Augemitbutter
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i'm in for the sideview. so many interesting announcements this year. pretty crazy.
tri-Ace/Spike Chunsoft announces Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky for PSV/PS4
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Masaki Norimoto being the director for this is really weird. He's definitely the most experienced game designer who has been with tri-Ace since the start, but he has never directed a game. The closest he has come is with Star Ocean 2 as the planning director. Usually he's just credited for game design (ToP, SO1-3, VP1-2) or scenario (VP, RoF). After more than 20 years in the business, I wonder why he's finally taking up the director's role now. Pretty exciting!
Being on Vita just made it 1000000% more interesting to me, though lately I've begun to prefer playing on the big tv. Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for more information.
Exist Archive sounds like a typical Engrish title, like ideawise they were going for Archive of Existence/Being or something like that and decided the less wordy the better? XD
Exist Archive sounds like a typical Engrish title, like ideawise they were going for Archive of Existence/Being or something like that and decided the less wordy the better? XD
He's the last tri-Ace member who hasn't directed a failure.
Most things on their own aren't "good" or "bad". They're just factoids. Norimoto is a founder of tri-Ace and he has never directed a game until now. I think it's a bit odd, but pretty interesting too.
not that i know much of tri-ace, but could it be that he is one of the most tenured people left?
just wondering if it's just a matter of no one else really being around.
The actual reveal isn't actually for another 32 hours or so. Not sure if there will be a magazine leak before then, but if there is, it probably won't be too much sooner.
i wonder if it's coming out for vita
John Bender
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All these JRPGs on PS4.... ^_^ ... keep them coming!
The Praiseworthy
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This TGS is going to be so exciting, haven't been this excited for a very long years.
I don't think that would be the main reason. They still have other directors at tri-Ace, and Gotanda isn't directing SO5 himself either. But it could definitely be a factor if they were looking to build an important new IP and he was the one who was most passionate about the idea though.
Thorwaldsson
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Well this is the best news this week.
Newtype-001
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Characters Look kind of like Black and White from Kekkai Sensen.
The Emperor
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No they didn't.
FFXIII was March 9th, RoF was March 16th
But yeah it's still way to close anyway lol!
Star Ocean 4 was released on PS3 a month before in Feb too. They really overcrowded that period. Maybe they thought FFXIII would make people wanna buy other JRPG's too.
Primethius
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Excited to see some actual screenshots soon but I'm pretty much in.
Acquiescence
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The PS4 is quickly becoming JRPG heaven, I love it.
Windows RT
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Another Japanese game skips Xbox One. Can't blame the developer. I feel sad and feel it is back to the original Xbox/PS2 era...
About the game, it looks interesting and it is from 3A. I might pick it up for my PS4.
About the game, it looks interesting and it is from 3A. I might pick it up for my PS4.
Psycho_Mantis
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Interesting character design. I'm seriously loving my PS4 with all these JRPG's coming for it.
Tricky I Shadow
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Yep, I'm definitely intrigued.
Ah perfect, thanks.
Jimmyfenix
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Today was a good day.
Mauricio_Magus
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I'm in, can't wait to get more info.
Some info from magazine
-Setting is Tokyo and planet called Plotraksa(?)
-12 young protagonists gets Shinigami (Evil God)'s soul in them so they become immortal, and they end up getting involved with battle of Gods
-Dungeon traveling is 3D Sideview with SD characters
-you can perform actions like jump and dash to progress dungeons
-enemies are symbol encounter so you can attack them first
-battle involves 4 characters in system called active chain battle
-Each members are bound to the 4 face buttons (○/×/□/△
and when you press each button corresponding characters attack
-you have to think of the order of the attack to keep the combo going, and higher combos will result battle chance of rare items
-In the battle there is 'front row' and 'back row' and you can switch them during battle. Front row has higher damage output but is easier for enemies to attack. Back row has lower damage but it's harder for enemies to attack you.
-main characters have power of shinigami, so you can unlock those powers to do special attacks
-story is not your typical "good guys beat evil guys"
-you have important choices to choose which member you send back to Earth. The order in which you send characters back to Earth will have influence on the road to the ending.
-time it takes to beat the game is around 40~50 hours
-There is extra dungeon after you beat the game
-there are lots of post-game contents
-online elements include time attack on boss battles
-Setting is Tokyo and planet called Plotraksa(?)
-12 young protagonists gets Shinigami (Evil God)'s soul in them so they become immortal, and they end up getting involved with battle of Gods
-Dungeon traveling is 3D Sideview with SD characters
-you can perform actions like jump and dash to progress dungeons
-enemies are symbol encounter so you can attack them first
-battle involves 4 characters in system called active chain battle
-Each members are bound to the 4 face buttons (○/×/□/△
and when you press each button corresponding characters attack-you have to think of the order of the attack to keep the combo going, and higher combos will result battle chance of rare items
-In the battle there is 'front row' and 'back row' and you can switch them during battle. Front row has higher damage output but is easier for enemies to attack. Back row has lower damage but it's harder for enemies to attack you.
-main characters have power of shinigami, so you can unlock those powers to do special attacks
-story is not your typical "good guys beat evil guys"
-you have important choices to choose which member you send back to Earth. The order in which you send characters back to Earth will have influence on the road to the ending.
-time it takes to beat the game is around 40~50 hours
-There is extra dungeon after you beat the game
-there are lots of post-game contents
-online elements include time attack on boss battles
-you can perform actions like jump and dash to progress dungeons
-enemies are symbol encounter so you can attack them first
-battle involves 4 characters in system called active chain battle
-Each members are bound to the 4 face buttons (○/×/□/△
-main characters have power of shinigami, so you can unlock those powers to do special attacks
So that's Valkyrie Profile, then. Good good.
This is also Valkyrie Profile.
This could be interesting! I look forward to actually being able to see a screenshot or similar.
Sound like it *is* a present day take on VP1.
RyougaSaotome
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You could replace a few key terms here and there with VP ones and have it read like a description of VP, more or less.
I'm down with that.
I'm down with that.
. So a VP spiritual successor? I'm game.Some info from magazine
-Setting is Tokyo and planet called Plotraksa(?)
-12 young protagonists gets Shinigami (Evil God)'s soul in them so they become immortal, and they end up getting involved with battle of Gods
-Dungeon traveling is 3D Sideview with SD characters
-you can perform actions like jump and dash to progress dungeons
-enemies are symbol encounter so you can attack them first
-battle involves 4 characters in system called active chain battle
-Each members are bound to the 4 face buttons (○/×/□/△
-you have to think of the order of the attack to keep the combo going, and higher combos will result battle chance of rare items
-In the battle there is 'front row' and 'back row' and you can switch them during battle. Front row has higher damage output but is easier for enemies to attack. Back row has lower damage but it's harder for enemies to attack you.
-main characters have power of shinigami, so you can unlock those powers to do special attacks
-story is not your typical "good guys beat evil guys"
-you have important choices to choose which member you send back to Earth. The order in which you send characters back to Earth will have influence on the road to the ending.
-time it takes to beat the game is around 40~50 hours
-there are lots of post-game contents
-online elements include time attack on boss battles
They are trying too hard to say "Hey, guys, it's the VP3 you demand except the character design.
RyougaSaotome
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Send people to Ragna-... Earth.
It's not VP3 though. VP2 already introduced a lot of elements which advanced the series beyond just sideview action, and it emphasized a much of standard story progression which wasn't as influenced by meta-game mechanics. This sounds like a total return to VP1's game design concept - you make meta-game choices regarding which characters to "return" to Earth, and that has an influence on the possible endings, your characters are more ambiguous in morality, also unlike the more traditional take in VP2. It doesn't sound like the battles are SRPG style with 3D movement like in VP2 either, instead it's VP1 with a front and back row.
VP1-II!!!!
VP1-II!!!!
gundamkyoukai
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Another JRPG to add to the buy list .
Palette Swap
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Holy crap, that really sounds like a Valkyrie Profile (1) spiritual successor.
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