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BKK2 on 23 April 2009

Soul Breeding PS3 SRPG Picked Up For International Release

By Spencer . April 22, 2009 . 4:36pm

 The thought of a Western company localizing and distributing Agarest Senki boggles the mind. Looks like it’s going to happen thanks in part to European bargain bin publisher Midas Interactive.

 

A rating for Agarest: Generations of War as a PlayStation 3 game popped up in Germany. The name definitely fits. Also, Midas Interactive worked with Idea Factory, the parent company of Compile Heart, in the past by crazily localizing Spectral vs. Generation. The fighting game’s biggest selling point is Neverland characters from Generation of Chaos and Spectral games which were never released in Europe prior to Spectral vs. Generation. Midas Interactive was brazen enough to publish that and localizing Agarest: Generations of War isn’t as weird.

 

Agarest: Generations of War is a generic strategy RPG that became notable or perhaps, notorious, for its Soul Breed system where you date and mate to make the next generation of heroes. The game got a 12+ rating so it might not be as dirty as it sounds or Midas Interactive cut the suggestive bits. Either way if you’ve been dying to play Agarest Senki you can get the game in Europe sometime in the future.

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Surprised to see this get picked up for the west, it's been out quite a while in Japan already, infact the sequel releases there soon. Seeing how strict SCEA are with localisations I'm guessing this won't see a release in NA, but with PS3 being region free at least there should be an English language version available for import.



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Dgc1808 on 23 April 2009

Nice for Eu. Also gives NA's a chance to import if they'd like.



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BKK2 on 23 April 2009
Soriku said:

lol. Apparently it's managing a 12+ rating. Which is pretty weird.

 

I don't think the sexual content is very strong, and that really isn't a problem in Germany or Europe like it is in US, it's violent games that have problems with the German ratings.



outlawauron on 23 April 2009

I am completely and utterly shocked.

This is crazy awesome news.



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blackstar on 23 April 2009
outlawauron said:
I am completely and utterly shocked.

This is crazy awesome news.

makes u wonder

WHY ON EARTH YAKUZA 3 WON'T BE LOCALIZED LOL!!!

 



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Xen on 23 April 2009

Interesting..

Is the game any good?



Zlejedi on 23 April 2009
Soriku said:

lol. Apparently it's managing a 12+ rating. Which is pretty weird.

Anyone noticing the huge EU loving this gen (although I don't think this particular series looks good)? Bah! Great for them but it sucks when NA gets screwed over.

How things have changed :(

There's nothing weird in EU support this gen. It's market as big as USA.

 

As for Censorship we joke that it's like that:

american censor - guns & violence - good good no problems , sex - very bad

EU censor - sex - good good no problems , guns& violence - OMG 18+

 

and wow look at their website - it will be first ps3 game in their offer :D

http://www.midasinteractive.com/



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BKK2 on 23 April 2009
Xen said:
Interesting..

Is the game any good?

Famitsu:

Agarest Senki (PS3, Compile Heart): 6 / 7 / 6 / 5 - (23/40)

 



Xen on 23 April 2009

Famitsu is a shitty source for.. anything. I'll just watch some footage, heh.

If only game was half as good as the battle theme!



Lafiel on 23 April 2009

the jpn demo I had was quite fun, but really, it's a PS1 game graphics wise

I'm more interested in Tears to Tiara releasing here. (and ofcourse Yakuza3/Kenzn, WKC and Demon's Souls)