As the success of the Switch continues, more developers and publishers are lining up to release games on the Nintendo platform. In its latest blog post, the UK-based company Ghostlight has revealed it's now officially a Switch developer - with its first JRPG port for the system currently underway.
Here's the announcement from Ross Brierly, the Community Manager and PR of Ghostlight:
All the paperwork has gone through and I can tell you that we are now official Switch developers, and so are able to bring fantastic Japanese games to Nintendo Switch, as well as to PC! In fact, we’ve already started work on our first port, a JRPG, that I’m not able to reveal just yet.
While we love bringing games to PC, working on the Switch has been an awful lot of fun. It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on anything for console, the most recent game was Flame Over, and the most recent one for Ghostlight was Elminage Gothic, back in 2013, so it’s great to be back on console!
I hope you’re all looking forward to our Nintendo Switch releases as much as we are, and please stay tuned for more information on which JRPG we’re going to be bringing to Switch in the near future.
Ghostlight was originally established in 2004 and has previously specialised in bringing Japanese games to Europe. It has also released games on the Nintendo DS, Wii and 3DS, and in the past has published entries in the Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, and the Way of the Samurai series. It's also handled The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and worked on the Devil Survivor series.
Are you a fan of any of Ghostlight's past work? Are you excited more developers and publishers are making games for the Switch? Tell us in the comments below.
[source blog.ghostlight.uk.com]
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Not for me, but more devs is always good.
I like fantastic games!
Once again, old news.....😖
devil survivor on the ds was great! give us MORE
@Spoony_Tech very old. NL = Notoriously Late
Huge fan of their SMT work. Especially Devil Survivor. I like Way of the Samurai a bit too. Hope this port isnt Trails tho. Hope it's both DS in one. Because I'm selfish.
I only know them for bringing over some Persona games back before SEGA bought Atlus...so if they would do that again I would appreciate it
I know new games are what should be coming to Switch, but dammit if they can port The Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky Trilogy to Switch I will explode in my groin area!!!
@paihia @Spoony_Tech Where do you get your news from? Because I’m always seeing this mentioned and if you’re reddit extremists then you’re definitely in the 1% who know about reveals before literally anyone else. I doubt this and many other NL articles are actually old news... surely only one day “late” or so?
@gloom I follow various Twitter sites and even YouTubers get this news faster these days. This was from 3 days ago I believe. If I can get the news casually same day they shoulf be able to do the same. I'm not even seeking the news it just comes to me.
@gloom Here's where I first heard it....
https://youtu.be/3VnnowFxopY
Now it was just over a day ago but he records the night before. It's towards the end of the video.
They did bring over some amazing games so I hope their quality control is still as good as it was in the ps2 days.
@gloom nintendoeverything. they on the pulse over there
I'd love Way of the Samurai. Quirky Japanese game at it's best!!
@paihia I follow them on Twitter and probably saw it there first. It wasnt big news for me so I'm not sure where I got the info from.
@Rafke Er, they've already said it's a port of a JRPG - so it has nothing to do with Flame Over on PS4, which is a British-developed game (Laughing Jackal in Essex) that Ghostlight happened to publish.
This looks like good news to me. Ghostlight have a pretty mixed CV, but there are some seriously good JRPGs in that back catalogue. Persona 5, please! C'mon...
@Spoony_Tech NL always late to the table but thats ok its the large community that makes the site so special
Bring on the SMT games and other JRPG goodness.
Please bring Way of the Samurai 3 + 4 to Switch. They're fantastic.
@paihia And yet some places, like IGN, take even longer.
@LUIGITORNADO seams the more traffic these sites have the slower they operate?
I pretty much only get my news from here so wouldn't even know it was old news if I didn't read the comments.
@Spoony_Tech
Ah but if one cares to not follow youtubers and twits then this isn't old news.
At first, with JRPGs mentioned, you had curiosity. Then I remembered who Ghostlight were and they totally have my attention! SMT series always welcome, but Trails... totally up there with the best JRPG s of all time, and if they can bring that tasty Falcom goodness to the west...yes please!
Great News! While Ghostlight did indeed publish Trails in the Sky on PSP in Europe back then, i think if we‘re talking about porting Falcom JRPGs, it‘s far more likely that they will do something like Tokyo Xanadu for which they developed the PC port, afaik. I would gladly take both though...
They do have a good library of fun games up their sleeve! The Nintendo Switch is lucky to have these guys.
I'd be up for some zany Way of the Samurai, but I fear thats a dead cause.
@gloom and @Setupdisk
I mostly check nintendolife and gematsu but In the last couple of months it always feels like gematsu seems to publish the news a lot earlier than nintendolife like this article. So you really don't need to follow that many places like twitter and such to know it before. So you can also add gematsu on the list for getting the news earlier. https://gematsu.com/2018/08/ghostlight-to-port-japanese-rpgs-to-switch
Edit: No problem.
@MajorTom
Cool thanks. I hate twitter and a great percentage of youtubers so this is good stuff!
Way of the samurai is a perfect series for switch
Welcome!
“Gonna give the weebs everything they want”
I love how people are complaining lately about an article like this being “late”, but it’s not like it really matters, the game isn’t out and this in no way changes anything in my life.
More games and devs is always good news.
Here is hoping for a new way of the samurai game or a port of 4.
@Spoony_Tech
I'm curious, why does it matter if NL is a day or two late reporting a story about a game that won't be released for months if not more? Is it really such a pressing issue that you simply MUST know in real time? NL is a pleasant aggregator with the occasional YouTube feature and a pretty upbeat community. They're usually pretty good with the big stuff, which this most definitely isn't, so I don't bust their b*lls.
If you want to stare at tweets all day so that you can come here and sniff at NL's tardiness, knock yourself out. Seems like a waste of energy to me.
Lol at some of the comments asking for ATLUS games from ghostlight. SMT V is already coming to the Switch and the possibility of any new ports being handled by ghostlight is incredibly low. But hey, I would love to be able to play Digital Devil Saga on the Switch (maybe this time with it's original story?).
Please please please be Lucifers Call/Nocturne or Digital Devil Saga HD collection.
I remember these being like the Souls of JRPGS, and with the Souls-like difficulty games growing more and more popular now would be a good time for these to come back.
I’m not sure how they would handle to Devil Mar Cry Dante cameo though, would they still be allowed to use him or not I don’t know.
Yes please more JRPGs. Easily my favourite genre and I already have a backlog on switch.
Need to finish Octopath by payday
As a day-one member of the GL team, I’m really pleased that we’re back on a Nintendo platform for the first time since the Wii years. And no, I can’t say what the first Switch JRPG is just yet. ;D
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