Hi folks! Been a while since a Patron-only update so I thought I'd take a moment to share what I'm planning to work on over the course of the next few months.

First up, as you've doubtless already seen, this month is all about Xenoblade Chronicles 2. This is a higher-profile sort of game than I typically cover on MoeGamer, but with online discussion of the game surrounding its launch dominated by all the crap over its female characters' appearance, I thought it was important to take some time to look at it in detail, because it's a fascinating game. You can follow the month's features on it here: https://moegamer.net/all-games/xenoblade-chronicles-2/

From then on… well. I have one hell of a backlog of things I want to cover, as well as some upcoming things I definitely want to highlight. From the backlog, I wanted to take a bit of feedback from you folks — more on that in a moment, but first an outline of what's likely to be coming over the next couple of months.

Depending on when the final release dates of these games are, I'm definitely going to be doing full Cover Game features on Gal*Gun 2 and the Shantae series as a whole, following the "Ultimate Edition" release of Shantae: 1/2 Genie Hero. The latter isn't a Japanese game, of course, but it carries more than enough Japanese influences to make it something well within MoeGamer's remit!

Beyond that, I want to cover Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash at some point over the summer in an attempt to be vaguely seasonal — doing so around then will also allow me to write about another Senran Kagura title around the second year anniversary of my launching of the Cover Game format! — but from there… well, there are lots of choices.

Off the top of my head, here are some games, both old and new, that I'd like to give some in-depth coverage to. As always, these aren't necessarily games from the here and now — there are a few PS2 games in there, for example — but those which I feel are worth investigating for historical reasons, or just because I like the look of them. I'd be interested to hear from you if there are any in particular that you'd like to see some detailed articles on!

• Nights of Azure 2

• Blue Reflection

• Dark Rose Valkyrie

• Mary Skelter: Nightmares

• Fate/Extra (and/or Fate/Extella)

• Atelier (the Iris, Arland and Dusk trilogies in particular)

• Xenosaga

• Unlimited SaGa

• Chaos;Child

• Steins;Gate Zero

• Demon Gaze II

• Akiba's Beat

• Trails in the Sky/Trails of Cold Steel

• Ys VIII

• Yumina the Ethereal

• Seinarukana

• Eiyu Senki

There are about a bajillion more that I haven't mentioned, but these are ones that spring immediately to mind that I feel have interesting elements well worth talking about. If you're interested in me pushing any of these towards the front(ish) of my upcoming schedule, please let me know and I'll see what I can do!

In the meantime, I'm also interested in starting to experiment with providing anime coverage. Like my gaming coverage focuses on the idea of the "late review", I'm not especially interested in trying to keep super up to date with current seasonal anime and reviewing things on an episode-by-episode basis; rather, I'd like to look back on series I've enjoyed from the recent or distant past and provide a rundown of why they're interesting and perhaps worth checking out. There's certainly not a shortage of things to talk about!

As always, thank you for your support; it really is appreciated. MoeGamer has grown hugely over the course of the last year in particular, and people like you have been a big part of helping to make that happen. Together we can show that there's a place for a different kind of "writing about games"!

Big love!
Pete