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Hey @everyone !

We’ve been getting a lot of questions lately, so here’s a quick update:

Will the PlayStation/Switch updates also come to Steam?

-Yes! The Steam version will receive all major upcoming content updates, including voiceovers.
While release timings may vary slightly between platforms, PC players will get the full experience.
If you're already on Steam, you're not missing a thing. ⚔️

Will an Xbox version happen?

-We haven’t made any official announcements about Xbox yet — but we also haven’t ruled it out.
The development schedule is still being finalized, so for now: please stay tuned for future updates.

Thanks for all your support, and we’re excited to bring more martial arts adventures your way!

Unfortunately, being friends with Nintendo, playing games or whatever don't make Brie Larson a good casting choice for the calm and gentle-sounding Rosalina at all. Not to mention the only example we have of Larson doing VA is a completely different type of character.

But then again, the trailer makes Rosalina look like Peach from the first movie 2.0, so..

The part where Sony took time to explain the features of its 5 year old system was so strange.

-DQVII: As I've often said "If you're gonna remake something, remake something that didn't quite nail the landing" and boy does DQVII fit that. A game with a lot of potential, but bogged by the class system's leveling system, some story arcs that are just there and could have been side quests, and the glacial pacing.

Unfortunately, being friends with Nintendo, playing games or whatever don't make Brie Larson a good casting choice for the calm and gentle-sounding Rosalina at all.

It's a shame Brie Larson took the role away from Laura Faye Smith, but that's par for the course for all the movie roles.

Atelier Ryza trilogy DX remake came out yesterday/today (depending on your timezone). Haven't downloaded it yet, apparently a few bugs need to be ironed out. Seems DX includes all the DLC from the games.

I'm a little burned out on DQ as a whole right now- the late game of DQ2 is not proving terribly hard, but quite a bit aggravating, so I put my play on hiatus- but DQ7's remake is definitely one I can see myself being curious about later on. I've played the original release and...yeah, a lot of good ideas. But a lot of dropped balls and flawed execution. It struck me, even way back when, as a game closer to "important" than "good".

I've said before, but Octopath 0 is a game I support on concept, even if the game itself turns out awful- which I'm somewhat doubtful will be the case. Rearranging and releasing a gacha game as a standard game is quite excellent. I appreciate that I wouldn't need to go through the pits of gacha hell (again) to go through an enjoyed storyline.

Wandering Sword:

The devs actually went out on discord to talk about this!

The GI gameplay "exclusive" video stated that they expected the new remake to be about half the length of the original game (so, like a 50 hour RPG) but it's unclear whether or not that assumption was based on anything SE actually told them. I'm cool with the reimagining being less linear, at least for the main story path, but it'd really suck if they cut out whole islands/arcs, as that whole episodic, sea-traveling structure is pretty much my favorite format for RPGs. Might be nice to see some of the formerly-mandatory islands/arcs made optional -- god knows I'm a big fan of meaty sidequests.

They've already caved to people's complaints about the start of the game, which tells me they don't really value that Myst-like sense of slowly exploring an unknown world that the original does so well

Like, if you haven't played the game, you really have no idea just how bloated with "content" DQ7 is (or at least feels). It is a ridiculously enormous game. But, like, I feel like that's also it's strongest suit -- it's one of those very rare RPGs where exploring the world actually feels like exploring a world: there's always something new to look forward to.