Publisher Bushiroad has revealed a brand new action RPG, coming to Switch in Japan in 2023, with Story of Seasons and Rune Factory producer Yoshifumi Hashimoto developing the game.
Reported by Nintendo Everything (via Famitsu) the new game is titled Rear Sekai, and was teased at the Bushiroad New Year Grand Presentation 2023 earlier today. At the same presentation, Bushiroad established its brand new label, Bushiroad Games, which will be focused on expanding into console games publishing, while announcing other Switch games such as a title based on Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight, Macross Shooting Insight, Goblin Slayer Another Adventurer: Nightmare Feast, and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation – Quest of Memories.
We know very little about Rear Sekai at the moment, other than the pedigree working on it — and RPG fans will recognise a few of these names. Working on the game's main theme is legendary Tales series composer Motoi Sakuraba, with art from Samurai Warriors 5 artist Shie Nanahara and Rune Factory series character designer Minako Iwasaki, who most recently worked on Rune Factory 5.
Yoshifumi Hashimoto is known for working as a producer on titles such as Rune Factory 4 (as a writer), Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, Riviera: The Promised Land on GBA as the scenario writer, and Vanillaware's Metroidvania Muramasa: The Demon Blade on Wii.
Other than that, all we've got to go on is a teaser, a few character designs, and a '2023' date. The game has also only been confirmed for a Japanese release, but we have seen some of the publisher's mobile titles over here in the west before now — such as Love Live! School Idol Festival.
Check out the teaser trailer below (which is all in Japanese) and let us know what you want to see from this new action RPG (farming? raising a family?) in the comments!
[source famitsu.com, via nintendoeverything.com]
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Rear Sekai sure is a weird name.
Are we sure Square Enix isn’t involved?😂
@HeeHo Well, there's no geometric word in the title, so maybe not.
Super curious about some of those other titles. A new Macross game??? YES! From the bit of art in the background looks to be some kind of shooter?
A game based on Mushoku Tensei game? Woooo. Not familiar with the other 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TieDIw7zZ60
Sounds interesting, I can't say no to a good action RPG, but seriously, a new Macross game?!! That would be awesome, that franchise witht the gameplay of Kid Icarus Uprising would be a dream game.
Please tell me they're going to localize that game title for other audiences? lul
Rear Sekai = Rear World
The text in the trailer asks "Is this world real?" so it seems to be an attempt at punning 'the real world' / 'the rear world' with Japanese not distinguishing l/r.
yaya new action RPG, but dont forget comeback town and check farmer water the flower
Well after I hope Hakama learned some things from working on RF5 and they now have the inner workings of the switch and other systems down to clean up tech issues. I like RF5 but it was a bit rough technically.
If you ask me this is maybe not at all gonna go in the direction of life sim, and just be a pure action rpg. Feel like they would have mentioned if there was any farming etc.
@bluesun
Well, I guess that it could be referencing a world behind this one... a rear world.
Will wait for some more details but some of the titles interest me.
Let me guess: Its going to be laggy, look like its made for the PS2, have 10 fps at best.
Better have a lot of butts to look at with that title.
Aw man, I hope they understand everyone will giggle at this title in English. I tried to leave a Japanese comment on the video so they understand that most English speakers will read this title as "butt world" and not take it seriously.
After seeing the performance of Rune Factory 5 on every Console, i'm not exatctly hyped. Hope it will be good tho.
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