Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories is making its way to the west next year, it has been confirmed. The game will be launching on Nintendo Switch, PS4 and PC.
With devastation and destruction everywhere you look, Disaster Report 4 has you trying to escape from the destroyed city around you. You'll be looking out for safe paths to take as you navigate falling buildings while simultaneously talking to other people around you who are understandably shaken up by the events taking place. The game originally launched in Japan on PS4 last year.
We have a brief description and a feature list to tell you a little more:
A calm summer day turns into catastrophe when a massive earthquake strikes your city, throwing buildings and lives into chaos. In order to survive, you must navigate familiar locations under unfamiliar circumstances. The fellow survivors you meet and crucial decisions you make will affect the course of your experience and ultimately determine how your journey through this crisis will end.
Key Features:
- Stop! Think! Then Act! - Evaluate each perilous situation and make decisions that will impact your own safety as well as that of others.
- Torn From the Headlines - Interact with realistic scenarios within a Japanese city devastated by an earthquake, including scenarios designed in collaboration with the Kobe City Fire Bureau.
- Danger Around Every Corner - Navigate a multitude of crises—from collapsing buildings to raging fires—in a city aplomb with peril.
The game is scheduled to launch in the west in 2020; it will keep its Japanese dialogue but will feature English text.
A limited edition has also been revealed (see below). NIS America notes that this edition will also be available on Switch.
Have you been hoping this one might make it over to the west? If this is all new to you, do you like the sound of the game's premise? Tell us below.
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All the camera shaking in that trailer just hurts my eyes. Think I'll be giving this one a pass.
This is great news! I hope we get a HD remasters of the first three games for the Switch.
Ah... Nintendo games that have the word "Disaster" in the title...
Made me think of this golden one-liner:
"They kidnapped... HER... "
Bonus points/likes for those who got that one...
OMG it's Brexit day!!!
@BenAV Well, what else did you expect from a game where you're in the middle of an earthquake? It would seem to me that the camera is doing exactly what is expected, in order to correctly simulate a situation such as that.
Curious to see how well this runs on Switch, considering the frame rate is really bad on PS4.
Anyone want to take bets on how low the FPS gets on the switch?
@ThanosReXXX Sure but the fact that it's intended doesn't make it any easier on my eyes. Just not my type of game I guess?
@BenAV Ah, crap, forgot the smiley. Was just pulling your leg a bit...
Is this the game that was made for PS3, I think, but canceled due to a real-life earthquake that happened just before it was supposed to be released?
@ThanosReXXX Gotcha.
i'm surprised publishers are still including bags in special editons
There should be DLC that turns this into a Shonen Civilian Simulator.
It'd be the exact same game, but there's a bunch of Dragon Ball Z looking characters causing everything instead of just an earthquake.
OMG!! This is amazing. I’m so excited about this. Coincidentally, I’m playing through the first game on PS2 at the moment. All I need now is a HD port of the third game. Day made.
@TossedLlama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62eMDQPD2ZM
@Knighty_IX Got it right the first time...
(well done, you get a like)
Oh I have always been curious about this series. Cool.
@KingMike Correct but thankfully the original developers of Granzella bought the rights to the franchise and continued on the development of this game.
This makes me really want a battle Royal game where you don't kill anyone, but it's just you and 99 other people trying to survive a natural disaster. Like a City Earthquake, a sinking ship, or some other horrific events. The people who either escape the location of the disaster or survive until it's over wins.
Hopefully they don't ship the wrong kind of bag with the collector's edition!
Though the premise of it sounds interesting (I've never heard of the series), this looks extremely campy. I came to the comments expecting people to be writing much of the same, but instead there are people...anticipating this game? mind blown
Great, but, another overproduced 'limited edition'? Really?
@KingMike Yep, that appears to be the case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_Report_4_Plus:_Summer_Memories
@Stu13 Thank god it's not made from that ever so precious material, Canvas
The concept is okay but the execution of it is just.... Mehhhh... Not sure about this one.
@graysoncharles I still have that game on my wii, that game was great, might play it while I wait for bloodstained
I think i might try this one.
A pity City Shrouded in Shadow by the same company is so stuffed with licensed characters that it became impossible to localize. But at least PS4 is region-free. Hopefully there's a translation FAQ out there.
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