{"rewrite":{"id":"r_f1352f8d5cbcfd7311a462e8","clusterId":"c_4bfba4d83db71b105fff0a7f","slug":"another-eden-begins-reworks-part-1-as-a-standalone-console-rpg","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Another Eden Begins Reworks Part 1 As A Standalone Console RPG","summary":"Another Eden Begins arrives on September 17 for Switch 2 and Switch, rebuilding the first part of the 2017 smartphone RPG Another Eden as a buy-to-play console title. Producer Shinnosuke Hirasawa told 4Gamer that the team first tried running the existing systems on console hardware, found them thin, and rebuilt movement, battle, and progression instead. The original story is kept; the fields around it were redrawn and expanded.","whyItMatters":"The producer frames the console version as a way to give a long-running live service game a form that outlasts the service itself, which is why the project is a rebuilt purchase rather than a port.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe battle system and field exploration were rebuilt rather than ported. Hirasawa said the team started by making the existing Another Eden systems run on console, then found the result unsatisfying: movement traced fixed lines on a phone screen, and the roughly decade-old battle system lost pace on a controller. The decision was to change all of it.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFields were the harder problem. Camera position and behavior changed first, which exposed areas never built for a wider view, so the team drew in new material. Players who know the original may read the scenery as familiar; much of it was added for this version.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Hirasawa says the team tried running Another Eden's existing systems on console hardware and found them thin, then rebuilt movement, battle, and progression. The port started as a technical question and became a design one.","twitterPost":"Another Eden Begins rebuilt movement, battle, and progression after the original systems ran thin on console hardware.","threadsPost":"The interesting part of Another Eden Begins is what happened before the rebuild: Hirasawa's team first ran the existing smartphone systems on console hardware, judged them thin, and only then redid movement, battle, and progression. The original story stays; the fields around it were redrawn.","newsletterBlurb":"Another Eden Begins launches September 17 for Switch 2 and Switch, a console rebuild of the first part of the 2017 smartphone RPG. Producer Shinnosuke Hirasawa told 4Gamer the team tried running the original systems on console hardware first, found them unsatisfying, and rebuilt battle, movement, and progression. The story stays as it was; the fields were redrawn and expanded for the wider view.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/981/G098195/20260909042/\",\"title\":\"［インタビュー］「アナザーエデン ビギンズ」は，新規も古参ファンも楽しめる新作コンシューマRPGに。プロデューサーが語る，その魅力とは\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":6235,"outputTokens":644,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789185572,"createdAt":"2026-09-12T03:54:25.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-12T03:58:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-12T03:58:21.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_4bfba4d83db71b105fff0a7f","canonicalTitle":"［インタビュー］「アナザーエデン ビギンズ」は，新規も古参ファンも楽しめる新作コンシューマRPGに。プロデューサーが語る，その魅力とは","representativeArticleId":"a_cf3b0170a546dc95d437b13f","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Another Eden Begins\",\"Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-12T03:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-12T03:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-12T03:58:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"4Gamer.net","url":"https://www.4gamer.net/games/981/G098195/20260909042/","title":"［インタビュー］「アナザーエデン ビギンズ」は，新規も古参ファンも楽しめる新作コンシューマRPGに。プロデューサーが語る，その魅力とは"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Another Eden Begins","Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}