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This Week’s Japanese Game Releases: Persona 5 Royal for new platforms, Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher, more

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Persona 5 Royal [57 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/persona-5-royal”>Persona 5 Royal for PS5 [3,497 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/playstation/ps5″>PlayStation 5, Xbox Series [2,740 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/xbox/xbox-series”>Xbox Series, Xbox One [11,442 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/xbox/xbox-one”>Xbox One, Switch [12,301 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/nintendo/switch”>Switch, and PC [16,040 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/pc”>PC, and Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher [4 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/ultra-kaiju-monster-rancher”>Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher for Switch are the highlights of this week’s Japanese video game releases.

Also due out this week are Gotham Knights [19 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/gotham-knights”>Gotham Knights for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC, the Switch version of Harmonia, and the PC Early Access version of Valkyrie of Phantasm [5 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/valkyrie-of-phantasm”>Valkyrie of Phantasm.

Get the full list of this week’s Japanese game releases below. It should be noted that Gematsu” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/gematsu”>Gematsu will receive a small percentage of money from purchases made through Play-Asia links. You can also save five percent with our one time-use “GEMATSU4” coupon code or multi-use “GEMATSUCOM” coupon code.

Hardware

Physical and Digital

  • Gotham Knights (PS5) – Launching worldwide.
  • Harmonia (Switch) – Launching digitally worldwide.
  • Human Fall Flat (PS5, PS4) – Already available worldwide.
  • LEGO Brawls [1 article]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/lego-brawls”>LEGO Brawls (PS5, PS4, Switch) – Already available worldwide.
  • Matchpoint: Tennis Championship (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Persona 5 Royal (PS5, Switch) – Launching worldwide.
    • North American Version
    • European Version
  • Space Marshals Collection (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher (Switch) – Launching digitally worldwide.

Digital-Only

  • Aery: Last Day of Earth (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Apre Lapli [After the Rain] (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Backgammon: Board Game [6 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/board-game”>Board Game Puzzle (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • CubicBan (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Gas Station Simulator (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Gotham Knights (Xbox Series, PC [Steam, Epic Games Store]) – Launching worldwide.
  • Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • One More Island (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Persona 5 Royal (Xbox Series, Xbox One, PC [Steam, Microsoft Store]) – Launching worldwide.
  • Pnevmo-Capsula (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Pure-hearted Gyaru and the Shape of Happiness (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Richman 11″ href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/richman-11″>Richman 11 (Switch, PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
  • Sea Horizon [1 article]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/sea-horizon”>Sea Horizon (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Seduced in the Sleepless City (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • She Wants Me Dead (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Shutter Nyan! Enhance [25 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/enhance”>Enhanced Edition (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Space Marshals (Switch) – Already available worldwide.
  • Space Marshals 2 (Switch) – Already available worldwide.
  • Space Marshals 3 (Switch) – Already available worldwide.
  • Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Sunken Fossil World. [2 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/touhou-gouyoku-ibun-sunken-fossil-world”>Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Sunken Fossil World. (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • The Valiant [5 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/the-valiant”>The Valiant (PC [Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG]) – Launching worldwide.
  • Valkyrie of Phantasm Early Access (PC [Steam]) – Launching worldwide.
  • The Walking Zombie 2 (Switch) – Launching worldwide.
  • Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood and Teef (Switch) – Launching worldwide.

The PlayStation 5, PS4 [23,977 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/playstation/ps4″>PlayStation 4, and Switch titles listed above can be purchased through Japanese PlayStation [41,153 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/playstation”>PlayStation Network and Nintendo [17,107 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/nintendo”>Nintendo accounts using prepaid cards:

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Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher coming west in 2022

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Publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment [6,150 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/bandai-namco-entertainment”>Bandai Namco and developer Koei Tecmo Games [2,841 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/koei-tecmo-games”>Koei Tecmo will release monster raising Simulation [110 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/simulation”>simulation game Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher [1 article]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/ultra-kaiju-monster-rancher”>Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher for Switch [11,760 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/nintendo/switch”>Switch via Nintendo [16,565 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/nintendo”>Nintendo eShop in 2022 in the west, the company announced.

In Japan and Asia, Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher is due out both physically and digitally in 2022. The Asian version will include English language support.

Here is an overview of the game, via Bandai Namco:

About

Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher is a brand-new collaboration between Ultraman, a famous Japanese Tokusatsu work, and Monster Rancher, a popular RPG [14,202 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/rpg”>role-playing simulation series.

This new game introduces the iconic “Ultra Kaiju” such as Alien Baltan, Zetton, and Gomora to the popular gameplay mechanics of raising and battling monsters from the Monster Rancher series.

Key Features

  • Discover Many Types of Ultra Kaiju – Summon your Kaiju by searching the digital CD database or scanning NFC-compatible Card [16 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/card”>cards and more.
  • Raise and Train Your Ultra Kaiju – Explore and train to unleash the full strength of your Ultra Kaiju. Players can enjoy unique and cute movements of Ultra Kaiju that are not usually seen in the original Ultraman series.
  • Battle to Become the Ultimate Kaiju Trainer – Compete in tournaments to test your skills.
  • Combining Ultra Kaiju – Combine Ultra Kaijus to unlock new variations, including a Zetton-patterned Gomora! Over 200 types of Kaiju to be discovered.

If you missed our previous coverage, read more about the game here.

Watch a new trailer below.

Western Announce Trailer



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Godzilla Vs. Kong fans ask to #ContinueTheMonsterverse

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Godzilla Vs. Kong
Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures

Zack Snyder fans successfully orchestrated a campaign to get Warner Bros.’ attention and convince the studio to release Zack Snyder’s director’s cut version of Justice League—which turned into the extremely expensive and marginally improved Zack Snyder’s Justice League—proving once and for all that if a fanbase is loud enough and pushy enough, they can make any ridiculous dream a reality (provided their dream coincides with a movie studio feeling an overwhelming sense of desperation over how much Content is available on its new streaming platform). The point is: They did it. It worked. They tweeted enough hashtags and got in enough people’s replies and made so much noise that Warner Bros. decided that it actually made sense to throw millions and millions of dollars at shutting them up (but in a nice way). Now… it’s happening again.

Today, while Christians on Twitter celebrated Easter by getting “Jesus” to trend at number two in the United States (we’re just being snarky, “Happy Easter” is currently number one), Godzilla fans got “#ContinueTheMonsterverse” to show up in the top 10 as well. The need for the hashtag is based on that idea that Godzilla Vs. Kong seems like the end of the series that Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. have been working on since Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla in 2014, since the studios haven’t announced any kaiju movies that are in the works after this new one. Unsurprisingly, people who like to see impossibly big gorillas jumping around in the hollow core of the Earth and respectable actors saying lines like “Godzilla’s hurting people and we don’t know why” would like to see more of those things, and they think that getting #ContinueTheMonsterverse to trend on social media will get WB and Legendary’s attention.

And would you look at that? It did. Today, Legendary tweeted out a simple observation of the trending topic, confirming that, yes, it is aware that people would like more of these monster movies. Nothing new has been announced, but this at least seems like a good sign for more city-smashing fun and gleefully nonsensical mythology to come. After all, these movies haven’t even introduced Godzilla’s awful son Minilla yet, and now that the Mechagodzilla card has been played, there’s no reason Legendary and WB can’t do Jet Jaguar.

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Nintendo Characters Star in Awesome Godzilla vs. Kong Mash-Up

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Hype is quite high for Godzilla vs. Kong following the release of the film’s first trailer, and one Nintendo fan has taken the opportunity to reimagine the upcoming battle with a pair of the company’s characters. Artist @TinaFate1 on Twitter shared an amazing match-up between a different dinosaur and ape: Bowser and Donkey Kong! The characters seem to fit in quite well for the two monsters, though it seems that their conflict will cause a bit less destruction than the battle between Kong and Godzilla. That’s because, rather than a city, the backdrop for this titanic tussle is the Battlefield stage from the Super Smash Bros. franchise!

The image from @TinaFate1 can be found embedded below.

The decision to use Donkey Kong in this role is very fitting, considering the history between the two characters. The King Kong films had a major influence on Shigeru Miyamoto’s development of the original Donkey Kong arcade game. The game found a significant amount of success, prompting MCA Universal to bring a lawsuit against Nintendo in 1984. However, Nintendo was able to successfully prove that the King Kong character actually existed in the public domain, and the company won the lawsuit, as a result.

Since those early days, Donkey Kong has strayed quite a bit from his King Kong-inspired roots, while remaining one of Nintendo’s biggest characters. Despite starting out as Mario’s arch-rival, the character eventually went on to become a full-fledged hero, starring in the massively popular Donkey Kong Country series. Of course, Bowser took on the role of Mario’s greatest enemy with the release of Super Mario Bros. in 1985. Ironically enough, Bowser’s next role will see the character growing to Kaiju-like size in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury. In that game, players will be able to take part in a massive battle between Bowser and a giant version of Mario. Sadly, there’s no Donkey Kong in site!

With Godzilla vs. Kong set to release in just a few short months, it’s not hard to imagine that the film will inspire a slew of additional artwork like the one made by @TinaFate1!

Are you looking forward to Godzilla vs. Kong? What do you think of the artwork by @TinaFate1? Let us know in the comments or share your thoughts directly on Twitter at @Marcdachamp to talk all things gaming!



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