Plus other Level-5 tidbits from Weekly Famitsu.

Ushiro, Level-5’s spirit horror RPG first announced for PSP in 2008, but never officially cancelled, is now a Switch title, Level-5 president and CEO Akihiro Hino confirmed in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu.

Here are some quotes from the magazine:

“Actually, [Enterbrain president and former Weekly Famitsu editor-in-chief Hirokazu] Hamamura asked if it should be removed from the [magazine’s] release schedule, but I thought it was OK to keep it on there.”

“It was like, please move it to Switch then.”

“There are things we can do in Ushiro that we can’t do in Yo-kai Watch, I guess? We haven’t made it yet, so we see what happens.”

“We have new creators [at the company] who want to make Ushiro.”

“It’s still going. (Laughs.) But the fact that we have these feelings like we haven’t made the game even though we wanted to, it’s like it’s a ghost project or something.”

Hino’s comments on Ushiro are part of a larger Level-5 20th anniversary feature. Here are some other quotes from Hino:

“Dragons and Colonies, the new title being made with Keiji Inafune, is almost complete. However, we have a strict evaluation team within the company, so it’s possible that the service launch will be delayed if they say it’s no good.”

“Actually, just between us, we still have new title(s) up our sleeves. Yo-kai Watch 4 and Inazuma Eleven Ares seem to be coming along really well, but the staff are touching them up, so their releases have been delayed. The announcement of a new title(s) in the middle of that would be rude to customers who are waiting [for those games], so we’re not revealing anything yet. We’re planning a big announcement after they’re released.”

“For our 20th anniversary title, we’re trying to make a game with an unexpected approach to online.”

Hino has previously teased that the company’s 20th anniversary title will be “a big title on the same scale as [an MMORPG].”

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