Senran Kagura Burst Coming To North America From Xseed

As both Marvelous AQL and Xseed have hinted to Siliconera in the past, Senran Kagura Burst is coming to the Nintendo 3DS in North America as a download title.

As detailed in our past reports on the game, Senran Kagura Burst features two games in one—an upgraded version of the original Senran Kagura (titled Skirting Shadows) with gameplay improvements and its story sequel, Senran Kagura Burst (titled Crimson Girls).

Each game allows you to take control of five female ninjas, each with their own special abilities. In between the game’s brawler-like stages, the story is told through a visual novel format. As the ninjas take damage, their clothing will get damaged (and eventually destroyed), too, which is one of the series’ more infamous features.

Xseed say that Senran Kagura Burst will feature Japanese voices with English subtitles. The game is slated for release in North America via the Nintendo eShop in fall 2013. Surprisingly, the game is rated “T” by the ESRB.

 

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Monster Hunter 4 Lets You Bring Capcom Mascot Instead Of Felyne

Bored with Felynes for some reason? Capcom has you covered with its latest collaboration crossover for Monster Hunter 4. Players who pick up Capbon—Capcom’s official magazine—on September 24 will find a code for a downloadable quest.

Complete that, and the rewards are synthesis materials to create Capbon gear for Felynes that will transform them into' Capbon, the Capcom magazine’s mascot.

Capbon is a green salamander/dragon who runs around holding on to its namesake book, and not a peninsula of Tunisia. Because everyone needs a totally out-of-place-but-oh-so-cute mascot fighting alongside them in Monster Hunter 4, which launched September 14th.

     

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How A Chef And An Anime Fan Became Fighting Game Characters In Chaos Code

Chaos Code is coming out in North America for PlayStation 3 soon. Like Super Cosplay War Ultra, FK Digital created a cast of interesting characters like Bravo, a chef that cooks his opponent in a wok, an android that goes to high school, and an otaku. How did FK Digital come up with these characters? That's what Siliconera asked FK Digital.

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I think the cast of characters in Chaos Code makes the game standout. Where did you get the idea for wacky characters like Bravo and Hikaru who is an otaku?

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Mickey Lin, Producer: It takes some guts to design wacky characters. That’s not what people usually do. Most of the time, anime and comics have cool-looking male characters as protagonists. People gravitate to those types of characters. We were really worried how players would take to these wacky characters, but their response proves that we’d made the right decision.

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It all goes back to our experience developing Super Cosplay War Ultra. SCWU is a game filled with cutesy characters and funny anime scenes. We care more about if players are having fun playing our game than working on balancing combat. If you successfully execute a combo, you will feel like you it is a huge achievement. The player against you may admire your skill and spectators may cheer for you. But, for those who don’t know about fighting games, they won’t feel anything. All they know is you won the bout. We want people who aren’t gamers and people who just watch someone else play to enjoy our game too.

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Of course, we still have handsome guys and pretty girls in this game [laughs].

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Michael Lin, Director: We get inspiration for character design by the people we meet everyday and created exaggerated versions of them.

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We imagined how these people were intensely focused on their profession. The attack moves they use when they need to fight that are inspired by their job. A passionate chef who brings his cooking skills and kitchen appliances to battle, a fired up anime fan who fights as if it’s the last fight, and a teen comic creator who dresses up to attack enemies ' these characters are influenced by anime. I’m sure players can tell the moves these characters use are fueled by their passion of their jobs and hobbies. What makes these characters interesting is how they exaggerate their passion.

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Which character is your favorite?

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Mickey: [shouts] I love Rui the most!

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Ever since I started developing games, I always like designing high school girl characters. This archetype feels young and energetic. Especially after I saw a female character that is a “combat expert in high school” in a fighting game, it made me want to create a high school girl character even more.

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This is the design for Gucci. I created this character for a free-to-play PvP game a while back.

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Can you tell us about some designs or ideas for characters that didn't make it into Chaos Code?

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Mickey: Well, the game is set in the near future. When we were planning the game, every one of us drew whatever they wanted to make and we started from there. Most of the designs that we dropped either didn’t match the world setting or lacked personality.

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You asked a couple questions about Bravo. Every fighting game has a wrestler-like character. We also had one when we were planning for Chaos Code. This was a design we made for a wrestler.

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But, that’s not what we want. This kind of design is straightforward and lacks originality. We wanted to make all characters you can play as in Chaos Code are interesting ones. Of course, we dropped more characters besides the wrestler and maybe we can bring some of these cut characters to life in the future. Actually, my favorite character, Rui, was once cut.

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Cait & Sith has an interesting fighting style with two characters tied together. What inspired this character's fighting style?

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It goes back to having unique characters with personality to them. Cait & Sith are not common in fighting games, and even if there are twins in other fighting games those characters are not a single fighter. As siblings, Cait & Sith are really close and the concept art we drew shows them holding hands while walking. Their attacks were inspired by this picture.

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We want our chef to fight like a chef. Because all of our characters are brimming with personality, we want our twins stand out in the crowd. When designing moves for Cait & Sith, we looked at a lot of sports where you play in a two person team such as doubles in tennis when we designed the moves for the twins. There are quite a few moves that we didn’t include in this game, we might save them to use in the future.

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Siliconera will have more about Chaos Code close to the game's release in North America.

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BlazBlue Chronophantasma's Story Mode Has Three Paths

All of the BlazBlue games have a visual novel-like story to follow. BlazBlue: Chronophantasma continues the plot with three scenarios: Chronophantasma, Sector Seven, and Six Heroes. After the prologue you can pick which path you want to follow.

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Famitsu shared some of the illustrations you'll see in story mode. These are poses for combat, anger, smiling, regular, injured, and worried.

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"I want to stress that I wrote everything for BlazBlue: Chronophantasma. I spent a lot of time on that," producer Toshimichi Mori said to Siliconera. "I plan on revealing most of the major mysteries behind everything that has led up to this point in the story."

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A Clue About Injustice Gods Among Us' Next DLC Character

NetherRealm Studios founder Ed Boon has begun to provide more hints as to who the next DLC character for Injustice: Gods Among Us will be. Below are the relevant tweets where Boon passes out clues for the upcoming DLC:

Clue #1 for Next INJUSTICE DLC character: The Cars. http://t.co/iiyrtjanVT

— Ed Boon (@noobde) July 31, 2013

Clue #2 for Next INJUSTICE DLC character: Upside-down. http://t.co/iiyrtjanVT

— Ed Boon (@noobde) August 1, 2013

Remember, a while ago, Boon said that the next DLC character would be a “BIG” fan favourite request. So, with that in mind, start guessing!

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Europe Finally Gets The Etrian Odyssey IV Demo This Week

This week, Europe will finally get to try out a demo for Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan. NIS America, who are publishing the game in Europe, will release the demo in Europe this Thursday.

The full version of Etrian Odyssey IV will be available in Europe on August 30th.

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This Week In Sales Killer Is Really Dead

Period: The week of July 29th – August 4th (2013)

Top-seller: Disney Magic Castle: My Happy Life – 119,154

Nintendo 3DS sales: 17,747 | Total sales: 8,467,477

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 57,940 | Total sales: 3,522,996

PlayStation Vita sales: 17,702 | Total sales: 1,759,489

Wii U sales: 10,038 | Total sales: 1,026,429

<< Last week’s software sales chart

Last week’s best-seller in Japan was a game that slipped under everyone’s radar—Disney Magic Castle: My Happy Life by Namco Bandai. This is a game where you play as a Mii and get to interact with a number of Disney characters. Check out the trailer below for an idea of what it’s like:

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Meanwhile, the previous week’s best-seller, Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, has reached the very impressive milestone of 300,000 copies sold by its second week—and that’s actual copies sold, not just shipped to retailers. It should be interesting to compare sales with those of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney at the end of the year.

Finally, this week’s other major release, Killer is Dead, the latest game from Grasshopper's Suda51, didn’t fare nearly as well. The game sold a meagre 17,709 copies on PlayStation 3—that’s a lower debut than Lollipop Chainsaw and even No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise.

The top-20 chart for the week was as follows:

LwTwTitleWeekly SalesTotal SalesSys.PublisherNew01.Disney Magic Castle: My Happy Life119,154New3DSNamco Bandai01.02.Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney ' Dual Destinies40,2013290,4193DSCapcom05.03.Mario & Luigi: Dream Team32,537176,2303DSNintendo06.04.Tomodachi Collection: New Life21,3131,330,7803DSNintendoNew05.Killer is Dead17,709NewPS3Kadokawa04.06.The Witch and the Hundred Knights16,13165,340PS3Nippon IchiNew07.MIND≒015,575NewPSVAcquire07.08.Youkai Watch13,819115,1193DSLevel 503.09.Dragon's Crown13,77284,855PSVAtlus02.10.Dragon's Crown13,714118,074PS3Atlus08.11.Fantasy Life Link!10,48728,7213DSLevel 510.12.Pikmin 310,342145,735WiiUNintendo13.13.Animal Crossing: New Leaf9,6203,354,7843DSNintendo14.14.Donkey Kong Country Returns8,481235,1763DSNintendo09.15.LEGO City Undercover7,77225,971WiiUNintendo18.16.Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon7,595850,1343DSNintendo011.17.Earth Defense Force 20257,445230,292PS3D3 Publisher12.18.The Little Battlers Super Custom7,28745,3253DSLevel 5New19.Shiratsuyu no Kai6,187NewPSPIdea Factory16.20.Hoppe-chan Tsukutte Asonde Puni Puni Town!!6,01614,8533DSNippon Columbia

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media Create and Geimin.net.

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One Piece Unlimited World Red Trailer Shows Off The Nine Playable Characters

One Piece Unlimited World: Red is slated for release on Nintendo 3DS in Japan this November, and will have nine playable characters, as previously detailed. This morning, Nintendo released a new Japanese trailer for the game, which you can check out below:

One Piece: Unlimited World: Red will be released on November 21st in Japan. The game hasn’t been announced for a western release so far, but Europe will be getting One Piece: Romance Dawn on Nintendo 3DS.

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Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney Coming Westward In 2014 [Update]

Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is coming to North America and Europe in 2014, Nintendo have announced.

Nintendo made the announcement during a Nintendo Direct presentation this morning.

Update: Trailer added.

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Sega Should Make More Games Like Hero Bank

Sega has mostly been playing it safe this year with their slate of 3DS classics and the yearly Sonic the Hedgehog game. Their biggest risk is either releasing Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f in North America or developing Hero Bank.

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Hero Bank's protagonist owes a whopping billion yen and he plans on paying it off by becoming a Hero Battler. These fights take place in a virtual world where you collect heroes with different skills to use in battle. The trailer shows Kaito controlling a bunch different heroes like a conductor, a bulldog cop, and is… that a salaryman with a lance?' Winning a fight isn't enough, you have to keep the crowd excited by using special moves if you want to rake in dough.

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Hero Bank is slated for release on December 19 on Nintendo 3DS.

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