Sega’s recently announced The World End Eclipse for iOS, Android, PS Vita and PC, and has now published a video showing the prologue of the game. In a background story reminiscent from Sega’s Panzer Dragoon games, the video shows how the world was once destroyed by dragons. Now, humanity is trying to rebuild their civilization on the remains of those dead dragons.
We know the producer and composer of the game are respectively Shinji Motoyama and Hitoshi Sakamoto, who both worked on Valkyria Chronicles. Watching the trailer, both the soundtrack and artwork (despite being from a different artist) indeed evoke memories of Valkyria Chronicles.
Where things get interesting is that the character descriptions are actually in (rather accurate) English. Why? Your guess is as good as ours. As we’ve seen with Phantasy Star Online 2, just because a game has an English version doesn’t mean it’ll necessarily be released in the Western market. But still, it’s something, and we know Gumi will be localizing some of Sega’s mobile games. Of course, we’ve yet to see more of the game and how the F2P aspect impacts the gameplay, but what we’ve seen so far is at least encouraging. Siliconera reports the game will also feature cross-platform cooperative play, alongside cross-platform save data, which is certainly an interesting feature. You can watch the prologue movie below:
