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With Golden Week in Japan beginning on April 29 until early May, everything is rushing to get out before the holidays, including new games that are mostly of a smaller scale, as well as some ports of well-known games.
Cytus Alpha is a remake of the original game that is getting a new Chapter Omega, as well as 200 new songs just for the Switch version. There’s also Umihara Kawase Fresh!, a new take on the fishing lure platformer that has Kawase talk and platform around an open world.
Next up, Murder Detective: Jack the Ripper is a visual novel by Nippon Ichi where private investigator Arthur Hewitt begins to see and be influenced by a hallucination of a self-proclaimed Jack the Ripper. Speaking of visual novels, Eve Rebirth Terror is the first full-fledged follow-up to Eve Burst Error, featuring the same protagonists and a new incident to investigate. Finally, BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! is the latest in HAL Lab’s simple aesthetic puzzler, featuring new two-player puzzles with Qbby and Qucy.
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Here are this week’s JP releases below:
Nintendo Switch
Cytus Alpha (+ eShop version)
Umihara Kawase Fresh! (+ eShop version)
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (+ eShop version)
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen (+ eShop version)
Murder Detective: Jack the Ripper (+ eShop version)
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition (+ eShop version)
Reine des fleurs for Nintendo Switch (+ eShop version)
eShop Only (Switch)
BoxBoy! + BoxGirl!
Sega Ages Virtua Racing
Arcade Archives Psycho Soldier
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution
Nanpure Relax
Tsukue de Bowling
PlayStation 4
Eve Rebirth Terror (+ PS Store version)
Murder Detective: Jack the Ripper (+ PS Store version)
Death Mark Experience Selection
PlayStation Vita
Eve Rebirth Terror (+ PS Store version)
PS Store Only (PS4)
Arcade Archives Psycho Soldier
Microsoft Store Only (Xbox One)
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
Key European Releases
Mortal Kombat 11
Dragon: Marked for Death
BoxBoy! + BoxGirl!
Key Domestic Releases
Mortal Kombat 11
Moero Chronicle Hyper
BoxBoy! + BoxGirl!
