It's one of those things where if I had to choose between having the mediocre remake or not at all, I'd go for the remake. But Hearts is the one I really want to try.

I don't know if anyone would be interested, but I got my hands on the DemiKids GBA titles and I'm doing a liveblog of them over here:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=13639677930B33214700&i_id=13639889190I47117000&p=1

As far as I can tell, the games are kind of rare and they're possibly the only games labelled with Shin Megami Tensei in Japan, but not in North America.

They're mislabeled. The one labelled emulator has much better textures and the details look different which wouldn't happen with an HD emulated version of the original.

Final Fantasy X/X-2 remaster confirmed for Western release.

http://gematsu.com/2013/03/final-fantasy-x-x-2-hd-remaster-headed-westward-this-year

It apparently has a price point of 40$.

Funimation has it as part of its S.A.V.E. line if anyone's interested.

Riviera's whole system was kind of annoying. It was really obvious that it was St!ng's first attempt at that deconstructionist gameplay thing.

Persona 3 kind of turns into a slog because of the sparsity of story sections. Atlus set out to make a variation on the rogue-like (at least that's what it seems like to me) and they included the really spaced out story.

I started with Meruru and it's one of my favourite games now. The game explains who the characters are well enough (except Totori) as we meet them at the same time as Meruru. Totori isn't that bad either in that case, as she's Meruru's friend and teacher.

I don't really mind either way, but I hope the story has more substance than 3. I liked the story in 3, there just wasn't all that much of it.

As long as they aren't climbing a tower that only appears at night to fight the representation for Death, it shouldn't really be a problem.

Even with those releases, the publishers actually told the different news sources that the games at least existed.

Thermae Romae is one of those cases where most people who follow anime have heard of it, but not many have actually seen it. I think Discotek has the rights to it though.

The obscure one that I like is Project Blue Earth S.O.S. It's basically an anime take on the adventure serials of the 1930s-50s, complete with the garbled science. It's a six episode OVA, but the episodes are 45 minutes each, so it's more like a somewhat oddly paced 12 episode series.

Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga (NOT Ego Draconis) is a lot of fun.

Oh come on, Canada isn't that bad. From Toronto, it only takes like 5 hours to get to Quebec and a couple days to reach Manitoba. The people who think a couple hours is far are wimps.

(joking)

I remember some people called Fate/Extra a Persona clone, but that just baffled me. Yeah, it has the school aspect, but it approaches everything completely differently.

Regardless, I'll keep an eye on this because a different spin on the Persona 3/4 formula might be really interesting.