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Unchained Blades

Unchained Blades,titledUnchainBlades ReXX[3]in Japan, is a 2011dungeon crawlerrole-playing video gamedeveloped byFuRyuand published byXseed Gamesfor theNintendo 3DSandPlayStation Portable.[4][5][6]

Unchained Blades
Developer(s)FuRyu
Publisher(s)Xseed Games
Director(s)Toshio Akashi
Writer(s)Takashi Hino
Composer(s)Tsutomu Narita
Platform(s)Nintendo 3DS,PlayStation Portable
Release
  • JP:July 14, 2011
  • NA:June 26, 2012(PSP)[1]
  • NA:January 3, 2013(3DS)[2]
Genre(s)Role-playing game
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

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The game is played as adungeon crawlerrole-playing video game,similar toWizardry,but with a greater emphasis on story.[7]The purpose of the game is to direct the game's party throughmazesandlabyrinthswhile defeating opposing monster parties. A party can contain up to four characters.[8]Additionally, it is possible to recruit enemy monsters into the player's party to assist them, and each character is allowed to have four monsters support them, allowing for a party size of up to twenty characters.[8]

Development

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Creation

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Many veterans in Japanese video game design contributed to the original development of the game. The game's director is Toshio Akashi, who previously worked onLunar,and the scenario designer is Takashi Hino, who previously worked onGrandia.[7]LongtimeFinal Fantasymusical contributorNobuo Uematsualso contributed music for the game, although most of the game's music was done by upcoming, Tsutomu Narita, who works with Uematsu.[7]Additionally, each of the game's main thirteen characters were each drawn by different artists from differentanimeandmangabackground.[7]

The Japanese release was originally intended to be June 23, 2011, but in April, it was delayed to July 14, 2011.[9]

TheNintendo 3DSandPlayStation Portableversions are almost identical, the differences being mainly visual. The 3DS version is the only one that featuresstereoscopic 3Dgraphics.[10]Additionally, the placement of the overhead map of the levels is different platforms; for the 3DS, it's on the second, bottom screen, where on the PSP, which lacks a second screen, it is merely layered over the main screen, with the option to toggle it on or off.[5]

Xseed Gamesoriginally teased the localization of the video game through a guessing game through itsTwitter.[11]Three pictures were released as hints to the game's title; aTyrannosaurus rex,a blade ofgrass,and a still from the movieGhost'sfamous pottery wheel scene.[11]This was in reference to the three words, in reverse order, of the game's Japanese titleUnchained Blade Rexx.[11]The game's localization was officially confirmed through the April 2012 issue ofNintendo Power.[12]

Reception and sales

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The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to thereview aggregationwebsiteMetacritic.[22][23]In Japan,Famitsugave it a score of three eights and one seven for a total of 31 out of 40.[14]

Both versions of the game charted in their first week of release in Japan; the PlayStation Portable version charted at seventh place with 18,256 copies sold, while the Nintendo 3DS version charted at twentieth place with 5,592 copies sold.[24]

Sequel

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A sequel titledUnchained Blades Exivwas developed and released on November 29, 2012 in Japan for the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo 3DS.[25]Xseed Games, who localized the original into English, stated that it was "not likely" that they would pursue translating the sequel.[26]

References

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  1. ^Spencer (June 19, 2012)."Unchained Blades Unleashed For PSP On June 26".Siliconera.RetrievedDecember 14,2012.
  2. ^rawmeatcowboy (December 14, 2012)."Unchained Blades finally hitting 3DS eShop in January".GoNintendo.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  3. ^Japanese:アンチェインブレイズ レクス,Hepburn:AncheinBureizu Rekusu
  4. ^McCarroll, John (March 28, 2012)."XSEED Games Localizing Unchained Blades for PSP and 3DS".RPGFan.RetrievedDecember 14,2012.
  5. ^abSpencer (July 5, 2011)."UnchainBlades ReXX Differences Between PSP And 3DS Appear To Be Minor".Siliconera.RetrievedDecember 14,2012.
  6. ^Spencer (March 28, 2012)."Unchained Blades Coming To PSP And 3DS As A Digital Download".Siliconera.RetrievedDecember 14,2012.
  7. ^abcd"XSEED Games Spring 2012 Interview".RPGamer. 2012.RetrievedDecember 14,2012.
  8. ^abSpencer (May 27, 2011)."UnchainBlades ReXX's Monster Communication System In Action".Siliconera.RetrievedDecember 14,2012.
  9. ^Gantayat, Anoop (April 13, 2011)."Zelda Dated, UnchainBlades ReXX Delayed".Andriasang.RetrievedJuly 19,2013.
  10. ^Gantayat, Anoop (February 16, 2011)."Major Character Designers Team Up for New 3DS RPG".Andriasang.RetrievedJuly 19,2013.
  11. ^abcFletcher, JC."'Unchained Blades' coming to 3DS eShop via XSEED ".Engadget(Joystiq).RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  12. ^Culafi, Alex (March 24, 2012)."UnchainBlades ReXX Being Localized as Unchained Blades".Nintendo World Report.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  13. ^Muir, Bob (August 15, 2012)."Review: Unchained Blades (PSP)".Destructoid.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  14. ^abcBrian (July 5, 2011)."Famitsu review scores (7/5)".Nintendo Everything.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  15. ^Bischoff, Daniel R. (January 22, 2013)."Unchained Blades Review (3DS)".Game Revolution.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  16. ^Chun, Simon (July 6, 2012)."Unchained Blades review (PSP)".GameZone.Archivedfrom the original on July 8, 2012.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  17. ^Thomas, Lucas M. (January 14, 2013)."Unchained Blades Review (3DS)".IGN.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  18. ^Sleeper, Morgan (January 8, 2013)."Review: Unchained Blades".Nintendo Life.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  19. ^Dawson, James (January 23, 2013)."Unchained Blades".Nintendo World Report.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  20. ^Kollar, Philip (February 15, 2013)."Unchained Blades review: make a wish (3DS)".Polygon.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  21. ^"Review: Unchained Blades".PlayStation: The Official Magazine.No. 62. September 2012. p. 87.
  22. ^ab"Unchained Blades for 3DS Reviews".Metacritic.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  23. ^ab"Unchained Blades for PSP Reviews".Metacritic.RetrievedOctober 20,2017.
  24. ^Gantayat, Anoop (July 21, 2011)."Big Headed Baseball and Drums Top the Sales Charts".Andriasang. Archived fromthe originalon December 25, 2012.RetrievedJuly 19,2013.
  25. ^Spencer (May 29, 2012)."Unchained Blades Sequel Set For October With Over A Dozen More Artists".Siliconera.RetrievedDecember 14,2012.
  26. ^Brian (September 5, 2013)."XSEED unlikely to localize UnchainBlades EXXiV, Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode, Exstetra".Nintendo Everything.RetrievedDecember 1,2013.
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