No.15877[Reply]
Now's a good time for a JRPG thread, with plenty of stuff to talk about in the news. Also, it's JUNE 23, Caligula's 10th Anniversary, and Suzuna's birthday!
Happy birthday, Suzuna!
Now, for some recent announcements and upcoming releases:
>Square Enix plans to release Final Fantasy VII Revelation in Spring 2027
>Atlus officially announces Persona 6 with a teaser, no details revealed yet
>Persona 4 Revival planned for worldwide release on Feb 18, 2027
>Compile Heart's sci-fi action-RPG "Villion Code", helmed by Atlus veterans Cozy Okada, Tadashi Satomi, and Tsukasa Masuko, releases in Japan on June 25
>Caligula celebrating its 10th anniversary with an official youtube livestream starring Director Yamanaka, in just a couple hours from now at /watch?v=JKaUZ3C4T6c
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So, there's this new RPG from UnitePlus and ArcSystemWorks that caught my attention, titled "Qliphah in Providence's Shadow". Apparently it's about a young man in an apocalyptic Tokyo setting, who becomes a half-demon with tattoo-like markings on his body, and goes around fighting other demons. Wow, what a shockingly original RPG concept that's surely never been done before!
Now, as if the Nocturne aping on display wasn't already obvious and shameless enough, the part that kills me is they even stole that iconic pose! Incredible.
Anyway, most of you guys are probably wondering "Who the fuck are 'UnitePlus'?" I had no idea either at first, so I decided to look them up, and as it turns out: They're a recent company merger between "A-Plus" and "Aquria".
That's right, "Aquria", the same dev team behind Caligula, Crymachina, and Varlet.
What's more, Qliphah's director and lead game designer is the one and only (if you don't mind the TGS presentation's embarrassing spelling error) Satoshi Hirayae himself, the genius behind Caligula's combat system. Good to see him still in business, still working on innovative combat systems, and still sporting that classic dollar-store Skrillex look.
So yeah, this game has my interest, though I'll have to be cautiously optimistic. Apparently it just launched, and I'm already hearing some mixed things from reviewers. Either way, I'm gonna need to upgrade my PC first, and that's probably going to take me a while.
No.17092
>>17085I'm shocked to see there's actually a party of 5, just like in the original game.
It's pretty much the number 1 reason why I'm a bit hesitant to believe this leak's real. Nearly no one at modern-day Atlus seems to have the basic intelligence to count past 4 anymore. With the exception of the SQ team, of course.
That said, I'm still on the side of this leak being real. It looks too high-effort to be fake. And it doesn't look like Ai slop either.
No.17094
>>17093there's a bunch of indicators of it not being AI:
>the gameplay is consistent and fluid>the japanese and english text all makes sense and isn't garbled>some of the text, such as the green SELECT at 49 seconds is so stylized that AI wouldn't generate it>there are placeholders, like the loading screens, the rough sketch cutscene at the end, and the model of the protagonist of Persona 2 standing in for Masao>the music is remixes of existing tracks from Persona 1