Hi-sCool! Seha Girls is an anime adaptation of the Sega Hard Girls series, featuring moe anthropomorphized Sega consoles. The series started as light novels and character cameos for games like Samurai and Dragons and Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax. While each of Sega’s consoles and their revisions have been transformed into a character, only Dreamcast, Saturn and Mega Drive appear in the anime (thus far of my 5 episode recap). Sorry …read more
The game Chain Chronicle might not ring a bell for most Sega fans outside of Japan, but in Sega’s homeland the game has been one of their most successful F2P mobile titles. The title earned Sega over $72 million USD in the nine months following its release, driving Sega to put more focus on their Sega Network division and their F2P mobile games. For the English version of the game, …read more
Atlus has revealed the opening movie for their upcoming 3DS RPG, Etrian Odyssey Untold II. The high quality animation, created by studio Madhouse, is accompanied by the song “Reaching Out for the Future” by Kanaka Itou. Along with the Story Mode, fully animated cutscenes are one of the new additions for this remake of the original Etrian Oddysey II.
Gematsu reports that Sega recently produced a new promotional movie for Phantasy Star Nova, ahead of its impending November 27 release. It’s meant to be a look at the major selling points of Phantasy Star Nova much like the TGS 2014 trailer; however this new trailer is even more comprehensive and detailed. While it treads over some familiar ground, with such elements as the story prologue and character creation, we …read more
Sega has released another video demoing one of the game mechanics in Shining Resonance. Gematsu shares that this new video features the B.A.N.D. system. The B.A.N.D. system refers both to the configuration of your active party members (most importantly, who is chosen as the player character or “Center”) and the special benefit that comes with a B.A.N.D. Attack. B.A.N.D. Attacks are triggered by filling up at least one third of …read more
We already knew the pre-orders sales for Valkyria Chronicles had been going strong, and the sales of the game only increased during the game’s launch yesterday, driving it to the top of the Steam Top Seller chart. Sega have now issued a press release to celebrate the successful launch of the game, which you can read here: VALKYRIA CHRONICLES SMASHES ALL EXPECTATIONS TO REACH NUMBER ONE ON STEAM! Yesterday, Valkyria …read more
The PC version of Valkyria Chronicles has been unlocked on Steam today, allowing the fans (and hopefully many newcomers) to finally experience one of Sega’s best PS3 games on the PC. I’ve played through the first few missions of the game, which is just about enough to give my first impressions on the PC port. You can click on any of the images in this article to see the originals …read more
Valkyria Chronicles cameos seem to be everywhere lately, with playable roles in Project X Zone and Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax. Sega has announced that Valkyria Chronicles III DLC content will also be in Phantasy Star Nova on December 24th, as reported by Gematsu. The costume is based on Riela Marcellis’s Valkyria form and can be used when creating a character. Release dates for the previously announced tri-ACE content have also …read more
It’s been a while since we’ve written about Etrian Odyssey II Untold, but the official Japanese website’s blog section for the game has received more frequent updates as of late. Some of these updates are quite extensive and talk about gameplay, while others highlight promotional activities for the game. Recent blog posts include pictures of promotional merchandise and a crossover promotion with the popular maid/culture cafe schatz-kiste, where Etrian Odyssey-themed …read more
Gematsu writes that Sega recently uploaded a new video for Shining Resonance that details Yuuma Irvan as Kouryuu Irvan, the dragon. A central part of the story of Shining Resonance and Irvan’s character is that Irvan has a human form (Yuuma), but naturally exists as a dragon created without artificial assistance: a rarity for his time. It turns out that players can quite easily switch between Irvan’s dragon and human …read more