Topic: Bandai Namco Acquires Rights To Former PS Vita Exclusive Freedom Wars, Remaster Due In January

[Shaymin]

This member of the Edmonton Panopticon is EXTREMELY confused right now.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68570/bandai-namco-acquires-rights-to-former-ps-vita-exclusive-freedom-wars-remaster-due-in-january

There may be hope for Oreshika and Soul Sacrifice Delta, as one of the last first party titles for the PlayStation Vita is about to be remanded to some more prisons.

2014 action RPG Freedom Wars will receive a remastered version on January 10, according to a new trailer posted by Bandai Namco. Bamco will publish the Dimps-developed title, while Dimps has obtained the rights to the property according to director Takashi Tsukamoto.

In Freedom Wars, players create characters that are thrown into a prison cell immediately upon birth and forced to serve a million year prison sentence, but can get time off the sentence by fighting large monsters called "Abductors". The game supports co-op for up to eight players, and the previous release included a metagame where players could assign themselves to geographic areas known as "Panopticons" (also the name of the prison) to compete for ingame resources.

The announcement trailer, as well as a Famitsu trailer with additional gameplay footage, are below:

[pokepal148]

If you are reading this and you aren't planning to play Freedom Wars then WTF is wrong with you?

[NWR_insanolord]

I'm pretty sure I bought this on Vita and never played it.

[Khushrenada]

This member of the Edmonton Panopticon

You're writing this from prison? 

If you are reading this and you aren't planning to play Freedom Wars then WTF is wrong with you?

Honestly never heard of this game before. That's how much I paid attention to the Vita, I suppose. However, seeing that it is something in the vein of Monster Hunter plus watching the trailer and reading the scenario has left me uninterested in the game so that's what's wrong with me. Along with a hundred other issues that my court-appointed psychiatrist keeps trying to explain to me but I keep tuning out because YOLO!

[broodwars]

So...serious question, but what is the draw of this game? All the footage I've seen of this game just looks like all you do is run around ruined environments shooting at creatures with your hypothetical friends. That would have been novel on the Vita, but what's the hook here? I played a similar series on the Vita back in the day called Soul Sacrifice, and the big draw there was the mood and loot. This...no offense...just looks like a bunch of other squad shooters at first glance. What am I missing, because the people who love this game are so passionate about it?