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God Eater A PSP and PS Vita Video Game Title Gets an Anime Series

Namco Bandai announced the staff for the upcoming anime series God Eater. The anime series is based on a popular PSP title. God Eater is a a hack and slash video game developed by Shift and published by Namco Bandai for PS Vita. The video game is set in future Japan where most of the human race is destroyed by some large monsters called Aragami.

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kamper3480d ago

Hope they take their time with it though. Won't want the F/SN project getting in the way of budget.

NovusTerminus3480d ago

Well, they have F/SN, another Kara no Kyoukai movie in works, and the rumored Tsuki Hime remake going on...

All in all, they have a massive amount of anime due out.

HentaiMasterRace3480d ago

If the anime is good then it will help by a lot.

MeteorPanda3480d ago

so they can make an anime but not a localisation of ge2 due to costs? What? WHAT?

scark923480d ago

I would imagine the Anime will help sales in Japan.

NovusTerminus3480d ago

Cost / risk of a Vita game stateside is rather steep for small companies.

I imagine the PS4 version will come over.

Inception3480d ago

Imho, the anime is a win-win situation for God Eater fans and Bamco.

While God Eater fans can enjoy a high quality anime from Ufotable (the studio who made Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night, and Tales of Xillia 1 & 2 anime cutscenes), but if the anime got popular in US/EU it will increase the chance for Bamco to localize God Eater 2.

Just look at Sword Art Online. At first, Bamco doesn't have plan to localize SAO: Hollow Fragment because at that time the anime doesn't have enough follower in US/EU. But more and more people got interested with the series and when season 2 got announced this year, the series already had enough fans for Bamco to localized the games. The result is very good where Hollow Fragment sold like 100k+ in US/EU and shipped 400k worldwide.
http://www.animenewsnetwork...

Also, PS4 is selling like hotcakes. So there's more possibility for Bamco to localize GE 2: Rage Burst for PS4 & vita next year. So be patient mate.

MeteorPanda3480d ago

l'm patient, just blows my mind they'd jump to an anime before localizing a game. to me that's backwards as hell

HammadTheBeast3480d ago

This game would make for a really good anime. Something similar to Attack on Titan or something.

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God Eater Getting Cute Shio Figure by Wing

While there hasn't been a new God Eater game in a while, Japanese figure manufacturers are happy to dig into the series' history for inspiration.

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7 JRPGs That Need to Be Ported to Nintendo Switch ASAP

The Nintendo Switch has become a fantastic JRPG machine, but its library needs to keep expanding in order for it to be the very best.

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Lexreborn21817d ago

They might as well just say they want every PS Vita game that’s ever gone to that on switch. Which begs the question... WHY THE HELL DIDNT THESE PEOPLE SUPPORT THE PLATFORM!?

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How Sony & Third Parties Attempted to Capitalize on Monster Hunter's Absence on PSV

VGChartz: “While the PSP definitely got off to a flying start in terms of sales thanks to the promise of console quality gaming on the go, things took a downturn in the following years due to a variety of factors including increasing competition from the DS & phones, and a lack of quality exclusives. In Japan, one franchise injected new life into the little handheld turning it from a decent seller into the must-have machine in the country - this was, of course, Monster Hunter.

Capcom's co-operative action-adventure series was born on the PS2 but found a much better audience on the PSP, where local ad-hoc play became somewhat of a phenomenon in the country. Each successive release sold better than the previous entry, culminating in Monster Hunter Portable 3rd clearing nearly 5 million copies. The stage was all set for the franchise to make the jump to Sony's new handheld in 2011, but in a surprise piece of news it was announced the series would instead be transitioning to Nintendo's new 3DS handheld.

With the audience still very much interested in buying a true next-gen successor on the Vita despite the hardware shift, other companies stepped in to attempt to plug the gap in the market, leading to a large variety of imitator franchises on the Vita. It's these series I'm intending to examine in this article - what they are (including many that actually pre-dated Monster Hunter or appeared alongside it on PSP), how many entries Vita saw, how well they sold, and how well they succeeded at providing a co-operative hunting experience.”

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Movefasta19932162d ago

Lol i remember soul sacrifice, i remember when people hyped it up to be the next monster esque game, it was fun for a while but it didn't do it for me.

Jaypi032162d ago

Honestly, story wise, I enjoyed it more than Monster Hunter, but it's comparing apples to oranges really.

Movefasta19932161d ago (Edited 2161d ago )

I don't play monster hunter for story, honestly the monster games have terrible stories but I still love them. I couldn't stand the bland environments in soul sacrifice and having to regenerate the abilities.

TheGamez1002162d ago

Freedom wars, God eater, Toukiden, and soul sacrifice I loved. Well the single player stories that is which is the one thing the mh games lacked to me. Very underrated games.

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InKnight7s2162d ago

wow wow stop there lack of quality exclusives? Crisis Core FFVII, Dissidia, Dissidia 012, The 3rd Birthday, KH BBS, Type 0, other SE games, 2 GOW games, DW games, MGS Peace Walker, Dragon Ball Tag Tenkaichi (best DB on the go ever), tons of best anime games including Yu Gi Oh GX, Gundam, HxH, Naruto and so more, Megan Man X, Gran Turismo, 2 GTA games, without mentioning other PS exclusives and MH. PSP main issue was the HACK, without hacking I assume psp games would had sold much better. best portable device ever. with ton of PS1 classics.

Chaos_Order2161d ago

I actually thought Freedom Wars was excellent. Loved the setting, loved the combat, in some aspects I think it beats even Monster Hunter World. (Although MH's scale, scope and depth makes it better overall) I'd love to see a sequel or spiritual successor.