Atlus has released plenty of new Persona 5 details and footage from the game following their recent “Take The Treasure” live stream. Most notably, Atlus has uploaded a video featuring the first 18 minutes of the game. This video has already been translated with English subititles, courtesy of dominationkid w. Below you can find our writeup on the recent videos.
A demo for Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X HD on the PlayStation 4 has been released in Japan on the PlayStation Network. The demo features the songs “Satisfaction”, “LOL -lots of laugh-” and “Raspberry Monster” and has a download size of 525MB. Some costumes can also be unlocked by playing the demo and successfully completing the Chance Time in the songs.
This is certainly a rather surprising announcement. Gematsu has just posted an article revealing that SEGA’s 2D fighter Blade Arcus from Shining EX, a crossover game featuring characters from Shining Blade and Shining Hearts, will be released on Steam as Blade Arcus from Shining: Battle Arena. The game is scheduled to be released on July 29, and its Steam page can be found here. Apparently Degica Games is responsible for bringing the game to PC, although they’re not listed as the publisher on the Steam page. At the time of writing, there’s also a live stream going on for the game at AnimEVO 2016. Below you can find the info posted on the Steam page, as well as the launch trailer posted on the Steam page! Interestingly, this PC version of the game will in fact support online play, something that was surprisingly absent from the console version of the game in Japan.
While the game was released on PS3 and PS4 last year in Japan, there’s no announcement regarding those versions heading to the West. In recent times, none of the main Shining RPG games have been localized for the West, making it all the more surprising to see this game released. But judging from the lack of announcement from SEGA, it doesn’t seem that they’re really involved with this PC version of the game, as it appears to be handled by Studio Saizensen and Degica Games.
Degica Games is currently running a giveway where you can win various prizes, which include preorder bonus items, such as a swimsuit calendar, the Doujinshi “Shining Heroines Works” and a soundtrack OST, that were included with the limited “Tony’s Premium Fan Box” Japanese PS4/PS3 release.
Thanks goes to Gematsu for their article on this announcement.
We’ve been uploading videos for the Sakura Wars X Granblue Fantasy event since the event ended, and today we reach the end of that video archive with the story’s epilogue. Those who viewed the previous episodes will know that, after the initial prologue, the main cast found themselves in the world of Granblue Fantasy. The epilogue sees Sakura, Ogami, Gemini, Shinjiro and Erica reunited in a decisive battle against the series’ recurring villain, Aoi Satan. Take a look below for the epilogue and an overview of all the other videos we posted so far! And if you watched the videos, feel free to let us know in what you think about this crossover in the comments. And for those who play Granblue Fantasy and unlocked the characters, we’re looking for help to record their Fate Episodes.
Yesterday, SEGA launched 7th Dragon III Code: VFD in the Americas. The latest entry in the dungeon RPG series is now available for the Nintendo 3DS both in physical and digital form. It’s also worth noting that this is the first game in the series to be localized. For more information on the bonus items found in the limited launch copies of the game, you can read our previous article here. If you’re not sure if this is a game is for you, a demo is available as well.
It’s been a while since we posted the second story arc for the Sakura Wars X Granblue Fantasy crossover featuring Gemini. We now uploaded the third story arc to our Youtube channel, this time featuring Erica Fontaine! Her story arc is noticeably shorter than the others, and focuses mostly on comedy. You can find the video below! With the three arcs finished, our next video will feature the epilogue of the crossover event.
SEGA fans will most likely know about Yuzo Koshiro for his work on the soundtrack for the Streets of Rage games, but he’s also the composer for the Etrian Odyssey series. In regards to Etrian Odyssey V, Atlus has revealed that they will be releasing an FM (frequency modulation) version of the game’s soundtrack as paid DLC. The DLC will replace the standard background music with its corresponding FM version. If you’re wondering what that means, it’s basically what you’d expect to hear if the soundtrack were designed for a classic 8 or 16-bit console. Atlus have uploaded a sample of the FM version of the game’s main battle theme on Youtube, which you can listen to below. Let us know what you think!
With the first reviews rolling in for the game now that the review embargo has been lifted, SEGA of America have posted a new full trailer for 7th Dragon III Code: VFD. In addition, they announced that all of the DLC quests will be free for the week following the game’s release. You can also find the official release below, which details the free DLC contents, and how much it will cost after the promotional week has ended.
SEGA of Japan have released a new trailer for the upcoming DLC songs for Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X in Japan: “Hand in Hand” by livetune and “Sharing The World” by BIGHEAD. Both songs will be included for free with the PlayStation 4 version of the game upon its release, but will cost 500 yen (excluding tax) for the PlayStation Vita version. You can view the trailer below!
In an earlier article, we speculated that Deep Silver could be a potential candidate to bring Atlus and SEGA games to Europe, following the news that they would be publishing The King of Fighters XIV. Today that became a reality as Atlus, SEGA of America and Deep Silver have announced that they have entered a publishing deal for Europe. As part of the deal, 7th Dragon III Code: VFD, Persona 5 and SMT IV: Apocalypse will be releasing in Europe with both physical and digital versions! And the deal includes other, as of yet unannounced, games as well.