New Ape Escape Game Potentially Being Teased

If you like having hope extinguished before your very eyes, you might love this potential news. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Ape Escape series, a new Twitter account has popped up that might be teasing a return to the series. Maybe. Pinch of salt, as always.

The new account, piposaru20th, which is the game’s official name in Japan, tweeted the below yesterday, which translates to “Piposar (20 years since then. I’ve been running around, but I wonder if there’s anyone chasing me anymore?)”.

ピポサル （あれから20年。ずっと逃げ回ってきたけど、もう追いかけてくるヤツもいないかな・・・？）

#サルゲッチュ #サルゲッチュ20th pic.twitter.com/wo4mgUVA3m

— 【公式】サルゲッチュ20周年 (@piposaru20th) June 23, 2019

While a random, unverified account tweeting randomly about Ape Escape isn’t ordinarily something to circle the wagons over (I’ve been known to tweet about Ape Escape and no-one reports on those), this new account is interesting as it’s being followed by series developer SIE Japan Studio, and the above tweet was retweeted by PlayStation Japan.

PlayStation Japan themselves have tweeted about the anniversary, with a special commemorative video chronicling the two decades old franchise, along with a special theme for PS Plus subscribers. PS Japan also confirmed that the @piposaru20th account is genuine, and officially tied to the franchise.

【お祝いしてくだサル？ #サルゲッチュ20th 】
本日6月24日で｢ #サルゲッチュ ｣がウッキウキの20周年！
20年間を振り返るスペシャルムービーや公式Twitter( @piposaru20th )の開設、PS Plus加入者に向けた記念テーマのプレゼントなど、さまざまな展開を予定しています！https://t.co/lEjHk1jCCs pic.twitter.com/mrIKnwjCr8

— プレイステーション公式 (@PlayStation_jp) June 24, 2019

All of this news doesn’t necessarily point to a new game, but it’s a lot of effort for a franchise that last released a game nine years ago in Japan. Fingers crossed we’ll hear news of a Crash/Spyro-esque trilogy remaster soon. I need it in my life.

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