Hands-On: Army Corps Of Hell Brings Heavy-Metal Strategy To Vita

CHIBA, Japan - Did you suffer Nintendo's action-strategy diversion but instruct that it had more blood, guts, and complicated steel music? Then might good be your game.

Square Enix will launch this diversion when the PlayStation Vita arrives in Japan on Dec. 17. As shortly as new owners of Sony's absolute unstable diversion appurtenance beginning this launch diversion up, they'll be reminded of .

Both games put you in the purpose of a personality of a tiny armed forces of tiny critters that you throw away around at enemies and food items, examination them assault and eat whilst safeguarding them from harm. Where breaks from its motivation is that the diversion takes place in the underworld, with gore-splattering fights against all kinds of unusual creatures.

Some tweaks to the gameplay make it more than only a clone. As you're flinging your tiny supporters onto an enemy, a opposite will beginning to go up. Once it fills (usually when you've got a turn 10 or 20 of the little buggers chomping away), it'll light up and you can press the assault symbol with good timing to make them burst off the challenger and elevate their swords in unison, then gash them back down. It's flattering easy to obtain the timing down and do additional damage.

Otherwise, the gameplay demo at Tokyo Game Show was flattering elementary - use the Vita's two analog sticks to travel and manage the camera, strafing around your enemies and creation certain to prevent their attacks whilst chipping away at their energy. After an challenger dies off, you can set your organisation of soldiers to eating their remains to obtain reward things and additional health. If you must be elevate your illness up, you can use a refreshment to fool around a mini-game in that you "drum" on the Vita's back touchpad to speed up your intoxicating beverage with percussion.

If your soldiers are hit, they'll drop down and a white skull will show up over them. If you can travel over them before the skull turns black and fades away, you'll resuscitate them. Otherwise, you'll have to wait for until you come upon a cage, in that you can traffic in the red gems you've picked up for more followers.

The finish of the level featured a free-for-all against a considerable team leader creature, that was rather more complex; we had to assault his legs to make him drop to his knees before we could gash his head.

Square Enix has not denounced any U.S. launch skeleton for as of yet, but we wouldn't be astounded to see the diversion arrive here really shut to Vita's launch.