Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love Premium Edition

The player’s human interactions affect the story and power up the characters. We have seen many SRPGs in our time. No longer shall the game dictate what the player should experience. Some were extraordinary and some were not so great. Instead, Sakura Wars allows the player to choose their own destiny. Though most SRPGs make you grind through their battle system to power up your characters, Sakura Wars revolutionizes this by combining Sim elements into the SRPG.

For example, the hero’s ground mode utilizes a sword as his main weapon, but in jet mode he will use long-range missiles. Gameplay is split between two modes: Adventure Mode and Battle Mode. View larger. Character specific mechs. Depending on your interactions with team members, their "Trust" in you will change. Fight to save NYC as Shinjiro Taiga. Along with peoples and influences from all over the world it has also accumulated masses of relics and artifacts not meant to exist in proximity to each other, resulting in malignant energies from the past. Sakura Wars: So Long My Love is a single player strategy role-playing game (SRPG) and the first game in the popular Japanese Sakura Wars franchise to be released in North America. Key Game Features

• Premium Edition includes: game version for PlayStation 2, an artbook, poster and limited edition packaging.
• Anime-style storytelling featuring tons of anime movie scenes and dual voice-over (English/Japanese).
• Adventure Mode allowing the player to explore New York City and build relationship with in-game AI teammates.
• A strategy RPG battle system allowing for coordinated control of a team of diverse female fighters, each operating Mech battlesuits that can fight both on the ground and in the air.
• High replay value through the various different endings possible,each of which hinges on the bonds created between characters in-game.
• Additional in-game activities and functionality including Broadway performances with AI Stars teammates., in-game photo functionality, secret events and a quiz game.

Additional Screenshots: Build bonds with teammates. Since colonial times it has served as a melting pot, but recently more than just the "huddled masses yearning to breath free" have established a foothold in the Big Apple. Once transformed, weapons and movement methods will change accordingly. In addition, players take part in events such as Broadway shows. View larger. Premium Edition extras. The Star Division has long battled such forces around the world, and now they have come to the New World. View larger. Ground & Air based combat. To be successful he will have to build relationships within his new team and learn to fight with them. Each character also has access to unique Super Attacks that can be unleashed. View larger. But New Yorkers are not alone in the coming struggle. View larger. Story New York City has always been the focal point of the American experiment. Officially titled the New York Combat Revue, Star Division, this diverse group of covert operatives uses their front as an all female troupe of Broadway performers headquartered at the Littlelip Theater as a front to protect the people of the city. Ground combat takes place using mechanized suits referred to as STARS (Super Telekinetic Assault Robots). The latest member to join the team from the Tokyo branch is Shinjiro Taiga. Battle Mode features a strategic real-time RPG battle system in which players control up to six team members in ground and aerial combat with the goal of destroying enemies. This in-depth storyline allows for character interaction that plays a major role in the progression of game action as the players interactions with various characters in the game can ultimately change the story content and even the final outcome. Additional features available include the ability to take, save and collect in-game photos, hidden secret events and a quiz game. In Adventure Mode Shinjiro explores the Littlelip Theater and greater New York City, interacting with other members of the Star Division and various other characters in a variety of ways, including timed and untimed dialog and action selections and on-screen manipulations using controller analog sticks. Being a young man, he is not quite what the other members of Stars Division expected and as such must prove himself, but filled with hopes and dreams he is determined to fight for justice. The game features both an exciting and fast-paced mech/air battle system and a unique, sim-based storyline. In coordinating attacks with team members players can adopt differing strategies which utilize fluctuating amounts of mobility, hit points and healing abilities. Focused joint attacks can also be enacted by two or more characters which have built sufficient bonds between them in Adventure Mode. Gameplay Sakura Wars: So Long My Love is a strategy RPG. If this change is positive the player will form "Bonds" with the respective team member, which will affect skills, abilities and possibilities in battle. Every STARS unit in the game can transform from a battle mech into a jet fighter during combat, depending on the situation. In addition, the PlayStation 2 Premium Edition contains several extras, including an artbook, poster and limited edition packaging.