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Marvelous AQL

The first details are in from Marvelous AQL’s just-revealed 3DS title, “Forbidden Magna”. You can find a roundup of information included in this week’s Famitsu below.

– Rune Factory producer Yoshifumi Hashimoto will be producing
– Rune Factory series director Masahide Miyata is also working on the game
– Ototsugu Konoe is handling character designer
– 3D graphics
– Visuals have a similar feel to the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory series’ 2D portraits used during conversations
– Lux: red-haired young man and protagonist of the game
– Lux lives on a remote island
– Runs an inn that has been around for a while but doesn’t seem to get too many customers
– After Lux goes to the crystal mines and finding a mysterious bracelet, things start to change
– Charlotte: first spirit of the game
– Charlotte has pink hair in twin tails to go with long ears; lively personality and gets along with everyone
– She uses a Greatsword called Tenimuho (Artless) as her weapon of choice
– Beatrice: silver-haired second spirit
– Beatrice is calm and has a clear mind
– Uses a bow-type, called “Stellar Bowgun”
– Diana: also a spirit
– Has purple hair and likes to keep it on a side ponytail
– Keeps her spear called “Kirin” with her at all times except when bathing
– When she’s on her own, she takes good care of her teddy bear
– “Inn part”: manage the inn with help of the spirits as a way to help get more customers
– Maid system included in the game in which players will be getting the spirits you befriend to help out around the inn while wearing maid outfits
– “ETR System”: increase your relationship with the spirits during inn parts and their combat abilities will increase
– Can also acquire special attacks through certain events
– In battles, you can choose which spirits to take with you
– While exploring, there will be crystals that can be used as an energy source for the spirits
– There will be different areas, including places that rain and farms, that serve as battlefields
– “CLT System” for battles (Connect Lead Time)
– This system is similar to that of Valkyria Chronicles
– Both allies and opponents will have their own turns, and both sides will be able to move around like an action game
– No grids
– 50% complete
– Team is developing with the mindset of trying to make it into a strategy RPG that feels as good as possible

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Marvelous AQL will be offering consumers a four-disc “Senran Kagura Original Soundtrack CD Portrait / Crimson / Deep Crimson” with first-print copies. The item includes music from Senran Kagura: Portrait Girls, Senran Kagura Burst: Crimson Girls, and Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson.

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A limited edition for Senran Kagura 2 will also be available. This will come with a copy of the game, special packaging, a Nan Yaegashi-drawn box, Niitengo (Toy Works Collection) Homura Crimson Squad five figure set, drama CD featuring an original story, and the opening theme song “Hikari to Yami no Kanata” Hanzo Academy Solo Version and arrange soundtrack CD.

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Marvelous AQL has opened a new teaser site for the reveal of a new 3DS game coming from the developers of Rune Factory. The page features a brief message and a countdown set to expire in four days or so. You can find the teaser site right here.

More Harvest Moon: Connect to a New Land screenshots and details have come to light covering two additional characters in the game. Continue on below for the new content.

Menou

– Animal-loving ranger girl
– Seems to know everything there is to know about safaris
– Active even though she may look like an average cut girl
– Can easily wander into dangerous territory without thinking twice
– Often hurts herself and has numerous scratches and light wounds on her body to show for it
– Has a nice personality, one has yet to see her upset

Nadi

– Landscaper
– Speaks bluntly
– Travels around the world on his own to do pruning and gardening work
– When it comes to work, he’s very serious and thorough
– He might be a little harsh when it comes to words, but he also has his sensitive side
– Can occasionally have his feelings hurt rather easily
– Will sometimes feel bad and dwell on his blunt words after hurting another person’s feelings

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Marvelous AQL has pulled the plug on its Rune Factory 4 launch plans for Europe, the company announced today.

The publisher said in an official statement that it “has made every effort to secure the title’s release for this territory,” but was ultimately not able to do so.

Marvelous AQL thanked fans for their support/enthusiasm, and noted that more announcements about new titles will be made “over the coming months.”

The statement in full reads:


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