Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness Will Monitor PS4, Vita in the West

Keeping an eye on you

by Robert Ramsey Mon 22nd Feb 2016

We hope that you're living out your life in accordance with the state, because dystopian visual novel Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness is heading West later this year. The stylish title is based on the popular anime series, and features an original story that's set within the franchise's universe.

Much like the rather enjoyable Steins;Gate, Psycho-Pass promises a well written and intelligent story with plenty of twists and turns to keep you playing. It's being published by NIS America this autumn on PlayStation 4 and Vita.

Take a look at the game's admittedly uninformative trailer and let us know if you'll be spending some time in a dystopian future in the comments section below.

[source dualshockers.com, via gematsu.com]

Robert (or Rob if you're lazy) is an assistant editor of Push Square, and has been a fan of PlayStation since the 90s, when Tekken 2 introduced him to the incredible world of video games. He still takes his fighting games seriously, but RPGs are his true passion. The Witcher, Persona, Dragon Quest, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Trails, Tales — he's played 'em all. A little too much, some might say.

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FullbringIchigo
Mon 22nd Feb 2016

nice!

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WickedKnightAl
Mon 22nd Feb 2016

Awesome.

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themcnoisy
Mon 22nd Feb 2016

Dominator set to kill - my psychopass is well over 200 at this news.

4
Cowboysfan-22
Mon 22nd Feb 2016

Does anyone know if this will be dubbed? Was Steins;Gate dubbed?

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sonicmeerkat
Mon 22nd Feb 2016

Huh those characters look very similar to the cast of mind 0, I hope its more fun than mind 0.

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Riririn
Mon 22nd Feb 2016

An obscure title like this? Dubbed? Don't think so.

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AFCC
Tue 23rd Feb 2016

Hmm what is this about? Is this like Danganropa or Virtues Last Reward?

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Utena-mobile
Tue 23rd Feb 2016

@AFCC
yeah, it is. it's an interactive (kinetic) visual novel.

anyways, this news breaks my heart. I love Psycho-Pass and I've been wanting this game for a long time, but I wanted it for my Xbox. This is disheartening for 2 reasons.

1) the Xbox has exclusive features that allow you to use your smarthphone or windows glass to interact with the game and help solve crime scens

and 2) Xbox had this as an exclusive for awhile, and it's not coming to the U.S., which (unless it's a licensing issue, which I doubt) means that they don't care about Japanese games outside of Final Fantasy and Resident Evil, and that they don't care about fans of Japanese games who happen to own an Xbox in the U.S.

*sigh

well, at least it's coming here.