Project Zero/Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly originally launched in 2003, and its remake now has a release date of mid-March 2026. Emphasis on the word remake: the game has undergone a complete overhaul, offering a beautifully reborn haunting experience thanks to enhanced graphics, sound, and control elements. The game features Japanese voices with texts in English, French, German, Italian, and…
Square Enix has dropped a massive amount of information about the upcoming turn-based RPG remake Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, including details on its visuals, story, features, characters, and battle systems. It also announced three DLC packs, a Digital Deluxe Edition, and a physical Collector’s Edition. That’s a lot, so there’s…
I love game remake inception: remakes of remakes of remakes (and so…
I don’t know where the past year and a half went. I…
Project Zero/Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly originally launched in 2003, and its remake now has a release date of mid-March 2026. Emphasis on the word remake: the game has undergone a complete overhaul, offering a beautifully reborn haunting experience thanks to enhanced graphics, sound, and control elements. The game features…
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Square Enix has dropped a massive amount of information about the upcoming turn-based RPG remake Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, including details on its visuals, story, features, characters, and battle systems. It also announced three DLC packs, a Digital Deluxe Edition, and a physical Collector’s Edition. That’s a lot, so there’s…
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I love game remake inception: remakes of remakes of remakes (and so on). That’s what is happening here with D.C. ~Da Capo~ Re:tune. It is a full remake of the 2002 remake of visual novel D.C. ~Da Capo~. Today, a launch date of late October was announced for this newest…
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I don’t know where the past year and a half went. I could have sworn I’d just barely stopped posting about Dokapon Kingdom: Connect, but my last post was in June… June 2023. It is a Compile Heart-developed remake of Sting’s Dokapon Kingdom (2007) for Nintendo Switch, best described as…
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It’s easy to wonder why Square Enix would go to such great effort to remake one of the oldest Dragon Quest titles. After all, the HD-2D engine they’ve applied to Dragon Quest III would have made the SNES trilogy positively sparkle, and those titles are far more renowned for their…
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Today’s annual Level-5 Vision event is subtitled “To the World’s Children.” The idea is that games aren’t just for children, they’re also for adults who never lost their inner child. Recently, the publisher has been delaying many of its games, some repeatedly. I normally understand delays but with this many,…
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We’re going to take a little journey now, so please bear with me. Ys III: Wanderers From Ys is the third in the series of action RPGs; it first launched in 1989, with console ports following in 1991. In 2005, a remake was released – this is where we begin…
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The original Myst is an iconic narrative adventure exploration puzzle game released in 1993. Riven: The Sequel to Myst launched four years later. A remake of Myst came to us in 2020, so it only makes sense that a remake of Riven is delivered (again) four years later. Riven has…
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The remake of celebrated visual novel Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon launched for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in Japan during August 2021. It will take nearly three years, but the game is now set to launch in the West during “summer” 2024 (think Q3, or approximately June-September).…
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Back in 1982, Atari released Haunted House. Now, over 30 years later, it’s getting a “reimagining” courtesy of developer Orbit Studio. The game pays homage to the original survival horror adventure by seamlessly adopting roguelite elements while incorporating stealth-based gameplay and haunting boss battles. While there’s no release date yet,…
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