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Atlus Talks at Length About Their Franchises and Upcoming Releases in Extensive Interview

InTheSky August 19, 2015 Leave a reply

In an interview with godisageek.com, Atlus’s John Hardin reaffirms their plans to release Persona 5 in 2015 for North American gamers. Incidentally, they also acknowledge that Europe has in the past seen releases that lag behind North America to varying degrees (Shin Megami Tensei IV!)

The interview offers a variety of other tidbits. For example, Persona 4: Dancing All Night is canonical. Hardin also offers some thoughts on the impact of voice acting on the localization process and the delicacy of changes in voice actors for a character. He also speaks at length about the Etrian Odyssey series and comments on the necessity to provide review copies as early as possible to reviewers (especially for lengthy RPG’s like the Etrian Odyssey series.)

Atlus also mentions that they are working on bringing Stella Glow and Legend of Legacy to North America. The company is excited to be handling these projects, and considering Atlus’s tendency to keep an eye out for RPG’s with old-school sensibilities in their blood (especially so with Legend of Legacy, which is frequently compared to the SaGa series from Square-Enix) this makes sense. A first-print edition of Legend of Legacy with certain physical bonuses may be in the works, too.

One of the most interesting exchanges in the interview involves Hardin’s personal philosophy on DLC, towards the end of the article. He spends a lot of time elucidating his rationale regarding certain talking points on the issue of how companies and consumers handle DLC. In essence. In general, Hardin takes an affirmative stance on how DLC tends to be handled and is skeptical of certain criticisms of DLC practices.

I’d love to hear what other people think about his ideas on DLC! It’s a long interview and quite substantive, so please check it out.

English Etrian Odyssey II Untold Trailer for Chloe

InTheSky August 1, 2015 Leave a reply

AtlusUSA uploaded a character trailer for Chloe, the War Magus. She often seems to have food on her mind – specifically, meat. Chloe also doesn’t appear to be easily intimidated by monsters and generally keeps a cool image. As a War Magus, she excels in afflicting enemies with powerful debuffs, which can be further bolstered by certain setups.

I’ll also note that AtlusUSA has put up a full promotional website for Etrian Odyssey II Untold, which you can see here. It’s nice to see the game being supported in such a manner.

Etrian Odyssey II Untold is coming to North America on August 4th – next Tuesday! Continue reading to check out the trailer.

Etrian Odyssey II Untold North American DLC Schedule

InTheSky June 7, 2015 Leave a reply

AtlusUSA recently unveiled their DLC plans for Etrian Odyssey II Untold: The Fafnir Knight, set to come out on August 4. Starting on the week of the game’s release, and every week after that (for three weeks, with the last pieces being added on the last week of August) a couple pieces of DLC will be made available during the month of August every Tuesday.

Some DLC will be available free of charge for the first week it becomes available online. But when a new round of DLC goes online, any DLC that was previously free will then require money to unlock. So for example, a free DLC piece that goes online on August 4 could be free until August 10, and when new DLC goes online on August 11 the DLC was previously free might not be free anymore.

Gematsu recently compiled this DLC schedule, which I will reproduce after the break. Check it out!

Etrian Odyssey II Untold: English Flavio Trailer

InTheSky June 4, 2015 Leave a reply

Meet Flavio, Ranger/Survivalist and a bottomless well of camaraderie and goodwill. Atlus USA uploaded a trailer introducing waiting gamers to the jovial archer (“The Upbeat Survivalist”, as the trailer stylizes him,) which you can check out after the break. It’ll offer viewers a preview of Flavio’s English voice acting, too.

As a reminder, Flavio as a character is exclusive to the game’s Story Mode, where characters and their classes are fixed. Flavio has the potential to support the team in a variety of ways, including debuffing enemies, revealing chests on the map, and lowering the encounter rate. All the while he will be keeping himself alive with skills that lower the enemy’s accuracy or raise a teammate’s own evasion.

Release Date for Etrian Odyssey 2: Untold in North America Confirmed for August 4th

Draikin May 30, 2015 Leave a reply

Atlus USA has announced that Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold will be released in North America on August 4th. Earlier on, we already posted the news on the European release date for the game, which is scheduled for February 12th. Along with the announcement, Atlus also posted a new video of the game, showing the game’s cooking feature. Using ingredients found in the game’s forest or monster ingredients obtained at the end of a battle, combined with recipes found on your adventures, you can create various dishes. Eating them may grant temporary buffs such as an increase of your resistance to poison. You can watch the video below.

Etrian Mystery Dungeon, Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker Dated for Europe

InTheSky May 30, 2015 Leave a reply

NIS America announced the release dates of Etrian Mystery Dungeon and Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker not too long ago. Etrian Mystery Dungeon is set to release on September 11, while DS2:RB will release on October 30. Physical and digital presences are planned for both games.

Off of the news of Etrian Odyssey II Untold’s release on February of next year, I’m of the opinion that the pacing of these Atlus releases feels slightly better knowing DS2:RB is coming at the end of October. Of course, this is not to suggest everyone in EU is planning on buying all of the Atlus games to begin with (DS2:RB and the Etrian Odyssey games play differently, after all.) Interestingly, these releases also puts into perspective that the past couple of years were quite busy for Atlus and the Nintendo 3DS, even if two of the games are expanded remakes.

Etrian Odyssey II Untold European Release Date: February 12

InTheSky May 28, 2015 2 Replies

NISAmerica announced their planned release date for the European Union for Etrian Odyssey II Untold: The Fafnir Knight, the expanded remake of Etrian Odyssey II. The game is scheduled for a February 12 release date in Europe. For reference, the game came out in Japan in late November of last year, while an early August release date is planned for North America.

For our European audience, I can’t help but think that the release date distance is a bit painful. It does feel slightly more palatable than a long and anxious wait where no release date is confirmed for another few months, but on the other hand it’s still a pretty long wait. Hopefully the presence of Atlus games strengthens and becomes more readily localized in the future.

Both a physical and digital copies are planned as purchase options for hopeful gamers.

NISAmerica also produced the trailer for the Protagonist trailer to accompany their announcement. The trailer should be familiar for those who have seen earlier English media coverage of this game. If you haven’t seen it yet, well – DO NOT MISS THIS GREAT CHANCE.

Etrian Odyssey II Untold: The Fafnir Knight – Arianna Trailer, 3DS Theme Previews

InTheSky May 15, 2015 Leave a reply

Atlus USA recently released an Etrian Odyssey II Untold character trailer for Arianna, the Princess. It offers a nice, substantive preview of the voice acting for Arianna, so be sure to check it out. She’s modeled after the Sovereign and is designed to be a capable support character in battle. As the video will show, Arianna is a well-mannered girl who is nonetheless willing to meet danger and the unknown head-on.

In addition, Atlus is offering three different Nintendo 3DS themes – a Story theme, a Cafe theme, and a Classic theme. Atlus has scattered preview clips for each of the three themes across their social media accounts. Each theme will cost $0.99 in the US or $1.29 in Canada, and will be made available once per week starting June 14. The links can be found below:

Story theme preview- on Facebook – this one is free if preordered from Gamestop

Cafe theme preview – on Instagram

Classic theme preview – on Twitter

The game is due for a Summer 2015 release in North America. Continue reading to check out the character trailer for Arianna!

Atlus Shows Classic Mode for Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight

Draikin April 23, 2015 Leave a reply

Atlus has released a new video for Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold, showing the game’s Classic Mode. While the game is a remake of the original Etrian Odyssey 2 and includes a new Story mode (where you play the game with a fixed cast of five heroes), the Classic mode offers players the same experience as in the original game, where you created your own cast of characters. To create your guild, you can make a selection of characters out of a total of 13 classes. You can watch the video detailing the game’s Classic Mode below.

Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight will release on the Nintendo 3DS in Summer 2015 for North America. NISA Europe will be handling the European release, which is scheduled for early 2016.

Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker, Etrian Mystery Dungeon, and Etrian Odyssey II: Untold Coming to Europe

InTheSky April 15, 2015 Leave a reply

NIS America recently announced that they will be distributing Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker, Etrian Mystery Dungeon, and Etrian Odyssey II: Untold in Europe. The first two titles will arrive in Europe during the Fall of 2015, while Etrian Odyssey II: Untold has an early 2016 release planned for it. The price of the games hasn’t been announced yet (NISA Europe’s pricing has been rather controversial, so it’ll remain to be seen if the games will be reasonably priced).

Both physical and digital releases are planned for all three titles, per Siliconera.

It’s always good to see Atlus gamers in Europe, and European gamers in general, being given more timely releases than they’ve had to deal with in the past. After it took much strain and waiting for Ghostlight to bring Devil Survivor 2 to Europe, Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker was something of a question mark considering that it was an expansion title and that Ghostlight isn’t a large publisher to begin with. Etrian Odyssey titles have been regularly coming to Europe after the original Etrian Odyssey II failed to come to European gamers, and interestingly NIS America also distributed Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl in Europe.

If you would like a rather personal (not crafted by myself, to specify) preview of the game with a variety of helpful opinions, consider reading this technologytell.com article.

Credit for the featured image goes to the megamitensei wiki.