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Toukiden nabs free Soul Sacrifice crossover armor, mission DLC
If you're running out of beasts to slay in Toukiden: The Age of Demons, this week brought new DLC missions featuring Soul Sacrifice's three-headed dog, Cerberus. Of course, you can't just go slaying monsters from other games without dressing the part, so the collaborative DLC includes a new set of armor inspired by gear found in Soul Sacrifice. If you're waiting on a price to scare you off, don't worry - both the missions and the armor are free to download. The new content can be accessed using the Portal Stone and multiplayer lobbies, but the related press release warns that the missions are meant for "groups of great level and skill, with highly upgraded equipment." Considering the lack of a price tag, Toukiden players should probably take this chance to slash up Cerberus. Besides, we can't imagine that Toukiden's residents are much more fond of the triple-headed beast than any of the Oni you've already saved them from. [Image: Tecmo Koei]
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Joystiq Weekly: Irrational Games, co-op Pokemon and a Doom beta
Welcome to Joystiq Weekly, a "too long; didn't read" of each week's biggest stories, reviews and original content. Each category's top story is introduced with a reactionary gif, because moving pictures aren't just for The Daily Prophet. Between the new Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Tony Hawk's involvement in a new game and talk of a Doom beta, this week feels like a list of lost events from the '90s. Not that we're complaining, of course - the days of platforming in mine carts, feeding arcade machines quarters and hogging family computers from siblings were pretty wonderful times. They were simpler, too - just 151 Pokemon to keep track of, with full games and expansions instead of publishers scattering in-game content to retailers and adding season passes to everything or-- Well, it didn't take us long to trip into the "back in my day" style of reminiscing. We'll excuse ourselves for a stint of warning kids passing by to stay off our lawns, but we've left you a recap of the biggest events from this week after the break. Er ... this week being in 2014, not the '90s.
Toukiden: The Age of Demons review: Oni hunter
Toukiden: The Age of Demons isn't quite developer Omega Force's "Monster Hunter clone," though just like its closest neighbor, up to four players pound away at larger-than-life beasts in exotic locales to haul in rare items and acquire new gear. Toukiden attempts to maintain the same appeal as Monster Hunter and similar games by emphasizing progression through equipment upgrades. The Tecmo Koei-published Toukiden bears so many similarities to Capcom's franchise, in fact, that it's practically a part of it, which ends up being its problem. Toukiden falls short when it comes to pushing the genre forward in any meaningful way, resting as a functional, albeit hollow monster hunting experience.
Last of Us DLC, Lightning Returns, TxK join EU PlayStation Store
Yesterday the North American PlayStation Store was updated with a host of new software. Today it's Europe's turn. The highlights of this update include the addition of Jeff Minter's retro-shooter TxK, unexpectedly great roleplaying epic Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 and Left Behind, the final singleplayer DLC release for award-winning zombie apocalypse drama The Last of Us. In addition, European Vita owners now have access to Toukiden and Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. The former is a riff on Capcom's Monster Hunter formula that pits players against oversized beasts drawn from Japanese mythology, while the latter is an anime-inspired visual novel that melds courtroom tension with teenagers murdering one another. It's less grim than it sounds. In less modern news, this update also brings with it the PSN digital release of Atlus' excellent PlayStation 2 roleplaying game Persona 3: FES. While this incarnation lacks certain mechanical improvements added to the PSP's Persona 3 Portable, it still features hundreds of demons to befriend, loveable characters and more teenaged drama than your average inner city high school. A full rundown of today's additions can be found on the European PlayStation.blog. [Image: Llamasoft]
Toukiden introductory anime saves kids, puts an eye out
There's selfless, and then there's killing off your own kind while working toward your own demise to save the human race. This anime trailer serves as a separate introduction to Toukiden: The Age of Demons from its opening cinematic. Toukiden is set to trample demons on the Vita on February 11.
Demons must die in Toukiden: The Age of Demons intro trailer
Toukiden: The Age of Demons throws a lot of nefarious hellspawn your way - this is a Tecmo Koei game, after all - but as this new opening cinematic proves, no matter what the odds, you'll always win a battle just as long as you're carrying a ridiculously impractical weapon to match your shock of 80s-style glam rock hair.
Toukiden: The Age of Demons will start a war on February 11 on Vita
Don't you just love our eternal peace between the human race and demons? Yeah, I bet the people of Toukiden: The Age of Demons loved it too, right until their realm connected with the Otherworld and they fought a week-long battle against their extinction by the claws of the Oni. A group known as the Slayers have protected humans since that day, and you'll be able to help them reclaim their land on February 11, provided you're practiced in the art of wielding samurai swords a Vita. Toukiden follows the quest of a Slayer that's looking to thin the Oni's herd, but since characters, weapons and armor will be customizable, they'll do it while proving themselves as an individual. With six different weapon types available such as swords, bows and metal gauntlets, forming a diverse hunting group with NPCs should be simple enough. If you'd rather amplify the joy and frustration involved with teamwork, multiplayer stages will also let you team up with real life friends. You can watch details roll onto the game's website until its February launch, or you can join us in our blind fear of the Drumble, which our scientific assumption tells us is a botched cross breed of an alligator and a corgi. We will never sleep again.
