The new game from the creators of the Danganronpa series will be published by Sony subsidiary Aniplex, although it won’t be available on PS5 at first. While there’s a good possibility The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy will be ported to Sony’s system later, as will be the case with Master Detective Archives: Rain Code in October, the team’s latest title will prioritise Nintendo Switch and PC first.
Described as a strategy game, the title will see you assume the role of teenager Takumi Sumino, who lives in the always-safe Tokyo Residential Complex. However, when monsters wreak havoc on the town one day, Takumi is recruited into the Last Defense Academy, where he’s tasked with keeping the school safe alongside 14 other students for 100 days.
As you’d expect, in addition to the tactical gameplay, you’ll also need to strengthen bonds with your allies, and there’ll be up to 100 different endings depending on the decisions you make. We’ll contact Aniplex to try and find out if a PS5 port is on the cards, although it’s worth pointing out that as the label is situated under the Sony Music umbrella, it operates independently from PlayStation.
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Bizarre times we live in. Halo or Gears on PS5 next... Zelda when? lol
@themightyant Yeah, I remember the first time I saw Sonic on a Nintendo console, it felt like the world was not right anymore!
Very intrigued by this. Would like to see it on ps5.
Aniplex is a division of Sony that's very separated from PlayStation and SIE, so they probably just don't care, and it doesn't seem like there's any mandatory rules about launching all "Sony" games on PlayStation first, so that definitely is why a game like this and Ghostbusters VR (from Sony Pictures) don't immediately come to PlayStation.
Still strange to see of course, it's like if a Nintendo subsidiary like Monolith Soft published some game for another company then released it first on Xbox, or to a lesser extent, if the Microsoft Office team published a f--king Scott Pilgrim game or something only on PlayStation, idk.
Sony is a very cohesive company isn’t it.
Can’t be no worse than The Show (made by PlayStation) being free on Xbox Game Pass but PlayStation gamers have to pay to be able to play it
Nice. PC + Switch means I'll be grabbing this for my Steam Deck, which has functionally replaced my Switch for anything non-exclusive. Rain Code looked way too blurry on my Switch.
That said, it'll come to PS5 eventually.
@themightyant Zelda never. Unlike Microsoft, Nintendo realizes the long-term value of keeping its IPs exclusive.
@HotGoomba I know they're not a Nintendo subsidiary, but Game Freak has developed at least one game on Playstation/Xbox, but not Nintendo's console at the time (I'm thinking of Tembo the Badass Elephant).
Yeah Aniplex has published games separate from playstation for years, like that mobile game, Fate Grand Order that has generated Sony over $7 billion in revenue to date.
Wonder if Kodaka is working on this. I haven’t found any Wikipedia article on this or anything of that sort. The art is gorgeous though, I am definitely gonna base my personality around the blue haired goth woman. The tactical rpg + tower defense combo is quite neat actually. Lots of potential there.
@Ralizah Never is a long time. No time soon, that we can agree on but if Nintendo has a couple of bad generations they could be struggling... and then who knows... just ask Sega, or Atari, etc.
@themightyant Fine. Not within any sort of immediately foreseeable future. Far enough away that it's not even worth speculating about.
That said, I've always had the impression that Nintendo would sooner go under on their own terms than become a software developer for platforms held by others.
Now that their hardware lines are combined, it's pretty difficult to imagine any more really bad generations. Their handheld hardware has always sold well (to varying degrees, of course).
@Ralizah True but I think they are going to start seeing increased competition in the handheld space. Handheld PC's like Steamdeck, ROG Allys, Aya Neo's. Rumours of handheld PlayStation's and Xbox's. Plus mobile devices becoming more powerful than Nintendo's hardware.
That leaves Nintendo with their long standing reputation and great games, not much else. Of course both of those are very important and will keep them doing well for a while, but it wouldn't surprise me to see SOME of their market share getting eaten up this gen, perhaps more and more over time. While I hope it's not true it wouldn't surprise me to see them struggling again in 5-10 years.
@themightyant Nintendo has fended off competition from Sony, Sega, and others throughout the years in the handheld space. Their best-selling handheld directly competed against Sony's strongest attempt at muscling in on Nintendo's territory.
In terms of the modern day, a Microsoft handheld is the set-up to a joke, the handheld PCs, while very cool, are incredibly niche compared to the main console lines, and Playstation doesn't have the resources or willpower to compete with Nintendo in that space (which I think is even more the case now than it was when the Vita was a thing).
Anything can happen, of course, but with consolidated hardware lines and most of the biggest IP in the gaming space in their clutches, there's no reason to think they'll struggle again any time soon.
I'd be more worried about the competition. Sony seems to thrive on name recognition alone and a lack of direct competition in the home console space, and Microsoft's gaming branch has turned generating bad PR into a sort of twisted art-form. Both are struggling with long development times and inflated budgets for most of their biggest games.
Well illl just skip it then. No clue how people can still play on switch. By the time it comes to PS, my value for it will be low, sub $20 range atleast
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