Below is new information about Samurai & Dragons, the free to play RPG for Vita from the latest issue of Famitsu.
- Mix between action stages and strategic city building gameplay
- Want to use the Near functionality of Vita for a type of communication that can’t be achieved on a cell phone
- Playable at Jump Festa
- City building referred to the “Battle Part”
- As you expand your territory, you’ll come into contact with the kingdoms of other players, and will face off against one-another in card-based battles
- Vita chosen because it can always be connected online, has numerous features the staff wanted to use
- Team has ideas for how to use the touch screen and motion sensors
- Made by SEGA’s new Online Entertainment Research Department team
- Similar to the iOS game Kingdom Conquest
- Yakuza producer Masayoshi Kikuchi is chief producer for this title
- Winner receives the land and expands his territory
- Goal is to take over the world
- Samurai & Dragons name comes from an attempt to mix West and East
- Dragons are enemies in the game
- Four players work together to battle through a dungeon and defeat a boss for the action part
- Spirits, skeletons, other creatures included as well