As 2020 (thankfully) comes to a close, the DualShockers staff is coming together to share their personal favorite games throughout the year. Unlike our official Game of the Year Awards, each of these lists is meant to reflect which games stood out personally to each of our staff members. Additionally, any game — not just
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On August 28, Sega revealed Project Black with a teaser site and a music video. A live stream will be coming on September 2 to reveal more on the project. Three characters were revealed as well. We translated everything that was revealed so far. Project Black, officially stylized as B.L.A.C.K. looks to be a music
Welcome back to our ongoing Game of the Year 2020 talks! If you didn’t previously hear about our new format in regards to Game of the Year when we launched the series earlier in 2020, essentially, we’re having our conversations about the year’s most prominent releases over the course of the entire year rather than
Sakura Wars got a new DLC costume update, one that will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, along with a touch a comedy. Reflecting the game itself. This new DLC will bring loungewear costumes for Captain Kamiyama, Sakura Amamiya, Hatsuho Shinonome, Anastasia Palma, Azami Mochizuki, and Claris. These costumes are sure to up
Sakura Wars. Sakura Taisen. These words bring forth many feelings for quite a number of people both in and outside Japan. The mix of Japanese Adventure games, Dating Sim, Steampunk, Theater, Mecha, Fantasy and much more has changed anyone who has met its path. Whether you’ve actually experienced the franchise yourself, or only gazed at
Sakura Wars, being a huge franchise in Japan, received multiple spinoff games, manga and more through the decades. The mix of Adventure and Dating Sim with a drop of Tactical and now Action was declined to many genres from dungeon crawlers to puzzle games. As such, when DualShockers got to interview Tetsuya Ootsubo, the director
Sakura Wars, the newest entry in the legendary series by Sega, is currently a PS4 exclusive: Switch, PC, and Xbox players are out of luck now, but Sakura Wars releasing on other platforms isn’t ruled out. DualShockers recently had the opportunity to interview part of the Sakura Wars development team at Sega, including Director Tetsuya
Sega held the 14th Sakura Taisen Imperial Communication Department’s Broadcast stream on June 19, focusing on Sakura Wars The Animation. We’ve summarized every past Sakura Taisen stream on DualShockers, though on a more timely manner. So while it’s been a few days now since the stream aired, here’s our full summary, as usual. The stream
Sakura Wars on PS4, the first console entry in years in the iconic franchise by Sega, has been out for a few months now in the west. Over in Japan, the game is titled Shin Sakura Taisen (New Sakura Wars), hinting at a new beginning for the series. In the west, the PS4 game shares
Sega held the 14th Sakura Wars stream on June 19. The stream featured as usual: MC Mami Yamashita, Seijuro Kamiyama’s seiyuu Yohei Azakami, and Producer Tetsu Katano. Present as guests were Kenji Akabane, who is the seiyuu of Kaminsky Valery in Shin Sakura Taisen The Animation, and Sakura Taisen composer Kohei Tanaka. The stream mainly
During the 14th “Sakura Taisen Imperial Communication Department’s Broadcast” stream held on June 19, Sega newly announced Shin Sakura Taisen The Stage. First announced at Tokyo Game Show 2019 for March 5 to 8 2020, the show was canceled due to Covid-19. Now, it’s coming back for Winter 2020 in Japan. The stage play’s cast
Sega released the latest edition of the long-running Sakura Wars series just a few weeks back on PS4, and we were very high on it here at DualShockers. Our reviewer, Iyane Agossah, ended up awarding the latest installment in the franchise an 8.5/10 score saying that the game “is a satisfying blend of everything that the
Claiming that Sakura Wars (aka Sakura Taisen) is a huge franchise is an understatement. The steampunk, East meets West stylized series featuring courageous women who act as a theater revue by day and fight demons at night left a huge mark on Japanese pop culture and on anyone who encountered it. When Sega and Red
Valentine Day 2020 happened and as usual when such events rolls around, Japanese games studios, artists, character designers and developers all shared some Valentine-themed artwork on Twitter. Mobile and gacha games all do their own events too, revealing new illustrations for their characters. In Japan, Valentine Day is about women giving presents to men, with
Sega held on January 29 the 11th Sakura Taisen Imperial Communication Department’s Broadcast stream. You can find the full stream here. As usual, it featured MC Mami Yamashita, Yohei Azakami, and Producer Tetsu Katano. At the beginning of the stream, Producer Tetsu Katano mentioned the development team is closely analyzing the feedback and impressions they
Sega held on January 29 the 11th Sakura Taisen Imperial Communication Department’s Broadcast stream. You can find the full stream here. It was the first stream since 2020 began. As usual, it featured MC Mami Yamashita, Yohei Azakami, who was cosplaying Seijuro, and Producer Tetsu Katano. The stream included many new details on the upcoming
PS4 exclusive Shin Sakura Taisen released on December 12 in Japan. The game is temporarily titled Project Sakura Wars in the west and will launch here in Spring 2020. We’ve played through the demo, so now we have done a similar Let’s Play video for the first chapter of Project Sakura Wars, live translating on
Sega held the final stream before Project Sakura Wars‘ release in Japan today. We got all the details on the DLCs, which we compiled in a separate article, along with new announcements, most notably regarding the Project Sakura Wars Anime, which will start airing in April 2020. But first off, one of the songs in the
Sega held the final stream before Project Sakura Wars‘ release in Japan, and most notably fully revealed all of the game’s DLCs. While swimsuit DLCs costumes were already teased in a previous stream, we now saw a video showcasing everything. Here’s a list of all the Project Sakura Wars DLC: The Sakura Taisen 1 and 2
As we’re getting nearer to the Japanese release of Project Sakura Wars (tentative title) more and more gameplay is getting revealed. The game is featured on the streams of all the biggest Japanese outlets. Famitsu most notably revealed the first hour of gameplay, which you can watch below. Shin Sakura Taisen begins in the same
As we’re getting closer to Project Sakura Wars‘ release in Japan, Famitsu started publishing new interviews related to Sega’s legendary franchise. The first interview is a chat on Project Sakura Wars with Chisa Yokoyama who voices Sakura Shinguji in past games, and Michie Tomizawa, who voices Sumire Kanzaki. In Project Sakura Wars, Chisa Yokoyama voices
Sega held the ninth Project Sakura Wars stream on November 20, revealing new info on the game. As usual, the stream featured game producer Tetsu Katano and was MCed by Mami Yamashita. Yohei Azakami, who voices protagonist Seijuro, was there too along with Hibiku Yamamura, who voices Azami. The stream most notably revealed a brand new
Are you getting hyped for Shin Sakura Taisen? The game’s promotion in the west is pretty much dead and I don’t get how non-Japanese players unaccustomed to the series can get interested in the current state of things. We still don’t even know how the game will actually be called, Project Sakura Wars being a
In Japan, Sega has been releasing plenty of new info on Shin Sakura Taisen, temporarily titled Project Sakura Wars in the west. Music videos for all of the main characters’ character songs have been published. And the game was featured at the PlayStation Live Sapporo 2019 event on November 5. We’ve got some new gameplay
Shin Sakura Taisen, tentatively titled Project Sakura Wars in the west, was featured at the “PlayStation Festival Sapporo 2019” event on November 2. During the event, Producer Katano announced a demo for Project Sakura Wars will be released on the Japanese PlayStation store on November 21. Project Sakura Wars‘ demo will be divided into two
Star Ocean Anamnesis, the mobile game, is currently running a three chapter Valkyrie Profile campaign called Valkyrie Profile: The Purged Wizard. The scenario takes place between the first and second games, tying in the plot for both titles. All the original Japanese VAs have returned for the scenario. Dreamboum posted a nice summary of events
Famitsu published today an interview with Shin Sakura Taisen Producer Tetsu Katano, Sakura Taisen Series Director and Scenarist Takahara Terada, and Sakura Taisen series Development Director Tetsuya Otsubo. Well, the interview actually isn’t brand new but is a much longer, uncut version of the interview first published when Shin Sakura Taisen’s first trailer was revealed. We’ve already covered that interview, but tons
On the latest Sega Nama stream, Sega’s Chief Creative Officer Toshihiro Nagoshi spoke about Project Sakura Wars, giving new production details on the upcoming reboot. Sega also published more information and screenshots at the end of April, Most of it is information we’ve already covered, but the story pitch was revamped with more details, along with new
This week’s Famitsu Magazine, the May 16, 2019 issue, had an over forty pages feature on the game history of Heisei era. Heisei era began in 1989, and Japan will enter a new era, Reiwa, once Emperor Akihito abdicates on April 31, 2019. I wouldn’t be able to summarize the massive amount of information found
Sega updated Sakura Wars‘ official site with comments of the seiyuu voicing the main characters of Project Sakura Wars. In particular, Yohei Azakami, who voices protagonist Seijuro Azakami, stated the role has the highest amount of lines in his voice acting career so far. While only 27 years old, Yohei Azakami is a rising star in