#oneaday Day 128: Early Access No. 4 and Future Planning

Good morning! It's 1:15pm. This is a much more reasonable time at which to be writing, so I can be a little more coherent today.

First up, here's another "early access" look at an upcoming video: the third part of the Death end re;Quest feature "reading".

Anyway, the main thing I wanted to talk about today was the planning for the upcoming features on MoeGamer. We've kicked off this year with some strong, interesting things to cover, but they've been quite demanding in terms of time and energy! Consequently, I'm thinking that before I dive into anything else particularly huge, I would like to go back and "finish" a couple of features that remain slightly in limbo from previous years.

First up, I'd like to finish off the Sonic the Hedgehog feature. I was really pleased with how this was going, but I had to cut it short as I was still trying to stick to a monthly schedule for the Cover Game features at the time before the combination of Evenicle and Project Zero made me think that would probably not be a good idea to continue!

Anyway, I left off the Sonic feature at Sonic Unleashed, which means there's still a number of games I'd like to cover: Sonic Generations, Sonic Colours, Sonic Lost World, Sonic Forces and, most significantly, Sonic Mania. I say "most significantly" because the release of Sonic Mania Plus was actually the reason I started the Sonic feature in the first place, and then I ended up never actually getting to it.

So if it's acceptable to everyone, I'd like to polish that off over the course of the next few weeks — the relatively "light" nature of Sonic games will give me an opportunity to take a bit of a breather after the one-two punch of emotional heavy going that was 428: Shibuya Scramble and Death end re;Quest! If anyone has any violent objections to me doing this, please let me know; otherwise I don't like leaving things unfinished, so getting this will give me a pleasant feeling of "closure".

After that, I've had The Eden of Grisaia and the Grisaia spinoff games on the back burner for a long time now, and I'm itching to see how that story ends. So after finishing off the Sonic games, I'd like to take on that next. Again, if anyone has any violent objections to that, please let me know.

Beyond that, however, things are significantly more open. I just had a glance over my shelves and picked out all the games I might want to do a Cover Game feature on, and there's one hell of a lot of them. There's even more in my digital libraries, but I haven't counted those games for the moment.

There will now follow a non-comprehensive list of games I already own that I might like to do a Cover Game feature on in the near future. Note that this does not mean I'm definitely going to cover all of these, but they're all stuff I picked up specifically because I thought there might be some substantial features to write about them. This list does not include upcoming titles that I'm probably-definitely going to pick up and cover, like Date a Live and Dragon Star Varnir, and in a number of cases several titles could be combined into a single feature. I'd very much like to do a Suda51 feature concluding with Travis Strikes Again, for example.

If any titles particularly stand out to you that you'd really like me to write about at some point, please let me know in the comments. Titles in bold are ones that I already want to try and do sooner rather than later, i.e. sometime this year.

All right! Let's list! Everyone loves a list, right? In no particular order, but sorted by platform…

PS2

• Rogue Galaxy

• Mana Khemia

• Atelier Iris

• La Pucelle Tactics

• Makai Kingdom

• .hack

• Xenosaga

• Zone of the Enders

• Unlimited SaGa

PS3

• 3D Dot Game Heroes

• Agarest

• Atelier Dusk

• The Guided Fate Paradox

• The Awakened Fate Ultimatum

• Eternal Sonata

• Drakengard 3

• Final Fantasy XIII

• Mugen Souls

• Star Ocean: The Last Hope

• Tears to Tiara II

• Trinity Universe

PS4

• Atelier Mysterious

• Dark Rose Valkyrie

• Anima: Gate of Memories

• Bullet Girls Phantasia

• Chaos;Child

• Steins;Gate Zero

• Demon Gaze II

• Final Fantasy XII

• .hack G.U.

• Kingdom Hearts

• Nights of Azure 2

• Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash

• Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters

• Tokyo Xanadu+

• Utawarerumono

• White Day

• The Witch and the Hundred Knight (and sequel)

• Ys VIII

Vita

• Akiba's Beat

• Criminal Girls 2

• Danganronpa

• Deception

• Grand Kingdom

• Lost Dimension

• Superdimension Neptunia vs. Sega Hard Girls

• Moe Chronicle

• Mary Skelter Nightmares

• Operation Abyss/Operation Babel

• Stranger of Sword City

• Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness

• Mind Zero

• Trails of Cold Steel

• Trillion: God of Destruction

• Tokyo Tattoo Girls

• Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkuni

• Xblaze: Code Embryo

PSP

• Dissidia Final Fantasy (and duodecim)

• Fate/Extra

• Final Fantasy Tactics

• Popolocrois

• Tactics Ogre

• Valkyrie Profile

Wii

• Baroque

• Cursed Mountain

• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

• Fragile Dreams

• No More Heroes

• Sakura Wars

• Trauma Center/Team

Wii U

• Bayonetta

• Devil's Third

• Tokyo Mirage Sessions

• Wonderful 101

• Xenoblade Chronicles X

Xbox 360

• El Shaddai

• Enchanted Arms

• Earth Defense Force

• Infinite Undiscovery

• Lost Odyssey

• Lost Planet

• Resonance of Fate

• Shadows of the Damned

• Tales of Vesperia

Switch

• Fallen Legion

• God Wars

• Labyrinth of Refrain

• The Lost Child

• Octopath Traveller

• Shining Resonance Refrain

• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

• Travis Strikes Again