Operation Backlog Completion 2026

Rear Sekai Announced, a New Action JRPG From the Creator of Rune Factory

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Jan 092023
 

Several games were announced today by the publisher Bushiroad Games, one of which is a new action JRPG from Yoshifumi Hashimoto.

Yoshifumi Hashimoto has worked on many games and is the creator of the Rune Factory series.

Hashimoto heads a subsidiary of Marvelous Games called Hakama, which handled the development of Rune Factory 5, among other titles. Hakama will be developing the newly-announced action JRPG Rear Sekai.

Very little has been revealed about Rear Sekai so far. Even its short teaser trailer doesn’t show much besides two characters, who are also featured on the website.

Rear Sekai will be out in 2023 for the Nintendo Switch. Nothing has been said yet about localization, but I hope we see more from this game soon.

New Mistwalker Game in Development

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Dec 282022
 

As is common, a number of Japanese game developers have made end-of-year comments about their plans for 2023.

Published by Famitsu and 4Gamer and translated by Gematsu, most of these statements aren’t too specific.

One of the most interesting ones to me, however, comes from Hironobu Sakaguchi, who said he’s begun writing the scenario for an unannounced dark fantasy title.

I still need to play more of Mistwalker’s games, including their Apple-exclusive RPG Fantasian, which I now have a device capable of playing. It’s exciting to know that Mistwalker has another title coming up, so I look forward to seeing what it is! (I still wish they’d remaster or port their previous games, too.)

There are lots of other little hints in the messages as well, such as references to new games from Level-5, Koei Tecmo, and Spike Chunsoft, among others.

(As much as I wish there was a hint of Ace Attorney news in Capcom’s messages, they only reference Dragon’s Dogma 2, Monster Hunter, and Exoprimal. I’m still hopeful that next year will be our year.)

Anyway, it’s worth reading through these message to get a glimpse of what 2023 has in store for us. Mistwalker’s new game is the one that caught my attention the most, but what about you?

Sports Story is Out Now (But I’m Waiting)

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Dec 262022
 

Last month, Golf Story successor Sports Story finally got a release window after years of silence.

And on Friday, it came out!

It wasn’t quite as much of a shadow drop as it appeared to be at first, since Nintendo had been highlighting indie games all week long. Friday’s video included the official release announcements of Sports Story.

Only a digital version is available so far, but since Limited Run Games did a physical run of Golf Story, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did the same here. There hasn’t been any news yet that I’m aware of, though.

I loved Golf Story, so I was all set to buy Sports Story and start playing it right away.

However, I’ve actually decided to wait. I’ve seen a lot of people reporting bugs, including softlocks and crashes, enough to make me reconsider starting. Fortunately, Sidebar Games already responded to the concerns by saying a patch is in progress, so hopefully that will clear up the issues once it’s out.

At least I have plenty of games in my backlog to play in the meantime. I had thought Sports Story might be one of the last games I’d finish in 2022, but here’s hoping it’ll instead be a game I love in 2023.

Have you started Sports Story? Are you waiting for a patch?

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