Valkyria Chronicles 2: My Impressions and Views
Valkyria Chronicles 2's hero, Avan Hardins
It's been a pretty interesting last few days for Valkyria Chronicles fans. Not only has the sequel to the cult classic PS3 title, Valkyria Chronicles, finally hit North American shelves and the PlayStation Network, but there have been rumours of a Valkyria Chronicles 3 title. The rumours of Valkyria Chronicles 3 started last week when it was discovered that Sega had purchased the domain name valkyria3.jp. These rumours further gained substance when a teaser site was opened up at http://code1935.jp/ which currently features a single image with the silhouettes of character classes and tanks from the franchise and a date, September 16th, which just happens to be the first day of the Tokyo Game Show this year.
Valkyria Chronicles 2: At last… or is it?
It seems like it has been forever since Sega announced that Valkyria Chronicles 2, the sequel to cult classic Valkyria Chronicles for the PlayStation 3 (PS3), would finally be coming to North American stores on the PlayStation Portable (PSP). It has only felt like forever since Sega has been pretty silent regarding the title, besides creating a website for the game and posted a release date of Summer 2010. However, recent posts on Joystiq and PlayStation Universe claim that Sega has made an official announcement of August 31st as the game's North American release date. This isn't all that unlikely considering that not only Sega has included a Valkyria Chronicles 2 section to their E3 Expo booth this year but the E3 Expo is still ongoing with today being the event's last day.
The Last Story: In the middle of development
If you have been following this blog over the past few months you will know that one of the upcoming Wii titles I am really looking forward to is Mistwalker's new RPG title, The Last Story. Over the course of the past few months we have heard details about the game such as the importance of sound, the presence of airships, different classes in society, and much more; yet we haven't heard of a concrete date rather than an ambiguous 2010 release of the game in Japan.
Arc Fail Fantasia: How a poor localization might kill a game
When I last mentioned Arc Rise Fantasia here on Axis of Bozz it was in a somewhat festive mood. At the time not only had the game won an award from IGN at the 2009 E3 Expo as the Best Wii RPG, but the North American localization and publishing rights were transferred to Ignition Entertainment, the company responsible for the localization of Muramasa: The Demon Blade, from previous license holder Xseed Games. Although my interest in this series has waned over the course of the last several months, my initial interest was due to the presence composer Yasunori Matsuda and character designer Kenichi Yoshida amongst the game's staff, I was devasted when I first learned that the English audio for the game was fairly awful. After hearing the news I couldn’t help myself from asking, “If it’s true, how could things have gone so wrong?”
The Last Story: Heroic Details
It was only recently that Mistwalker began to release details on the in-game character classes for their upcoming Nintendo Wii-exclusive, The Last Story, via their blog on the game's official website. The development team followed this up by providing details on one of the landmarks in the game's setting of Ruli Island, namely The Star Gazing Tower. Since these two updates we've seen the development team finally shedding some light on the main character and his female companion in this upcoming RPG title.
Valkyria Chronicles 2: The Extras
Sega is really going all out with Valkyria Chronicles 2, in comparison to the original game, in providing extra content and tie-ins with other products. In the first game there really wasn't much in the ways of tie-ins besides the cameo appearances of Skies of Arcadia's Vyse, Ayka and Fina.
Valkyria Chronicles 2 Release Date?
Sadly, Sega has yet to publicly announce an actual release date for the highly anticipated English-language version of the sequel to 2008's brilliant PS3 exclusive, Valkyria Chronicles, for the PSP. It has already been a few months since the game was originally released in Japan, where it has encountered quite a bit of success having nearly matched the original game's 180, 000 total copies sold with 140, 000 copies sold in the span of 3 months.
The Last Story: Hero and Heroine REVEALED AT LAST
Mistwalker's development blog continues to surprise as they have released an illustration of the hero and heroine of their upcoming RPG, The Last Story. I'll be updating this with additional information when a translation is released.
Credit/Sources: The Last Story official website (日本語)
Valkyria Chronicles: Sega’s April Fools’ Joke
Every year on the first day of April we all get to enjoy a day filled with foolish jokes, but only just for one day, April Fools' Day. The weird thing about April Fools' is that sometimes the jokes are quite obvious, like say being given administrative rights on a forum, but others seem a little difficult to determine whether it's true or false. For instance, there was a bit of a hubbub over at FinalFantasy-XIII.net regarding a purported interview on Kotaku's Australian site given by Final Fantasy XIII Versus Character Designer and Director, Tetsuya Nomura, in which he claims that the main character, Noctis, of his upcoming PS3-exclusive title was gay and that the game would showcase some of Nomura's inspiration from The X-Files TV show. The thing is that a lot of people were fooled due to the lack of information that has been provided for the game. What was interesting was the reaction to the news on the FinalFantasy-XIII.net forums.
The Last Story: Star Gazing and Main Characters?
Earlier today Mistwalker posted yet another blog entry, although unlike previous entries this one contains only a single, fine piece of artwork displaying what very well might be the main character and potential love interest, whose appearance reminds me of Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New Age's heroine Marta Lualdi. In the new blog posting, the director and producer of the game discuss the Star Gazing Tower, a landmark on Ruli Island.
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