RGG Summit on Wednesday, and then we’ll be in the thick of TGS. What games are you hoping for across this cluster of game events?

RGG Summit Announced for September 14

Video Games 1 Response » Tagged with: rpg, yakuza

Sep 092022

Okay. So the sneak peek trailer broadcast included neither a trailer nor a sneak peek, making me wonder if the title’s translation was misinterpreted somehow.

(Getting shades of the “unmissable” TGS panel from a few years back from this one.)

Anyway, while they didn’t show a sneak peek of anything, they did announce an event for next week.

RGG Summit 2022 will be held on September 14 at 19:00 JST, which is 3 AM PT / 6 AM ET. So I probably won’t be watching it live (although that’s exactly what I said about yesterday’s broadcast before tuning in for the non-existent trailer).

The official title of this one is “Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio New Title Presentation,” and both the Japanese and English accounts for RGG Studio shared the announcement. It’s also going to be translated, so it sounds like big news.

This will almost certainly be the official reveal of Yakuza 8. Since we know Yakuza 8 exists and this isn’t being announced specifically as a Yakuza 8 reveal, though (in contrast to “Judgment Day” for the reveal of Lost Judgment), I hope they’ll actually have multiple announcements. Multiple announcements at the RGG Summit would more than make up for my disappointment yesterday.

It looks like this is the first ever “RGG Summit,” so we don’t have any past examples for comparison.

Yesterday, Youtube was associating Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin with the video for next week’s broadcast, but now no specific game is linked to its page at all. I assume that was just Youtube automatically making the connection due to the series/channel name. I won’t get my hopes up.

…but that doesn’t mean I won’t still wish with all my heart for multiple announcements from this event!

Here’s what I’d be most interested in seeing:

Yakuza 8 (all but guaranteed)
Hint of the future of Judgment
Kenzan and/or Ishin localization please
Dead Souls remaster
New spin-off

Of course, it could end up just being a Yakuza 8 reveal and nothing more, which will still be exciting, just not as exciting. What do you think will be shown at RGG Summit 2022?

Process of Elimination Looks Like an Intriguing Detective Game

Video Games 3 Responses » Tagged with: process of elimination, visual novel

Sep 072022

NISA held a showcase today that included a few new game announcements.

Of them, the one that stood out to me the most was Process of Elimination.

(It wasn’t a huge shock, since they accidentally leaked their own lineup after announcing the showcase, so I knew it would be there.)

Process of Elimination is a visual novel about a group of 14 detectives searching for a serial killer on a mysterious island, only to learn the killer is one of them.

It was released last year in Japan under the title Tantei Bokumetsu. Looking back at details revealed leading up to its launch shows that it has a mix of visual novel segments and investigation segments. During investigations, you control the detectives on a map of the area and use their strengths to find clues.

As soon as the trailer started, I knew this was my sort of game.

It sounds pretty neat, and I’m especially pleased to see a visual novel from NIS actually being localized. Maybe that’s a good sign for the future.

Although it has no release date yet, Process of Elimination is planned for early 2023 for the Switch and PS4. There’s also a limited edition that comes with a soundtrack, art book, and keychain, so I’ll be looking into that. Meanwhile, we’ve got another little cluster of game events here, as tomorrow should bring us that new trailer from RGG Studio. Fingers crossed for good things!

What are your thoughts on Process of Elimination?

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