Sega of America has released its first character trailer for Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, featuring four of the game’s playable characters. In order of appearance in the trailer, they’re Asuna from Sword Art Online, Kuroyukihime from Accel World, Tomoka Minato from Ro-Kyu-Bu! and finally Shizuo Heiwajime from Durarara!!. You can watch the new trailer below!
Pictured above is a tentative mockup of the packaging for the newly-announced “Launch Edition” for Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax for North and South America. The Launch Edition includes only copies that are preordered or otherwise part of the game’s first print run. Notably, it includes an OST CD for the game, which features compositions from a handful of in-house Sega music talent including Jun Senoue, Naofumi Hataya, Kenichi Tokoi, and Teruhiko Nakagawa.
The game will release on October 6th for all regions. The Playstation 3 version will be valued at $39.99, and the Vita version for $29.99. Pricing schedule hasn’t been announced for regions outside of the US, as of yet.
European gamers should take note that the game will only be available digitally in their region. The Americas will have both a physical and a digital option.
This is perhaps old news to some of you, but in any case I’d like to put it out there that there is a Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax subforum at the official Sega forums. Be sure to make use of it!
Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition, an updated version of Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, has launched in arcades in Japan today. Accompanying the launch is a new trailer for the game, also featuring the two new characters Emi Yusa from Hataraku Mao-sama! and Quenser Barbotage from Heavy Object. You can watch the launch trailer below. Meanwhile, the original Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax is scheduled to be released later this year in North America for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.
Some of our readers who are interested in competitive fighting games should be aware that EVO 2015 took place this past weekend. Persona 4: Arena Ultimax was one of the headlining events. Sega’s Dengeki Bunko: FIGHTING CLIMAX and Atlus’s Catherine were featured as side events at EVO 2015. So while they weren’t featured as main stage events and enjoyed the large pot bonuses that some other games may have enjoyed, they were also streamed through Twitch channels and many players had the opportunity to compete against each other in the tense but fun atmosphere of EVO.
Be sure to continue reading! It was a fun event, and a quick recap awaits after the break.
Not long after the announcement of an expanded release and new characters for Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, Sega announced another new team that will be coming to the crossover fighter. Quenser Barbotage (voiced by Natsuki Hanae) from Heavy Object will be a playable character, with Froleytia Capistrano (voiced by Shizuka Ito) serving as an assist character. Quenser will be able to summon other characters from his series as part of some of his attacks.
While the Heavy Object franchise currently only exists through light novels and manga, an anime adaptation is coming very soon: October of this year, according to AnimeNewsNetwork! Heavy Object is a military fantasy franchise that centers around the protagonist Quenser, an androgynous young man who is perceptive and strategically creative, as he finds ways to thwart the massive war weapons known as Objects. These Objects are so powerful that conventional wisdom held that humans stood no chance against them, until Quenser and his partner Heivia appeared. Froleytia, the assist character in Fighting Climax, is their commander and she comes from nobility, unlike Quenser.
You gotta love how the Valkyria Chronicles stage is used to show off the Heavy Object characters. It’s definitely fitting.
The expanded release, currently with a tentative title of Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax New, is set to hit Japanese arcades this summer. No plans for the game’s consoles releases are known as of yet. I can’t immediately tell what comes next for the non-arcade releases. The game may see some more new characters though, but we’ll have to wait and see for now.
Credit for the featured image goes to this Gematsu article.
Dengeki Online just announced a new iteration of their crossover fighter Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax. As of now, the expanded release is only set for arcades in Japan, and the expansion’s new title hasn’t been publicly announced. However, it is currently set for release this summer. This expanded release will also feature balance adjustments to the existing cast, too.
Topping off the news of this release is the confirmation of a new playable character: Emi Yusa from Hataraku! Maou Sama/The Devil is a Part-Timer. Emi and Sadao Maou’s personalities constantly antagonize each other, to say nothing of their backgrounds as a holy knight and a devil, respectively. But as they are miraculously transported to the real world outside of the world of magic and demons, their powers are limited and their former lives serve as a sort of bonding point, however shaky that bond may be (perhaps it’s actually stronger than we think!) Now Sadao is a little less out of place by himself, and screenshots already do show him as a support character to Emi to reflect both of them representing the same franchise (though players are free to choose their team combinations, you cannot change whether or not they are playable or assist-only.)
Sega published and assisted with development of Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, though the main development forces were French Bread (Melty Blood) and Ecole Software. The game is rife with Sega shoutouts including characters and stages; hopefully we may see some more with this new release. That we’ll see more new characters besides Emi from within Dengeki Bunko is certain.
The article teases a more detailed announcement of this game on May 28th, so expect additional news around that time!
Credit goes to the above-linked Dengeki article for the featured image.
Anime licensing and publishing company Funimation is having a Spring sale on their web store slashing prices on 400 products, which is a huge amount of their stock of franchises available. You can check out the whole sale, but we’ve conveniently listed Sega and Atlus related titles on sale for you. It is unclear when the sale will end, but it is likely in a week or two. I recommend picking up titles you want right away.
Because Atlus is localizing Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains set to release this May, we listed the anime to help you catch up. We’ve also included series that feature characters who also made an appearance in Sega’s Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, such as A Certain Magical Index and Shakugan no Shana, as well as listed Utawarerumono for its characters being featured in Aquapazza, a crossover fighting game Atlus localized a while back. Finally, multiple seasons of the Initial D series is on sale which Sega have adapted into a series of popular racing games over the years.
Sega has announced on the official Playstation Blog that Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax will be localized for PS3 and Vita this Summer!