Random JRPG News Thread

[Crooked Bee]

Apparently XSEED is bringing Xanadu Next, Shinovi Versus and Little King's Story to PC next year.

https://twitter.com/RPGSite/status/654735467540144128

Xanadu Next looks interesting:

 

[Reinhardt]

Shinovi Versus

Hikage.

 

[CryptRat]

From the few I've played, Little King's Story seemed to be a very good game. And it will necessarily be better without an annoying Wii controller.

 

[grudgebringer]

Shinovi Versus...

Whoa, who would have thought?

 

[Tehdagah]

From the few I've played, Little King's Story seemed to be a very good game. And it will necessarily be better without an annoying Wii controller.

Looks like it's the VITA game.

 

[CryptRat]

From the few I've played, Little King's Story seemed to be a very good game. And it will necessarily be better without an annoying Wii controller.

Looks like it's the VITA game.

meh...I assume it's the same game if you can get past the horrible art, personally I'll go back to the annoying Wii controller :D.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Mugen Souls coming to Steam on October 22

http://blog.ghostlight.uk.com/post/mugen-souls-to-be-released-on-the-22nd-october

Mugen Souls features a free-roaming battle map, turn-based combat, and massive amounts of customization and growth to maximize the fun players can have with the game.

• Moe Kill: Execute the Moe Kill technique to enslave enemies and turn them into items by exploiting their weaknesses!

 

[Reinhardt]

Tales of Zestiria, Mugen Souls and Neptunia - all in october.

 

[GrainWetski]

Looks like it's the VITA game.

Are you sure? XSEED did the Wii version in NA and Konami did the Vita version. Would be pretty weird if it wasn't the Wii version.

Oh, and this claims it's the Wii version

The Steam version of Little King's Story will be a port of the Wii version of the game, which XSEED released in 2009.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...-shinovi-versus-head-to-pc-in-the-west/.94264

 

[amdus]

Mugen Souls coming to Steam on October 22

http://blog.ghostlight.uk.com/post/mugen-souls-to-be-released-on-the-22nd-october

GhostTurd LTD can go fuck themselves with their port of Censored Souls. Was considering to buy it so more animu & mango get ported to PC, but i'll be damned if i knowingly buy a censored game.

 

[Crooked Bee]

What has been censored? Is it nudity / hentai or what?

 

[amdus]

What has been censored? Is it nudity / hentai or what?

As it's a port from PS3 (no hentai on consoles), fast search on the net reaveals that the cut content is: minigame, around 120 CGs and edited post game dialouge that is basicaly a middle finger to those that are against censorship (or maybe that last one part was in Mugen Souls Z). Besides game have an opinion of a bigger turd than Agarest series so fuck it anyway.

 

[Archibald]

Why the fuck would they remove so much from the game?

 

[Siveon]

Probably from the fear of western backlash, even if nobody but weebs would play the game anyway. Usually when CGs or minigames get cut-out for release it's usually because there's a lot of nudity/skin shown for underaged (usually 16 and younger) characters. If that was the case, they probably weren't far off the mark, since you got articles like this that's basically congratulating them.

Of course half the comments argue otherwise, so I suppose NISA veers on the "think of the children who buy anime games!" side. It should also be stated that NISA sucks at localizing p much anything nowadays. While I respect Ghostlight for localizing games like Way of the Samurai and Elminage to the PC, they should've left this game alone if they couldn't fix any of the problems from the original western release. It's not like many people were clamoring for it in the first place. All they have now is a bunch of reactionaries who'll probably just put Ghostlight in the same, heh, light as NISA.

I hope not, their ports otherwise are pretty nice. Way better than say, Toei.

 

[Jack Dandy]

Apparently XSEED is bringing Xanadu Next, Shinovi Versus and Little King's Story to PC next year.

https://twitter.com/RPGSite/status/654735467540144128

Xanadu Next looks interesting:

It's fantastic. Take a Diablo game, replace it's entire combat design with the Souls series' (Focus on timing your attacks, positioning, and avoiding enemy attacks), and put the game in a Metroidvania-style world instead of random generated hallways.
And then add in some light sokoban-style puzzles.

 

[4249]

It's fantastic. Take a Diablo game, replace it's entire combat design with the Souls series' (Focus on timing your attacks, positioning, and avoiding enemy attacks), and put the game in a Metroidvania-style world instead of random generated hallways.
And then add in some light sokoban-style puzzles.

Damn. That... that sounds like a pretty amazing combination. So it has Diablo-like character development and item systems, or?

 

[Jack Dandy]

Ah- the Diablo part is more of a control scheme \ general feel.
You don't go around chugging health potions or grinding for random loot. But there are some special equipments to be found.

The character development system is also pretty different. You'll see.

 

[4249]

Oh. Still sounds pretty interesting. Took a look at the Hardcore Gaming 101 article about the game and well... All I can say is

 

[Machocruz]

Falcom is so great at that type of game. Now localize Zwei!! dammit!

 

[Crooked Bee]

Lightning Returns PC release scheduled for December: http://www.dsogaming.com/news/lightning-returns-final-fantasy-xiii-is-coming-to-the-pc-in-december/

What's taking them so long

 

[Martius]

Them is pretty generous term. After what I have heard about two last ports I wouldn't be surprised if that just work of one person.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Don't underestimate their collective incompetence.

 

[GrainWetski]

Lightning Returns PC release scheduled for December: http://www.dsogaming.com/news/lightning-returns-final-fantasy-xiii-is-coming-to-the-pc-in-december/

What's taking them so long

Steam refunds is my guess. Releasing another XIII quality port would be a disaster with refunds around.

 

[LESS T_T]

“Valkyria of the Blue Revolution” Trademark Registered By Sega

It’s been revealed that Sega recently registered a trademark for “Aoki Kakumei no Valkyria,” which roughly translates to “Valkyria of the Blue Revolution.” [Thanks, Hachima.]

While there’s no telling whether this trademark has anything to do with Valkyria Chronicles, it has been filed for the production of console games, amusement park machines such as pachislot, slot machines, and medal games.

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/10/19/valkyria-of-the-blue-revolution-trademark-registered-by-sega/

 

[LESS T_T]

While I respect Ghostlight for localizing games like Way of the Samurai and Elminage to the PC, they should've left this game alone if they couldn't fix any of the problems from the original western release. It's not like many people were clamoring for it in the first place. All they have now is a bunch of reactionaries who'll probably just put Ghostlight in the same, heh, light as NISA.

Apparently Valve rejected it.

Regarding the issue of censorship in Mugen Souls, we did ask Steam if we could ship the uncensored Japanese version of the game via their service and they told us unfortunately not. For that reason, we decided to convert and release the US/European PlayStation 3 port of the game which has the bathhouse mini-games removed.”

http://steamcommunity.com/app/389870/discussions/0/483367798517127137/#c483367798517443483