Round Up: Everything From Japan's Nintendo Direct Broadcast (March 2025)

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Why Konami keep porting their other old IP for Switch but still never porting Dance Dance Revolution to Switch?? 😟

The western one shoulda included the hundred line... Project;Cold sounds cool! And I was confused by the related game listed as "Kid Icarus Uprising"... I was worried I'd missed something!

Oh that first detective game sounds awesome!

And that romance game looks cute, not for me, but sweet and relaxing for someone out there!

It'd be really awesome if Konami brought that Tokimeki Memorial remaster over to the west, but I doubt they ever will.

Project Cold looks awesome and I wish Tokimeki Memorial had an English option because then I could just import a physical copy. That's a true classic right there.

@garfreek It's a classic from the 90's. Originally released on the Super Famicom. Hopefully it gets an English language option eventually.

Nice, excited to chdck out the hundred line. Hope it can help me get over my tactical rpg-phobia

@Liam_Doolan the release date for Fantasy Life is listed as 21st March instead of 21st May

Just like everyone else here it seems, COLD case and Tokimeki Memorial were the most interesting ones that I would get probably if brought westward.

"Project:;COLD case.mirage"

For the love of god, Japan, stop butchering the English language.

Marketing 101: Your product name should be easy to read and write and not be confusing. Japan is so bad at this.

@Liam_Doolan shows what game you were waiting for through the entire Direct yesterday, I dare guess.😄

Much better direct than the west

Ah yes, the real one.

And much better than the scraps we were fed

I'm honestly surprised that SRW Y was not in the Western Direct considering it's worldwide release. Hopefully it means it will show up in EU eShop this time around (although in case it doesn't... Well I have the accounts prepared)

If the west got Ys, and Tokimeki Memorial I’d have given the direct a 10, instead of a 5

It would be nice if Konami finally released Tokimeki Memorial in the West but if we haven't heard anything by now I doubt it's ever gonna happen.

Surprised Hundred Line didn't make an appearance in the NA Direct

Project;Cold looks intriguing.
And I forgot All in Abyss: Judge the Fake was coming out soon, I will play that one.

Tokimeki Memorial never coming to the west

The English Direct would have went up from a 5 to at least a 7 in my book if Ys made an appearance.

@Kingy And even if they did you'd have to buy it from LRG and there'd be a 10 month gap between eahop and physical

@Jaquan Thats what I am wondering as well, as much fun as importing the physical copy via play-asia is I would love to just have an easier time getting it. I must finish SRW30th now before this arrives.

Project:;COLD case.mirage

Looks like somebody accidentally put their password in the name field...

@Anti-Matter they lost their groove…pun was intended. The company gave up on its IPs for new game entries and just focused on mobile, pachinko and pachislot. It’s only recent that they started switching gears.

@Anti-Matter Music licensing issues

@Jaquan this shocks me as well, like this is literally the first mainline game to get a console release in the west, and would have probably at least raised some ears if it was in the direct. since it wasn't, not sure many people will even know about it

@JustMonika Actually originally released on PC-Engine CD. It even had a couple minigames.
It was on the Japanese mini console, but one of a couple games cut from the TurboGrafx Mini. I hear the Gradius-themed (I think) minigame within it did survive as a secret game on the western console.

Now we have a relative time frame for Capcom Fighting Collection 2...

@Agamembar
Oh my that's an undertaking considering 30 is a behemoth of a title that's way too long for it's own sake xD