Having inadvertently revealed the news in early May, Atlus has now officially confirmed that it's localising 3DS RPG The Legend of Legacy to the West. It's due in the Americas in the Holiday season and will cost $39.99 / CA$49.99.
Development studio FuRyu has some hugely respected industry figures in its team, with Atlus highlighting illustrator Tomomi Kobayashi (SaGa series), composer Masashi Hamauzu (SaGa, Final Fantasy XIII), and writer Masato Kato (Chrono Trigger); the title has already had a highly respectable level of success in Japan. In addition to featuring battles that utilise formations rather than class types, a key feature is that each of the seven core characters has a different agenda and their own ending, encouraging multiple New Game+ playthroughs. The following is taken from the press release.
In The Legend of Legacy, Seven adventurers - Liber, Meurs, Owen, Bianca, Garnet, Eloise, Filmia - arrive on the mysterious island of Avalon to pursue their own agenda as explorers. They team up with two of the other adventurers to achieve their objectives - be it exploring the island for treasure, looking for the "god" on the island, or recovering lost memories. But things change when they discover a singing stone that causes the party to see phantasms of Avalon's forgotten history.
In addition to exploring the island of Avalon, Combat will offer plenty of challenges in The Legend of Legacy. Combat is turn-based, but players will have the option to create their own formations tailored to their party of three, meaning each party member can be put into a different combat role (defending, attacking, supporting, etc.) at any given time. Formations can be saved and changed between turns as well, giving players plenty of options to maximize their strategies.
Tweaks to gameplay will apparently be made based on feedback from the Japanese audience and to tailor it for the West, too.
Are you excited about The Legend of Legacy adding to the range of RPG titles on the 3DS?
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Nice, another welcome adition to the 3DS library, and a game I'm gonna buy for sure! I love u Atlus!
It looks promising, but so did Bravely Default, and that game was as boring as an investment plan. Still, it's ATLUS, they know what makes RPG's interesting.
I hope it comes to Europe too, it sounds pretty interesting.
Another Atlus 3ds game, where would the 3ds be without them?!
@Kaze_Memaryu In Atlus we trust
Sweetness. More JRPGs is never a bad thing. And this looking a lot like Bravely Default (arguably the best game on the 3DS) just excites me more.
Guy in the throne looks almost exactly like Ringabel!
Also... ugh at Turn-Based...
That kills any excitement for any game for me!
what about europe ?
Another Atlus game. Another purchase.
@Expa0
I have to respectfully disagree with you, BD was good but the story was lacking, my X button was almost destroyed. But JRPGs on the 3DS are never a bad thing
But eww, a three man team? That seems so basic, I'd love to see 6 man teams again like in suikoden
$40? Guess I'll be buying this one new.
@Kaze_Memaryu
Any particular reason you didn't like Bravely Default? Aside from the weird looping stuff later in the game, it was one of the best traditional JRPGs I've played in years that didn't come from Atlus.
Maybe I can get this for Christmas. I am sick of having to pay $10 more. Damn Canadian dollar, although why they couldn't have made it 44.99 is beyond me.
Great news. Heard the game is really hard. The FuRyu game I really wanted though, is the sequel to Unchained Blades.
Looks awesome, I welcome any rpg coming here sad that the price is $50 in Canada, would have been fine with $45
Oh look, another 3DS game that is announced for a North American release, but not for an European. Bless the world.
Oh so we're back in the early 90s now of getting US releases without EU releases. Everyone in Europe speaks english anyway, just give us the english version (except some of the french, but screw em)
@scamander
That's why you import a US 3DS. I love not having to worry about that **** anymore.
@Ralizah Mostly the writing. About 80-90% of the whole conflict could've been avoided if one specific person were to be open with the party before he's about to die, with absolutely no reason for any of the lies he told others. Instead, the "twist" follows the "you wouldn't understand" excuse, only to be wrapped up in about two simple sentences, rendering half of the game a plot-related waste of time and strong people - not to speak of their equal unwillingness to be honest for the sake of stretching the plot.
And while the gameplay is very classic, undoubtedly, I felt like I was playing Final Fantasy XIII again - strategies more often than not boiled down to being the quicker spammer, especially around end-game. Plus, the grinding was unnecessarily tedious, especially since it was very close to a requirement in some situations.
I'm pretty much over turn based combat, I guess I've played too much Skyrim et al.
@Dezzy True..
This will be nice. Hopefully everyone looks at Europe gets to play it.
@Dezzy I'm french and I approve this message.
This looks awesome! Can't wait to see more.
Take it! Take my money now!!! I been hoping for a US release since last year! Between this and FE: IF It will be a very busy non productive winter haha
@scamander
Hey watch the Lang, yes you don't get a game but so what? Life is full of things we want but don't get
Europe? o_O???
Kewl. One of them RPGs I want to come to the US.
I don't really like the artstyle, and what I read a while ago about there only being battles against monsters makes me think the story won't be worh much at all. This'll most likely be a pass for me, but good for the fans I guess.
@Kaze_Memaryu They are only localizing it. The developers are Furyu, i.e. ex-workers from S-E and Level 5.
@LinkSword That just means ATLUS is publishing a good RPG, but it doesn't get in the way of their credibility at all. And FuRyu is a pretty good dev team, as well, so I'm rather positive about Legend of Legacy.
I'd love to be a king who says that exact line! Go explore something!
At this rate, I'll buy more Atlus titles than Nintendo titles...
This looks great. There aren't many traditional RPGs on 3DS and the fact that ATLUS is publishing it means it will go on sale a lot more than any Square Enix-published games... More to the point, the formation gameplay reeks of Final Fantasy VI (you know, the interchangeable party members) and so I'm hyped!
Gotta love the value of our wonderful canadian dollar :-/
Still, I'm happy that this is by Atlus because it means I'll eventually be able to buy this at a good discount.
I suppose this isn't related to some an anime RPG I had to cheaply import for the PSP due to its super-redundant title, Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu: The Legendary Saga.
Interesting, will keep an eye.
ATLUS <3
EDIT: and FuRyu; how silly of me as I did see that. I'm just glad we get these awesome games. I'm loving to art style and the frog character
Now here's to hoping we also get Labyrinth No Kanata and E.X. Troopers! They look too good to not come to America.
Just so people know, this isn't an Atlus developed game. It's by FuRyu, who previously made Unchained Blades (and a buttload of anime licensed games). This one in particular had a lot of staff who previously worked on Square classics like the SaGa series and the Chrono games.
Looks promising. Definitely interested!
Wow this game looks GOOD. Day one, I've made up my mind.
This just reminds me how behind I am on my 3DS backlog, especially for RPGs! Still have to beat:
Radiant Historia
Contact
M&L: Partners in Time
Bravely Default
various SMT games...
oye vey... but excited for this!
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