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New, although very brief Gameplay footage of Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 in Action!

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Coming to PS4 and PS Vita on 27th March 2015. Website: http://www.toukiden.eu/kiwami/ In the deeply rich world of Toukiden, Demons (Oni) have always hid in the shadows and aimed to torment mankind. Through history, a secret caste of warriors, the Slayers, have been trained to dispose of the demonic threat before it could consume the world. However, an event called the ‘Awakening’ caused rifts to appear in space and time. Through those rifts places that had long disappeared from the world resurfaced, and with them came hordes of various demons that started to relentlessly hunt humans. These demons would consume the souls of those they killed and imprison the ones of brave heroes in order to grow in size and strength. Using these souls, Oni can regenerate at a rapid rate and only Slayers are trained in the proper way to battle them. As the extinction of humanity was not far from reality, the Slayers opened their villages as sanctuaries, to protect those who escaped, and provided a last line of defence against the horror. Toukiden’s original storyline starts 8 years after the Awakening and follows a newly trained Slayer from the village of Utakata (enter: the player!). The player’s role is to complete various missions, strengthen his relationships with the other warriors in the village and eventually start battling the largest of the Oni to banish them back to their dimension (a mysterious demi-plane that stands between space and time) and free the souls of the heroes they’ve trapped. In turn, when these souls are free, they stay with the player and provide him with a variety of equipable abilities for his weapons. Set against a backdrop inspired by various historical periods of Japan, ‘Toukiden: Kiwami’ continues to narrate the tale of humanity’s last stand for survival. As it makes its debut appearance on the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system, ‘Kiwami’ picks up the story from the beginning, allowing new players to familiarise with its vast, demon-ridden world. Nevertheless, it is actually almost double the size of the original game, offering fans of the series the opportunity to pick up where ‘Age of Demons’ stops and follow their slayer into a variety of new, exciting adventures. Visually stunning, like its predecessor, this game boasts an extensive character creation mode, a multitude of new and returning weapon types , each of which can be forged and upgraded to the player’s preferences, while it also features 300 characters based on both fictional and historical Japanese figures, whose souls help players strengthen their team and defeat their enemies. ‘Toukiden: Kiwami’ will also include an extensive multiplayer mode. The player is always encouraged to tackle battles with the most powerful Oni as part of a group and, as with the previous title, there is a choice between a number of NPC or, preferably, a cooperative multiplayer mode that allows for a team of up to four Slayers to band up and banish a demon together!

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NL: "Before Fire Emblem: Awakening started the Year of Luigi off with a bang, there was a great deal of concern at Nintendo regarding its future viability as a franchise. Sales were at an all-time low, and series producer Hitoshi Yamagami was given an ultimatum: at least 250,000 copies of the latest entry needed to be sold in order to ensure the franchise had a future. Of course, we know now that the 3DS masterpiece went on to sell more copies in the US than any other game in the series, bringing the game to a bigger audience than ever before and cementing the Fire Emblem brand's value."

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Note: This animation serves as an introduction to the world of Toukiden: Kiwami and does not constitute part of the game. "Like" us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/koeigames Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/koeitecmoeurope Coming to PS4 and PS Vita on 27th March 2015. Website: http://www.toukiden.eu/kiwami/ In the deeply rich world of Toukiden, Demons (Oni) have always hid in the shadows and aimed to torment mankind. Through history, a secret caste of warriors, the Slayers, have been trained to dispose of the demonic threat before it could consume the world. However, an event called the ‘Awakening’ caused rifts to appear in space and time. Through those rifts places that had long disappeared from the world resurfaced, and with them came hordes of various demons that started to relentlessly hunt humans. These demons would consume the souls of those they killed and imprison the ones of brave heroes in order to grow in size and strength. Using these souls, Oni can regenerate at a rapid rate and only Slayers are trained in the proper way to battle them. As the extinction of humanity was not far from reality, the Slayers opened their villages as sanctuaries, to protect those who escaped, and provided a last line of defence against the horror. Toukiden’s original storyline starts 8 years after the Awakening and follows a newly trained Slayer from the village of Utakata (enter: the player!). The player’s role is to complete various missions, strengthen his relationships with the other warriors in the village and eventually start battling the largest of the Oni to banish them back to their dimension (a mysterious demi-plane that stands between space and time) and free the souls of the heroes they’ve trapped. In turn, when these souls are free, they stay with the player and provide him with a variety of equipable abilities for his weapons. Set against a backdrop inspired by various historical periods of Japan, ‘Toukiden: Kiwami’ continues to narrate the tale of humanity’s last stand for survival. As it makes its debut appearance on the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system, ‘Kiwami’ picks up the story from the beginning, allowing new players to familiarise with its vast, demon-ridden world. Nevertheless, it is actually almost double the size of the original game, offering fans of the series the opportunity to pick up where ‘Age of Demons’ stops and follow their slayer into a variety of new, exciting adventures. Visually stunning, like its predecessor, this game boasts an extensive character creation mode, a multitude of new and returning weapon types , each of which can be forged and upgraded to the player’s preferences, while it also features 300 characters based on both fictional and historical Japanese figures, whose souls help players strengthen their team and defeat their enemies. ‘Toukiden: Kiwami’ will also include an extensive multiplayer mode. The player is always encouraged to tackle battles with the most powerful Oni as part of a group and, as with the previous title, there is a choice between a number of NPC or, preferably, a cooperative multiplayer mode that allows for a team of up to four Slayers to band up and banish a demon together!

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Using both pre-rendered and gameplay footage, Nintendo unveiled to gamers earlier this week that a new Fire Emblem game is in the works for Nintendo 3DS. I. Cannot. Wait. Seriously, I loved the latest Fire Emblem game, subtitled Awakening and out on 3DS a few years ago. If you haven’t played it, prepare yourself for a beautifully written, mechanically-moving strategy game with deep role-playing elements and a cast that you’ll quickly fall in love with. It’s OK, we’ll wait. Pairing characters up so that they could work together, compliment each other’s skill sets in battle, and fight for you in StreetPass skirmishes proved intensely satisfying. Now that a new Fire Emblem game is on the way, let’s try to capture a few of the details that set it apart from Awakening and how it looks to improve on the last game: The opening cinematic starts with armies fighting in a wooded area. The soldiers on horses look like they’ve got ancient middle-eastern garb, including a Spartan-looking tuft of hair on each helmet while the ground forces seem to be dressed in slightly more eastern-inspired armor and facemasks. Will the opposing forces feature even more variation? Flying forces and keeps will return to the game, though the archers defending the castle appear to be using flame-tipped arrows. Will players be able to use poison-tipped weapons or ice-infused projectile attacks from mounts? A large rock-boss monster appears and puts a massive mit on the castle walls. This rock-boss has a flattened, tablet-looking face with a stern looking expression on it. Will Fire Emblem’s miniaturized military units have to bring down bigger bosses, like those that take up multiple spots on the battlefield or actually change the level as they attack, creating a valley with a smash attack, for example? One heroic-looking sequence in the trailer appears to feature an enemy on a horse with a central figure wielding a very Japanese-looking blade. The character’s face isn’t shown, so could this be the player character or is it another central figure like Chrom was in Fire Emblem: Awakening? A dancer-class character is featured prominently in the new game’s teaser trailer, but I always felt like the dancer in Fire Emblem: Awakening was meant to be a comely and sympathetic unit the player would want to protect and use for high-strategy. Will this dancer feature more prominently in the game’s story? Will she have a fellow dancer to interact with at camp and will players be able to power her fighting ability up with specific partners? The battle transition now swings the camera around the field map and into the scene with their hero or heroine and the opponent. This looks really cool and seems to give a better sense of the players surroundings in battle, but the game also appears to feature a lot of new animations. Whole armies sit in the background of some of the battles shown in the gameplay portion of the trailer, but they’re just watching the player kick ass! I can’t help but wonder if Fire Emblem aficionados can expect the biggest battles the series has yet seen. There are lots of stern-looking soldiers, but there’s also a maid character shown during the dialog clips. The next Fire Emblem game seems to feature the same character exchanges and types of interaction, though we’ll still hope for new ways of seeing relationships grow back at camp. The settings shown in the trailer feature Japanese-style castles, huge battlefields, a port with big battleships, a desert town with windmills, and (towards the end of the trailer) an inter-dimensional-looking space with islands floating upside-down and sideways. Could you catch any other details in the latest Fire Emblem trailer? Share with us in the comments and be sure to click here for our impressions of all the software and the "New" 3DS XL hardware from this week’s big Nintendo presentation.

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TouchArcade: It's still early in the year, and while there were a few gems that hit the App Store last week, we're always liable for a slow period around this time of year. As such, when an indie RPG sneaks out mid-week, and for free, we might as well check it out, eh? Mounting Force: The Awakening [Free] is a free, ad-supported real-time RPG, the debut title from Deprecated Software. I'm not going to mince words: this game is ugly. I don't want to be mean, but it is. The production values are definitely lacking here, there's visual judder all over the place (the bad kind of screenshake), and the script is riddled with typos.