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December 15th, 2009 at 09:05pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
At some point, people are going to get spoiled by Atlus’s (coincidentally named) “Atlus Spoils” program, in which the company includes some kind of bonus item with pretty much every game it releases. When the publisher doesn’t release a game with an artbook or soundtrack or figurine or something, somebody out there is going to be irritated to buy just a game.
That won’t happen with Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, though. Atlus announced today that every launch copy of the first-person RPG will include a soundtrack disc. You’ll have to wait a bit longer to get that launch copy: the publisher also announced that the release date has moved from the March 10 date found on Nintendo’s Q1 schedule to March 23.
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey launch copies to include bonus soundtrack originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 14th, 2009 at 05:45pm
Under Xbox 360
The trailer we’ve placed below the break for XBLA’s Zeno Clash: Ultimate Editiion is a failure. It’s not that you won’t get a good idea of the first-person-brawler-slash-shooter’s gameplay — you will. It’s that the clip doesn’t come within a million miles of communicating just how skin-crawlingly creepy the experience of playing Zeno Clash is.
Just for the record, it’s kind of like taking a shower in Neil Gaiman’s bathwater after its been filtered through David Lynch’s birth certificate. Cr-eepy.
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Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition trailer isn’t creepy enough originally appeared on Joystiq Xbox on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 9th, 2009 at 05:30pm
Under DS
The latest Famitsu reveals a third entry in Atlus’s hardcore dungeon RPG series Etrian Odyssey (Sekaiju no Meikyuu). Etrian Odyssey 3 ditches the series’ forest setting for the seaside town of Armolode, in which an earthquake has recently uncovered — surprise! — a big labyrinth.
According to the 1UP translation, the new game will include new character classes “including prince/princess, phalanx, monk, pirate, and shinobi,” and will allow players to explore the ocean by ship when they aren’t being killed in the labyrinth. The game will be released March 4 in Japan, and has a pretty good shot at a North American release: not only has Atlus USA translated the previous games in the series, it continues to show willingness to publish first-person DS RPGs like The Dark Spire and the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey.
Back into the labyrinth: Atlus announces Etrian Odyssey 3 originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 8th, 2009 at 02:00pm
Under DS
Using its cost-effective ESRB method of announcing new games, Atlus revealed a new DSi program called PhotoWorld. As you may expect from a game with that title, it involves taking pictures with the DSi camera. Players shoot a self-portrait and then “customize the pictures with a variety of stamps, photo effects, and text boxes.”
As Siliconera notes, Atlus already sort of has a program like this on DSiWare. Nintendo’s Sparkle Snapshots is based on Atlus’s popular Print Club (Purikura) booths. We look forward to finding out how this one differs — there’s absolutely no way it could be any more sparkly, that’s for sure. Of course, we aren’t even sure this is DSiWare — while this sounds like the kind of thing you would sell as a download, all we know is that it’s for the DSi.
Atlus announces PhotoWorld for DSi — through the ESRB originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 07:15pm
Under DS
Atlus revealed a password system for its upcoming Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, through which players will be able to trade copies of their customized, leveled-up, fused demons. In addition to being able to generate your own passwords to share your awesome demons with others, Atlus will release passwords for some rare creatures.
In addition, the updated box art image shows an M rating. Clearly, demon hunting is serious business, to be left to the big kids! As Siliconera notes, there are only ten DS games with M ratings, out of 1,366 total releases.
Shin Megami Tensei password system lets your demons make Strange Journeys originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 25th, 2009 at 04:46pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
A beautiful, atmospheric trailer (after the break) introduces us to the story of the new Shiren the Wanderer … such as it is. Basically, Shiren’s master, knowing that Shiren likes dungeons, gives him the key to the Karakuri Mansion, which is a big dungeon. There’s more, like a cursed princess and some time travel stuff, but the essence is that Shiren goes into another dungeon. It’s rather lucky for us that Shiren’s wanderings are so often directed toward dungeons and dungeon-type environments.
Atlus also highlights Shiren’s pal Koppa in the trailer, allowing us to hope that the company will choose to bundle the game with Sega’s Koppa Wiimote stand.
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The key to Shiren the Wanderer’s story originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 19th, 2009 at 07:45pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Atlus announced a North American localization of Sega and Chunsoft’s Shiren the Wanderer at E3, and hasn’t said much about it until now. The company just dated the game for February 9 and released a bunch of screens & art for the punishing roguelike, along with a bit of sad news regarding the online connectivity.
“Despite our best efforts, the North American version of Shiren will not include the Rescue, Versus, or Item Transfer online features,” Atlus’s Aram Jabbari said in the announcement. “However, the downloadable dungeon content from the Japanese version will be included on the disc.” Jabbari said that Atlus felt compelled to alert fans because “the absence of these features may influence some fans’ decision to purchase the game.”
The most identifiable feature of any Shiren game — repeated, unavoidable death — should remain intact.
Shiren the Wanderer turns up in February minus online features originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 5th, 2009 at 09:00pm
Under DS
Well, okay. Maybe being localized by Atlus isn’t that strange for a Shin Megami Tensei game. In fact, we’d say it’s pretty normal these days!
Atlus announced today that it will bring over the first-person DS RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey in Spring 2010 (of course). The game features the demon negotiation that SMT fans associate with the series, in a new storyline involving a mysterious black hole opening up at the South Pole.
It looks like the kind of thing that would appeal not only to fans of games like SMT 3: Nocturne, but also to people who enjoy the DS’s dungeon RPGs like Etrian Odyssey, to which it bears a strong resemblance. Journey into our gallery for screens and art.
Latest Shin Megami Tensei game taking a Strange Journey to North America originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 19th, 2009 at 07:45pm
Under DS
Atlus released a trailer for the latest game in Sting’s Dept. Heaven series, Yggdra Unison. The most notable, and weird, aspect of the trailer? The seemingly random number-writing. Rather than relating to the amount of damage your characters dish out, it’s an odd holdout from the game’s first life on mobile phones.
Basically, each of your units is marked with a number, and on the phone version, you’d type that number to trigger that unit’s part of the Unison Attack. For the DS version, the keypad is gone, but the numbers are still there. Of course, it has a long way to go before it can out-odd Knights in the Nightmare, a game in which you, as a ghost, take control of your units by possessing them.
Yggdra Unison trailer: welcome back to Dept. Heaven originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 14th, 2009 at 05:30pm
Under PSP
How tough are the badasses of Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble? So tough that they can look intimidating in banana costumes, as demonstrated in these new screenshots. Not convinced? These dudes are so hardcore that the game’s release date was moved up to face off with Modern Warfare 2. You have to be pretty ice cold to stand against that as a niche PSP game. We respect that.
Atlus sent an email detailing the game’s inventory system, which is pretty simple: every item of clothing includes a certain number of pockets, up to a total of eight per complete outfit. Which means you have to be super tough to take on rival gangs in just your undies, because not only would that be really embarrassing to anyone but the most confident of fighters, you can’t carry healing items.
Kenka Bancho: Banana Suit Rumble originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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