Operation Backlog Completion 2026

Utawarerumono: Shiro e no Michishirube Launches May 28 in Japan as the Final Utawarerumono Game

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Jan 282026
 

Utawarerumono: Shiro e no Michishirube is the upcoming new Utawarerumono game, which we last discussed in November.

It is a turn-based JRPG following Monochrome Mobius and is in development for PS5, Switch 2, and PC.

The release date for Japan has now been announced as May 28, but that’s not all we learned. From Anime News Network’s translation of a recent Famitsu interview, it is intended to be the final Utawarerumono game.

It sounds like it doesn’t necessarily rule out future entries in the series , but it will complete the story the scenario writer had planned.

According to Gematsu, the interview also revealed it will take about 35 hours to complete if you let all the voice lines play out. That feels… strangely short compared to the others, especially if it’s the last planned entry, but that might be an estimate only for the main story and the game will be longer overall. I suppose we’ll find out.

Localization hasn’t been announced yet, but I’d be surprised if this one doesn’t get picked up. (I’m still waiting for that detective spin-off, though.) In the meantime, I really need to catch up on the series by playing Mask of Truth and Monochrome Mobius!

Are you interested in the new Utawarerumono game? How do you feel about it potentially being the final game in the series?

Tomodachi Life Direct Announced for Thursday!

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Jan 262026
 

Nintendo has announced a special Direct about Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for January 29!

It will start at 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET and last 20 minutes.

Since Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is one of my most-anticipated games of 2026, you can imagine how thrilled I was to see the news.

I didn’t think it was a big enough game to get its own focused Direct, so I’m happy to be wrong.

There’s still a lot we don’t know about this upcoming Tomodachi Life sequel. Even though it’s had two trailers so far, neither showed too much about the game’s features. Twenty minutes of new information sounds like exactly what we need.

Some fans have predicted they’ll remove romance and only have a friendship system, which I hope isn’t true, because watching Miis end up in strange and unexpected relationships was a lot of fun. So I hope they confirm romance, along with other things I want to see, like a wide range of customization options and lots of random events. Overall I just hope it’s as wacky and bizarre as the 3DS game was.

Since it’s due out this spring, it seems likely that we’ll get a release date, too.

If Living the Dream is as crazy as Tomodachi Life on the 3DS was, it’ll be a rare time when I’m tempted to buy a digital copy over physical, so I could more easily play it a little here and there while also playing other games. But we’ll see.

What are you hoping to see at the Tomodachi Life Direct?

Beast of Reincarnation Looks Pretty Interesting

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Jan 232026
 

There was an Xbox live stream yesterday, which I forgot to watch, but it included a new overview video about Beast of Reincarnation.

We discussed Beast of Reincarnation briefly when it was announced last year at the Xbox Games Showcase.

It’s an action RPG being developed by Game Freak for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and it especially stands out because it looks so different from their other games.

(Of course, we all know Game Freak’s best game finally came to the Nintendo Switch in 2024, but all anyone talks about is Pokémon.)

We didn’t know much about Beast of Reincarnation at the time, but the new trailer provides a lot of information.

It has a futuristic setting, and the main character Emma is someone who can manipulate plants and absorb the world’s blight into her body. She works with Koo, who is a dangerous creature known as a malefact.

Although it’s an action RPG, where you fight and parry attacks using Emma’s katana, you can also unleash Koo’s powerful skills through a command-based system. They’re also calling it a “one-person, one-dog RPG,” which is such a funny way to describe it. I love it.

When the game was announced last year, I came away from the trailer with a general “could be neat” impression, but after watching this overview, I’m actually really interested in it!

What do you think about Beast of Reincarnation?

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