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This Week in Games - Nintendo Partner Direct 2026 and Fatal Frame Producer Makoto Shibata Interview

Konami, who's so busy not releasing games that they couldn't possibly afford to translate these

I didn't have a Captain Tsubasa game slated for my 2026 bingo card, but I'll take it! While Americans will be scratching their heads at this, most fans from Latin America will likely recognize Captain Tsubasa as Super Campeones. You might also recognize Tsubasa Oozora from his stint on the DS classic Jump Ultimate Stars, being that Captain Tsubasa is a classic from Weekly Shonen Jump. Think of it as Inazuma Eleven's grand-pappy: a beloved football classic detailing the adventures of a young man and his many battles on the pitch.

I think robo-girl Diana has a Newbery Award stamped all over her face

"We got so many requests we thought we'd do a full remake!" is such an effing monkey's paw. One of my largest factors in requesting a PC release of Crimson Butterfly was simply just to be able to have more friends and family be able to experience it. To bust out a Wii and sensor bar every time someone wants to see it just isn't reasonable to do in 2026.

I'm not gonna immediately shoot down the bonus of having an extra ending and side areas, but the Wii version's length and pacing was perfect. The moment they drop the Wii's additions and start adding and subtracting content, that makes me very nervous that when I go to show this game off to friends and family, it's not going to be the same game.

I'll also add, since I didn't see it mentioned, Another Eden Begins. Which seems to be following the Octopath 0 route of taking a gacha game, and making it a full featured, standalone JRPG experience. I very much like this trend. Due out summer, on Steam and the Switches.

It's absolutely hilarious that the Switch 2 version of Time Stranger will hit 60FPS, when it couldn't even mage that on the PS5. Yeah, it's the lower-res mode, but I wish developers would figure out already that native 4k is kind of overrated outside of UI readability. Definitely the system it belongs on, regardless. Some games just feel right on the Switch.

I think people are going to have to accept one day that remakes nowadays mean having less content than the original to offset the rising costs of production, graphics, and other factors. If you're lucky they'll sell you back some of the original cut content as DLC like we saw with Resident Evil 4 and Persona 3 but otherwise people should probably get used to remakes being more simplified and shorter versions of games ala Dragon Quest 7 and Final Fantasy Tactics. I do kind of miss the era when remakes added in content like Metroid Zero Mission and the GBA ports of Final Fantasy 1-6 but I guess as they pull from newer games to remake there's going to be a diminishing returns effect as the original game gets longer and more full of content that becomes impossible to bring over with modern game development.

The GBA Final Fantasy ports had SO MUCH extra stuff, it was wild. FF1 in Dawn of Souls had countless dungeons you had to go into multiple times to fight whole hordes of super-bosses, FF2 had the extended epilogue, FF4 had new super-bosses and a new post-game dungeon that allowed you to bring back any previous party member, FF5 had new Jobs, and FF6 added extra bosses. I was very disappointed when the FF4 remake on DS came out and didn't have any of the new content, just that disappointing Addition system. But like you say: that's the trade-off for effectively making the game all over with newer and more expensive 3D assets. Weirdly enough, one year after the FF4 DS remake came out we got the Chrono Trigger port on DS--which added some new stuff like the previously unmade Singing Mountain area and a new ending that tied it in with Chrono Cross.

I think it's still possible for later ports and remasters to still add new content, like how FF12: Zodiac Age has a ton of improvements upon the base FF12 game. But yes, if you're going top-to-bottom on a game with brand new assets and the like, it's hard to keep everything in.

Neither here nor there, but I saw someone joking about it on Bsky where they point out that if they HAD to leave content out of a remake, DQ7 was the game to do it with because people would throw rocks at your house if ANYTHING was left out from DQ8 or DQ5 (Also, the DQ8 port on 3DS also added extra stuff, like the two extra endings spoiler[where Eight could choose or even marry Jessica instead of the princess].)

Breath of Fire III (which never came to the US, but was released in Europe and Japan).

It definitely came to the US. But I assume you're referencing the later PSP port which indeed never came to the US, in contrast to the original PS version which did?

I assume you're referencing the later PSP port which indeed never came to the US, in contrast to the original PS version which did?

"We got so many requests we thought we'd do a full remake!" is such an effing monkey's paw. One of my largest factors in requesting a PC release of Crimson Butterfly was simply just to be able to have more friends and family be able to experience it. To bust out a Wii and sensor bar every time someone wants to see it just isn't reasonable to do in 2026.

I'm not gonna immediately shoot down the bonus of having an extra ending and side areas, but the Wii version's length and pacing was perfect. The moment they drop the Wii's additions and start adding and subtracting content, that makes me very nervous that when I go to show this game off to friends and family, it's not going to be the same game.

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"We got so many requests we thought we'd do a full remake!" is such an effing monkey's paw. One of my largest factors in requesting a PC release of Crimson Butterfly was simply just to be able to have more friends and family be able to experience it. To bust out a Wii and sensor bar every time someone wants to see it just isn't reasonable to do in 2026.

There's quite a bit of irony in saying this when the Wii version itself is a remake with altered gameplay and what not from the original PS2 version.

The GBA Final Fantasy ports had SO MUCH extra stuff, it was wild. FF1 in Dawn of Souls had countless dungeons you had to go into multiple times to fight whole hordes of super-bosses, FF2 had the extended epilogue, FF4 had new super-bosses and a new post-game dungeon that allowed you to bring back any previous party member, FF5 had new Jobs, and FF6 added extra bosses. I was very disappointed when the FF4 remake on DS came out and didn't have any of the new content, just that disappointing Addition system.

Correct, because apparently SCEA demanded 20% "new content" to have it released. You can imagine how stupid that idea was.