Operation Backlog Completion 2026

Several Tales Games on PS3 (and Vita) Have Been Delisted

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Mar 272024
 

After my mixed feelings on Tales of Arise, I still haven’t bought the DLC, but I’ve nevertheless been looking forward to news from the Tales series.

Well, this isn’t exactly the news I’d hoped for.

Several older Tales games have been delisted from PSN without warning. After seeing a Reddit post about it, I took a look for myself to confirm it.

In North America, Tales of Symphonia Chronicles has been delisted, although you can still purchase Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World separately. In the reverse of that, Tales of Xillia and Tales of Graces f can be bought together as a bundle, but aren’t available separately. Tales of Xillia 2 has been delisted completely, as has Tales of Hearts R for the Vita.

According to the online reports, similar delistings have occurred in the European and Japanese stores as well.

Bandai Namco hasn’t made any official statement about the games being delisted yet, so it’s not clear if this was intentional or just an oversight. The most optimistic take would be that they delisted them in preparation for bringing them all to modern platforms… but I don’t feel even that optimistic, especially when what’s been delisted is so inconsistent.

However, next year is the 30th anniversary of the Tales series. Maybe they’ll surprise us after all.

Now my backlog is overflowing with Tales games, because I bought all the games that were available at the time, so the games being delisted doesn’t affect me personally. But as a Tales fan, it’s sad to see a number of the games suddenly become that much harder for players to get.

Stellar Blade Demo Launches March 29

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Mar 252024
 

A little over two weeks ago, a Stellar Blade demo was released… and then quickly taken down. Apparently it was released earlier than it was supposed to be.

Some people did manage to play it during that time frame, and their impressions left me eager to get a chance to play the demo myself.

From the trailers, I had been imagining it as closest to Bayonetta or Nier Automata, but I heard a lot more Souls-like comparisons than I expected.

Well, those of us who missed the accidental demo will have our chance at the end of the week. The Stellar Blade demo has been announced for March 29. Moreover, your demo save data will transfer to the full game.

I’ve been intrigued by Stellar Blade since back when it was known as Project Eve, and I can’t wait to try the demo.

Stellar Blade itself will be out on April 26, which puts it right around other games I’ve got my eye on, like Eiyuden Chronicle (April 23) and Sand Land (also April 26). I haven’t tried the Sand Land demo yet either, so maybe I’ll try that as well to figure out what games to prioritize!

Not that I’ve even finished the games that came out earlier this year yet…

Anyway, it’s good to have an official date for the demo now, and I’m looking forward to trying it. Will you be playing the Stellar Blade demo?

The Day Capcom Accidentally Stirred Up Ace Attorney Fans for No Reason

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Mar 222024
 

You know how sometimes we talk about little things Capcom does and hope it might be a hint of upcoming Ace Attorney news?

This is not one of those posts.

Actually, this post is the exact opposite.

Everyone got stirred up yesterday over what turned out to be a mistake… and since people keep seeing the original stir and think something’s happening, I decided to write about it.

Ever since the release of the Apollo Justice Trilogy, the official Ace Attorney Twitter account has been holding a weekly “book club” where they discuss one of its cases. They’re up to The Cosmic Turnabout now, and so yesterday they tweeted their Cosmic Turnabout book club post.

Except they forgot to include the text of the tweet. They just tweeted a screenshot of the Earth with no explanation.

This being a particularly context-free screenshot, it was not easy to immediately recognize as being from The Cosmic Turnabout. It appeared to be the official Ace Attorney Twitter account tweeting something new. So like the time when they changed their social media icons, the replies were immediately flooded with people asking if it was a hint of something.

Some people took it as a hint of an Ace Attorney 7 announcement, some took it as a hint that Investigations 2 was going to be localized, and only a handful said, “Wait, isn’t that from Dual Destinies?”

Capcom deleted the original tweet and followed up with the correct one, which now has the book club text, and the incident was forgotten. Or not, since as I mentioned at the start, some people have just seen the chaos without the resolution.

So no, Capcom did not hint at Ace Attorney news yesterday. It was not a sign of Ace Attorney in space. It was not a sign of Ace Attorney 7 having a new setting. It was not a sign of Investigations 2 coming to the whole world. But if nothing else, I hope the reactions showed them how much demand there is for a new Ace Attorney game.

(Unless that was the plan all along? Tweet an out-of-context screenshot to test how much excitement there would be? Nah… now I’m the one overthinking it.)

If you haven’t noticed, I’m desperate for Ace Attorney news once again. I never did that Apollo Justice Trilogy replay once the unlockable art was revealed, though, so maybe I should… while I wait for actual news to come.

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