Well, with the Atelier feature over and done with, it's time to start thinking about what's next!
Next up on the schedule is 428: Shibuya Scramble, which I was originally intending to cover first this year, but then Koei Tecmo were kind enough to provide some review copies of the Atelier DX games, so I thought I should get something written up about those sooner rather than later.
428 is a visual novel that makes use of photographs and full-motion video rather than hand-drawn art or computer graphics. Consequently, it's got a really interesting sense of style about it, not to mention some intriguing mechanics and structure. Certainly lots to talk about with that one.
After that, I've got a few new arrivals vying for my attention. Compile Heart's Death End Re;Quest is a game I'm very interested to explore for a variety of reasons, so that will definitely be covered sooner rather than later, and my limited edition of Song of Memories arrived today, too, and that's something I've been looking forward to for some time.
For older stuff I'm keen to explore, I'd like to do a Suda51 feature that has the recent Travis Strikes Again as a final focal point; this would likely involve his adventure games The Silver Case and its sequel I've forgotten the name of, Flower, Sun and Rain and the two No More Heroes games besides Travis Strikes Again itself. Suda's work is not something I'm massively familiar with so far, so this will be a good opportunity to explore some of it with a clear focus.
For even older stuff, I'm determined to check out Unlimited SaGa, a game I hated when I originally tried it when it was current, but whose concept has become thoroughly fascinating to me in more recent years. The idea of a console-based RPG taking significant ideas from pen and paper/tabletop RPGs is most intriguing — and the soundtrack's amazing, too.
There's heaps of other stuff too. I have two Senran Kagura games I'd like to cover — Burst Re:Newal and Peach Beach Splash — as well as a veritable plethora of games stretching right back to the PS1 era… possibly the SNES era.
One thing's for sure, I'm not going to be short of material for a long time yet.
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