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Touhou Gensou Mahjong (Switch) - Tales of Far East Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGlUdJ34inA

tazzyboyishere posted...

THINGS I DON'T ENJOY IF YOU CARE

fine i won't do vtuber songs just for this one lol

KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX (remaster for NOSTALGIA FORTE) - Ride on the Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJW8KFs04ps

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator - Reflecting Pool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F2y-165KmQ

Saishuu Shiken Kujira - Dianoia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uBHBMBYM7I

Refrain Love ~Anata ni Aitai~ - Blue Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPCwNbcQm6s

Fruits Fulcute! ~Sousei no Taiju to Kajitsu no Otome~ - Emotion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKN_qW3Gtk

Anyway of the poll my pick is Unicorn Overlord for certain, though I have general respect for that March 22 selection and hope the Peach game turns out about as well received as say, Luigi's Mansion 3. Would almost certainly be picking that up eventually if it is. Also as you can tell I also just missed this Llamasoft game entirely so that looks neat. Other than that, I definitely still want to pick up The Thaumaturge at some point, it really looks brilliant to me tbh. Magic Chaos is also very high priority for me (even though I acknowledge it would be for literally nobody else). SUMMERHOUSE and also Le Chateau later in the month both look neat and I might get them if they're on sale eventually. Really love the look of Death of a Wish and I want to check that out too. And a ways further into the month, I am SUPER hyped for Radirgy 2 and goHELLgo. And finally I'm pretty interested in Felvidek too, and that mahjong-themed suika game clone rules.

Oh yeah also Death Trick Double Blind will definitely be a day 1 buy (they're announcing the release date some time this week) and I'd also like to mention that Murders on the Yangtze River was aiming to get its localisation out in march too, so pretty likely to be doing a lot of objecting this month.

ok i might as well post the list i prepped a few days ago this time

mar 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b30DVvfGM5g parry nightmare (bullet hell arena endurance game)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39FDUUcXijs maguro macho adventure (peak game from an ex-touhou mmd content creator)

mar 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2834490/__Snow_Flower/ (doujin vn, freeware elsewhere, also has tl https://shinzoutranslations.com/en/releases/snow-flower/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bc_SPdyCME the brew barons (flight combat game (probably) inspired by skygunner, or at least porco rosso)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeibLfmWw9U sanya (2d adventure game about experiencing childhood)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2693960/Void_Gore/ (low poly shmup from other platforms)

mar 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSNg35lycxk the thaumaturge (promising rpg)
https://vxtwitter.com/Henteko_Doujin/status/1756172183322480690 7 old gb-style doujin games from RETSUZAN (cham the cat adventure/verzeus/thunder striker/dandan z/oumuamua/jewelinx/rumble dragon)

mar 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY-6rLU3CX0 snufkin: melody of moominvalley
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2730350/Liminal_Border_Part_II/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyfA GY7QmM4 astro duel 2 (hadn't heard of the original but this shmuppy duck game-like looks like a thing i'd def be into. ps. yes i added a space between fA and G on the url to bypass the filter, apologies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eot5IyahM3g tv studio story (steam port of one of kairosoft's management sims)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp8kpdbfoxg chasing the unseen (that game about giant squids inspired by journey and sotc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmCCNVCxKJI a difficult game about climbing (maybe getting over it meant getting out of the pot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnIMq6sOOe4 fit boxing feat hatsune miku
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrj-FgHtTts reveil (first-person narrative horror)

mar 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4z9tDwohg unicorn overlord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymo8PyW6DgM magic chaos (new shmup fighter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4x7KnzkQTk touhou red empress devil (roguelike fangame, nice pixelart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIjjokFLWgg the alto collection (now on steam)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skUWFSK9TdM re4 gold edition

mar 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDPP-EkdLt4 summerhouse (cute lowpoly housebuilder)

mar 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZVI6F7MogM death of a wish (topdown hack n slash with a truly brilliant art style)

mar 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIoyoDgBn9o contra: operation galuga

mar 13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s2Y7kHn3xM chinese empire (citybuilder)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2261720/Banbard/ (it's real but i'm not sure why)

mar 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCZ1vesveck earth defense force 6 (on ps4/5 in east asian regions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93xbVSlflI star wars battlefront classic collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bAmZ_2hr34 skelethrone: the prey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyyuRpFgtfk ys x: nordics (... chinese steam release lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_P-s0-qm_o macross: shooting insight (macross shmup, unfortunately from the same team that did the dragon maid one. might have basiscape because of that?)

mar 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYNCNDaI-c kinnikuneko
(xbox things to ps5)

mar 21
dragon quest x (online) new expansion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaEoJhRER7M house flipper 2 (console release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K58w4eDYhfk kemco rpg selection vol6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E4queTI8oU lisa: bundle of joy (switch/ps5 jp physical)

mar 22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbzF_Hs6eak princess peach showtime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspIgH-K7qI dragon's dogma 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=int3aDF_M2A rise of the ronin

mar 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX5l9nUQOiQ legend of legacy hd (it got delayed...)

mar 25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgM3l2c-AVM le chateau (very minimalist 3d chateaubuilder)

mar 26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJtCFIVhPP4 palia (farmgame but 3d)

mar 27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA7cRP4zn3c necrosmith 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLZe87MvFgc south park snow day

mar 28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSiFMTSraYw radirgy 2 (surrealist akiba-core shmup sequel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDqk1lVC2pw goHELLgo tsukiotoshiteko (new entergram original ip, op is a banger)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhdM-p7mflE pepper grinder (devolver-published drill dozer/dig dug/mr driller meets ecco)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nUe4PAn-4 dyschronia: chronos alternative dual edition (vr mystery animegame series coming to non-vr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lp0kh7r0K4 omega crafter (craftopia if it was more of a farming sim, from a machine learning tech company)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCmk09nL3cI amairo chocolate (vn switch port)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vQZsbXNhY primanistar (vn switch port)
https://muvluv.com/20th-odyssey-box/ (for switch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zAGxKQMUI touch detective series collection (english release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVXQ1IwEeOs winning post 10 2024
https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=GAME-0030050 umineko saku+higurashi hou+origin set

mar 29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCpbDSacz4 a divine guide to puzzle solving (narrative abstract witness/talos-like game)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQA1O4QM914 open roads (annapurna-published roadtrip "art" game (yeah it got delayed))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUlTz7HAfJc koibana renai mini fandisk

mar 30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZQDJy3JrI felvidek (surrealist grainy low poly with rotoscoping hylics-like)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2809920/Drop_Mahjong_tiles/ (mahjong suika game)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2826690/Mini_Zen_Garden/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2562710/LEVEL_UP_YOUR_BODY/ (beat saber boxing clone)

mar/q1 tbd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2A90V1rhZg death trick double blind (nonlinear ace attorney-like (has gone gold already so might be before march))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4dCsbLP1PI little locked rooms (bite-sized detective game)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY82c9tv1Fo intergalactic pawn shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPHalzwVTk master key (black and white retro zeldalike)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCeUkQN_4hI corsair's madness (ambitious shovel knight-ispired platformer that has been delayed a ton)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVHMavRBuk kimi to deau mo tashou no enn (doujin vn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFSH4iwOgzk gemaboy zero x (megamanlike obv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRbtEt3DJEA gestalt: the firth day (rotoscope vn, already out on itch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXNT5EeM9A4 iron saga vs (anime mechgame fitegame spinoff)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV4_G0uuD0c mistrogue (switch port)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1888060/_Secret_Opera/ (possibly another chinese ace attorney clone for q1 2024 but probably just horror)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2597500/Forest_of_Soul/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NNJz4YhlQM ComicBACHICoooN (in their words "It's an action game where you complete a manuscript")
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2521470/Zen_With_A_Pen/ (floaty drawing platformer)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2483760/Ultimate_Scroll/ (chinese cultivation cardgame)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2593780/ReLord__Tales_of_Adventure/ (possibly a spinoff of re;lord series)

oh yeah and technically ufouria 2 also counts as a march release since it's not on consoles in english till march 1st so that's two chances to include it missed lol

Mewtwo59 posted...

Versus XIII devs doesn't fill me with much confidence, after they meandered around for 10 years and left the XV team holding the bag by forcing them to release what little they did finish.

in all fairness, by "versus xiii team" what i've gathered that really means is it has nojima (and shimomura) on it really

of course furyu (whose most notable works to date are crystar/crymachina and the caligula series, none of which they developed themselves lol), and natsume atari (who barely exist now outside of the eiyuden chronicle spinoff they did a year or two ago) aren't exactly the most inspirational devs either

paperwarior posted...

From the what-now team? >.>

it's a shame nobody remembers the hype of versus xiii any more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SSeBcWpJc

Base

... the uh, vn devs known for stuff like Koihime Enbu. I can't help it if my mind just went there ok?

mnk posted...

It's only a minute and eight seconds shorter than the 2022 Presents that announced S/V, the free update for Arceus, and a Shaymin event for BD/SP.

granted yeah that is true, and even if it is including the countdown it'd still be a second longer than the mid-2020 one that had new snap and other stuff

buuut it is still way below the average length so, y'know

so i guess i had a look and realised that the video is apparently projected to be not even 13 mins (it only says 12:52 and that's very potentially including the youtube countdown) so yeah tempering expectations a lot here given how much of that they have to be sparing for mobile, tcg, competitive etc. might really be a quiet year for once which would really be the best outcome lol

two things, i'll be honest that i hadn't actually heard anything saying it was actually from versus XIII devs, only that all the immediate (scant) remarks on it after going up were comparing it to it and verum rex, so it's interesting to learn now that it actually does have relevant staff too

also i think it was arti that said something like "this looks exactly like something NISA will localize" when i brought it up last week during the downtime here and i'm amused that was proven correct so soon

anyway yeah especially after this trailer it's clear the game is facing severe optimisation issues and i'm especially worried about how it'll be on switch now but it's still def on my radar

now if only nisa could start localising more of their own titles, i'm still disappointed asatsugutori didn't make it over and xicatrice and now also maybe bar stella abyss look like they might be following the same trend...

Toad
Geralt

Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
Panel de Pon
You Don't Know Jack
Psychic Force
Air Combat
Shining Force CD
Seiya Monogatari: AnEarth Fantasy Stories
Arc the Lad
Panzer Dragoon
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness

including 11 games to account for arc the lad being eligible or not

going back to the starting area was the first thing i did when getting overworld access... but admittedly i forgot to access any of the other ones too lol

also just wondering, what's the policy on Arc the Lad (released in english still on ps1 around 2002, but only as part of a compilation) @ZeroSignal

oh oops i got so distracted by the sanrio stuff that i forgot about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQtnKL16AP8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZX-x11Tno
so the kinu mini-concert is on now

it is mindblowing

Read the

(i guess this could arguably just be grouped with news)

tag

i mostly skipped watching the battles but there were definitely times when i was roaming on the overworld and all my squads were projected to lose out to the enemy and sometimes i'd apparently eke out a win, so i don't think it always accounts for absolutely everything (though it usually tends to)

UshiromiyaEva posted...

During the battle, the prince squad ran out of AP, and it was torture. DEFINITELY going to have to lay more attention there.

seconding this by the way, AP is super critical so definitely try to get as many items that refresh it as possible. also avoid losing battles too. you're just so vulnerable during the recovery time for both cases that it's close to suicide (on overworld fights it's fine to lose, it's just important to note that you'll get teleported back to the last key location you checked)

it's kind of the biggest thing i was worried most people wouldn't be on board with having carried over from ogre battle tbh

good question, there's actually a pretty good chance it is just that way in the actual game too since it's both the starting area and presumably final area of the game

yeah it is pretty much both. they lock you off from exploring more than about a quarter of the map, and also about half of the stuff you do have access to is ramped up to (what i assume is) the max level. i was playing on the harder difficulty throughout so maybe that stuff's actually beatable if you're playing on easy but it sure wasn't for me lol

other than that, it has an 8 hour time limit, not 5 (and yeah it does pause). you get to finish off any mission after you run over the limit and after you clear any post-mission cutscenes is when they put up the "buy the game" banner

trdl23 posted...

Are there actual unicorns

since it's vanillaware i feel like there easily could be even if i didn't see any in the demo

the name is mostly just for some amulet or whatever the protag has tho because duh

frankly i didn't do anything promotion related in the demo (i mostly spent time exploring the map while underleveled, and also just checking everything in the unit viewer and reading lore entries) but i'd have to guess it is something along those lines yeah. at the very least, i didn't see anything that would point to it actually having an ogre battle promo system instead, and there very clearly are upgraded classes in there with all the things you'd expect of a recruitable roster in a game like this (varying growth rates etc). i'm also not sure if full class swapping is here since the primary focus definitely seems to be on battle skill customisation and also recruiting mercs to cover for class-focused missions if need be instead (also character affinity stuff)

further demo remarks since i kept playing at the time up until i pretty much hit the time limit (i got very close and then my switch ran out of battery lol oops

overworld stuff is obv new but the rest is like 85% ogre battle with the remaining 15% all being net improvements over it and i already adore it. i feel like there may not actually be a huge amount of this game that general audiences will go crazy over though, because its strengths lie so firmly in adapting specific concepts from games they wanted from whatever cult classic jrpgs/srpgs/rtses they wanted tbh (and i think they nailed it). especially ogre battle of course, that's just not a thing most people are even familiar with and i just don't know how most gamers will react to this game pretty much just taking its 30 year old mechanics and using them as-is (especially with some of its innovations being pretty... not mainstream friendly i feel). don't expect to see it vying for any goty jrpg awards even if i think it deserves it

King
Chief

that second match hurts man

ok spoilers but not important ones really

one, god damn this is even more ogre battle than i thought was even possible

two, this is a really specific thing but man i love that you can just swap languages at any point and it'll just carry on with perfect lip syncs and everything. this is of course just a vanillaware thing period but still i always appreciate it

so i guess back on this one now, definitely has to be said that any nso stuff is looking way less likely after they did the big rare (and mother 3 jp) news

still praying for no more let's go. honestly right now about the only thing i think i'd be getting day 1 is either another legends or a pmd2 remake (and it'd be awful timing for the latter to be announced given it's the same day as shiren 6's global launch)

downloading it now i guess, i hope it literally just starts with some long winded monologue about it being the xth chapter of some fake series and showing vague war maps and maybe even tarot cards to really drive the comparison home

now that i think about it, this time of every game having deckbuilding elements really would've been perfect for ogre battle

one thing i will say negatively about the hokkaido portopia-like game is that i think it is a damn shame it's the famicom version that has this legacy they're trying to emulate now

i mean like, just look at the hg101 page
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hokkaido-rensa-satsujin-ohotsuku-ni-kiyu/
they've had better looking versions on cellphones before! though to be fair it's safe to assume they didn't have voice acting then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7tuAqPLbUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOv4r0iK8Fw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY4o8QmvrEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETir37xMpKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNpXpMfq7WU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSqILeUS9yU
things i hope don't slip through the cracks and end up unlocalised given the proximity to switch 2 (but they probably will)

anyway seriously i want this dumb accessory lol
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/485cf6df.jpg

oops i slept in a bit, guess i'll get on this now and not read every comment above me till i'm done lol

am assuming i have already been spoiled on one game here though since i did just get an email about something on my steam wishlist having released

grounded is definitely the type of game i just could not care for less tbh and that's a shame
ooh ender lilies sequel. really ought to get back to that game
arranger looks pretty forgettable but i mean i guess it's nice to see i guess
i just fucking love how much unicorn overlord is like standard ogre battle, given how much erasure that gets put through for not being "the game fft was a clone of". praying it does well enough to give that series a proper second chance now
i get people care about mh stories but i'll be honest and say i was really hoping for a lot of other things when the announcer said "originally released on nintendo 3ds". i do think it's a good thing for mh's sake for it to stay relevant though
epic mickey back? nice. i'd been thinking recently it was weird how thoroughly forgotten that was given how extreme a marketing push it had with nintendo originally
smtvv. nice
i'll have to let my flatmates know about this battlefront release though this is cool
not a south park fan but i'm sure it'll be surprisingly ok like the other ones
also not a sao fan lol. 20 player coop is surprising
it's a shame every gundam game has been failing so hard in the west lately, i doubt this one will be any different
16 player competitive monkey ball is pretty insane ngl
world of goo is the kind of game that really shows its age now, it feels kind of odd to see a sequel now
guess the fantasy life guesses were on the money, which is fair enough. i wonder when we'll get news on the new layton game though
the dissonance of hearing soulslike with this aesthetic is surreal
ok yeah the game from my wishlist was here, would've been really mindboggling if it hadn't been tbh. hope it's good, it certainly looks it. also this reminds me that i really hope that game from the jp direct it was announced at that it replaced (mameda no bakeru, that modernised goemon-like game from good feel)
it kind of feels like they took too long to capitalise on the marketability of suika game tbh. i genuinely have been seeing people streaming clones more than it now, including ones with really cool puyo puyo-like multiplayer mechanics. it does appear the devs actually took note of a lot of their clones though and it really is nice they've tried to apply their own spin on a number of their multiplayer implementastions
i recognise the name of this game but i forget where i've seen it... oh well anyway dig dug/mr driller meets ecco is cool
heck yeah pocket card really was here.
oh hey the moomin game
this looks neat
... demon slayer rhythm game?
cool iguess
oh hey contra
oh so this is pentiment huh. probably should've bothered looking into it properly back when it was in bost lol
rare moment. big news for nso!
i wasn't buying into the super transparent endless ocean rumours but i guess i was super wrong. i can only imagine how live chats were reacting to them literally ending on this lmao

anyway just in case i guess i'll have a look at the jp direct too

oh god first game and they have literally got something new. NEW DENPA MEN GAME dang
oh they dedicated a proper segment to the snufkin game that's nice
they put pocket card a lot earlier here which makes sense given that it's more tied to apple there than here (having also been on iOS before)
i nearly said it before but forgot to, that the shin-chan game releasing today over there definitely had to be on there. i'm honestly surprised they just relegated it to a highlight reel
oh a game centre cx nes remix-like game? neat
oh yeah fit boxing feat miku exists
it's actually insane dragon quest x still gets expansions
more horse
oh no there's roguelikes here
honestly pretty sad contra got relegated to highlight reel status on both directs (still better off than others like hebereke so far though)
guitar practice casual game huh. this wii zapper-like guitar accessory is unironically amazing i want one lmao
ooh what's this. reynatis? oof framerate looks rough though. still this looks good, makes me think of stuff like astral chain or decapolice
ohhh!!! it's an hd remake of that one adventure game that was super similar to the portopia serial murder case. i've had a real itch to play this ever since beating the first of those Iseshima mystery case games that were a direct homage to this. i hope they can get a localisation at some point, even if it ends up being a low profile one. the music in this version sounds solid too
highlight reel 2 time
oh eiyuden was in the jp direct huh. honestly really weird it got snubbed from the western one...
oh the demon slayer game was a board game actually it just happens to have a rhythmgame minigame. which is still pretty surreal lol
oh they had that new SaGa game here that makes sense
wtf they had library of ruina here. that's coming to switch? guess i missed that damn
oh yeah the el shaddai remaster. reminder the devs of it just released a new game the other day called starnaut https://store.steampowered.com/app/2508940/STARNAUT/
umbraclaw, a very japanese cat platformer from inti creates huh. have to admit i completely missed news on this till now too. looks nice!
power pro! the konami cameos are nice too
oh... mother 3. i see. this trailer goes hard though

the bad guys?

maybe that one song from mario cars because i have actually had nightmares because of it lol

hopefully stray children news

would be nice to see hebereke/ufouria 2 here too just so more people are aware it's coming out soon (i bet at best though it's probably just going to make 5 seconds of a highlight reel)

also super coping here but i'd love to see some momotetsu or jinsei game localisations at this point too

the steak boss fight

just remembered another one from last year i really have to share from the free sections, especially since they're back on this weekend (4am cst on saturday according to the timetables)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCwGa-XwKsA

on top of also being cool as flip this one shows off the venue it was in more than the other performance i linked so i prob should've linked this in the first place lol, i just forgot about it

oh, and there was also this one which doesn't appear to be returning sadly but was honestly just mindblowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TanFW71w79w&t=45s
frankly the fact that the venue could just be transformed in this way is still insane to me, this is still probably the coolest vr thing i've ever experienced

Rainbow Star

by the way i just remembered i might as well bring up a big event in here that isn't exactly tied to an company per se

well, actually it is but not exactly a vtuber one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_skv78NJ1U&t=1960s
Sanrio Virtual Festival, or Sanrio Vfes for short, is back and just kicked off last night. It's a big event run and featured in VRChat that is predominantly free access with timed and live concerts, dj sets and shows. This year's iteration appears to be magnitudes bigger than the last one, being spread out over close to a whole month, and also available on many more platforms than before.

https://v-fes.sanrio.co.jp/en/timetable
https://v-fes.sanrio.co.jp/en/timetable/streaming

To be clear, much like last year, it's an event geared towards more mature audiences than the brand would imply. Definitely an event for promoting the virtual music scene first and foremost (and i think that owns super hard)

They have some vrc wizards handling the effects for them, it's honestly insane what they can do for the stage performances. for example, here's one of the ones from last year that wasn't even in one of the paid venues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAWK5--mF_g

at this point i'd estimate there are over 100k vtubers out there, and potentially like... probably not a thousand but very potentially over 500 vtuber agencies too (though only like a quarter of them would have members in even 5 digit sub counts)

the scene is obscene lol

Hide and Seek (online multiplayer) mods

oh i spotted another group that has a dedicated schedule page

https://www.circus-v.world/livestreamings/schedule

appears to be a bit broken though...

absolutely

looking at the schedule now, might check out the opening set of runs on stream 2 when that starts as well as maybe the bowser's fury race

keen to see a good amount of the stuff in 2 days time (from dragonfable onwards tbh), hoping the opentaiko showcase will be fun as well as the maimai one the following day

it's pretty rough sonic generations will be clashing with odyssey (especially a talkatoo% run) but i'll try catching the sanicball run at a minimum

and yeah gamejam showcase sounds neat too

Ho-Oh
Lugia
Celebi
... Pichu (i don't feel very confident about it, without smash ultimate i'd say he's not there now, but since he is...)

i think suicune is damn close but not close enough (being competitive meta in gen 2/3 is good and being box legendary of crystal is significant too, but not as much as ho-oh and lugia's bigger box legendary statuses (and anime/movie roles) and celebi's movie boost (plus being equally competitive-relevant)), and esp/umb (obv reasons, being the most popular eeveelutions besides maybe sylveon or vaporeon, they even have strong presence in spinoffs) are in contention for sure too.

also raikou and entei are somewhere around top 10 at least (boosted by ova and movie relevance compared to sui) along with ttar (thanks to long standing competitive relevance and also presence in stuff like unite) and wobbuffet (90% thanks to the recognisability from the anime after all this time). marill and togepi might also be around there too but i def don't think they have enough factors to push them any higher than that really

one thing i genuinely just forgot about until was that REALITY Studio runs both Ichipro/First Stage Production and this new Vebop Project group, so they legitimately just scheduled the 3D debut of by far their most popular talent from the past year at the same time as these Maiden Works debuts. kind of insane lol, good thing it didn't seem to backfire too much on either end

it's also worth mentioning that they also have another agency that started up just a couple of weeks ago called Specialite, which is JP and EN focused, so they're now responsible for two of the biggest groups so far this year. Pretty big coming from reality of all things, they haven't really had any major groups till now (aside from vesperbell and kmnz if you count them...)

anyway i still haven't gotten onto the vebop debuts yet since live studio's hiiro is only now wrapping up (i definitely like her already. looking forward to seeing her collab with her genmate, who i'm somewhat of a long-time fan of now)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZyQtauuv5g
Didn't notice this till now but Ichipro's Amae Ten is also having her 3D debut now

OrangeCrush980 posted...

The old NijiEN was just a poor rebrand of Niji-India as a last ditch attempt to salvage that small branch. The current NijiEN is a fairly big deal and is second only to HoloEN and maybe Vshojo in terms of English Vtuber agencies/branches.

ok true the main one i thought was significant there was definitely VTA getting mass culled a few months ago since that's been almost their entire pipeline for new jp members over the past year or two

still as an outsider to the en scene i feel like i've seen less viewers of modern nijiEN around than for ones like phase connect or prism project too (also idol-en but that definitely felt like a "accidentally being in specific circles" kind of thing)