Fantasy Tactical RPG Langrisser: Sea of Sword Announced with Debut Trailer

Developer BlackJack Studio revealed the adjacent crippled successful the long-running Langrisser RPG franchise with a debut teaser trailer connected Thursday. Titled Langrisser: Sea of Sword, it marks a next-generation leap for the series. It’s releasing globally connected iOS, Android, Steam, and PC and is officially unfastened for pre-registration now.

The Langrisser bid has been going beardown for 35 years present and is known for its squad-based tactical battles and branching communicative paths. Langrisser: Sea of Sword builds connected that foundation, but the communicative takes the bid successful a darker, much aggravated direction. Bucking the series’ caller inclination of agleam and straightforward heroic adventures, the caller installment alternatively focuses connected the clash of factions and conflict for power, wherever fates of full nations bent successful the equilibrium and your decisions tin signifier the people of fate.

You play arsenic a nameless protagonist trying to regain their mislaid memories portion traveling with a mysterious white-haired miss crossed a continent shrouded successful the Sea of Mists. The teaser trailer gives america a glimpse astatine the game's darker tone, with images of discarded weapons and armor strewn crossed a formation arsenic if leftover from a bloody battle. Then we spot sun-drenched metropolis streets and castles, which are replaced by decaying underwater remnants.

Official sources told IGN that the game’s soundtrack was composed by renowned RPG composer Yasunori Nishiki, who’s built a beardown estimation for his sweeping orchestral compositions. He’s possibly champion known for being the pb composer of the Octopath Traveler series, for which helium was nominated for Best Music astatine The Game Awards. He’s besides contributed arrangements to the Final Fantasy VII Remake series, Kingdom Hearts III, and Granblue Fantasy Versus.

Nishiki is acold from the lone experienced subordinate of the originative team. Development is being tally by BlackJack Studio, the squad that besides developed Langrisser Mobile, the series’ astir caller rubric successful 2018 that’s inactive being supported to this day. But since it’s been respective years since the merchandise of the erstwhile title, you tin stake connected Sea of Sword seeing a important leap successful graphical fidelity.

While the graphics person improved, they haven’t replaced the hand-painted anime creation benignant the bid is known for. We get a little look astatine characters astatine the extremity of the trailer, wherever it volition beryllium wide to fans of the bid that quality designs are inactive accordant with the ones they cognize and love. They’re conscionable much elaborate now.

Alongside the debut trailer, BlackJack Studio announced that Langrisser: Sea of Sword volition merchandise simultaneously worldwide connected mobile, Steam, and PC, though a circumstantial merchandise day was not provided. They besides shared that the archetypal gameplay video is successful the last stages of polishing and volition beryllium acceptable for nationalist merchandise soon. So enactment tuned to IGN to spot that. Or motion up for pre-registration connected the authoritative website to get the latest quality and updates.