Publisher XSEED Games will bring Ragnarok Odyssey to the PlayStation Vita this year, it said today.
Beautiful PSP role-playing game Grand Knights History might not make it to US shores after all. Publisher XSEED has axed plans to localise the Vanillaware-developed RPG, it said in a statement this morning, citing a lack of “development resources”.
XSEED yesterday teased a new game release, which turns out to be Unchained Blades, the Western title for the dungeon crawler UnchainBlades ReXX. Nintendo Power, in its latest edition, also reports that this game will be a digital download, one of the first full-size titles to be made available that way on the 3DS.
Currently doing rather well for itself on the Steam bestsellers chart, XSEED’s milk-eyed JRPG Ys: The Oath In Felghana has been recommended to me by various corners of the internet. If you can stand to hear me harp on for a moment, I can tell you a little about it. A little? Well, I only played about 60 minutes of it, but have one hour on me.
Nine students trapped in an otherworldly school building in which spirits are trying to kill them in grisly ways, if they don’t eat each other first; we don’t need high-quality 3D graphics where the downloadable PSP title Corpse Party is going.
Fans of the Japanese style role-playing game, particularly the long-running Ys series, have XSEED Games to thank for bringing a long list of developer Falcom’s games Stateside, breathing new life into the PSP.
Former Sonic the Hedgehog producer Yuji Naka has moved on from Sega to Prope, with his latest creation, Ivy the Kiwi?, coming to the Wii and Nintendo DS in a few months, courtesy of XSEED.
