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Square Enix Gives Gamers an Early Holiday Gift with a Lost Sphear Demo

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Several years ago, game demos were dying out, but now they seem to be making a comeback. High profile games such as Destiny 2Resident Evil 7, and South Park: The Fractured But Whole have all received demos, and so has Square Enix’s upcoming game Lost Sphear.

Lost Sphear takes place in a world where memory is everything: when someone forgets something, a small fragment of the world disappears. Players will take the role of Kanata, a boy who has the ability to bring forgotten things and people back to existence, while reality is on the brink of destruction; entire landscapes and peoples are being forgotten and disappearing into an ever-growing sea of blankness. It is up to Kanata, his allies, and ancient mechs called Volcosuits to save the world from being forgotten and enveloped by the void of nonexistence.

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One of Lost Sphear‘s main selling points is its battle system. The combat is inspired by the mechanics of Chrono Trigger, just like Tokyo RPG Factory’s previous game I am Setsuna, and lets players hit multiple enemies with a single attack if they are positioned correctly. Lost Sphear adds to this system with the ability to move characters in combat (this makes it easier for players to hit more than one enemy with an attack) and the stat-boosting Volcasuits.

Gamers can currently download the demo for Lost Sphear for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC (sorry Xbox One owners). According to the Steam page, the demo will last up to one hour. Moreover, the demo’s Steam page finally reveals the game’s system requirements:

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OS: Windows 7 – 64 bit
Processor: Intel Core i3 2.4GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX460 / Radeon HD5750
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 8 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectSound Compatible sound card

Recommended

OS: Windows 7 – 64 bit
Processor: Intel Core i5 2.0GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
GeForce GTX560Ti / Radeon HD7770
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 8 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectSound Compatible sound card

Judging by the requirements, even gamers with outdated computers will be able to run Lost Sphear without any difficulty.

Lost Sphear is scheduled to release January 23rd, 2018, so consider this demo an early Christmas/Hanukkah gift and a way to decide if the game is right for you. I’m downloading the demo right now, and if you’re a Square Enix RPG fan, so should you.

All you have to do to get my attention is talk about video games, technology, anime, and/or Dungeons & Dragons - also people in spandex fighting rubber suited monsters.

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Ubisoft says that future Assassin’s Creed games will need more time to be made

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As Assassin’s Creed Shadows is about to sneak up on people in November, Ubisoft says that the time between developing games needs to be longer to find the “right balance.” Shadows has been in development for four years, longer than any other game in the series up to this point. That includes the huge open-world epics Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

Shadows lead producer Karl Onnée (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz) says that the latest AC game took 25% longer to make than Valhalla. He says this is necessary to keep the quality of the series that it is known for: “It’s always a balance between time and costs, but the more time you have, the more you can iterate.” You can speed up a project by adding more people to it, but that doesn’t give you more time to make changes.

Onnée says this has as much to do with immersion and aesthetics as it does with fixing bugs and smoothing out pixels. This is because the development team needs time to learn about each new historical setting: “We are trying to make a game that is as real as possible.” We’re proud of it, and the process took a long time. In feudal Japan, building a house is very different from building a house in France or England in the Middle Ages. As an artist, you need to learn where to put things in a feudal Japanese home. For example, food might not belong there. Get all the information you need and learn it. That process takes a long time.”

You’ll have to wait a little longer for Ubisoft to work on each game. Are you okay with that? In what part of Shadows are you now? Is it interesting to you? Leave a comment below and let us know.

 

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You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP on PS5

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You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP, a remaster that Dragami Games and Capcom both created. You can now pre-order the PS5 game on the PS Store for $44.99 or £39.99. If you have PS Plus, you can get an extra 10% off the price.

The company put out a new trailer with about three minutes of gameplay to mark the start of the pre-order period. Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is a remaster of Grasshopper Manufacture’s crazy action game from 2012. You play as Juliet, a high school student who fights off waves of zombies.

The remaster adds RePOP mode, an alternative mode that swaps out the blood and gore for fun visual effects. It also adds a bunch of other features and improvements that make the game better overall. You can expect the graphics and sound to be better as well.

The game will now come out on September 12, 2024, instead of September 12, 2024. Are you excited to get back to this? Please cheer us on in the section below.

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This Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 zombies trailer is way too expensive

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Is there really anyone who is following the story of Call of Duty’s zombie mode? We’ve known about the story in a vague way for a while, but we couldn’t tell you anything about it. It looks like the “Dark Aether” story will continue in Black Ops 6, but we don’t really know what that means.

For those of you who care, here is the official blurb with some background: “Requiem, led by the CIA, finally closed the last-dimensional portal, sending its inhabitants back to the nightmare world known as the Dark Aether, after two years of fighting zombie outbreaks around the world during the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War timeline.”

Wait, there’s more! “Agent Samantha Maxis gave her life to seal this weird dimension from the inside out.” Even worse things were to come: senior staff members of Requiem were arrested without a reason by the Project Director, who turned out to be Edward Richtofen.

Black Ops 6 will take place about five years later, and it looks like it will show more about Richtofen’s goals and motivations. The most important thing is that you will probably be shooting an unimaginable number of zombies in the head. This week, on August 8, there will be a full reveal of the gameplay, so keep an eye out for that.

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