Operation Backlog Completion 2026

Fantasy Life i Delayed (Again)

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Aug 192024
 

The Nintendo Direct in February 2023 had a huge number of exciting announcements, including the great return of Level-5 with DecaPolice, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, and Professor Layton and the New World of Steam.

Fantasy Life i was eventually delayed to 2024 and given a Summer 2024 release window, and then at this February’s Nintendo Direct, it got a release date of October 10.

The delay made me a little nervous…

…and now it’s been delayed again.

The announcement says they’ve decided to “change the release date,” which I was faintly hopeful about since it doesn’t actually use the word “delay,” but Nintendo of Europe tweeted about it and called it a delay. So I doubt this is one of those rare cases of a release date being moved up.

More information will come at Level-5’s live stream, which was originally planned for April but was itself delayed to summer and still has no specific date.

As a Level-5 fan, I was so happy to see their big return, but now I’m getting worried. Maybe Fantasy Life i’s new delay is a strategic one, to avoid it being released on top of highly-anticipated games like Metaphor, but it doesn’t feel good that all of the games announced last February still seem to be in limbo. Plus, as a Professor Layton fan, I can’t help but worry this will push New World of Steam even further out.

On the other hand, I don’t want Fantasy Life i to be rushed, either. Here’s hoping that when it does come out, it’ll live up to its predecessor.

In unrelated news, Silent Hill 2 got a new story trailer that looks pretty good (although it’s uncanny to hear lines that are word-for-word the same as in the original but being said with new voices) and Final Fantasy XVI is coming to PC on September 17. Gamescom is tomorrow, so we might get some new announcements there as well. There’s a lot of great games coming out, so I hope Fantasy Life i will be one too when it has its time to shine.

Muv-Luv Strategy RPG Announced

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Aug 122024
 

We’ve got some more Muv-Luv news, although it’s not what I expected!

We haven’t talked about Muv-Luv since the announcement of the Switch versions (which did eventually come out in English), but now something new is on the table.

The developer has announced a Muv-Luv strategy RPG with the tentative title Muv-Luv Tactics.

Now, I’d much rather see them talking about the next visual novels in the series, Resonative and Integrate, but it’s nice to get even more Muv-Luv news that isn’t about gacha. I hope this means those visual novels are still being made.

No details about Muv-Luv Tactics have been revealed aside from a short teaser trailer, but they intend to crowdfund the game’s development.

They previously made an action game in Project Mikhail that saw a mixed reception on Steam, so here’s hoping Tactics fares better than that.

While I wouldn’t have predicted it, I can see Muv-Luv working well as a strategy RPG. More information about Muv-Luv Tactics will be revealed on October 19, which they’ve termed Muv-Luv Day. Since it’s Muv-Luv Day, maybe we’ll hear more about Resonative and Integrate as well!

Fate/Extra Record Looks Great! (And Other News)

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Aug 052024
 

As announced, we got new information about Fate/Extra Record over the weekend, and it looks great!

Fate/Extra Record will be out on Switch, PS4, PS5, and PC in 2025, published by Bandai Namco.

(An English version still hasn’t been officially confirmed, and the old website now objects to a new one with no English option that I see. Still, it seems likely that it will come out in English eventually.)

Getting back to the trailer itself, the game looks great. Combat has been changed to a deck-building turn-based system, while the original used a rock-paper-scissors system where you had to select a sequence of actions for each turn that would then be matched against the enemy’s actions. This new system is quite a change, but it looks fun.

And this wasn’t the only Fate related news the weekend brought us.

Fate/stay night Remastered, which we were so excited to learn about earlier this year, will be out on August 8 for Switch and PC. It only costs $29.99, and it’s digital-only. That surprised me, since both Witch on the Holy Night and Tsukihime got physical versions.

Finally, its sequel Fate/hollow ataraxia has been announced for a remaster as well, also for Switch and PC. No release date was announced, but an English release has already been confirmed. There has been some theorizing that both remasters might be eventually bundled for a physical release.

I’ve been hovering on the fringes of the Fate series for a while now, so I’m excited by all of these developments. How do you feel about the latest Fate announcements?

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