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ATLUS USA Announce Intent to Release Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner – Soul Hackers on Nintendo 3DS in North America

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With their release of Persona 4 Golden completed, video game publisher ATLUS USA have announced their next ‘Megami Tensei’ localization work. The company has today confirmed their intent to release Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers on the Nintendo 3DS gaming system this coming Spring in North America. Just as the case was with Persona 2: Innocent Sin, this is a port of a game that has never seen release outside of Japan – in either its Sega Saturn form in 1997 or Playstation One form in 1999. Soul Hackers will make its debut in North America with a variety of new gameplay features, enhancements, and a full English localization. For those unfamiliar with this title, check out the following blurb provided with the announcement:

Soul Hackers delivers a first-person, dungeon-crawling RPG experience set in a future where technology and otherworldly forces meet in a macabre fusion of cyberpunk futurism and gothic horror. A first-person sci-fi RPG epic, Soul Hackers tells of a city held up as a beacon of humanity’s triumph of technology, but with an infernal secret. In this would-be utopia, a group of hackers takes on a centuries-old mystic society, and a battle for control over humanity’s fate is about to begin.

In the classic tradition of Shin Megami Tensei, players will have the compelling choice throughout their dungeon exploration to fight the enemy demons they encounter, or negotiate with them in an attempt to turn them into allies and teammates.  Soul Hackers on 3DS includes access to 30 additional demons, a new opening animation movie and theme song, improved controls, and quicker loading times.  Additionally players can use the 3DS’ bottom screen as an auto-mapping function, and engage a COMP hack to change difficulty levels on the fly and fill out maps without walking through.  After clearing the game initially, the 3DS version of Soul Hackers also delivers an extra dungeon, where players will witness the appearance of Raidou Kuzunoha from the previous Devil Summoner games.

Tim Pivnicny | Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ATLUS USA

Soul Hackers’ first-week debut at number two among all titles in Japan is a testament to the continuing quality and popularity of the Shin Megami Tensei series, suggesting a bright future on the 3DS. With the vast array of new features, content, and extensive localization, this long-awaited release will be even more exciting for fans in North America.

 

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