7^th Dragon III Code VDF is the latest entry in the 7^th Dragon series (the fourth one to be exact), but it’s the first one being brought to the west by our friends at SEGA.  7^th Dragon III Code VDF puts you in the shoes of the squad known as Unit 13 as they work for Nodens, a game development studio front to disguise their dragon hunting and research shenanigans. Here you are tasked with traveling through three different time periods to hunt down the dangerous high dragons to obtain the ingredients to forge a weapon to prevent an impending calamity of another high dragon destroying Tokyo and the rest of humanity with it… again. While this may seem all overwhelming at first, SEGA has your back on this one by providing you the best way you can possibly take down these dragons, and that’s by letting you create the team to do it.

In 7^th Dragon III Code VDF customization is your key to victory. You take the role of the leader of Unit 13 tasked of ridding the world of Dragons. So what does our protagonist and his squad look like? Well that is up to you. Every playable character in this game is fully customizable with a vast amount of different classes, looks and voices to choose from. This game gives you the freedom of creating your squad in the vision you want. And I have to tell you, it works rather well. While there are a lot of classes to choose from, you are free to experiment around and create team mates that you think suit your play style. Personally I found great success with the Samurai-Agent-God Hand combo, a well-balanced party, but as you progress further in the game you can unlock even more powerful classes. The customization doesn’t even stop there. Each class has their own skill tree a character can progress down, meaning you can unlock different skills to adjust to your playstyle. Normally, I would say you should spread out your skills evenly, but, in this game’s case, I say prioritize the skills you want a certain character to learn to fit their playstyle. Want your agent class to be able to hack into every enemy and inflict nasty status ailments? Focus all your skills on hacking and the sub hack skills. Want your God-Hand to be able to take out a dragon in one punch? Level-up all of their offensive abilities and don’t worry about their defensive ones. Or don’t and do the opposite, it’s up to you to choose how you play this game.

There is, indeed, so much you can do in this game. You can create the team of your dreams, go on quests, slay dragons, or even name one after the boy or girl you like and take them on a romantic date. 7^th Dragon III is definitely a game for 3DS owners to look into this summer if you are looking for a challenging, yet rewarding fully customizable experience.

7^th Dragon III Code VDF launches this summer on July 12^th for $39.99, and each day one copy comes with a 28 page art book showing all of the different art of the character models and places in the game. Be sure to keep an eye for our full review of this game coming early in July. We will also be making a handy tips video for you noobie dragon hunters out there so you can get a good idea of what to do before you jump on into this game.

Today Natsume has just announced Harvest Moon Skytree Village for the Nintendo 3DS, this is the third game in Natsume’s Harvest Moon series, and second to come to the 3DS, since Bokujō Monogatari went to XSEED Games. It will be interesting to see what Natsume does with their second 3DS, entry into this series. We will be sure to cover more about this game as it develops, as Natsume has confirmed there will be more shown off at E3, with a playable demo on the show floor.

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Key Features of Harvest Moon: Skytree Village –

• Play as a boy or a girl, woo bachelorettes and bachelors, and start a family!
• Completely new story with tons of interesting new characters.
• New crops and flowers to discover.
• New fishing mechanics: expand waterways and catch rarer fish.
• A full town with many residents, each with their own personalities and quirks.

-PR

In a recent investor’s meeting with Marvelous AQL, they reported that their United States subsidiary company XSEED Games has posted their best fiscal year in the companies history. This was due to Story of Seasons for the 3DS (formerly known as Harvest Moon) and Senran Kagura Estival Versus for PS4 and PS Vita. You can see the full statement in regards to XSEED here.

It’s good to see that XSEED is doing extremely well since being acquired by Marvelous AQL in 2008. It’s also refreshing to see the success of Story of Seasons despite the re-branding and customer confusion over the name change. It’s also good to see Senran Kagura doing well in the west as well. Hopefully XSEED will continue this trend as they localize more of Marvelous’s library of games.

Valkyria Chronicles Remastered

Developer: SEGA

Publisher: SEGA

System: PS4

ESRB Rating: T

MSRP: $29.99

A Review copy was provided by SEGA

Valkyria Chronicles originally debuted on the PS3 and became a cult classic over time. Me, being a person who never got a PS3 until a couple of years ago, never got a chance to actually play the game. A lot of my friends would talk to me about how great the game is, and, I will admit, a game that is basically an anime rendition of World War II intrigued me. So when I heard the game was being remastered for the PS4, I thought I might as well give it a try after all these years. Now, I should mention that even though this is a remastered game, this is my first time ever playing it, so this review will be based on its overall presentation.

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MegaTagmension Blanc+Neptune vs. Zombies

Developer: Compile Heart/Tamsoft

Publisher: Idea Factory International

Platform: PS Vita

ESRB Rating: T

Release Date: May 10^th, 2016

A Review Copy was provided by Idea Factory International

MegaTagmension Blanc is the latest Hyperdimension Neptunia spin off, starring our tough and tiny protagonist Blanc. This game sees itself more as a sequel to Hyperdimension Neptunia Action U in terms of gameplay, but instead of fighting waves of your standard Neptunia enemies you are fighting waves of zombies. Also our characters stay clothed this time when taking damage.  However, the similarities stop there, as this is the first game in the Neptunia series to include a multiplayer feature, and the game works completely around a co-operative experience. But how does this game hold up for being the first multiplayer centered game in the series? Let’s find out.

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Platform: PC

Developer:Team GrisGris

Publisher: XSEED Games

Rated: M

Release Date: April 25, 2016

A review copy has been provided by XSEED Games

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: it’s a dark and stormy night after the school festival, seven children in charge of cleaning up stop to tell a ghost story about “Heavenly Host Elementary,” and how a teacher died in the school. Shortly after, the school was shut down and destroyed. In on it – their teacher decides to spook one of the students. Shortly after, a character’s little sister stops by to bring them their umbrella as they forgot it at home. Due to the fact that another character is moving away, the cast decides to perform the “Sachiko Ever After” ritual, a ritual that works as a charm in that, once performed, you will be best friends forever with the people you did it with. In this circumstance, not only are these nine people now BFFs, they’ve also been teleported to “Heavenly Host Elementary.” If you’re familiar with this introduction, then you’ve probably played Corpse Party already on the PSP which was Corpse Party Blood Covered… Repeated Fear. In that sense, outside of some minor details, these versions are incredibly similar.

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Developer:Nintendo EAD/Platinum Games

Publisher: Nintendo of America

Platform:Wii U

ESRB Rating:E10

A Copy Was Purchased By the Reviewer

Star Fox Zero is a Wii U re-imagining of the original Star Fox 64. It’s been ten years since the last game in the franchise so let’s take it for a spin.

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Developer: Nintendo EAD/Platinum Games

Publisher: Nintendo of America

Platform:Wii U

ESRB Rating: E10

A Copy Was Acquired Through the Purchase of Star Fox Zero

Nintendo seems to always be taking different takes and spins on different types of genres. Whether it be the shooting genre with Splatoon or racing with Mario Kart 8, we now have Nintendo trying their hand on the Tower Defense genre with Star Fox Guard. Needless to say, Nintendo has once again worked their magic, taking an already established genre they have not dealt with before and adding their own Nintendo Flare to it.

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