At this year’s Game Developers Conference, the newest studio within the Square Enix, Tokyo RPG Factory, revealed its debut title — I AM SETSUNA. The title is slated for digital release for the west this Summer on the PS4 and Steam.
Led by director Atsushi Hashimoto, Tokyo RPG Factory aims to capture the narrative depth, impactful storytelling and masterful character development inspired by the golden era of Japanese role-playing games and bring them to current hardware and technology.
What’s really interesting here is that the game’s battle system will be inspired by the classic hit CHRONO TRIGGER.
I AM SETSUNA aims to bring back authentic RPG gameplay, beautiful art design and a sorrowful story to the new generation.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
Contact: Email
You had me at Chrono Trigger Battle System.
When I think Chrono Trigger battle system I think:
Elemental powers
Combined specilized attacksDoubleTriple techs
Lots of cool swords
Really not sold on that art style, but I’ll keep an eye on it.
wasn’t this revealed before? but for PS4 only. now it’s on PC too which is great cause i thought they wouldn’t bother unless it’s a AAA title.
at this point PC announcement for FF15 should be sooner than expected.
Ahhh, I wish these titles weren’t exclusive to Steam. I hope in the near future, more Japanese publishers release titles on GOG.
I love when hipsters come with “I wish this was on GOG”? Why not Origin or better Windows Store? LOL.
Because GOG offers them DRM Free. Which is important to some.
“Hipsters”
Lol, get a grip.
More options the better.
Patience; a few years ago we were lucky when they even reached Steam, at all.
I wonder if this has anything to do with canceled Eidos Montreal game. After Human Revolution and before Mankind they were developing some kind of “western” JRPG, which was canceled by Square Enix right before the announcement of Deus Ex Universe.
Chrono Trigger battle system isn’t that great. The strenght of that game lies on story.
Chrono Trigger’s story – while definitely entertaining – wasn’t particularly strong compared to contemporaries like FFVI. Its battle system, however, was definitely the most refined version we saw of that particular brand of turn-based gameplay.
And I’m glad it’s coming back here, because we aren’t getting a lot of actual JRPG’s anymore nowadays; mostly just mediocre action games with some light RPG-elements… which I suppose is similar enough to the decline of WRPG’s over here as well.
And thinking they killed Chrimson Echoes project to do this.
Nice, Square Enix!
Now they have my money. They need to announce FFXV already darnit!
Awesome, seems like a simultaneous release with PS4 except in Japan. Bring it on Square. Well-known JRPGs need to cement their place inside the PC ecosystem permanently, and this is a great start.
I need this game!
The game sale not too successful in japan,so thats why they bring it to steam in addition to ps4