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TsukasaElkKite



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 12:25 pm Reply with quote
This is fantastic. I hope it gets a worldwide release.
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tojikomori



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:11 pm Reply with quote
There are ESRB logos on the English site, so a US release is certainly happening. We'll have to see about WW.

I wonder how it'll fare in the US. Dedicated ("lifestyle") gamers here are often vocally anti-gacha so I assume they aren't generally fans of the source material, and the PS4 never picked up much of a casual gamer audience. This game's sales will rely heavily on crossover appeal from fans of the anime, then.

It looks great though and it's nice to have a US/WW release if only for the superfans. (At least one person in my life may need a PS4 for Christmas because of this…)
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:47 pm Reply with quote
I am so, so, confused why this is being published by Square Enix and not Bandai Namco.

Do Bushiroad and/or KLab have ties to Square Enix?
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Finny-chan



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:30 pm Reply with quote
Hmm is it going to be free to play, but with in game purchases like with the smartphone app? Cause I see that there are cards you can collect in the first few seconds of the video.

Unlike my garbage cellphone I know my PS4 can handle this game without the lagging and overheating lol. So this actually makes me quite excited for the game I liked what I could play from the smartphone game before I had to delete it.

I hope they do the same for Utapri eventually, but I think that is a different game company for that rhythm game.
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tojikomori



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 7:02 pm Reply with quote
Megiddo wrote:
I am so, so, confused why this is being published by Square Enix and not Bandai Namco.


Out on a limb: maybe Sunrise just doesn't have control over arcade/game adaptations. It does seem weird for a LL arcade machine to have been licensed for a competitor of their parent, but I wonder if the mobile titles would ever have gone to KLab+Bushiroad if Sunrise'd had full say.

Finny-chan wrote:
I see that there are cards you can collect in the first few seconds of the video.


That's related to the arcade machine from which this title's drawn. There's no suggestion of a F2P component to the PS4 game.
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CallumKeyblade



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:24 am Reply with quote
Megiddo wrote:
I am so, so, confused why this is being published by Square Enix and not Bandai Namco.

Do Bushiroad and/or KLab have ties to Square Enix?


Square made the original arcade game so makes sense that they'd publish the home release. (Why Square made the arcade version I do not know)
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