Earlier in the present day, Bandai Namco revealed the vaguely named Projekt1514 to be Sword Artwork On-line: Deadly Bullet, the newest entry in its long-running record of Sword Artwork On-line impressed video games. And if you happen to have been to take a look at the reveal trailer and the brand new gameplay video, you may discover it bears a putting resemblance to a well-liked PlayStation Vita title from 2014: Freedom Wars.
Freedom Wars for the PlayStation Vita is without doubt one of the main Monster Hunter variants together with Soul Sacrifice, Ragnarok Odyssey, God Eater and Toukiden. Regardless of the crowded pool, it managed to carve out its personal area of interest by having an attention-grabbing design and setting, together with distinctive fight mechanics. Identical to within the different video games within the style, gamers are ceaselessly tasked with taking down bigger enemies that require extra finesse than the typical opponent; and that finesse got here within the type of thorns, that are basically grappling hooks which gamers might use to maneuver across the discipline or latch onto enemies and try to chop their limbs or exterior weapons off. What made this mechanic so entertaining, is that not solely would destroying these components trigger injury to the enemy, it could power them to alter their motion or assault patterns (an enemy with none viable means to assault will resort to charging or leaping on gamers, for instance).
In fact, the thorns in of themselves helped add to the complexity of the sport, as there have been three several types of them: crimson, inexperienced and gray. Pink thorns could possibly be used to lure and immobilize enemies, inexperienced thorns could possibly be used to heal and revive allies and grey thorns could possibly be used to spice up a teammate’s protection or create obstacles which blocked gunfire. When mixed with six fully-customizable teams of weaponry and a customizable assist unit with its personal batch of weapons, there have been loads of methods to tailor your character to a given state of affairs and there was little probability of discovering a participant who had the identical setup as you on-line.
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The sport was very profitable, attaining the second highest all-time opening gross sales for Vita software program bought in Japan on the time and located a strong fanbase in different areas. Many had hoped that it could get a sequel, particularly contemplating how the story ended; and whereas nothing was ever concrete, producer Junichi Yoshizawa did state throughout an interview in 2015 {that a} sequel could be doable relying on fan demand. Sadly, its the latter half of 2017 and there nonetheless has been no official point out of a Freedom Battle sequel.
But with the hopes of a sequel nearly utterly lifeless, there may be nonetheless rather a lot for Freedom Wars followers to look ahead to in Sword Artwork On-line: Deadly Bullet. Clearly, SAO: FB shouldn’t be a straight-up alternative for a Freedom Wars sequel, however its laborious to not discover the similarities between the 2 video games after some gameplay which just lately surfaced on Dengeki On-line’s YouTube Channel.
Simply from this little bit of gameplay, we see that gamers will be capable of break up into teams of 4 to be able to perform missions in multi-layered ranges. Moreover, we see that gamers have two units of weapons and there are a number of varieties of them (up to now there are swords, pistols, submachine weapons, assault rifles and sniper rifles). There’s no indication that any of those weapons will probably be customizable to the diploma that was seen in Freedom Wars, however weapons with totally different results have been a side of the sequence for the previous a number of entries, so there’s an opportunity it might reappear in Sword Artwork On-line: Deadly Bullet too.
There’s additionally the presence of grappling hooks which perform considerably equally to the way in which thorns labored in Freedom Wars, although we solely see it getting used for motion within the video. It’s nonetheless doable that they might nonetheless be used for different functions, akin to assist or latching onto large enemies, and if that’s the case, then it may be tied into the sport’s class system (for instance, Kirito may be capable of use the hook in a extra offensive method than Sinon as a result of he’s a melee class as an alternative of a sniper).
In fact, there’s nonetheless the prospect that putting such excessive hopes on Deadly Bullet may be a little bit too hasty and this level. Sure, the gameplay does resemble Freedom Wars up to now, however its nonetheless an SAO title they usually’re identified for not having notably massive budgets. What’s extra, builders now have to fret about utilizing that finances to develop a recreation for 3 platforms — PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC — as an alternative of simply the PS4 and Vita.
Reservations apart, Sword Artwork On-line: Deadly Bullet does nonetheless imply good issues for Freedom Wars followers. Something resembling a title as entertaining as Freedom Wars is enormously appreciated; and no matter how nicely it does, Freedom Wars will probably be on the prime of fan’s minds after they consider this recreation (it already is for some) which could trigger them to grow to be vocal for a sequel once more. Hopefully, the fitting folks hear will hear this time.
– This text was up to date on March eighth, 2018