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It's so gacha, that even paying them has to become a gacha.

Was the trailer supposed to invoke boredom?

"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?"

This is now my all time favourite football game. Being in Canada, earlier Inazuma titles never made it to our region, so this was my first exposure to the game.

And oh boy, I'm having so much fun with it. 100+ hours and I barely finished the 3rd chronicle route.

Knowing SEGA, the "next chapter" here simply means year 31+

Not Persona 6.

Yes, yes, YES!

Thank you for this. Horizon is clearly designed as ultimate love letter to all the fans that has been following the stories for 10+ years, with all the heartbreak and the uncertainty that comes with it when we didn't even know if we'll ever get to see the continuation in the west.

I absolutely can't wait to start this next week!

OG PS5 owners to PS5 Pro owners: "First time?"

Seriously though, ***** Sony and their incessant support to PS5 Slim while ignoring the other two versions.

Thanks for this! I never played the OG DQ7 in any previous iterations so I'm really looking forward to this remake.

This is a fantastic news!

The first three months of 2026 is absolute stacked with gaming releases, that the JRPG girl in me is really, really happy about it. 🥰

Trails Beyond The Horizon - Jan 15
Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined - Feb 5th
Yakuza Kiwami 3 - Feb 12th
Monster Hunter Stories 3 - March 13th

And we still don't even have any news on my biggest hype release yet, Fire Emblem: Fortune Weave.

This is going to be a good year for gaming. I'm so ridiculously ecstatic with this lineups that I can feel myself glowing.

Time Stranger was the best Digimon Stories and JRPG of the franchise. One thing that was missed from the interview was Ryosuke Hara confirming that the "Adult topics" works for Time Stranger, and they hoped to continue that. For me, that's a great news as Time Stranger deals a lot of uncomfortable and more mature subject matters like suicide and depression. If they continue this, they don't need to compete directly with Pokemon and can tap a more mature audience with their strong storylines.

Lol...really? 3 gacha games and Trails Beyond The Horizon, Sky 2nd Chapter, Grand Bazaar, and Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (arguably the return of Marvelous farming sims into PlayStation) is not in this list? The more appropriate title for this article would be "MY personal choice of 40+ PS5 Games to Play in 2026".

This is just getting ***** sad.

@Propaperpusher a properly used GenAI that branches the narrative and resolution based on your player's agency is the ultimate RPG I wanted to play with.

He's not wrong, generative AI can and does shorten development cycle.

And as with how this technology evolves, the question will shift from whether or not to use it, to how to ethically use it (for example, 81Produce talent agency that made news lately in Seiyuu's market by partnering with AI company to store their talents voice (with their talents consent and profit sharing) and used as AI seiyuu. This works because it gets the talents' consent as well as still giving them income eventhough AI used their voices.

One of the games I'm really looking forward to next year is Starsand Island and the developers have been pretty open about using Generative AI.

I'm still looking forward to play it.

@mrbone exactly.

I think people are just tired of reading these type of articles because it just evolved into an empty platitude or virtue signaling.

And yes, as someone has mentioned, compared to other labourers or even anime artists that literally worked grueling hours with marginal pay, these game developers had it easier. So watching them still whining about it just grating to be honest.

If you actually want to publish news like these, can you deep dive more on it? Yes, overtime has existed forever, I'm in IT and when we have an MIO, it's not surprising to work over 16+ hours to get it fixed. Or when we're trying to push new things into production without breaking the system.

But we get paid extra for it. Overtime here is 250% regular pay, so that's a lot of money when you have to Overtime.

So let's do deep dive, how much are they getting paid? is mandatory OT or crunch or whatever you wanna call it means they work unpaid? is it as bad as the anime industries? were they blindsided? was this not outlined in their employment contract that they signed? Without extra details, this is nothing more than tabloid level gossip.

This kind of news is fine, but let's stop fearmongering without getting into the details of things. News outlets are pushing fear articles with AI and crunch, and then have the audacity only reporting half of it. If the idea was to garner sympathy for these folks, well, it failed. Especially for companies like Hoyoverse who made hundreds of billions with their gacha and last time I checked, somehow still have the lowest turnover rate and lowest termination rate (which means they somehow treat their employees well with their pay structure and bonuses) in the industry.

People are not tired of these games yet? they all just look the same to me now.

Honestly the only thing that probably make me willing to try another gacha game is Ananta.

@rawzeku That's fair, but this is the same developers that creates HSR, Genshin, and Honkai. In the end, they will still want to make money and power creeping is the easiest to do so even if they're dangling a temporary carrots to entice new players for now with buffing old characters. It's an old playbook.

Still a gacha.

With the evolving trend of this genre with cosmetic only gacha like Infinity Nikki, Where Winds Meet, Duet Night Abyss, even the upcoming Ananta, spending $$$ for characters that only will get powercrept a few patches later no longer hold any interest on me. I uninstalled Star Rail because of this.

As someone who lives during the era where Trails fandom was absolutely not sure whether or not we're ever getting a continuation to Cold Steel after the second one, this actually made me tear up.

I'm happy they decided to focus more on global release so we don't have to wait 5 years to catch up to the next series, and I'll be more than happy to buy all Falcom games to support their decision to do this.

I'll will definitely start this demo closer to the release date so that I won't have to wait too long to start the next chapter.

The only true football game for me now is Inazuma Eleven.

Day 1 for me whenever it's released by 2035.

This is a respectable score and while IGN doesn't have their final score yet (still playing the game), the vibe was also more positive there.
As someone who like OT1 and absolutely loves OT2, the demo for OT0 was probably the first time I actually groaned in disappointment when the 3 hours notice flashed on my screen. I really enjoyed what OT0 offers, as it reminds me of my all-time favourite JRPG franchise, Suikoden. Yes, it's not obviously as massive as that as we're not recruiting 108 characters and rebuilding an entire kingdom, but the vibe and the theme are pretty similar from what I gathered in the demo. The recruiting, the side missions, the rebuilding, I enjoyed them all and I can't wait to actually play them tomorrow.

That being said, OT0 is a great blueprint, and I hope Square will consider creating a proper recruiting/townbuilding JRPG again from scratch. Maybe Octopath Traveller 0-2, or OT3.

It's an easy path, Falcom. Finish Sky, then Crossbell. That's your remake money maker. I'll be happy with either remakes anyway.

Anyone in the comments thinking the $37million write off was a big disaster for Paradox, clearly has no idea what this publisher has in their portfolio. Age of Wonder, Europa Universalis, and Crusader Kings franchises alone are more than enough to offset this cost as their millions of loyal players are more than happy to pay for their overpriced DLCs and expansion packs as they usually give us thousands of hours of games, yes me included.

They'll be fine; in fact, I'll argue that the major success of their other franchises that they are strong at, is the reason why they can occasionally take risks like publishing this game.

That historical accuracy though.

What a joke...

I'm so starved for a proper Wuxia game since Jade Empire, I will day-1 on this.

Can't wait!

Once again Rob is making my day with the news he's sharing on this site.

Marking my calendar for this as I truly enjoyed the 1st chapter remake. And that's coming from someone who has played the OG in 3 separate consoles and occasions.

@Hyrule_Herb If you could only get 1 of them, get Yotei. It's an improvement from the game and really did take full advantage of a PS5 exclusive game. Tsushima while pretty good for its time, but had a clear drawback and inferiority when you compare it to Yotei.

Tsushima walked so Yotei could run.

There was an SOP today??? wow...probably the first time I actually missed an SOP.

@AverageGamer How is Yotei a sequel story to Tsushima?

Different story, different region, different motivations, different gameplay mechanic, different time settings, and even a different adoption of the moniker "ghost".

The only connection was during a small quest during the end of the game where Atsu's finding the equipment of the first ghost. Otherwise, the story between the two has no connections at all. Tsushima's story was "one and done".

Did you play Yotei?

Add an additional asterisks on how skewed the votes were because people who haven't even touched Ghost of Yotei were also voting.

The best parts on this comment sections are those with "Haven't played Yotei", yet feel warranted to give their opinions on both games.

If you haven't completed both games, your opinion is as useful as a cow's opinion. It's "moo".

Just Old Yeller this company already.

I literally went back to Tsushima after I completed Yotei and simply couldn't get back into the combat anymore.

Once you get used to Atsu's whirlwind of deaths and a lot of thrown katana to quickly clear a camp, Jin just feels so slow.

Yotei also won on how it handles side missions, side stories (some of those tales and duels are one of the best written story I encountered from a game in a while), as well as their mini games. It never feel as bloated and I love the clue systems.

I played this game on PC, and everything about it just so mediocre.

Yes, there are some improvements from the first game, but if you're expecting the same prowess from New Vegas, it's not there anymore.

Obsidian clearly has lost the charm that made it great in RPG.

Did an AI wrote this review? why is everything sounds so vague and abstract? is the game vague?

After how they butchered the second one, I call ***** on this. Not gonna bother on the 3rd one.

People really do stopped reading after "Assassin's Creed Boss Leaves Ubisoft" and then made a comment about it?

This business move is VeryBadium.

Although, just like Octopath Traveller 0 and Atelier Resleriana, they may ended up porting this to console at one point if it's successful enough.

If there's a mobile game I want them to port to a proper console, it would be War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Too bad they just axing that as outside of the bloated gacha mobile trash, there's a pretty good game and story there.

Are they just counting physicals? I'm lazy so I only by games digitally and I'm pretty sure my spending habit increased this year as I can just "swipe" my card from the comfort of my couch. October alone had me purchasing 4 games at once (Trails remake, Grand Bazaar, Digimon Story, and Ghost of Yotei), Nov and Dec aren't going to be any difference either with Inazuma Eleven and Octopath Traveler 0.

PSStore, Nintendo Online, and Steam, I think I pretty much purchased every games I had my eyes on this year and I tend to buy the expensive version for it too (Digital Deluxe or whatever they want to call it)

You don't need to be a brain surgeon to see this writing in the wall back then, anyone who took a basic Economy 101 class would've seen this coming.

How do you say "I told you so", without saying "I told you so?"

No, and not because of the game or anything, I'm just a big baby with scary games.

So I'll probably just watch the story recap in Youtube down the road.

The game absolutely really does look ambitious, and I will try it when it's out.

That being said, what is the song used in the trailer? it's sooo catchy and perfect for its vibe.

I mean, after P5 Royal no upgrade path from PS4 to PS5 treatment, I'm not surprised but still disappointing nevertheless.

And just like P5R for PS5, I'll probably ignore this one too.

Nope, I'd pay for digital deluxe like usual though.

Bring in more trailers, I will welcome it!. Already preordered this with my hype level in a critical mass, but always love to see more of it till the release date.

Pavlov me, Sony!