All the single Warriors, put your hands up! It’s a goddamn Koei
fest in the news roundup this week, there may be a sad lack of musou, but there’s
plenty of friendship-becomings!
Free Chems!
High-class neon and slimy swamp dwellers are on their way to
your settlements the Commonwealth over, come Tuesday, April 12th,
when Fallout 4’s second piece of DLC, Wasteland Workshop releases. Here’s the
trailer; I’m particularly pumped for the vegetable patches, at last order can
be brought to the most base organic constructs.
Samanosuke’s Souls
Koei Tecmo brings a much needed helping of Katana to the
turf of From Software with Nioh. It’s a fantasy samurai game at least somewhat
inspired by From’s Souls franchise, that much is clear from the deliberate
combat of the trailer below. Developed by Team Ninja I’m honestly more taken by
its style, which evokes all kind of emotions left unstirred since the days of
Onimusha.
Nioh’s getting a timed alpha demo from April 26th
to May 5th, on the PlayStation 4.
The Many Shades Of Xenos Filth
The sleek and delicate hulls of the Eldar join the battle
this coming week in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada’s on-going beta, accessed by
pre-ordering the game. The Eldar ships are highly manoeuvrable, a trait key to
success in Armada, but they lack the buffer of shields. Beautiful, but
fleeting.
This week also saw the announcement of yet another
Battlefleet Gothic game, Leviathan, this one is sailing onto mobile devices
rather than PC, at least initially, coming to iOS this Spring. Leviathan sets
the Imperium (Imperial Navy and Blood Angels Chapter) against the Tyranids in a
retelling of the Shield of Baal campaign – a collection of novellas, short
stories, Warhammer 40k campaign supplements.
Unlike Armada, Leviathan is turn-based; having played a
great deal of Armada, an exceedingly micro-management intensive game, this fact
maybe to Leviathan’s advantage. That said I like the combat of Armada a lot, I
plan to review it once it releases in full.
The City Falls
So far we’ve only covered releases, but things turn a little
darker over Nosgoth, the free-to-play Legacy of Kain spin-off, which will be
closing on May 31st. It’s always sad to hear of games going away, a
nightmare from an archivist’s point of view, but with Early Access multiplayer
a dime a dozen on Steam it isn’t totally surprising.
Nosgoth had a community though that much I know, despite
never actually launching – it’ll die in beta form – there were always a few
hundred to a few thousand players in-game whenever I checked in over the last
year. Looks like it wasn’t earning enough to tread water:
“This was not an easy decision to come to. It has been a pleasure to build this game with your help, but ultimately its audience hasn’t grown enough to sustain ongoing operations.”
There is an extended refund policy for recent buyers, and a
freeze on the in-game store, full details linked below.
(Steam).
Eiketsuden! Bless You
Although it’s only due to release in Japan (in 2016) so far,
Koei Tecmo announced a whole new subspecies of the Dynasty Warriors series,
called Eiketsuden – catchy right? Dynasty Warriors: Eiketsuden is a grid-based strategy
RPG, here’s some of the details care of Gematsu, Games Talk, and Famitsu:
“The protagonist is Zhao Yun, who together with his friend Lei Bin, uncovers a mysterious girl named Li Xia sleeping in the pillars of ice within a shrine.
At its core, it is a grid-based strategy RPG, but since it’s a Warriors series title, you’ll have a single military commander unit as well, and there will be tons of small fry to destroy. During battles, it switches to action scenes, and while you don’t control the action, Warriors-style action scenes will seemingly unfold.”
(Click to enlarge).
I had a different time trying to convince the company, but presented a desire to create a rich story with a deep setting.
Since it’s a strategy RPG, it’s necessary computations are reduced, and we can have more soldiers to make for a more powerful battle production.
It uses Romance of the Three Kingdoms as its base and adds fantasy elements.
Since Zhao Yun is the protagonist, it will focus on Shu Han military commanders, and military commanders who have yet to appear will also make their debut.
There will be special conversation events and friendship-becomings among the game’s appearing military commanders.
Characters will grow according to a skill system.
Wings Of Anime
Koei really went to town this week, announcing western
release dates for their Attack on Titan game. In the Europe it’s named A.O.T
Wings of Freedom, a deft manoeuvre to avoid the nasty copyright issues that
Spike Chunsoft’s 3DS game ran afoul of last year, and will release on the 26th
of August 2016. In the US it is just Attack On Titan, coming a few days later
on the 30th of August.
It’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, PS3, PSVita, and PC.
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