G-MODE Archives 6th-anniversary announcements:
Digital Devil Saga Avatar Tuner: A's Test Version Kanzenban, out now on PC+JP Switch https://store.steampowered.com/app/2627690/GMODE_DIGITAL_DEVIL_SAGA__As_TEST_Server/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd3IIhRvf44
Xenosaga Pied Piper, out on PC+JP Switch on April 30 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4532150/GMODE/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWe9fSM991Y
Namco Chronicle, coming to PC+JP Switch this year https://store.steampowered.com/app/4559260/GMODE/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo41a1SDqT8
up to 60%-off the catalogue until May 13 https://store-jp.nintendo.com/feature/feature_gmodesale
this game was also the forerunner to Shou's even bigger & more popular freeware PC RPG Cresteaju, which got its own remaster several years back (<$4 atm) https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/cresteaju-switch/ 2DHD really ought to be the exclusive domain of zero-budget doujin games
~5yrs after being crowdfunded, PLiCY's & Shou's remake of the influential Japanese freeware RPG AMEL BROAT is finally done—it'll be out on the JP Switch eShop on April 30, with an EN loc https://store-jp.nintendo.com/item/software/D70010000040491 🇯🇵
for context, the OG came out for PC98-series MS-DOS in '97 & was ported to Windows in '99, with updates made as recently as 2021 (& it maintains cross-save, even)
win https://www.vector.co.jp/soft/winnt/game/se073871.html 🇯🇵
PC98 https://izeef.web.fc2.com/sakurayamaato/data/amel133.lzh 🇯🇵
this week's Console Archives title: the 1990 Famicom version of Ishin no Arashi, the first game in Koei's "REKOEITION" subseries of open-ended sim-heavy RPGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx9frD2YXwY Ishin no Arashi's bakamatsu-themed, but there are REKOEITION games in all manner of settings—Uncharted Waters and Inindo: Way of the Ninja fit the label, for reference
not only is this the first CA drop with a hard language barrier, it's also the first one that's not on the existing list of confirmed games
