PS Vita gets new trio from Japan

Sony has announced a trio of new PS Vita games, including Soul Sacrifice Delta, Freedom Wars and Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines.

Soul Sacrifice Delta will be first to arrive on 14 May. Details are still to be confirmed for Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines and Freedom Wars in the coming months.

Soul Sacrifice Delta

Soul Sacrifice Delta is the ultimate edition of Soul Sacrifice with tons of new content and improvements. Grim, the faction who believes in neutrality in all things, joins the blood thirsty Avalon and the merciful Sanctuarium, and adds a third angle to bring the Delta in Soul Sacrifice. Grim’s beliefs, rooted in the prophecy they will seek to realise, will bring about irrevocable changes to the world as we know it.

The concept of faction is now at the heart of the game with players able to join the side of their choice, each with their own strengths and play styles. Players from each faction can now register their overall progress

Soul Sacrifice Delta brings a lot of new content as well, with new Archfiends inspired by dark retellings of classic fairy tales, new sorcerers, arenas, spells and even more quests.

We have also made many improvements to the game design and systems: the graphics engine has been optimised, some arenas are now dynamic with weather effects and structural changes during battle, the spells system has been refined and allows for more collaborative and deeper gameplay. We’ve also improved the AI of the Archfiends, who are now more vicious than ever. Finally, we’ve taken character customisation to a new level, with the ability to mix costume parts and accessories.

Freedom Wars

Freedom Wars is coming to Europe! Some of you may have caught wind of the team working on this title, but Japan Studio, Shift and Dimps have joined forces to create an action-packed RPG on PlayStation Vita.

Freedom Wars is set in a dystopian world which harbours prisoners, each with a million-year sentence set from birth. You take on the role of a prisoner, forced to fight for your freedom by completing rescue missions that will reduce your seemingly insurmountable prison sentence.

Supported by a robust multiplayer suite, up to four players can play via Ad-Hoc and eight players via Online to fight civilian Abducters: the more civilians you set free, the shorter your sentence becomes. In addition to the challenging co-op gameplay, you’ll be pleased to know that the game has many customizable features ranging from weapon load-outs to the protagonist itself.

Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines

Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines is an RPG in which you take charge of an ancient Japanese clan that has been cursed with a maximum lifespan of just 2 years. Your task is to lead the clan on their quest to lift the curse and enlist the help of gods inspired by Japanese mythology to make sure each new generation of the clan is more powerful than the last.

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