Idea Factory has revealed that fantasy RPG Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force will launch on Nintendo Switch next week, arriving slightly later than the originally-planned "fall" release.
The news comes from a new press release in which Idea Factory has also shared some new screenshots and information surrounding the game's battles. Players will need to be aware of several different actions during battle - Action Window, Attack, Wait, and Command - as each move set chosen will ultimately affect the overall turn order. The Command option has a further five options within it, all of which are described below:
- Skills/Magic - Use your SP to use special attacks, heal HP, or other command buffs to help Fang and the gang through tough battles. Note that some skills require HP to use.
- Items - Utilize items wisely to heal HP/SP, remove status effects, and revive party members that are knocked out.
- Special - Each character possesses their own Special command with unique effects. "Fang's Serious Face" Special, increases his attack power by 1.5x, while "Pippin's Persuade," if successful, will make Pippin attempt to "negotiate" with the enemy and drive them away.
- Switch - This allows players to swap in reserve party members (Have up to 6 party members on the field!)
- Fairize - Once your Tension Gauge reaches a certain level, characters can Fairize, which transforms your characters into powerful beings! During their Fairize state, a character's attack and defense becomes much stronger. Players, however, must take caution of the Tension Gauge as characters will be forced out of the Fairize state once the gauge gets too low.
Here are the new screenshots we promised earlier:
The game will be available directly from the Nintendo Switch eShop on 17th January for $39.99. It comes with all 25 DLC previously released with the PS4 version of the game, and a 20% launch discount will be available for its first two weeks on sale.
What do you think? Will you be picking this one up next week? Let us know in the comments.
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Don't understand the bit at the start of the video, may not be suitible to children. There was nothing there at all, compared to Peach Ball that was nothing.
If I ever get around to Y's VIII & working on DQ XI then maybe i'd pick this up, but as always my backlog is too real between switch and PS4 right now.
@Spectra Never played this. Would you characterize it as being similar in gameplay or story to the Neptunia games? Those are the only Idea Factory games I've played, and I honestly couldn't stand them. Still, I'm open to an actually good JRPG from this developer.
EDIT: Looking through their list of developed games, though, I realized I own a lot of their games on Vita, and just haven't gotten around to them. A few otome games. MeiQ. Monster Monpiece. I had no idea.
I love me some B-grade JRPGs
But this might be C-grade. Have to check reviews
I'll dip into this one under a sale. Already have it on another system.
As an aside, I see so many trailers like this nowadays, and they just seem to be hiding the game behind as many overlays and FX as possible. It's almost as if they embarrassed by the game itself. In fact, that is the one impression I get from trailers set up like this, "we are embarrassed to show you the game and will use video to overlay text and flashy things and static artwork instead."
Doesn't work for me at all. Just show me the game! From the tiny glimpses I can see peeking out from the shadows it looks pretty good?
Stop caring after 12hrs in the original. Never thought extra $40 to see if the re-master was any better was worth it (skipped it on PC and PS4 also).
Probably would need to replay a chunk of those 12 hrs over.
Not a horrible game... just lost steam early on.
I've got both New Super Mario U Deluxe and Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition arriving in a couple days, so I'll be giving this a pass on release, but I'll definitely keep an eye out when I need a new game.
Sooooo, what kind of game is this?
EDIT: Before anyone says, yes I know it's an RPG, I'm not THAT stupid. lol
I bought this in the sale for PS4 at least half a year ago now and still not got round to playing it.Looks pretty great but I still have other rpgs to play.(Ys VIII,Octopath Traveller etc)
@aaronsullivan yes, they even wasted like 30 seconds on the boring text crawl from the start of the game!
Wishlisted, may buy in a JRPG lull when on sale - too much in current playlist and backlog to justify the price point.
More RPG's the merrier though
I like the art style, will be watching reviews. Would be much more tempted by a physical release, but it seems like fewer and fewer mid-tier games are getting physical. I'm pretty sure I need a new memory card before I can jump on this.
Interesting, but I am picking up Tales of Vesperia this weekend, and with the overwhelming praise I have seen for that game, this game's luke warm response puts it in the "Well maybe, but I will probably never get around to it" category.
Hi all,
Just to let you know that Ghostlight will be publishing the game in the EU and Australian markets, and that there will be a 20% discount for the first two weeks after launch (starting 17th Jan)
Disclosure: I worked on the port, so am aware of such things.
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