*scuttles quietly in through the back door*

Hey guys, how's it going! What do you mean, "where have I been?" Never left! Don't know what you're talking about. So how's it going? I think I mentioned how every now and then I get a hankering for some Valis, and yesterday was the day. Wasted Glames in Valis 3 and beat the game for the 2nd time in my life. For some reason Glames always gave me trouble, but I smoked him like he was nothing this time. Youtube videos can be helpful for picking up strategies. So what's new around here?

You know, the front door’s always an option here.

I guess that "what’s new" is relative to the last time you visited. The threads listed in the Valis forum should be a good indication. The Valis Wiki is probably of note, and Juan's remixes if you've been gone for that long -- judging by your last post being dated 2010, which I have trouble believing. Where does the time go?

It has been a while. I guess my main question would be, has Sunsoft said anything about what they're doing with Valis or the Renovation library? The only thing I ever saw that came of that was Master Blaster got put up on PSN and XBLA.

Happy birthday!

To answer your question, I think SunSoft's second foray into the American market failed, so they retreated back to Japan again. I honestly think Vic Ireland kinda failed pretty hard leading them here. SunSoft (or any Japanese company, for that matter) would be more successful in penetrating our market with a successful advertising campaign. Dumping things on small niche communities and expecting them to uphold the business is a huge impracticality, unless all you're doing is re-releasing old IPs in digital format, where you don't need to really make money back. So for now, until we get a good petition going, we're at a loss for new Valis stuff.