BODY: Nintendo's Indie World broadcast on October 28, 2026 ended the way Japanese fans have come to expect: with a game they could buy before they finished watching. Shueisha Games used the slot to announce Urban Myth Dissolution Center Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, then put it out the moment the stream wrapped.
The headline addition is a gallery mode. Players can browse previously unreleased scenes featuring Meguriya, Azami and the rest of the Center's staff — material that didn't make it into the original release and has never been shown publicly. For a game built almost entirely on dialogue, character voice and the slow accumulation of occult trivia, bonus scenes are not a throwaway extra; they're the thing the fandom has been asking for since launch.
Shueisha Games hasn't detailed how the edition is priced for existing owners. Japanese publishers have handled Switch 2 reissues inconsistently — some as paid upgrade packs for the original cartridge or eShop license, some as standalone SKUs — so anyone holding the Switch 1 version should check the store page before buying.
The original Urban Myth Dissolution Center was one of 2025's genuine sleeper successes: a detective adventure about a tiny agency that debunks (and occasionally confirms) Japan's urban legends, developed by the small studio Hakababunko. It found an audience abroad well beyond what a text-heavy Japanese mystery game normally manages, helped by a sharp English localization and a visual style that looked like nothing else on the eShop.
The insider take
Shueisha Games is the quiet success story of Tokyo's publishing-to-games pipeline. Launched by the company behind Weekly Shonen Jump, it deliberately avoided manga tie-ins and instead backed small, author-driven studios — the opposite of what everyone assumed a Jump-adjacent label would do. Urban Myth Dissolution Center validated that bet, and a Switch 2 Edition stuffed with cut content is how Japanese publishers typically test whether a title has franchise legs. If this sells, expect a sequel announcement rather than another re-release.
Originally reported by 4Gamer.net − 最新記事 (Japanese).