Vanillaware

That's a really good idea.

And that is I want Square to do a crossover with Vanillaware and let Vanillaware develop a Final Fantasy game or something like that in their little weird little art style.

I

think they should let Vanillaware make a new tactics game.

Yeah, I mean, even Chrono Trigger, all that stuff, anything like that, I think they could

absolutely knock it out of the park.

I'm glad the game's a success.

I do like Vanillaware, as PMC can attest.

I'm a fan of 13 Sentinels.

I'm glad the game is successful because I believe having more games of that style is a good, cool thing.

Some, some of the, some of the other ones would be cool, um, 'cause that...

One of the things that came up when I was talking to some of the people, uh, in Chicago was I'm surprised, I mean, I can't say I'm that surprised, but one of the ones I think would be cool would be a full Vanillaware show.

The closest we've ever gotten was they did a show for 13 Sentinels, but I think like doing one-

Yeah

... for all of Vanillaware games would be a lot more enjoyable.

Like Odin Sphere and like Dragon's Crown and all that kind of stuff?

Oh, yeah.

So

Oh, yeah? Pretty sick game.

And apparently VanillaWare is bringing games to PC.

So maybe in due time I can retire my PS4.

Yeah.

I've played Muramasa.

I've played Vanillaware, an official PC version of Vanillaware game.

It's real.

Yeah, I think it would be commented that I prepared it like opening Pandora's box right in front of you.

Yeah, I had a friend who responded with First Man on the Moon.

Yeah, pretty much.

Man, when they get other Vanillaware titles on PC, man, beyond that, I'm going to be crossing my fingers and toes.

Yeah, we'll talk too much about that.

It's Vanillasoft, I guess, right? Like, the- The Odin Sphere people? The, the visuals-

VanillaWare, but yeah

Yeah.

VanillaWare.

Vanilla, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[laughs] Soft vanilla ice cream-

to say, this kind of looks like...

At first, I thought, is this Disgaea? Is this Vanillaware? And it's...

Yeah, okay.

That's cool.

Even the display right is somewhat dependent on resolution, but it's really it's always working about within limits so.

Yeah, I mean, even if I think about like, you know, I think of like a developer like Vanillaware and games like Muramasa, like and being blown away by that stuff.

And that was like really high fidelity pixel art, essentially.

And I've seen stuff like, I think it was the Ghost

We got some previews from TGS 2026 from both James and Kite.

James released his preview for Muramasa Revenant Blades, where he got to see the game, the people presenting it booted up a Vanillaware game on Steve in front of him and handed him the controller, which is, you know, almost like unlocking Pandora's box at that point.

Obviously,

go read it up, check it out.

Oh, my God, I'm going blank on the other games.

Like Dragon's Crown or those other Vanillaware games.

Yeah, Dragon's Crown and the other one, the ninja one where you do the-

Oh, yeah.