Little known about this game outside of Japan, furthermore I doubt western release will ever happen, but still this game needs more recognition.

サクラノート

~いまにつながるみらい~

Sakura Note ~Ima ni Tsunagaru Mirai~

Sakura Note: The Future Connected to the Present

Developer: Audio Inc.

 Publisher: Marvelous Entertainment (JP)

Release date: November 5, 2009 (JP)

Genre: Adventure

STAFF

 Producer: Kenichiro Takagi (Half-Minute Hero)

Director & Game Designer: Akira Ueda (Contact)

Art Designer: Hideo Minaba (FFVI, FFIX, FFTA, FFXII, Little King's Story)

Scenario Writer: Kazushige Nojima (FFVII, FFVIII, FFX, KH, FFX-2)

Composer & Lyrics: Nobuo Uematsu (should I even bother?)

Music Performer & Vocal: ~AKANE~

STORY

Adventure takes place within two towns and suburbs. A couple of cherry blossom trees grow there, each in it's own town. One tree is fading, practically dead, while the other is blooming every spring. A girl named Nanami Yoshida comes in town, she is your neighbour now and becomes haunted by local ghosts. Those two mysteries connected somehow, and you, a regular boy, is bound to find out how. The future connected to the present...

SCREENS

VIDEOS

Famitsu Scan

Official Site

Anyone?

I though this game was kinda interesting. Previous Akira Ueda game, Contact, wasn't a best-seller by any standards in Japan (as well as Sakura Note, only 1100 first day sales), but still got localized half year later. So there's still a hope.

At first I thought the Sakura Note folks were just awful at making game trailers but then I realized that it wasn't the trailer that was boring, it was the game.