Seems that the developers behind Phantasy Star Nova aren’t going afraid of putting their personal touch on the long running SEGA RPG franchise. Announced at this year’s Tokyo Game Show the game is set to have costumes from previous Tri-Ace games which include Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean and the SEGA published Resonance of Fate.
Even though all the games above are developed by Tri-Ace, Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean are both published and owned by Square-Enix. I wonder how hard it was to convince Square-Enix on allowing them to use their franchises in Phantasy Star Nova.
Phantasy Star Nova is set to release in Japan this November exclusively for the Playstation Vita. What about us in the West? No release date planned, yet. Hit the jump for screenshots.
Sadly, it seems Sega is slowly moving away from the west…… They just don’t care about us anymore…
Don’t be surprised that Sega had Square over a barrel over the unlicensed Virtua Fighter use in that Manga that Square owns. I’m sure that may have had a lot to do with why Square “let” Tri Ace use IP that they own appear in a Sega game…