NIS had some big announcements at Anime Expo 2017

Not only did NIS announce an awesome line up at their press event earlier in the year, they followed up with some more titles coming up later this year and early next year at Anime Expo.

Demon Gaze II

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Magnastar has spellbound the people of Asteria into obeying him. As theRevolutionist Party attempts to overthrow him, it is up to you, the Demon Gazer, to wield the power of demons, liberate Asteria’s citizens, and shine the light of revolution!
Demon Synergy – As the Demon Gazer, turn foes to allies and power them up using the Trance Demon Mode, or fuse with them using the Demon’s Cross!
Dungeon Crawling Made for Everyone – Whether you are a newcomer or a hardened DRPG veteran, utilize modes like Autopilot to customize your adventure!
Love On The Battlefield – Power up your demons and develop relationships with your closest companions, even leading to dating events!

Release: Fall 2017
Genre: Dungeon RPG
Platform: PS4 and PS Vita

 

Penny-Punching Princess

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About the story:
In a world ruled by capitalism, cash is king!
Use the money you gather to bribe enemies to fight for you, activate deadly traps with your dough, and when all else fails, smash all that stand against you with your fists! Fight your way from nothing and amass treasures to take on the mighty Dragoloan family and reclaim your kingdom!
Key features:
Cash Rules Everything Around Me – Fight smarter, not harder! Bribe your enemies to fight for you, or activate deadly traps to turn the tide of battle in this fast-paced brawler.
Who Says You Can’t Buy Popularity – Recruit/Buy flunkies to your cause to unlock stronger equipment and master over 70 special moves based on weapons you craft!
A Madcap Romp of Dollars & Dragons – Embark on a wildly funny adventure as Princess, a girl robbed of her royal heritage in a world obsessed with money.


Release: March 20, 2018 (NA) March 23, 2018 (EU)
Genre: Isometric Brawler
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS Vita

 

The Longest Five Minutes

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About the Story:
Our hero faces the origin of all evil, the Demon King himself, but suddenly loses all memories of his adventure. His finishing moves, the name of his hometown, and even the reason he’s trying to defeat the Demon King in the first place, are all gone. Our hero feels as though he’s letting his allies down…
In the midst of battle, his allies’ words and the Demon King’s taunts trigger flashbacks, bringing his memories back piece by piece. Our hero tries to regain his priceless memories before it’s too late, but the Demon King stands before him, his power unyielding!
What will happen in The Longest Five Minutes!?

Release: Early 2018
Genre: RPG
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, Steam

 

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

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About the game
The follow-up to 2016’s cult horror hit Yomawari: Night Alone, Yomawari: Midnight Shadows introduces two brand-new girls, Yui and Haru, to the night and the spirits who haunt it. Separated by a mysterious attacker, each girl will explore haunting and bizarre locations, face the terrors of the night, and test their courage and wits to survive and reconnect with one another.
Key Features
A Complete Town to Explore – Enter abandoned homes, climb through junk yards and up mountains, or venture into dark sewers in your search.
Two Views of the Dark – Search the night and explore a town as either of Yomawari: Midnight Shadow’s two characters. What you find with one may serve as a clue, or even save the other.
Horrors, Oddities, and Mysteries – Beware of Japanese spirits that come to life, as you encounter horrors birthed from nightmares, oddities that will make you question what is real, and mysteries that may just keep you up at night.
Gorgeous Style – Enter the dark with haunting art to view the city and from above, and get close to the heart-pounding moments in beautifully imagined side-scrolling set pieces.

Release: October 24, 2017 (NA) October 27, 2017 (EU)
Genre: Survival Horror
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Steam

 

Which title are you looking forward to? I can’t wait to play Yomawari: Midnight Shadows.  Let us know what you think in the comments!

 

Creepy Terror is coming to North America this fall

Aksys Games has announced during Anime Expo 2017, that they will be bringing the Nikkatsu and Sushi Typhoon Games horror game Creepy Terror to the 3DS eShop and PC this fall for North America.

You can check out the official site here.

Here is a quick overview and trailer below:


The player controls the high school girl, Arisa, to explore “caves,” “tunnels,” and an “old mansion.” The story begins with the arrival of Arisa and her friends at an old mansion where a monster is believed to lurk. Later, Arisa awakens in a cave and finds herself alone. She has no way of knowing the fate that awaits her.

Drive Girls is coming to North America August 11

During Anime Expo, Aksys Games announced that they will release Drive Girls for PS Vita in North America on August 11.

The title was previously announced by Rising Star Games in Europe.

Here’s an overview of the game:

An experience straight out of Japan, Drive Girls is developed by the legendary Tamsoft and features characters designed by popular illustrator UGUME. This fast-paced story-driven game transports you to a world where it’s normal for humans to transform into supercars – a world that is being invaded by mechanised Bug enemies! It’s up to the Drive Girls – five supercar transforming supergirls – to defend their home of Sun Island, cross the finish line and save the day.

Featuring an extensive single-player campaign, as well as local and online multiplayer for up to four players, play as any of the five Drive Girls in this action, driving, hack ‘n’ slash hybrid, and battle it out in human or supercar form to reign victory over the enemy. Deal devastating combo attacks and let loose using Over Drive moves to light up the screen with Bug-punishing pyrotechnics.

Players can boost the Drive Girls’ stats in the garage by tuning and customising their ride with new parts and sleek decals using the currency earned after every mission. The tighter your tuning, the more protected the Drive Girls are against losing their armoured clothing in combat. In between battling, driving and modding, players can also enjoy the cheeky chatter and interactions between the five heroines as they bond, get to know each other better, and form close friendships amidst the heat of the battle zone.

SG/ZH School Girl/Zombie Hunter is coming to North america late 2017

During Anime Expo 2017, Aksys announced that SG/ZH School Girl Zombie Hunter is coming to North America on Playstion 4.

The zombie-themed third-person shooter, which is set in the same universe as the Onechanbara series and follows a group of girls trapped in a high school, first launched in Japan on January 12.

You can check out the overview below:


A High School Girls Survival Story Set in the World of Onechanbara

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Set in the prestigious Musaku High School, which is accomplished in both the literary and military arts, SG/ZH School Girl/Zombie Hunter is a survival story on a campus isolated from the outside world and surrounded by zombies after a sudden, massive outbreak. It shares the same world as the Onechanbara series, but is a panic shooting action game starring five high school girl survivors.

Evade, repel, survive, and escape from the hordes of zombies that enter the school. There are episodes that serves as the backbones for each character. Overcome the zombie crisis while facing conflicts and cooperatively combining forces.

■ Five Beautiful Survviors

Sayuri Akiha (voiced by Asuka Ogami)

  • Age: 17
  • Club: Kendo Club
  • Specialty Weapons: Handgun / Wooden Sword

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A girl who comes from an honorable samurai family. She likes both hero things and robot anime—a result of the samurai code of chivalry driven into her since she was young. She has a cheerful personality and hates dishonest behavior. She sometimes collides with those around her due to her clumsy way of life, but is strangely able to become friends. She is the type to keep a promise by all means once it’s made. She worries for Risa, who had an unfortunate experience during her childhood, and treats her like a younger sister. She has a strong desire to protect others, and tends to act without thinking and get caught up in her surroundings. Despite being at the mercy of Sayuri’s behavior, the other four survivors find the strength to continue fighting the zombies. Akiha’s grandfather is the famous martial arts master, Gengoroumaru Akiha.

Risa Kubota (voiced by Saori Onishi)

  • Age: 16
  • Club: Long Sword Club
  • Specialty Weapons: Assault Rifle / Long Sword

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Having lost her parents and older brother at a young age, she has been living while always fighting against loneliness and the fear of death. She was taken in by Sayuri’s family, who was close friends with her father, and from a young age taught to wield the long sword as part of her spiritual training. She is cowardice in battle and survives by relying on Akiha. She has the ability to fight, but is still afraid. Because she requires others’ support, she has a dependent constitution in that she is unable to decide things on her own. However, she is strong when it’s the final moment and there are no other options.

Mayaya Himeji (voiced by Chinami Hashimoto)

  • Age: 16
  • Club: Softball Club
  • Specialty Weapons: Sub Machine Gun / Bat

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A close friend of Enami Kamijo. Outside of cute things, she likes mysterious things like fortune-telling and the occult. She is the type to often fade out her surroundings and focus only on the thing that interests her—petting a paralyzed puppy in the middle of the road, for example, leaving herself likely to be hit by a car. Mayaya is Enami’s childhood friend who causes trouble for her and cannot be ignored. The two will often take action together, and Mayaya also acts as the lubricating oil that plays mediator for the lonely Enami and her schoolmates.

Enami Kamijo (voiced by Sayaka Senbongi)

  • Age: 18
  • Club: Soccer Club
  • Specialty Weapons: Sub Sniper Rifle / Kicking Techniques

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Similar to her boyish appearance, she speaks and conducts herself like a man. She is the oldest of the five survivors. As the clear-headed athletic, she is an asset to those around her, but she keeps up a secret effort, continuing to fight on despite the difficult circumstances. If someone is inferior to her, she thinks that they’re not making a great enough effort, and she is often misunderstood as a cold genius because when someone comes to her for advice she pushes them away by saying things like, “just do your best.” She and Mayaya are childhood friends since their parents know each other.

Rei Kanazaki (voiced by Kaori Ishihara)

  • Age: 17
  • Club: Karate Club
  • Specialty Weapons: Sub Sniper Shotgun / Karate Techniques

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An idol since middle school, but she he has suspended her idol activities to concentrate on schoolwork. Her entertainment office sells her as an innocent, princess idol, but in reality she is an abnormal girl who loves disputes and bloody topics. A young actress tried to force Rei, who is known for her role as the lunatic heroine in a B-grade horror movie, to retire. When she suddenly went missing, it seemed like Rei’s true character would be revealed through entertainment world gossip, so she suspended her idol activities to let things cool off. Her mother is also a former actress. She dreams of becoming an actress to surpass her mother.

■ Ren
An unidentified man with some sort of connection within the ZPF. What is the true purpose of his springing forth zombies into Kirisaku High School one after the other? Perhaps there is some sort of mystery hidden in the land of this school? He creates and controls new zombies as if repeating an experiment.

■ ZPF Officer Anna (voiced by Kazusa Amagai)

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The guns specialist that appeared in the Onechanbara series, which shares the same world with this title. She belongs to a zombie punitive force called the “ZPF” and is acquainted with the five survivors of Kirisaku High School after answering their distress call. In trying to save them, she’ll deliver the girls weapons and relief supplies using drones. In SG/ZH School Girl/Zombie Hunter, Anna only appears as your means of communication with the ZPF.

■ Clear the Mission

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SG/ZH School Girl/Zombie Hunter uses a mission- based system to progress through the game. There are 50 missions in total. Various types of firearms will appear, including handguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, shotguns, sub machine guns, and rocket launchers. Controlling the five girls, players will take on a variety of missions and fight to survive. Zombie hunting battles will unfold all over the isolated school, including in the schoolyard and the gymnasium.

■ Clothes Ripping System

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The more and more you’re attacked, the more your clothes will rip. The areas that take more damage will have less clothing. One of the traits of this game’s zombies is that it appears as though they’re targeting your clothes… But if you’re stripped completely, you can still continue to fight. Why care about something like being fully clothed when you’re trying to survive?

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Gossip also emerges among the girls. The zombies seem to be targeting their clothes, so what if they take off their clothes and use them as a decoy? Will this new tactic help them survive? Find out in the next SG/ZH School Girl/Zombie Hunter report.

Zero Time Dilemma is coming to PS4 this Fall

During Anime Expo 2017, Spike Chunsoft debut a trailer for Zero Time Dilemma for Playstation 4. Previously released for PSVita, 3DS and PC the Playstation 4 version offers further refined graphics compared to the PC port. The title will launch this fall in the US.

Here is a quick overview:


About

The experiment wasn’t supposed to be like this.

Nine participants awaken in an underground facility, imprisoned with a strange black bracelet on their wrists. To escape, they must play a game with deadly consequences. The rules are simple–after six people are killed, the escape hatch will open. Who will live, and who will die? The choice is yours. Let the Decision Game begin…

Key Features

  • Think Your Way Out – Explore 3-D environments for clues to solve mind-bending puzzles and escape your prison.
  • Decision Game – Question your morality in a series of life-or-death decisions where even the best option carries horrifying implications.
  • Cinematic Gameplay – Fully voiced and animated story sections push the boundaries of interactive fiction.
  • Non-linear Narrative – Jump freely between events and characters to piece together the fractured narrative and unlock multiple endings.
  • Old Faces, New Mysteries – Characters from the award-winning Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue’s Last Reward are joined by a new cast of participants to bring first-time players up to speed and conclude the series for longtime fans.