Tag: JRPG

Fahrenheit 213 Announces Tsurugihime! Aka Sword Princess

Tsurugihime has the feel of what a traditional Japanese samurai film that fans are sure to enjoy!

TsurugihimeA lot of new video games and awards are being revealed at INDIE Live Expo Winter 2022 online, and one game that caught our attention is Tsurugihime. The two words put together here mean Sword (Tsurugi) and Princess (Hime) and the opening moments in the trailer show just how powerful this woman is with blades floating by her side, ready to use at any time!

The colourful teaser reveals a RPG style game, where you play a female heroine roaming a lavish countryside in preparation for an episode battle that’ll come in 100 days, and you decide her fate. That is, will she live or die by the blade? It has the feel of what a traditional Japanese samurai film must fulfill, and delve into other situations. 

In regards to why this game is singled out is that the character designs are by Kouhaku Kuroboshi (Summon Night, Kino’s Journey, and SAO Alternative) and the music direction is led by composer Takeharu Ishimoto (Youtube Channel; The World Ends with You, Kingdom Hearts).

From the press release:

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fault – StP – LIGHTKRAVTE Switches Gears to Delight A New Generation!

fault – StP – LIGHTKRAVTE is a cinematic sci-fi-meets-fantasy visual novel series coming to the Switch!

fault - StP - LIGHTKRAVTE,fault – StP – LIGHTKRAVTE, the latest entry in the cinematic sci-fi-meets-fantasy visual novel series with more than 500,000 copies sold from developer ALICE IN DISSONANCE and publisher Phoenixx, brings its thrilling prologue to Nintendo Switch on Thursday, Sept. 15.

The latest promotional video introduces gamers to the huge cast and sets up who you’ll be playing. As Khaji, a “basic status boy,” you’ll be navigating his future. Thankfully, no knowledge of the franchise is required, and all the info you need to know is outlined:

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Wild ARMS at 20 Years and One Wild Hope (A Personal Retrospective)

Although the Wild ARMS video game franchise was never hugely popular in North America as it were in Japan, the dedicated fan-base will be celebrating on Dec 20, 2016.

Wild Arms for PlayStationAlthough the Wild ARMS video game franchise was never hugely popular in North America as it was in Japan, the dedicated fan-base will celebrate on Dec 20, 2016. The game’s release in Japan was twenty years ago. Recent news reports reveal Sony (the intellectual property owner) and former staff from Media.Vision (original developer) are involved in bringing the property back to life. It will be based on the original game and Sony’s mobile publishing division ForwardWorks is helming this latest entry.

Past cell-phone games used the name to dress up what was basically Tetris and a simple shooter. The hope here is that the new product will be a full-on J-RPG, and most reports hint at this direction.If this speculation is correct, Japan will be the initial audience. In the time being, I will hook up my PlayStation2 to the big screen to enjoy all the games all over again. My love for this game, inspired by the American Old West and Steampunk, will reignite. I will attempt to finish all these original games by the time Wild Arms North American Platinum Anniversary takes place in March 2017.

Creator Akifumi Kaneko left Media.Vision back in 2009 and some fans feared no more Wild Arms will be coming. Fortunately, Pixel Dynamo’s report on Kaneko’s Twitter post in early 2016 allayed those fears. He met with executives to plan the 20th anniversary. Since then, not many continuing reports emerged in the months afterwards about what is happening. In the coming days, I like to see the complete library of the past games be offered on via Sony’s PlayStation Network.

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