The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals Heaven x Inferno, a free-to-play action RPG with item micro-transactions developed by Star Ocean studio tri-Ace and published by NTT Docomo for iOS and Android. It is due out this summer in Japan.
The game is written by Baccano and Durarara‘s Ryogo Narita and composed by Yuzo Koshiro. It is set in a world where angels and demons lost their substance as the result of a thousand years war between god and demons, leaving behind only humans. The world is divided into the heaven world Aura, the human world Terula Septum, and the hell world Gehenna.
During battles, you’ll spring up enemies to the upper layer (the heaven world) and knock down enemies to the lower layer (the hell world). The enemy’s strength changes depending on the layer, as do automatic effects, so there is a strategic element to battles.
The gaming community lately makes jokes about companies making games that look like "PS3" or "PS2" games. While this is such a nasty dig, there may be some truth to this in the case of tri-Ace.
Sad really. I used to love these guys but man...they just aren't what they used to be.
The Cod games have been using an engine built in the mid 90s. Nothing wrong with using an old engine if they update it. Bioshock used UE2 and looked better than most UE3 games. Arkham knight used UE3 and looked better than most UE4 games.
Sh it does suck but I enjoyed star ocean 6 the most out of any game last year. I thought it was solid af start to finish. My favorite game that year.
I'd love for Sony to get ahold of them.
To late to edit but I just wanted to add not every game that comes out needs to push a consoles boundaries. Star ocean 6 looked fairly good to me.
Yeah. They definitely squeezed every drop out of that engine for SO6. It was a fun game
I assume you are talking about "Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness" which I do have and am still playing. IMHO it is a good game but for some reason I still prefer "Star Ocean: The Last Hope" that I played on my PS3.
As a side note I have "Star Ocean: Till the End of Time" (PS2 version) which I played on my first gen PS3 but unfortunatly the Australian version of the PS3 did not have full backwards capability like the US version did. I got so far in the game and hit a bug (advancement to a new area between two mountains) that prevented further play.
tri-Ace are teasing a new game announcement for TGS 2018. This year's Tokyo Game Show runs from September 20 to 23.
I'm still blown away with Project Awakening, any other PS4 exclusive is just gravy at TGS.
A few days ago, Square Enix opened a “secret teaser site” for a new mobile game for iOS and Android, and that site has now been updated with some interesting elements.
Where's Valkyrie Profile 3 for console? stop making SO the last 2 games was disappointed.
They should just remake Star Ocean: Till The End of Time and call it a day.
OMG yes... Those damn boss with MILLIONS of HP -.- I had to buy the guide cuz i was so into to find the hidden bosses and what not
til the end of time is my favorite out of the ones I've played. Never played 1 or 2. And i just couldn't get into 4
Damn, I was expecting more news related to Star Ocean 5. Maybe a dlc or a patch.
Instead is just Square Enix's mobile fetish again.
