Sakura Wars is a bit of a cultural phenomenon in Japan, but you’d be forgiven for not knowing about the old SEGA Saturn series. There were sequels on PlayStation platforms, but the dating-sim-cross-JRPG has been largely absent for the best part of 15 years. Now it’s set to make a return on the PlayStation 4, with Project Sakura Wars due out this Winter in Japan, and Spring 2020 in Europe and North America.
“With its strong emphasis on character-driven storytelling and relationship building, fans will find plenty to love with Project Sakura Wars,” the blurb reads. The full game will feature mech battles and dialogue aplenty, powered by a system named LIPS, which will apparently have a “profound impact” on what happens both in and out of battle. This game’s got Robert Ramsey’s name written all over it, to be honest. Why isn’t he writing this article?
[source gematsu.com]
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Showing to much skin. Cover up those hands. Think of the children...
Looks great!love the music too.This is definitely my kind of game.
Nooooo wayyyyy!!! I’ve been waiting on the SW fan translation for ages as well.
Almost certainly going to play this at some point.
I heard good things about this series back in the psone era, I like visual novel and tactical rpg so I'll be getting this
I thought Sammy said the west wasnt going to get this because of Sony censorship stuff? Or was that another site? I trust here and Kotaku for investigative journalism.
Gawddammit, Sony! Too much anime skin! Think of the children!
Now this is a game i did not expect i wonder what characters from previous games if any will make an apparence
I played the one on the Wii and really liked it. Looking forward to this.
Going off the video, I'm torn between the girl with the black bob cut and the girl with tanned skin and massive... fighting spirit.
And they confirmed it is coming West! Yayyy
Cool, I played a bit of the Wii version but sadly it got stolen so I never got the chance to finish it :/
I'll most likely get it.
Different artist? Doesn't look like Kousuke Fujishima did the character designs for this one.
I hope Shin Sakura Wars do well hear so that Sega would decide to release the first four Sakura Wars games internationally as well as re-releasing the fifth entry.
I was surprised how much I liked Sakura Wars So Long My Love on PS2. Really interesting systems. I’ll definitely give this one a try. Hopefully it gets a dub!
This looks great! Glad Sega is showing some balls when it comes to localisations these days. Now bring the samurai Ryu ga gotoku games to the west!
Really like the music cant wait to try this. 😁 😃
Really cool we're finally getting another Sakura Wars game/ Developed by the same team that made the Valkyria Chronicles games as well. I'm all in!
I got the same feeling watching this as I did when I saw Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem. (I never played both games, but I loved the art style) Hopefully the story is good, TMS's story was terrible.
Game looks fantastic. I just hope Sony doesn't censor it somehow.
@Cowboysfan-22 Already been confirmed that it isn't getting a dub in the localisation. Subtitles only.
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