{"id":123680,"date":"2022-04-07T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129946"},"modified":"2022-04-07T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:15:00","slug":"keep-calm-but-square-enix-has-trademarked-tactics-ogre-reborn-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/07\/keep-calm-but-square-enix-has-trademarked-tactics-ogre-reborn-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Calm, But Square Enix Has Trademarked &#8216;Tactics Ogre: Reborn&#8217; In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dea7dc802a44\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dea7dc802a44\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Tactics Ogre Cover Art\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dea7dc802a44\/tactics-ogre-cover-art.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dea7dc802a44\/tactics-ogre-cover-art.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"527\" alt=\"Tactics Ogre Cover Art\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: Square Enix<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Do you think Square Enix has got a hankering for strategy RPGs lately? What with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/triangle_strategy\">Triangle Strategy<\/a> being a roaring success, and the recently-announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/diofield_chronicle\">The DioField Chronicle<\/a>, the company seem to be storming the castle on the genre.<\/p>\n<p>Look, if you&#8217;re into strategy RPGs, it&#8217;s likely that &#8211; outside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fire_emblem_three_houses\">Fire Emblem<\/a> series &#8211; that you love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/psp\/final_fantasy_tactics_the_war_of_the_lions\" class=\"external\">Final Fantasy Tactics<\/a>. And yes, we too want to see that on the Switch. But if you&#8217;re a fan of Yasami Matsuno, then you&#8217;ve probably heard of and played at least one game in the <strong>Ogre Battle<\/strong> series, so we might have something for you still.<\/p>\n<p>With multiple entries on Nintendo systems, starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/ogre_battle_the_march_of_the_black_queen\">Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen<\/a> on the SNES in 1993, and followed up by perhaps the most famous entry in the series &#8211; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/tactics_ogre_let_us_cling_together\">Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together<\/a><\/em> &#8211; just two years later, the series hasn&#8217;t seen a new entry since 2001. And we&#8217;ve only had a remake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/psp\/tactics_ogre_let_us_cling_together\" class=\"external\">Let Us Cling Together<\/a> on the PSP back in 2010 since then.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a spark of hope here, maybe. On 31st March, Square Enix (who own the rights to the Ogre Battle series) filed a trademark for Tactics Ogre: Reborn. This was spotted today by Renka_schedule on Twitter:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30b9\u30af\u30a6\u30a7\u30a2\u30fb\u30a8\u30cb\u30c3\u30af\u30b9\u304c<\/p>\n<p>\u300cTactics Ogre: Reborn<br \/>\uff08\u30bf\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30af\u30b9 \u30aa\u30a6\u30ac\uff1a\u30ea\u30dc\u30fc\u30f3\uff09\u300d<\/p>\n<p>\u3092\u5546\u6a19\u51fa\u9858\u3002<br \/>\ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jZoXTs9PHK\">pic.twitter.com\/jZoXTs9PHK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 \u308c\u3093\u304b (@Renka_schedule) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Renka_schedule\/status\/1512088111802576898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>What could this mean? There&#8217;s no title in the series with this name, and this has never been trademarked before. Is a collection incoming? Or is a port of one of the games on the way? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/ogre_battle_64_person_of_lordly_caliber\">Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber<\/a> would fit nicely on the Switch Online Expansion Pass, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/tactics_ogre_the_knight_of_lodis\">Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis<\/a> looks a little tired after being the last new release back on GBA. We&#8217;re trying to stay calm, we promise.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this could mean absolutely nothing, but with a brand new name being filed away, we think <em>something<\/em> is going on. SRPGs lovers adore these Yasami Matsuno-directed titles for their tactical combat, impressive visuals, class system, and deeply political stories, so it&#8217;d be great to see them get a wider release.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you played any of the Ogre Battle games? Which ones would you like to see get a rerelease? Let us know in the comments<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Square Enix Do you think Square Enix has got a hankering for strategy RPGs lately? What with Triangle Strategy being a roaring success, and the recently-announced The DioField Chronicle, the company seem to be storming the castle on the genre. Look, if you&#8217;re into strategy RPGs, it&#8217;s likely that &#8211; outside of the Fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}