Koei Tecmo has released their report for the fiscal year of 2019, which ended in March 2020. Alongside the report have come updates on sales for titles released between April 2019 and March 2020, as well as updates on the company’s future plans, including a brief mention of the worldwide release of Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, a title made in collaboration with Atlus.
Twitter user @bk2128 has highlighted most of the fiscal report, which is currently only available in Japanese, however at the end of the report it mentions that a worldwide release for Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers is still being planned and will likely be part of the company’s 2020 fiscal year.
Koei Tecmo's upcoming plans are all known so far:
-Fairy Tail RPG on 25 June
-Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 7 on 18 June
-Nioh 2 DLC & Persona 5S localization are still being plannedhttps://t.co/qKIOzQoeQ2 pic.twitter.com/XpNfqirPBU— 黒凧 BlackKite (@bk2128) April 27, 2020
Previously a trademark filed by Atlus featured a logo reading ‘Persona 5 Strikers’, which lead many to believe that this would be the English title for the game, however the game has not yet been mentioned by Atlus USA outside of a survey released alongside Persona 5 Royal asking players if they would be interested in an English release.
Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers released in Japan on February 20th, 2020.
Developer Broccoli have announced that the upcoming otome game Jack Jeanne has been delayed from its August 5th Japanese release date to December 3rd 2020. The game is currently set for a Japanese release only, with no English localisation announced yet.
The delay was revealed in a new teaser for the game, which you can see below.
Koei Tecmo is releasing a new update for Monster Rancher in Japan, which will bring a bunch of new content for free.
Most notably, there will be more monsters and an added Tournament mode where your monsters can battle without any instruction from breeders. There is also more music data to be added to the game (some of it exclusively for the Switch version) and a battle mode where you can select monsters uploaded from different players.
The full details have been translated from Koei Tecmo’s press release and are included below, courtesy of Gematsu:
A new update for Pokemon Masters has been released (version 1.9) and it brings a long awaited feature – the ability to hatch eggs.
Eggs hatch after completing a series of battles in different areas and they hatch into Sync Pairs. It is then possible to raise the power of the Pokemon that hatch from the eggs with an item called a Berry Tart (which will be added in a future update). Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle are currently available to hatch from eggs, although more Pokemon will be added later. Each require 5 completed battles in order to hatch.
Other additions include a Daily Scout which you can use to obtain daily Sync Pairs/items at no cost and a feature that allows you to change the order that enemies will target your team members.
Dragalia has released a new crossover event with Fire Emblem Heroes called Fire Emblem: Kindred Ties. This event will launch on April 29, 11pm PT and it will last until May 11, 1o:59pm PT.
Some of the new Fire Emblem characters to be featured will be the swordsmen Chrom from Fire Emblem: Awakening and Peony from Fire Emblem: Heroes who will be added to the first part of the event. Then, the second part will bring the divine dragon Tiki, who appears in several Fire Emblem games.
In addition, this event will bring exclusive items and boss battles as well as a new mode: Coliseum. In Coliseum you can fight waves of foes and take on high-difficultly quests. All of this has been communicated in a trailer for the event, which has been linked below.
As of today at 8pm PT, a new update has rolled out for Dragalia Lost (version 1.19.0). This update brings loads of new features that you can check out in the column below:
It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 holds strong at the second position while Bravely Default II enters the top ten.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between April 9 and April 15.
Nintendo has prepared a new trailer for Dr. Mario World that highlights the game’s latest characters. As previously announced, Dr. Lakitu and Dr. Gooma Tower are being added. Parabomb is also stopping by as an assistant.
Here’s the video:
All of these characters are going live with the latest update on April 27.
A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include Alien: Isolation, Celeste, the Fate/Extella games, Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered, Heroland, TowerFall, and more.
Here are the full highlights:
Interabang Entertainment is bringing Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl to Switch, according to an eShop listing. The side-scrolling brawler will release digitally on May 7.
Here’s a brief overview of the game, along with a trailer:
