Last month, Atlus and VanillaWare posted a character trailer for Velvet, one of the playable characters in Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir. For more information on that, and some details about the character’s background story, take a look at our article here. As a follow-up to that trailer, Atlus has now posted a new gameplay trailer for Velvet. As shown in the trailer, Velvet has a graceful fighting style, using a chain …read more
A rather lengthy trailer has been released for Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax Ignition, featuring all of the game’s playable and support characters. The trailer also reveals that the game supports online play between the PS3 and PS4. Those who buy a first-print copy of the game will receive a free theme (specific for the platform it was purchased on). You can take a look at the trailer below! The game …read more
A second PV for Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation has been released by the anime’s production team. The first episode will be screened at Tokyo on December 29, and the episode’s public air date is set for February 7. On a separate but related note: Sympathy 2015, a concert event celebrating 15 years of Phantasy Star Online, also recently passed, and Shouta Aoi (voice of Itsuki Tachibana, a protagonist …read more
Today marks the second anniversary for our website! It’s hard to imagine that we’ve been around for two years already. And while this year wasn’t the biggest in terms of SEGA game releases, a lot of changes have taken place at Sega, and several surprising announcements have been made. Below you’ll find an overview of some of the main stories we reported on over the past year.
Gematsu noted that Hachima Kikou published an article featuring some insights into Sega’s plan for Valkyria: Azure Revolution. Specifically, director Takeshi Ozawa and producer Youichi Shimosato touch upon what sort of playing experience the demo for Azure Revolution represents, and also mention some additional gameplay characteristics being implemented into the game. These characteristics include permanent death that impacts available side-story events, and the suggestion of a relatively high difficulty level. …read more
In our previous update we showed you the new trailer for Valkyria Azure Revolution, along with a link to the official website. Aside from the new screenshots on the website, SEGA also posted some more artwork and screenshots on their official Twitter account. We bundled all of them in this post, so feel free to take a look!
Next in the character trailer spotlight for Genei Ibun Roku #FE is TiKi. Tiki is a name borrowed from Fire Emblem, and her character in #FE takes the form of what is essentially a Vocaloid. She welcomes you to the Bloom Palace and refers to Itsuki, the protagonist, affectionately as her “older brother.” Such familiarity throws off the protagonist, but being the gentleman that he is, the protagonist doesn’t actually …read more
The first trailer for Valkyria: Azure Revolution was recently published by Sega. It’s cinematic and features Amleth and Ophelia as they participate in a battle. Brynhildr, the enemy Valkyria, makes an appearance at the end. We knew that there would be a demo included with Valkyria Chronicles Remaster for PS4, but this trailer confirms that an Azure Revolution Battle Demo is included with Remaster. Gematsu noticed that this same Azure …read more
Sega has just published a new trailer for Yakuza Kiwami. It features narration from Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima’s voice actors. The trailer shows three battle styles for Kiryu – these are the ones that were present in Yakuza Zero. In addition, there’s a fourth battle style that can be seen throughout the video, marked in red in the upper left during fights. It also appears that you can speak …read more
After a successful Twitter campaign, Atlus has confirmed development of an 8-bit browser version of Odin Sphere Leifthrasir. Thanks to everyone who participated! Symbiotic and functional interaction between companies and their fans is always a good thing to see, and this campaign yielded a pretty cool result. In addition to this, Atlus has also published a couple of new trailers to promote Odin Sphere Leifthrasir. The first one I’ve attached …read more