North American release date for Azure Striker Gunvolt coming soon
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Last week, Inti Creates announced that Azure Striker Gunvolt will be hitting Japan in mid-August. News regarding the game’s North American release date apparently isn’t too far behind.
The official Azure Striker Gunvolt teaesd on Twitter just a short while ago:
Localization is well really! The day to announce the release date of the North American version is close. 🙂 #gunvolt pic.twitter.com/gBx7wjYUgz
— gunvolt_official (@GunvoltOfficial) July 1, 2014
Azure Striker Gunvolt details
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Another round of Azure Striker Gunvolt are now available. You can find them all in our summary below.
– Game has a leveling up system
– Raise Gunvolt’s level, increase his HP, and get new skills
– Learn skills at certain levels
– Defeat enemies to level up
– At certain levels, Gunvolt will learn a new Attack or Support skill
– Skills are used by touching a Skill icon on the Nintendo 3DS touch screen
– Equip up to four skills at a time
– Need SP to use skills
– Gunvolt can has up to 3 SP at any point
Skill examples
– Lightning Sphere (SP Cost: 1) – Spheres of electricity appear around Gunvolt and deliver consecutive damage to enemies
– Electrocaliber (SP Cost: 2) – GV summons a giant blade of electricity that thrusts forward
– Voltic Chain (SP Cost: 3) – Numerous giant chains crisscross the screen and get charged with electricity; the more enemies there are in the area, the more effective the attack
– Healing Voltage (SP Cost: 1) – Gunvolt boosts his body’s electrical system to recover HP
– Gunvolt can also use Psychic Abilities
– Ex: “Afterimage” – activates when GV is hit by an enemy attack, and automatically allows him to dodge attacks for as long as the ability remains active
– Afterimage can’t be used while Gunvolt is using his Lightning Ring attack
– This is another Psychic Ability
– Afterimage and other Psychic Abilities cost Energy Points (EP) to use
– The EP bar is the curved gauge you see underneath GV himself, and if it reaches zero, he overheats
– Recover EP by quickly tapping down on the d-pad twice
– Can also recover with the Recharge skill
– This completely restores EP lost from using Psychic Abilities such as Lightning Ring and Afterimage
– The skill allows Gunvolt to recover immediately from overheating
Azure Striker Gunvolt screenshots/art
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Azure Striker Gunvolt hitting Japan in August, game systems introduction video
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Inti Creates has revealed that Azure Striker Gunvolt will be hitting Japan in mid-August – hopefully a western release will follow soon after. Along with the announcement, the company released a game systems introduction video that you can find above.
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Azure Striker Gunvolt stage details
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More Azure Striker Gunvolt have come in pertaining to three stages in the game. For the latest information, check out our summary below.
Mission: Inferno (Boss: Daytona)
– Asimov orders Gunvolt to conduct an attack on a Sumeragi chemical plant
– GV infiltrates a freight train to make his way to the destination
– While on board, he runs into a “Spider”
– This is a tenth-generation battle tank prototype developed by Sumeragi
– Gunvolt heads to the chemical plant after the Spider encounter
– Piled containers are destructible, and can be used strategically to make progress smoother
– Enemies in the area need to be defeated if an alarm is tripped
– Plasma lifters can be controlled with GV’s Lightning Ring
– Use it to avoid falling into lava and tripping alarms
Mission: Restless Spirits (Boss: Elise)
– Reports of a ghost appearing every night at a Sumeragi warehouse reach the ears of QUILL.
– Gino is investigation the situation and reports that the basement of the warehouse has turned into a completely alien environment
– Gunvolt is asked by Gino to investigate the underground facility
– Here he discovers the ruins of a laboratory
– This is where he runs into Elise, who has been left behind in the wreckage
– Locking onto devices and directing lightning at them causes the emergency power to come on and disable beam barriers
– Defeated zombies will spurt out bodily fluids that will reduce visibility
– GV’s Lightning Ring Shield offers some light in dark areas
– Locking onto light mechanisms and directing lightning at them will make things a lot brighter
Mission: The Flowers of Evil (Boss: Stratos)
– Sumeragi has a monopoly on a drug named S.E.E.D.
– S.E.E.D. was initially created to combat a mysterious illness called “jamming”
– It’s now being used to brainwash psychics
– S.E.E.D. is also used to keep Stratos’ powers in check
– Gunvolt encounters him while on a mission to destroy the laboratory containing the plan from which S.E.E.D. is extracted
– The flies produced by Stratos will indiscriminately attack friend and foe alike
– Need to fight the mid-stage boss ViVid on unstable platforms that disappear when touched by the Lightning Ring
– The creepers growing around the area are sensitive to GV’s Lightning Ring and will attack in its presence
Azure Striker Gunvolt – Swordsmen details
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Inti Creates has shared new details about Azure Striker Gunvolt. This time around, we have information about the game’s Swordsmen.
You can find today’s details rounded up below:
– Individuals with special powers are called “psychics”
– Normally, psychics possess psychic elements within their bodies that allow them to use their powers
– The Sumeragi Corporation has taken seven powerful psychics and extracted their psychic elements into sword-shaped devices
– These 7 psychics are known as “Swordsmen”
– They serve as Azure Striker Gunvolt’s bosses
– Their swords allow them to stay out of trouble and live ordinary lives
– These swords can be used remotely to control any unwanted bursts of powers
– In cases of emergency, Sumeragi’s monitoring facility gives them access to these swords and they fuse with them, triggering a transformation dubbed “weaponization”
Here’s a look at three of these Swordsmen you’ll fight in Azure Striker Gunvolt:
Daytona
– Patrols Sumeragi’s chemical plant complex
– Has the psychic power “Explosion”
– He was originally a notorious gang leader, but fell in love with Lumen’s voice and enlisted as part of Sumeragi’s private army
– Daytona can compress thermal energy into small spheres called Angry Bombs that explode on impact
– He can also enflame his legs and his sword of choice is “Lord of Fire”
– Performs a leg sweep with explosive velocity
– Daytona fires shells in three directions
– He uses wall jumps to climb up a pillar of flames while scattering shells all over the ground to immobilize GV, then performs a drop kick
– Daytona slams GV with an axe kick engulfed in flames
– Daytona performs a sudden direction shift in midair during a Unicorn Drop, then kicks the air to produces a barrage of small energy projectiles
– Special Ability: Daytona fires blazing projectiles across the screen while enjoying a temporary defense boost
Elise
– Elise was being held prisoner by Sumeragi
– Has the ultimate psychic power known as “Rebirth”
– Rebirth: manipulate the soul into spinning out life for eternity
– Sumeragi were attempting to implant Eise’s brain with a more aggressive persona that ended up taking control of her original, weak-willed persona
– Sumeragi wasn’t able to contain her power
– This resulted in a rampage that leveled the research facility she was being held at
– Uses the “Living Blade” sword
– Controls “vipers” that she can shape into daggers
– After being thrown, she can make them come back to life as zombies
– Elise wraps her whip around a pole and travels rapidly around the screen
– Elise throws a dagger. If it hits the ground, it turns into a viper that attacks GV
– Elise emits a petrifying gaze. While petrified, GV is unable to move and suffers much greater damage than usual. The effect can be broken by wiggling around the Circle Pad
– Elise’s two personas attack GV together using both whips and daggers
– Special Ability: Destroying one of Elise’s personas will cause the other persona to resurrect her
Stratos
– Swordsman
– Was held prisoner by Sumeragi
– Before being captured, he was a handsome, popular man
– No trace of this man remains today
– Can use the “Fly” ability
– He can also turn his flesh into fly-shaped particles of energy that can dismantle any matter and incorporate it into his body
– Repeated experimentation on Stratos has caused his powers to become too powerful for even his Sword, “Lizardslayer” to control
– S.E.E.D. drug keeps him in check
– This is extracted from the experimental plant ViVid
– Stratos, in fly form, turns into a ball and charges at GV
– Stratos lays eggs in the ground. Flies hatch from the eggs and attack GV at once
– Stratos transforms into a giant mouth that sprouts from the ground and chases GV, repeatedly trying to swallow him whole
– Stratos’ body splits in two and deploys flies against GV. The fly attacks can be blocked with the Lightning Ring Shield, but the two Stratoses will be charging at GV the whole time.
– Special Ability: Stratos gathers flies from devices on the right and left sides of the screen to turn into a giant and deliver a single devastating attack
– Either Stratos needs to be defeated or the devices need to be destroyed before the transformation is complete
Azure Striker Gunvolt screenshots/art
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Details about how Azure Striker Gunvolt presents its story
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In a new report, Japanese outlet 4Gamer reveals details on how Azure Striker Gunvolt presents its story. Information collected from the article can be found below.
– Story is told through fragmented messages
– Messages will automatically appear on the 3DS’ screen
– Fully-voiced story
– “Light Novel 2D” Action story style
– Messages will appear in the midst of action
– Can turn voices off
– Gino is a reliable young man that always cares for his buddy, GV
– The messages you get from the characters won’t always be about what’s currently going on
– Character will occasionally discuss their feelings and other random things.
– Event scenes and everything else are fully voiced
– Boss characters will have plenty to say
– Bosses may even share their thoughts that might make you understand their situation a little
Azure Striker Gunvolt details
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A new batch of Azure Striker Gunvolt details have popped up online. You can find them rounded up below, as translated by Siliconera.
General
– Once again, the game’s story focuses on the concept of “psychic powers”
– Psychic powers are basically mutant abilities
– In the near future, people possessing these psychic powers emerged
– People initially feared them
– The conglomerate Sumeragi Group took it upon themselves to supervise them and maintain peace
– Sumeragi are actually running a concentration camp for psychics
– Here, they experiment on their psychic prisoners
– The organization QUILL was created to combat the Sumeragi Group
– QUILL is a subdivision of a foreign human rights organization that is dedicated to protecting psychics, and Gunvolt himself is part of this group
Asimov
– One of QUILL’s founding members
– Team leader
– Skilled marksman
– Uses a sniper rifle
– Displays no emotion while on the job, but his passion for QUILL’s cause is well known among those that look up to him
– Rescued Gunvolt from a Sumeragi facility where he underwent terrible experiments
– Thought of as a teacher and father by Gunvolt
Gino
– “life of the party” at QUILL
– Loves anime, manga, games
– Tends to crack frivolous jokes at other people’s expense
– Cares for Gunvolt even after he leaves QUILL
Monica
– Operations officer at QUILL
– No psychic powers
– She’s sort an older sister to both GV and Gino
– Has a clumsy side to her, despite normally being a serious and highly capable officer
– Has a deep admiration for Asimov
Sumeragi
– Powerful conglomerate that is composed of power companies
– Sole supplier of the nation’s energy needs
– Also involved in media, space development and military technology
– Have a great influence over politics as well
Shiden
– Sumeragi lieutenant
– Has a small army of psychics and soldiers serving under him
– Leading a project that would give Sumeragi total control over all psychics
– Speaks in riddles and has a tendency to look down on others
– Thought of as the most powerful among the Sumeragi psychics
