April Fools’ Day is almost here again, a day when brands flood social media with fake announcements, when writers have to quadruple-check to make sure news is legitimate, and when people forget "what if X was a dating sim haha" stopped being funny years ago. You know what else stopped years ago? These jokes being stealth announcements for actual things. Like when Nintendo sneakily hinted at Fire Emblem Echoes, before leaving the offshoot subseries alone in a corner ever since, and Ryu Ga Gotoku cheekily revealed Yakuza 7 as a turn-based RPG as an April Fools’ “joke” (even though it started development that way long before the gag).
