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.
SEGA have released a new commercial for the upcoming release of Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X in Japan. The game will be released on March 24th for the PlayStation Vita, with a release on PlayStation 4 scheduled for this fall. We’ve been providing regular updates for the game ever since it was announced, so if you’re looking for more information, be sure take a look at our previous Project DIVA X articles!
We recently posted an article about the two new DLC characters for Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax: Ignition, namely Ako and Lucian from the light novel series “Netoge no Yome wa Onna no Ko Janai to Omotta?”. Dengeki Online has now posted a gameplay video featuring the two characters. Only Ako is playable, while Lucian is the support character. You can watch the video below!
Happy Hatsune Miku Day! March 9th is recognized as “Miku Day” in Japan, since “mi” and “ku” can refer to “3” and “9.” Miku Day is not the same thing as Miku’s birthday in Japan (August 31) but is nevertheless a widely celebrated occasion.
While Miku Day has passed in Japan, many of us in other parts of the world have not had a chance to celebrate. Give thanks to Hatsune Miku today!
SEGA of America and Europe have announced that Valkyria Chronicles Remastered for the PlayStation 4 will be released in both the Americas and Europe on July 17th. At the same time, they’ve also revealed a new trailer, giving people an overview of the games “BLiTZ” Tactical Battle System. You can view the trailer below! Back when the game’s release for the West was first announced, we also mentioned that Europe would be getting its own special edition of the game. SEGA Europe have now revealed the contents of this edition, and it features the following items:
SEGA have posted their 8th information update article for Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X, revealing screenshots of the game’s “Ultimate Medley” (which we talked about earlier), which is a medley containing some of the most challenging songs that were featured in earlier Project DIVA games. Shortly before that, SEGA also released a new trailer showing footage from the game’s Cute Medley, called “Idol Sounds” (arranged by Vocaloid producer Mitchie-M).
Sega has announced an interesting piece of free DLC for Yakuza Kiwami on the official Yakuza website. It was made available starting yesterday in Japan. The DLC contains various items, some of which allow you to customize Kazuma Kiryu in the image of…Goro Majima. The tables have finally turned.
Besides items for visual purposes (including Majima’s trademark snake skin jacket, unbuttoned by default of course,) some of the items include parts for weapon crafting, for the purposes of perhaps better paying tribute to Kiryu’s best friend ever.
Between projects like this and the Valentine’s Day promotion from February, It’s nice that Sega is continuing to support Kiwami in unique ways after the game has been released. Yakuza Zero has been announced for localization in the Americas (no known localization news for Europe since the initial announcement) but there’s no word on Yakuza Kiwami at the moment. Yakuza games are substantial translation projects. In any case, we’ll keep you posted.
In an earlier article we talked about the new opening for Phantasy Star Online 2, with a link to a low quality version of the opening, taken from a niconico live stream. SEGA have now uploaded a much higher quality 720P version of the opening to their Youtube Channel. You can watch it below!
SEGA is currently holding a closed beta test for Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode 4 on the PlayStation 4 in Japan. Unfortunately there’s still no news regarding the release of the PC version in the West, which was announced almost four years ago but has yet to materialize. You can read SEGA’s latest official statement on the matter here.
Famitsu released a video of Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X featuring a new addition to the series – Live Quest mode. My colleague Draikin has written articles on Live Quest mode previously, and now the video can act as a sort of visual synthesis for the detailed coverage he’s provided on this mode.
To summarize: there are five Areas in Live Quest mode, each of which are themed after the five Elements in Project DIVA X. The player is free to cycle between the five Areas at their leisure. Within each Area are Elemental-themed songs that must be cleared, and after clearing a song the player acquires Voltage that “restores” the Area of a particular Element. But any given Area cannot be fully restored without finally completing a Medley featuring songs of a particular Element.
Check out the video below! It lasts for a little more than five minutes and serves as a comprehensive overview of the Live Quest mode experience on the Playstation Vita. If you missed out on Rush Notes before, you can also see it in this video.
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X is due for release in Japan on March 24. We still do not have any word on localization outside of Japan.
A special song was revealed in Famitsu this week for Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X, and it’s styled as a monumental challenge. Introducing the “Ultimate Medley ~Delusional Suite of Transcendental Finesse~”! If that mountain of syllables for the song title didn’t intimidate you, then perhaps the song list that comprises the medley might be more convincing:
There will be “Ultimate” modules for each of the main six Vocaloids to accompany this song. Be sure to check out this Hachima Kikou post for song previews!
Credit for the information found in this article goes to the Project DIVA Wiki group.