Pepsiman's Future Coverage List

This is mostly a list that I'm maintaining for my own purposes, detailing mostly Japanese-only games that I plan on covering in some capacity in the future. The actual coverage itself could be anything from a section in a larger blog post to a full-out review to anything else between, including interpretive dance routines. What the actual content will entail is entirely tentative up to the moment I actually write/dance it. None of the games on this list are also absolutely guaranteed to receive coverage, although some of them are at least significantly likely to garner it. We'll just play it by ear.

List items

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  1. Love Plus

  Likely coverage: blog post. Some people may get around to covering it here and there now that a proper translation patch has apparently been released, but I still feel that enough aspects of it are obscured by linguistic and cultural barriers that a discussion on what the game is actually about and what it achieves could still be worth a discussion of some sort.

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  2. Persona 4 Arena

  Likely coverage: review and/or blog post. I'll write something up on this basically as soon as the first home version comes up anywhere. If it's Japan like I suspect it will be, then I will (happily, yet depressingly) import it and take it from there. I may also write up impressions of the arcade version when it comes out in Japanese arcades in March, but I'm making no promises regarding that specifically.

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  3. Tales of Xillia

  Likely coverage: review. A good number of Tales fans have probably drudged their way through the game with the help of a translation FAQ, but probably even more of them have (understandably) simply given up on playing the game in an un-localized state. For those people, I'd like to give them some information about the game in a language that they can read without machine translators. I'm also just a fan of the series in general and am looking forward to seeing if the changes they've made to this iteration have much of an impact on the overall experience.

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  4. Ni no Kuni: Shikkoku no Madoshi

  Likely coverage: at least a blog post, maybe a review. I've already discussed here and there what I think of the game, but I also wouldn't mind having a more centralized location for my opinions on this beautiful, if simple game. The extent of the coverage will likely depend on when I finally get around to beating the game. If it's a review, great, but games like Tales of Xilia will get prioritized in that regard.

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  5. Pokémon Conquest

  Coverage: at least a blog post, maybe a review. This is such an unlikely crossover, even in the Japanese video game industry, that I can't help but be intrigued by it. Having seen the footage, the gameplay also seems legitimately interesting and not so complex that my brain is going to die like with a lot of other conventional SRPGs. This is a game that I suspect might not get localized anyway, so the more native English coverage for it, the better.

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  6. Kiki Trick

  Likely coverage: blog post. I love the premise of this game. Very few games, even today, explore the idea of sound-driven gameplay and Kiki Trick seems to do it in some fun, inventive ways. In execution, a lot of it looks to be so thoroughly rooted in the Japanese language and how you hear it that a proper review would probably be meaningless to all but the few other duders who know their way around Japanese already, hence why I'm likely going to limit it to a blog post. But it's a neat-looking game with enough universal qualities that I feel it's still worthy of discussion.

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  7. Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan!

  Likely coverage: at least a blog post. Definitely one of the older games on this list to the point that I imagine some of the really diehard series fans have already played through it with the help of a translation FAQ of some sort, but again, like with Tales of Xilia, I imagine that there are still enough people who never tried playing the game (again, understandable) that I feel that giving them more information about the series' black sheep will probably still be a worthwhile endeavor. This is a game I'll likely play to completion because of my own interest in the Yakuza series, but whether it gets a full-blown review or just a mention in a blog post will be dependent on time.

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  8. Senjo no Valkyria 3: Unrecorded Chronicles

  Likely coverage: at least a blog post. Again, another game that people could probably use a translation FAQ to clear, but one with a high enough barrier to entry in terms of story and interface stuff a good number of fans have probably been scared away anyway. As a pretty big fan of the series myself, I really want to give this a proper review, but given the game's length and my own busy schedule, whether or not that comes to fruition will be anybody's guess. I'm hoping to write at least a little something about it, though.