Atlus

Today the good folks at the YouTube channel Archipel released a mini-documentary on Atlus’ popular character designer and Artwork Team leader Shigenori Soejima. The video focuses mostly on the upcoming Catherine: Full Body, but it also delves deeper into Soejima-sensei’s inspiration and work. Interestingly, we learn about the genesis of Catherine, and how the initial idea did
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There has been a recent surge, both in sales and popularity, for Japanese games in the West. For instance, games like Capcom’s Monster Hunter World and Bandai Namco’s Dragon Ball FighterZ were the top two best selling games in January of this year and reached critical acclaim from a bunch of outlets including ourselves. There
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Today, Atlus announced that it would finally be bringing Persona 3: Dancing Moonlight, or as it’s known in Japan Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night, to the West sometime in early 2019. Like its Persona 5 dancing counterpart, the game will feature 25 unlockable tracks consisting of remixes as well as the original versions of fan favorite songs from the PS2 and
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Since it was originally released in 2013, Dragon’s Crown has been all about putting players through epic journeys and exploring vast dungeons, and now the beat ’em up action RPG’s upcoming released, Dragon’s Crown Pro, might be giving players something else entirely — a chance at finding true love. Sony has released a new (and quite funny)
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For those who aren’t familiar, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is something of a black sheep regarding themes and characters to the other SMT games; the protagonists are battle-hardened adults—researchers and soldiers—who have a specific goal and a clear path towards it. The setting is more sci-fi and technology-centric rather than mythological as your compatriots try to uncover
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Today Atlus shared two new character trailers for its upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. This time around the videos focus on two DLC characters, and they both come from Persona 4 Arena: Labrys and Sho Minazuki. At the moment we don’t have any information on whether the games will actually
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I’ve been a long-time fan of the Shin Megami Tensei series ever since I picked up Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor and Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne out of a bargain bin when I was a little Emily Jr. The complex themes, the DnD-style morality structure, the mythological focus, the phallic chariot monsters… all of them had me coming back to
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Originally released in 2013 for PS3 and PS Vita, Atlus and Vanillaware’s beloved action-RPG Dragon’s Crown is making its triumphant return to PS4 next month, and now you can get another look at the remastered visuals and graphical enhancements coming with the upcoming Dragon’s Crown Pro. Publisher Atlus has released a new trailer for Dragon’s Crown Pro, with
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Today Atlus released a metric ton of screenshots of its upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. The screenshots showcase Theodore and Lavenza, which will be sold as DLC and will be compatible with both games, and quite a few interesting elements on top. We get to see animated music videos
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Today Atlus released a new trailer for its upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. The video showcases Theodore, who will be distributed as a post-launch DLC and will be available for both games. That’s actually quite peculiar, considering that he comes from Persona 3 Portable. I guess another peculiar element is that
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Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included a spread on the upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. The article showcases two more characters that will be released as DLC, Labrys and Sho Minazuki from Persona 4 Arena.  We also get to see the reveal of more new costumes, that will also be launched
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Today Atlus shared two new character trailers for its upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. This time around the videos focus on the two main protagonists of the game, which normally don’t get a name beside semi-canon ones in manga and anime, so we’ll just call them “hero”. While the
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Following the announcement made at Segafes in Akihabara, Tokyo, Sega showcased quite a bit of gameplay of its upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. We get to see the two crossover DLC in action. The first, for Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night will feature a set of DLC costumes inspired by the Virtua
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Today Atlus shared two new trailers for its upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. The trailers actually give a look to both games’ opening cutscenes. As you may expect, they’re really beautifully animated, with the beloved character design by Shigenori Soejima literally shining. You can check
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Today Atlus shared two new character trailers for its upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. This time around the videos are all about your friendly neighborhood velvet room staff, including Justine and Caroline from Persona 5, and Elizabeth from Persona 3. As usual, they get to show their move and drop some witty
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Today Atlus shared two new character trailers for its upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. The first is all about Haru Okumura from Persona 5, while the second showcases young Ken Amada. Probably, the most relevant question is whether Haru will finally manage to steal some hearts in this game, considering that
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Today Atlis shared two new TV commercials about its upcoming twin rhythm games Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night directly on its Twitter account. The clips are brief, as they follow the usual fifteen-second format that TV commercials often have in Japan, but they’re enough to show several of our beloved heroes and heroines
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Atlus continues there steady releases of character-centric trailers from their upcoming rhythm games, Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night. This time players get the chance to check out Futaba Sakura’s moves in her trailer for Persona 5 Dancing Star Night. The Persona 5 alumni shows off some rather lively and playful moves on the
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