Hoping everyone is having a lovely end to the year! I am thinking of launching the 2015 edition of this thread come January 1st, what do you all think?
Here's some sweet Vita updates from the last week or so
Enjoy guys, and have a beautiful day ahead
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COMING SOON!
Atelier Ayesha: Alchemist of Dusk +
Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Evolution has been announced for the Vita. This is an upgraded port of the PSP version with fully-voiced characters, higher-res graphics, improved facial animation, redone movies, fully rearranged music and new illustrations among other changes. The RPG is set for release in Japan sometime in 2015. Here's hoping we get an English version! Check out the
trailer.
*Spike Chunsoft is working on
Shiren the Wanderer 5 Plus , an updated version of the roguelike RPG originally released on the Nintendo DS, for the Vita. Among the additions are new dungeons for the game. More to come.
*One of the more shocking localization announcements came through Bandai Namco:
J-Stars Victory VS + will be heading to western shores for the Vita. Here's the
trailer. The game is an arena fighting game that pits characters from Shonen Jump franchises like Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z and Bleach. The western version of the game will get a new Arcade Mode where you can play one on one matches. The game is being developed by Spike Chunsoft. Here are more details from Bandai Namco:
Outline
Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
Developer: Spike Chunsoft
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PS3, PS Vita
Genre: Fighting Game
Players: 1 to 2 offline, 1 to 4 online
Rating: Teen / 12+ TBC
Release: Summer 2015
Texts: EFIGS
Voiceover: Japanese
About
For the 45th anniversary of the “Shonen Jump” magazine and the 20tth anniversary of the “V Jump” magazine, a never before seen fighting game has been developed. The game invites ans and gamers to play with their favorite manga/anime’s characters and progress in the Jump World through different environments recalling One Piece, Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, and others’ memorable moments. For every manga and anime fan, J-Stars Victory VS+ is without a doubt a must-have for long hours of nervous and amazing battles in a unique atmosphere.
Features
1st time in North America and Europe – A unique game combining licenses issued in the famous Jump magazines is releasing for the first time outside of Japan.
Incredible Roster – A huge choice of characters coming from the most famous original manga/anime issued in the Jump Magazine.
Jump World – The world where the adventure takes place offers 4 different scenarios in which players can travel in memorable places like “Planet Namek”, “Alabasta”, “Green Leaf”…
One game with all famous original manga/anime licenses.
Communities were waiting for this game since its Japanese release.
Unique Story mode mixing all licenses characters and environment.
Epic battles – With the 2 Vs 2 team battle system, fights are going to be tough, strategic and exciting. Each character possesses his own specifications and attacks coming from the original manga/anime. The game also adds special moves called “Combination Attack” and “Voltage System” making battles even more aggressive!
Arcade Mode – An Arcade Mode has been added to the game in the same vein as every fighting game.
Stunning graphics – With a PlayStation 4 version releasing for the first time, the game offers the best possible experiences and plunges players into an Anime.
*Here is the first
English trailer for NIS's upcoming controversial RPG
Criminal Girls: Invite Only . The game will launch of Feb 3 in NA and Feb 6 in EU.
*Bandai Namco have released a new
trailer for
God Eater 2: Rage Burst . The game will hit Japanese Vitas on February 19.
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Here is a new preview of
Deception / Kagero IV: Dark Princess - an enhanced version of Deception IV: Blood Ties, the amazing trap simulator from Koei Tecmo games.
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Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy (reminder, the first game has been announced recently in English), the dungeon crawler from Experience, received a lot of new details on
Gematsu. The game is set to hit Japanese Vitas on April 30, 2015.
*Here are some new screens for
Senran Kagura: Estival Versus .
*Here is the debut
trailer for
Samurai Warriors 4-II . The game is out in Japan on Feb 22.
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Curse N Chaos , the upcoming arcade action game from Tribute Games (also working on Mercenary Kings for the Vita), received a new
preview from Siliconera. Check out the
announce trailer if you missed it.
*Compile Heart's Date A Live Japanese visual novel series will be hitting the Vita starting with
Date A Live: Rinne Utopia . The game is developed by Sting (developers of many strategy RPGs including the upcoming Hyperdevotion Noire for the Vita). Here's the
trailer.
*This came as a beautiful surprise for an adventure game fan like myself who doesn't use the EU/AU PSNs -
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse Episode 2 is finally out for the NA PSN store. Looks glorious <3
*As per the usual with Vita releases,
Fieldrunners 2 is now out on the Vita out of nowhere. It is the sequel to the enjoyable tower defense game.
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Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart (the strategy RPG spinoff from the Hyperdimension Neptunia series) received a new update that details its
battle system. Check it out.
*Speaking of Hyperdimension Neptunia spinoffs,
Hyperdimension Neptunia U , the action RPG HDN spinoff from Compile Heart and Tamsoft will be coming out in English (retail as well!). (Thanks to Shinriji for the info!) Check out the
trailer.
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One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 will be coming out in English! Here are some new screens for the game. (New
trailer here!)
*The new game from the Way of the Samurai devs Acquire,
Ukiyo no Roushi , will be coming out to Japanese Vitas on Feb 11. Here is a new
trailer.
*Betty Boop makes her Vita debut with
Betty Boop Bop (thanks Takao!), a music/rhythm game
Here's a
trailer.
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Ethereal is an upcoming SHMUP from Convex hitting the Vita. (Thanks Takao!)
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Sword Art Online: Lost Song has a new big
preview that details the story, characters and gameplay. Here is the new Japanese
TV Spot.
*Here is a new Japanese
TV Spot for
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth .
*For those who missed this release -
Switch Galaxy Ultra came out recently and it will help scratch your "futuristic racer" itch if you had one!! Game looks stunning to say the least. Cross buy as well (you get it free on PS4 when you get the Vita version and vice versa).
Cheers for that response, I thought my Bigfest Q might have been lost in the shuffle
Bigfest is another one that looks pretty great, AND would appeal to my SO in the same way the theme park games do, angling to try and make the vita popular with the whole house this time around, when I had the original like a year and a half ago, they just buried their heads in their 3DS' haha. I will definitely be looking at the OP man, that list is part of what gave me the confidence to grab a new one. Particularly interested in VA-11 HALL-A ha, that looks great.
You are most welcome doniewhalberg
I try to check every unanswered post in this thread to leave no one behind ;D It should be coming along in the first quarter of 2015 I'd wager. A year and a half ago, the Vita really looked like it had less potential than now with the support dying down at the time, but thankfully the indie genre has showered the Vita with much needed love. VA-11 HALL-A indeed looks pretty cool, the style alone is rather unique.
Awesome update as always.
Thank you kindly Valkyria! Sorry to see that you're banned
Hope you are back real soon!!
For a moment I was excited they might be making a complete cartridge version, but it turns out it's just one of those deals where they pack in DLC codes with a re-release of the same cart.
Unfortunate :/ I prefer the full stuff on the cart myself too.
Thanks Shinriji
I added it to the list of upcoming English games ^^
Betty Boop??? Who would have thought?
Thanks as always Takao
You keep adding to the list and helping it grow ^^
I think S-E had already finished calculating what kind of games will fit for the Vita. Seeing them actually start from Lords of Apocalypse to Million Arthur to Chaos Rings PSM to Chaos Rings port + F2P Mana to this, makes me have a little hope that they'll continue bringing games to the system.
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J-Stars Victory VS+ and One Piece Pirate Warriors 3' vita versions are leaving Japan. Actually psyched about J-stars (played it at a local vita group meeting for Toukiden LOL), I'm a casual Fighting games fan though so impressions of it might change for someone who's deeply into fighting games. Victory VS+ is an expansion.
Sources:
Bandai Namco Announcement
J-Stars Neogaf Thread
One Piece Neogaf thread
EDIT: Thanks for the tip baekshi!
Likewise cardinalmind. Their barebones support today is better than their pitiful support of the system a year back. I hope they bring over the Chaos Rings trilogy for the Vita in English.
By the way, many thanks for the news on Bandai Namco's games. Added to the list