Australian video game distributor Mindscape have today announced a brand new partnership with Rising Star Games, whose more recent PAL releases have not been released in the Australian market. While myself and I am sure many others hope that this partnership covers many future releases as well, they have currently confirmed that two new titles will be available from Australian and New Zealand retailers in July 2014. These two titles are:
Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God
Tells the tale of Pupuru, an aspiring sorceress on a quest to save her friend’s small curry restaurant from the big bad curry chain that’s moved into the neighbourhood. A classically-inspired combination of dungeon crawling gameplay and Japanese RPG storytelling, Sorcery Saga sees players delve into ever-changing dungeons on the hunt for magical ingredients, fighting monsters and using curry-powered magic in gameplay reminiscent of the Mystery Dungeon style of rogue-like action that’s popular throughout Japan.
A review for Sorcery Saga is already available on The Otaku’s Study HERE.
Hometown Story
Developed by Yasuhiro Wada, the ‘Father of Harvest Moon’, and his studio TOYBOX in Tokyo, Japan, Hometown Story for Nintendo 3DS family systems is a joyous tale that takes players to a fantastic new world full of colour and fun. With characters designed by Atsuko Nishida – the artist behind Pokémon – and music composed by Nobuo Uematsu of Final Fantasy fame, this trio of collective talent brings alive an experience on Nintendo 3DS guarantees to delight gamers both young and old alike. With an exciting mix of adventure, discovery and wonder, Hometown Story offers gameplay paralleled by only a few other titles, such as the critically acclaimed Harvest Moon series.
This would be a more notable acquisition for gaming fans, due to the Nintendo 3DS forbidding importing through its region lock.
Both of these games will be available through EB Games, JB Hi-fi and other video game retailers from next month at a price of $59.95.
Martin Defries | MD of Rising Star Games.
Rising Star Games’ main goal is to bring exciting and unique games to as many people around the world as possible, so being able to work with Mindscape only helps to extend the reach of our releases even further. Hometown Story and Sorcery Saga are two great titles and knowing that gamers in the ANZ region can now enjoy them too is fantastic news.
Tonia Velasco | COO of Mindscape Asia Pacific.
We are really excited to welcome Rising Star Games to our already stellar line up of games partners. Their diverse range of titles is very popular amongst gamers and we look forward to releasing more games in the future.
