Operation Backlog Completion 2026

Fate/stay night Remastered Announced With an English Release

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Jan 312024
 

Half a year ago, I said, “Who knows, one of these days we could be discussing an official Fate/Stay Night localization,” and now the time has come.

Yesterday, Type-Moon announced that Fate/stay night Realta Nua is being remastered for PC and Switch, with English and Chinese translations available for the first time.

No PS4/PS5 version was announced, oddly enough, even though Witch on the Holy Night did and the upcoming Tsukihime remake will as well. I prefer to play visual novels on the Switch whenever possible, so that’s fine for me.

If you’re asking yourself “What is Realta Nua,” because the Fate franchise has so many entries a title like that could easily be mistaken for a spin-off, it’s the later version of the original Fate/stay night, which removed the sex scenes and replaced them with new content.

(So anyone asking if the sex scenes will be censored or cut should know that this is a remaster of the version that had already removed them.)

I’ve been interested in the Fate series for a while, since I’ve played a couple of spin-offs as well as Witch on the Holy Night from the same universe, so I’ll definitely be getting this! I know a lot of fans were hoping for a full remake, but I’m happy enough with a remaster.

It only has a 2024 release window so far, which I believe is the same for the English release of Tsukihime. Presumably Tsukihime will come out first.

So here we are, yet another “will never be localized” game being localized. It’s gotta be Bandai Namco’s turn with the untranslated Tales games one of these days!

And don’t forget, we have a State of Play tonight and an Aksys showcase tomorrow. This could be a great week for exciting game announcements! Are you interested in playing Fate/stay night Remastered?

Muv-Luv is Coming to the Switch on March 28

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Dec 272023
 

A couple months ago, it was announced that Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative would be coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2024.

Now we have a release date.

According to Gematsu, Japanese retailers have listed the Switch versions with a release date of March 28.

There will be a special edition called the “Muv-Luv 20th Odyssey Box” that includes both games, a carabiner handle mug, a Gate Guard badge, a 20th anniversary medal, a download code for Muv-Luv Unlimited: The Day After, and an art book. It costs 32,780 yen, which is approximately $230, so that’s quit a pricey collector’s edition.

The most perplexing part of the collector’s editions contents is the inclusion of Muv-Luv Unlimited: The Day After. There’s been no announcement of The Day After coming to Switch yet, so either this is a quiet announcement of that or it’s a PC code. Including a PC game as a bonus with a Switch collector’s edition sounds strange, but the official website links to sites for all three games, and the Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative pages show the Switch as a platform while The Day After’s page does not.

Either way, at least this is positive news for the series!

For a while, the fate of the series was looking pretty grim, with reports that its future depended on the success of a gacha game and other things like that, so I’m happy to see it coming to Switch!

It’s unclear if the Switch versions will get an official release outside of Japan or not, but they will include English. So if you’ve been waiting on the Muv-Luv series and would prefer to play it on the Switch, you’ll be able to when Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative are released for the Switch on March 28!

Hopefully that means Resonative and Integrate are still on the table. In the meantime, I really should get around to finishing Total Eclipse and its prequel…

The Imperial Capital Burns (Teito Moyu) is Out Now

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Nov 172023
 

Back when the remaster of Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse was coming out, one point we discussed was how it did not include the prelude story.

Teito Moyu, or Burning of the Imperial Capital, had been included with the original Total Eclipse and was mentioned in the Muv-Luv translation Kickstarter campaign, so its absence had us wondering if/when we’d see it in English.

Well, the time is now!

With the official English title of The Imperial Capital Burns – Muv Luv Alternative Total Eclipse, it’s now available on Steam as a standalone release.

Now, it might have occurred to you that I still haven’t written a review of Total Eclipse despite how excited for it I was. That’s because I started to read it, but found myself sidetracked by other games and never got back to it.

Since The Imperial Capital Burns is a prequel, I’ll probably get it and read it first after all before returning to my playthrough of Total Eclipse. Hopefully that will reignite my enthusiasm for Total Eclipse, as well!

Are you planning to pick up The Imperial Capital Burns?

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