like a star, like a firefly

I guess it still isn't impossible that there'll be DLC -- there's still the Tokyo Game Show this week as another venue for potential announcements, for example -- but I would've thought a Nintendo game would have its DLC announced in the Nintendo Direct, and since it wasn't, that decreases the probability of it happening by quite a bit...

I meant the devs and marketing people tossing Hopes aside, not the fandom -- sorry I didn't make that clear. I'm sure with Houses's popularity that Hopes will keep getting at least a decent bit of love from fans.

Awakening's tenth anniversary was actually this year if you go by the original Japanese release date! (Almost feels weird to think back to when game releases weren't simultaneous, despite the fact it wasn't that long ago!) Funnily enough, it had occured to me that Awakening was that old now, but I didn't think to link Engage to it at all; the leak had called it a celebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary, so I was linking it more to that despite the fact it's off by a few years.