'Make some noise': Vanillaware reportedly wants more of its games on PC, but it's up to the publishers

A group of anime-esque medieval soldiers stand in front of castle walls.

I try not to think too hard about console exclusives. What I don't know can't hurt me, and all the cool games hidden away on whatever the hell a "PlayStation" is can't tempt me into buying one if I don't know they exist. Vanillaware games, though, have historically been too cool to ignore.

It was nice to see a Steam page surface for the studio's newest game, the side-scrolling ARPG Muramasa: Revenant Blades, but there's still a legendary back catalog stranded on out-of-season consoles and emulators. It turns out the studio's founder, George Kamitani, "totally wants to" bring those other games to PC, as games journalist James Mielke said on Bluesky.