A new English trailer is out for Atlus and Vanillaware’s Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir, showcasing the benefits of alchemy and cooking in the game. Both enhance the player’s ability to progress through the game, whether it be through creating items to attack enemies, eliminating certain land hazards, or eating to increase experience points.
Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir is due for release in the West in June of this year, on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita.
Atlus will be releasing a series of trailers telling us a bit more about the five main characters of the game, and the first one in the list is Gwendolyn, the Valkyria Princess. Below you can find the trailer, a few new screenshots as well as an excerpt from the official press release from Atlus U.S.A.
Atlus U.S.A. have posted a new trailer for Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, demonstrating the game’s skill and combat system. The remake of the original Odin Sphere has received a considerable overhaul of the gameplay mechanics, as developer Vannilaware used their experience gained from Dragon’s Crown to improve upon Odin Sphere’s original combat system. Each character has its own extensive skill tree, allowing players to customize their fighting style. To unlock and upgrade skills, you’ll need Phozons and Phozon Prisms, which can be obtained by defeating enemies and exploring different areas.
NISA Europe have announced that they will be publishing the 2D sidescrolling action RPG Odin Sphere Leifthrasir in Europe, for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. The game will be localized in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, and will be available in both digital and physical form. The special Storybook Edition will be exclusively available from Amazon UK and GAME, with preorders becoming available tomorrow. For more information on the contents of this edition, take a look at our previous articles! It’s not clear at the moment if the softcover art book preorder bonus, which is being included in all versions of the game in the US, will also be included with the regular EU release.
You can view the English trailer on NIS America’s Youtube channel below. It’s the same as the one posted by Atlus U.S.A. earlier, but they also have the trailer available in other languages. Odin Sphere Leifthrasir will be released in the Americas on June 7th.
Source: NISA Europe, via Gematsu
Update: Atlus has posted a preview of the 64 page artbook that comes with every preorder of the game. We included the preview below!
Original article: Atlus has posted the first English trailer for Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, featuring the English voices for all the main characters. The game is a remake of the original Odin Sphere, running in 1080P and 60fps on the PlayStation 4, and contains new content and an overhaul of the gameplay mechanics. The game will also feature dual audio support, allowing you to switch between English and Japanese voices. You can take a look at the trailer below!
Back in 2015, Atlus announced that they would be releasing a browser-based version of Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, emulating the style of classics 8-bit games. Today, Atlus has released the game to the public, and you can play it on their official website. You play as Gwendolyn, and the goal is simply to survive as long as you can. As you defeat enemies you’ll gain experience and become stronger, but at the same time the enemies increase in number and strength as well.
We knew that Odin Sphere Leifthrasir was getting a “Storybook Edition” release, exclusively for the PlayStation 4, which contained various extra’s compared to the regular release. One of those extra’s is a metal slipcase, and today, Atlus U.S.A. have revealed the artwork that will be featured on the back cover of that slipcase, which you can view below. The artwork features Gwendolyn, one of the game’s five playable characters. Earlier on, Atlus had also revealed the exclusive Alice and Socrates art print that will be included in the Storybook Edition. We also added the preview for that art print below, along with an updated image showing the entire contents of the Storybook Edition.
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir will be released on June 7th for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita in the Americas. The game will also be released in the EU somewhere during Q2 2016, but an exact release date hasn’t been announced yet. For now, there are no details on whether or not the Storybook Edition will also be released in the EU.
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia has put together a highlight reel of Playstation 4 games scheduled to release from January to March this year. The video features an original song by Tofubeats, with a rap about each game.
Atlus CEO Naoto Hiraoka made some interesting comments regarding business plans for Atlus’s products moving forward – more specifically regarding release of Atlus products outside of Japan. This by way of Gematsu‘s translation of a Japanese Playstation Blog post featuring a reprinting of Hiraoka’s comments to a recent issue of Dengeki Playstation. By the way, if you didn’t already know, the Japanese Playstation Blog has been host to quite a few entries featuring Yakuza content as of late, so it’s been receiving quite some content featuring Sega properties.
I’ve reproduced the comments that Gematsu translated below, directly:
“In terms of the marketplace, from here on I want to put even more strength into our overseas efforts,” Hiraoka said. “Up until a few years ago, there were some things, including the development of our international website, that we left to staff overseas. However, in recent years we’ve been wanting to make sure everyone gets the same information, so we made it so you can jump to the global website from the home page of the official site in Japanese.”
Hiraoka continued: “As you can also see from the close Japanese and foreign release dates for Dragon’s Crown in 2013 due to its online elements, the barrier between the domestic and overseas market is dying. As for Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir, it will go on sale in America on June 7 and in Europe in Q2, and while it is slightly delayed from the Japanese release date, it will not only be localized into English, but also French, Italian, German, Spanish for a total of five languages.
What is mentioned here regarding websites and information is already observable. As my colleague Draikin pointed out, the English page for Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F is actually hosted on Sega’s Japanese domain for Project DIVA games. While not Atlus-related, with Atlus being a part of Sega the point should be clear. If Sega West hosted it then it might offer its own signal about Sega West, but this is nice to see in any case.
Such comments do seem positive, in any case. Atlus has historically not had the strongest presence in Europe, whether in the form of a delayed release for Shin Megami Tensei IV or the lack of self-managed localizations for their products in Europe. In the past year NISAmerica handled distribution of Atlus titles. It isn’t entirely clear that Atlus will be publishing games themselves in Europe, so let us see what the company does with its next titles.
It’s interesting to note that Atlus sees the “domestic vs overseas barrier” as dissipating. Those are rather confident words. Sega has vowed to learn from Atlus since the latter’s acquisition, so one can hope that such a mindset is incorporated into the former’s company culture. Sega has been of the opinion that it’s important to adapt their games for Western tastes, but Atlus’s philosophy on localization doesn’t seem to view that as similarly necessary, or at least not to an especially significant degree. Atlus seems to take a stronger position on the “niche-ness” of their titles, and Sega so far seems keen on more broader reception of the comparatively niche IPs within their own stable.
The promise of an EFIGS localization is quite exciting, and a release window of Q2 2016 for Europe puts the region in close company with the US. This might bode well for Atlus and European Atlus fans!
Atlus has just announced that Odin Sphere Leifthrasir will be released on June 7th in the Americas for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita (as both a digital and physical release)! A new website has also been launched alongside the announcement, containing more info on the game’s world and its characters. For a limited time, purchasing the standard version of the game from select retailers will get you a 64-page softcover art book. The premium “Storybook edition”, exclusive for the PlayStation 4 version, includes a hardcover version of the art book, a special Potion Recipe t-shirt, a metal slipcase for the game, an art print, and premium outer packaging. More info on the retailers can be found on the official website.