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This Week in Games - Totaled Recalls

Fussy legalisms prevent its official release here, but this new Super Robot Wars can be had in a region-free version translated competently enough to signal that Bandai Namco knows just how many American players will pick it up.

In fact, this is the first time Final Fantasy VII's been on a Nintendo console since the game notoriously morphed from a rumored Nintendo 64 title to a Sony PlayStation showcase back in 1996. Go find those Software Etc. clerks who told you twenty-three years ago that Final Fantasy VII wasn't going to be on a Nintendo system, because they were wrong, wrong, wrong.

I can understand why Konami wouldn't pay to re-license their brawlers based on Bucky O'Hare or C.O.W.-boys of Moo Mesa, but there's a lot arcade history still untapped.

Translated, you say?! Looking it up on YesAsia now, the price is a bit too high for me at the moment (gotta love import game prices, plus I've been picking up a lot of games lately as it is), and they're out of stock of the Switch version anyway, but good to know for the future. Love that the Magic Knight Rayearth mecha are in this one, too.

Whenever Konami is trying to exploit their old IPs, it should always be mentioned what absolute bastards they were to the people who actually made those games not long ago, even preventing them from being employed by anyone else.

This event is specifically talking about Kojima.

Talented composers, programmers and other well trained specialists are plucked from their hard-earned positions and redeployed as workers in Konami's pachinko factories, as office security guards or as janitors on garbage duty at the firm's fitness clubs.

To keep import costs low I recommend looking towards Amazon Japan. It's very cheap to ship games to America from them. You don't also have to rely on the English-speaking Asian markets for translations and those middle-man websites that mark up prices. Sometimes the Japanese version of a game also has an English option. Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Scarlet and Chocobo's Dungeon Every Buddy have English options on the Japanese Nintendo Switch releases I noticed when I picked them up a few days ago. As far as Switch games go, a number of them have been shipping in Japan with English options. Unfortunately Super Robot Wars is not one of them in this case.

This was pretty clearly to try to force people to quit. And then to even prevent them from getting jobs anywhere else? Just absolutely abhorrent.

Once Valkyrie Anatomia proved a success, I hoped that Square Enix would port it to a dedicated system like the Vita, perhaps with fully realized dungeons

Isn't that just typical Non-compete agreements stuff? Companies do that in the US too.

One ex-Kon described his surprise at learning that Konami had instructed an employee at a television company not to deal with its former employees. In another case, a former Konami executive was forced to close his business due to pressure from the gaming giant.