Princess Anri posted...
I am pretty sure ATLUS always published Growlanser, before AND after WD's sole release (Generations), which was the first English release.
From what I understand, after the first Growlanser was a cult hit, Atlus Japan bought out Careersoft, and had them turn around and crap out Growlanser 2 and 3 for the PS2 because $$$ which is why they're pretty rushed/underdeveloped (only 5-10 hours long, no to scale world map which was what stood out about the first game) as well as being pretty blatantly fanfictiony (like seriously it's probably at least FF7 compilation level).
WD was probably able to get it since Atlus USA wasn't very well established back then, and they probably weren't very interested in it at the time because it's probably more expensive to license due to having character designs from a famous porn artist IDK.
Atlus USA grabbed the Growlanser name when they released 5, though.
SubDeity posted...
So...it's a strategy RPG that looks like Langrisser due to using the same artists.
**** it I'm gonna treat this like a new Langrisser game.
Whoooooooooo.
Well Growlanser isn't anything like Langrisser really. It's real time...ish (well, it's like ATB or Grandia), with an emphasis on a to scale world map with all battles taking place on the same map (except for 2 and 3), changing conditions in battle, different levels of reward depending on objective completion (like in an escort mission you can let a few people die and still win, but you'd get lower rewards and a "mission clear" instead of a "mission complete"), and party relationship system.
swordz9 posted...
New clue is it's the 4th game in the series, but apparently this applies for Gungnir too. I guess we have to wait a little longer.
Gungir isn't a Dept. Heaven game. And Kitten was episode 4 of that series.
I'm going to be pretty excited if it's Growlanser 4. It was already considered by fans one of the best games in the series (at least I got the impression from one of the importers here a few years ago that the fanbase was fairly evenly split between 1 and 4 as the best game), and the PSP version has a ton of stuff added to it and in general seems like they cared more about it than P3P or ISP. New animated cutscenes, double the amount of VA, new events, new branching story route with like half a dozen new characters, return of the vacation event system from Growlanser 1...
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