Farewell Umihara Kawase's New Character Has Fishing Line Bullet Time

Farewell Umihara Kawase from Agatsuma Games gives new characters an elastic fishing line. On top of Umihara Kawase, you can play as young Umihara Kawase and her childhood friend Emiko. Emiko and young Umihara have a special ability to respawn from checkpoints. This should make the game easier because you can restart midway through a level instead of having to start from the beginning.

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Nokko uses her futuristic technology to slow time which gives players more time to react. Using the slow time power might make it easier to learn the advanced techniques shown in the beginning of the video. Farewell, Umihara Kawase comes out on June 20 in Japan.

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Meet The Shovel Knight's Girlfriend, The Shield Knight

In Shovel Knight, you’re out to defeat the evil Enchantress and rescue your girlfriend from whatever terrible fate life has planned for her. Up until now, we hadn’t actually seen this girlfriend, but Yacht Club games revealed her this week, and it turns out she’s a knight, too. The Shield Knight, to be precise.

Yacht Club have also shared some screenshots of a previously unseen level in the game. These are from the Mole Knight’s domain, the Lost City:

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Valkyria Chronicles 3 Extra Edition Is Just $25 On PSN In Japan

If you've been playing Project X Zone, you've likely met Kurt Irving and Riela Marcellis. Those two characters are from Valkyria Chronicles 3, which Sega decided not to release in the West.

But, if you don't mind Japanese text you can get Valkyria Chronicles 3 Extra Edition which includes the game and DLC missions for 2,500 yen ($25) via PlayStation Network. That's the new price for a digital copy of Extra Edition. Downloadable content for Valkyria Chronicles 3 and Valkyria Chronicles 2 is also half off until August 28.

The group working on a fan translation for Valkyria Chronicles 3 (which also supports Extra Edition) is hard at work on a patch. While a patch has not been released, the text has been translated. They're working on polishing the text and then translating the DLC missions.

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NISA Will Announce New Titles quot;Really Soon quot;

NIS America held a press event at Tokyo Game Show where they announced Hyperdimension Neptunia V will be released on PSN in North America and Europe this fall.

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The publisher of Disgaea and Danganronpa teased that titles will "be announced really soon." Siliconera is scheduled to do interviews during the event so stay tuned for more news.

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Tales Of Link Tales of Ansis Tales Of Jin Yeah, More Tales Trademarks

Right before Namco Bandai announces a new Tales game they file a ton of trademarks. In addition to the Tales of Zestoria, Tales of Creales, and Tales of Catastora trademarks we found three more Tales trademarks.

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Tales of Link, Tales of Jin and Tales of Ansis were also filed by Namco Bandai. These potential names sound different than say Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Xillia or Tales of Zestoria. Tales of Jin and Tales of Ansis sound like these "tales" are about a single character.

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By the way, I'm sorting through the entries from our Tales of Xillia giveaway. There were way more than I expected (I guess Siliconera has grown quite a bit?) and many of them are great. It's going to take a little while to judge these.

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how level-5 's little battlers strategy rpg works

The Little Battlers Wars is a strategy RPG take on Level-5’s The Little Battlers RPG series.

The Nintendo 3DS game takes the original premise of fighting with miniature mechs and places it in a battlefield where LBX players compete in teams.

The story takes place in Kamui Daimon United Academy, a prestigious school built for LBX players. Underneath the school is a battlefield ten kilometers in diameter called Second World, where battles between LBXes unfold. You play as a new transfer student in this school and can interact with the heroes of the anime, Arata and Hikaru.

In the second world, you maneuver a team of LBXes by drawing lines on the touch screen. When you make contact with an enemy on the map, the game will switch to a battle screen that should be familiar to fans of The Little Battlers.

 

Just like in the mainline games, your LBXes can fight with eight different weapons: the sword/rapier, lance/naginata, hammer, one-handed gun, two-handed gun, dagger/knuckle, bazooka/missile, and arm weapon.

The Little Battlers Wars is scheduled to be released on September 26 for the Nintendo 3DS.

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Aside From All The Anime Heroines, Super Heroine Chronicle Is Like Any Other SRPG

Super Heroine Chronicle sticks to the tried and true strategy RPG formula. Players move units on a map and attack enemies. The twist is the playable characters come from a hodgepodge of anime series including Higurashi When They Cry and The Familiar of Zero.

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Namco Bandai made a few original characters for the game too which were designed by notable artists.

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Noel (left) was created by Growlanser artist Satoshi Urushihara. Noel combines magic and black magic to create "magical magic," an ability she can use to attack enemies from a distance. She's still learning so sometimes the skill may be ineffective. When Noel was a child a magician in a purple leotard saved her life, so she aspired to become a magician to help people.

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Eternal Poison artist Shinichiro Otsuka designed Claude (center). He's a mysterious boy that traveled around the world, but lost his memory. Sometimes Claude will mutter things to himself. His timid personality makes him a natural pacifist and horrible fighter. In Claude's specialty is escaping battles and he can use recovery magic.

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Tora Minazuki known for the To Heart series drew Meru (right) who learned the art of the Magical Yoyo. Meru's dream is to become an idol and tends to dress like one. She's known Noel since the two were children.

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Super Heroine Chronicle has two systems that weren't fully explained. There is a Soul Sympathy technique that appears to let players choose one of three characters. You can also do an extra attack, which also presents three options to players. Details about these will be revealed later on.

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Super Heroine Chronicle has cut in graphics for each character. There are victory graphics and defeated cut in graphics. When a battle ends, players can visit shops and talk to the anime heroines.

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Super Heroine Chronicle is in development for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. Dengeki Online has a whole bunch of screenshots here.

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Lead Your Army Into Battle In Battle Princess of Arcadia

Nippon Ichi Software has shared another short gameplay video of their side-scrolling action-RPG Battle Princess of Arcadia. The story is centered around Plume, the princess sworn to protect the kingdom of Schwert. Throughout the game, you'll run across the continent of Weltecs fighting monsters in a team of three, but at certain points, you'll have to lead an army against enemy troops from the kingdoms of Armatura.

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Your army consists of different branches who each use a different type of weapon and have their own strengths and weaknesses. In battle, you will switch between these branches and arrange them into offensive or defensive formations, all while fighting in the front line to boost their morale. When your army's morale is high enough, you can also unleash a special attack.

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Battle Princess of Arcadia will be released for the PlayStation 3 on September 26.

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