"Offer your soul..." |
Deception IV: Blood Ties | |
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Japanese name | 影牢 ~ダークサイド プリンセス~ |
Romaji name | Kagero ~Dākusaido Purinsesu~ |
Developer | Tecmo Koei |
Publisher | Tecmo Koei |
Release Dates | PlayStation 3 version
PlayStation Vita version
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Genre | Action game |
Game Modes | Single player |
Ratings | CERO: Ages 17 and up ESRB: Mature PEGI: 16 |
Platforms | PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita |
Deception IV: Blood Ties, known in Japan as Kagero: Dark Side Princess (影牢 ~ダークサイド プリンセス~, lit. "Shadow Prison: Dark Side Princess"), is a Deception game for the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 by Tecmo Koei, and sequel to Kagero II: Dark Illusion within the Kagero series.[1][2][3]
The game is a revisit of Tecmo's 1996 PlayStation game Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness. As a game focused on strategy, the player aims to defeat enemies by luring them into a wide variety of traps.
Keisuke Kikuchi is the producer, and the main character designs are by Hirotaka Maeda.
Deception IV: Blood Ties comes out in Japan on February 27, North America on March 25, and Europe on March 28. Gameplay involves a bunch of traps built into it, like swinging razor blades and a pumpkin head you can drop on enemies.
Tecmo Koei’s Deception IV: Blood Ties limited edition includes a code that adds three extra traps – a guillotine, UFO, and Queen High Heels (a humiliation trap). You also get an art book and Deception series sound selection CD. The limited edition costs 9,800 yen ($96) for PS3 or 8,800 yen ($86) for Vita.
A regular copy of Deception IV costs 6,800 yen ($66) on PlayStation 3 or 5,800 yen ($57) on Vita. First print copies include a Golden Horse humiliation type trap.[4]
Story[]
- In ages past, there was a being known only as "the Devil" who ruled the world through fear.
- Eventually, the human race united and rose against him, and there soon emerged twelve Saints blessed with heavenly power who sealed away the Devil at last.
- The incantation of binding used by the Saints was contained in a sacred text known as the Holy Verses. Fearing the incantation's misuse by malevolent forces in generations to come, the Saints erased the fact of their Sainthood from the annals of history, divided the Holy Verses into 12 fragments among themselves, and passed them down to their descendents secretly through the ages.
- Since that time, 3000 years have passed...
- And the Devil, never ceasing in his search for the descendants who hold the Holy Verses, has finally ascertained their whereabouts.
- To aid in the collection of these texts, he spawned 3 servants who embody the essence of Elaborate Death, Sadistic Torture, and Humiliating Demise, and sent them into the human realm together with a "daughter" split off from his own soul.
- Now all that remains is to undo the seal that binds him and visit his wrath upon the fallen human race...
Modes[]
Museum Mode[]
Uploading to YouTube[]
Before viewing a replay, you can choose to upload it to YouTube. If this option is chosen, the video will be encoded as you are watching, and uploaded once the playback is complete. During the playback you can move the camera freely and press buttons to play laughing, screaming, or cheering audio clips, which will all be reflected in the uploaded video.
- Only PlayStation®3 version.
Cross-Quest Mode[]
Cross-Quest Mode is where you can take on missions downloaded from other players, or create your own to upload online. This is the place to pit your trap skills against other players around the world.
Free Battle Mode[]
In Free Battle Mode, you can choose your own stages and enemies to battle with. You can choose enemy and stage combinations not possible in Story Mode, multiple enemies of the same character, or whatever else you desire. This is the best mode to test out new trap combos.
Here you can select the stage, room, and up to 3 enemies.
These are unlocked in Story Mode, so the further in the story you've progressed, the more options will be available.
Story Mode[]
Daemon Requests[]
Daemon Requests are mini challenges that your Daemons will issue in Story Mode. They are completely optional, and there is no penalty for not fulfilling them. If you do fulfill them, however, your Daemons will reward you with extra Exp. points for their trap style.
Mission Mode[]
Fulfill the objectives of each mission in order to clear it. These missions present a variety of challenges that require more advanced trap-setting strategy than Story mode.
Development[]
The game was announced at the SCEJ Press Conference in September 2013 prior to the Tokyo Game Show, and is due for a 2014 release in Japan, North America and Europe.[3]
Famitsu previewed the upcoming game, giving new information, such as gameplay and characters. There is also a new trap in the game revealed to be “Wizard gear“.
Going along with a "play more wickedly" hook, players are in charge of designing their own style of play. Traps can be set three at a time, and catching armored characters in consecutive traps will cause their armor to break.[5]
Along with the release dates for North America and Europe announced, Tecmo Koei revealed that YouTube uploading is available within the game. Only the PlayStation 3 version of the game will have YouTube uploading, with the PlayStation Vita version having additional touchscreen options.[6]
Credits[]
Producer | Keisuke Kikuchi |
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Director | Masaki Shibuya |
Engineering Leads | Yuta Yamazaki Koujiro Seino |
Game Design Lead | Toshiaki Kubota |
CG Director | Kazuhiro Shoji |
Sound Director | Takashi Yoshida |
Concept Art Lead | Tsutomu Terada |
Character Art Lead | Nozomu Sugiyama |
Environment Art Lead | Ryosei Muraki |
Animation Lead | Katsuhiro Yamauchi |
Technical Art Lead | Kenta Kawano |
Visual Effects Design Lead | Jiro Yoshida |
User Interface Design Lead | Hiromi Baba |
CG Manager | Yasuo Egawa |
Assistant Project Manager | Yutaka Koga |
Engineering | Takeshi Sawatari Masaki Fujita Takashi Watanabe Kazuki Iwana Kenichi Saito Haruhisa Ito |
Game Design | Hayato Shibuya Takayuki Nishikawa Kyohei Ota Masaki Toyoda |
Character Design | Hirohisa Kaneko Akihisa Kuramochi Asami Yamamoto Eriko Harada |
Background Design | Masayoshi Wada Michiko Hashimoto |
Concept Art | Kaoru Kikukawa |
Storyboard | Tsuyoshi Nihei |
Character Art | Maki Kimura Yoshiki Horiuchi Tetsuya Ietsune Yasuaki Suzuki Kaori Watabe Natsuko Kawakami Hideaki Takahashi Tomoko Hara Kazuhiro Nishimura |
Environment Art | Miyuki Momose Hiriyuki Kato |
Animation | Ryoji Abe |
Technical Art | Naoya Okamoto Masaru Ueda |
Motion Actor | Kosuke Wakamatsu |
Motion Capture Editor | Katsuyuki Shimizu Yoshinori Kobayashi Takaaki Kurosawa |
Visual Effects Design | Kazuki Osada Yuko Takahashi |
Audio Design | Makoto Hosoi Shigekiyo Okuda |
Music | Yuki Matsumura Ayako Toyoda |
Guitar | Yosuke Kinoshita |
Localization | Peter Garza Brianna Forster |
Supervisor | Makoto Shibata |
Main Character Design | Hirotaka Maeda |
Scenario Writer | Masahiro Yuki |
Motion Actor | Tomohiro Nara Motoko Nishibayashi |
Image Song | 「Princess of Fate」 Song: Daisy × Daisy Lyrics: Daisy × Daisy Music: YOW-ROW |
Software Manual | Masahiko Kochi Keisuke Okabayashi |
Public Relations & Marketing Dept. | Hiroshi Murai Hideyasu Matsuo |
Art Work | Jyumpei Yamamoto |
Logo Design | Natsuki Hirano Kyte Sawatari |
Web Design | Emi Yamamoto |
Global Business Development Dept. | Hidekiyo Kobayashi Takahiro Yamamoto Minglu Li Yumiko Katagiri Mina Saito Carol Suzuki |
Global Marketing Dept. | Hiroshi Suzuki Yasushi Tani Hidetoshi Nakatsukasa Tomohiro Tanimura Riho Tsurumaki |
Coordinator | Toru Akutsu |
In Cooperation With | Planet G Co., Ltd. AONI PRODUCTION CO., LTD. MIT STUDIO Himawari Theatre Group Inc. Yuki Fuyuno Red Entertainment Corporation TEPPEN PRODUCTS inc. DIGITAL WORKS Entertainment Inc. Digital TIS CO., Ltd. LandQ studios co., Ltd. JIN Rubicon Solutions, Inc. Font Design by Fontworks, Inc. Pole To Win Co., LTD. Pole To Win Europe Limited TECMO KOEI AMERICA Corporation TECMO KOEI EUROPE LIMITED TECMO KOEI TAIWAN Co., Ltd. TECMO KOEI TIANJIN SOFTWARE CO., LTD. TECMO KOEI BEIJING SOFTWARE CO., LTD. TECMO KOEI SOFTWARE VIETNAM CO., LTD. |
Special Thanks | Toshio Chigira Natsumi Kaneko Weekly Famitsu Satomi Iwase / Dengeki PlayStation Yoshinori Ueda Kazuhiro Shimazu Tatsuro Orikasa Yuri Ito Azusa Maki |
Cast[]
Laegrinna | Yuka Saitō |
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Caelea | Umeka Shōji |
Veruza | Hiroko Ushida |
Lilia | Ichiki Chihiro |
Dow | Daisuke Matsubara |
Zeno | Shunzo Miyasaka |
Gallagh | Sohta Arai |
Vale | Ryosuke Kanemoto |
Lyla | Kim Hyang Ri |
Celia | Miku Yoshikawa |
Evelyn | Madoka Yamanaka |
Alma | Ayaka Maeda |
Telma | Haruka Terui |
Ernest | Hiromu Miyazaki |
Victor | Masakazu Koshima |
Freise | Yuka Komatsu |
Additional Voices | Yusuke Handa Yohei Azakami Ryohei Arai Hirokazu Miyahara Akari Harashima Shino Shimoji Yuki Kaneko Machiko Kawana |
Reception[]
During the first week of release in Japan, the PS3 version sold 23,254 physical retail copies, whilst the PS Vita version sold 19,322 physical retail copies.[7]
Gallery[]
- Main article: Deception IV: Blood Ties/Images
Trivia[]
- This is the fifth game in the series, despite being credited as the fourth, and it is the third Kagero title.
- Previously, Trapt was titled Deception IV, but producer Keisuke Kikuchi renamed it because he considered it the first part of a new series.[8]
External links[]
- Kagero: Darkside Princess official site (JP)
- Deception IV: Blood Ties official site (NA)
- Deception IV: Blood Ties official site (EU)
Deception IV
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Installments |
Deception IV: Blood Ties • Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess |
Characters |
Major Characters |
Laegrinna Caelea • Veruza • Lilia Velguirie (Fuyuno Kanata) Ephemera Millennia • Reina • Allura |
Minor Characters |
Alma Mueller • Celia Mevious • Devil • Dow Menigell • Ernest Love • Evelyn • Freise Grayden • Gallagh Belgosh • Lord of Prosslyn Castle • Lyla Gun Feyconia • Telma Mueller • Vale Brandeau • Victor Logos • Zeno Shin |
Terms |
Armor Break • Daemons • Deception Studio • Holy Verses • Twelve Saints |
Locations |
Decroya Prosslyn Castle • Balmagyr • Lapria Park • Ruins of Scardzyini Darkside Heaven Trapt Academy • Kagero Hospital • D. Seption Park |
Miscellaneous |
Daisy×Daisy |
Games |
Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness Kagero: Deception II Deception III: Dark Delusion Trapt Deception IV: Blood Ties • The Nightmare Princess Kagero ~Trap Girls~ |
Reoccurring Themes |
Trap • Class |
- ↑ Romano, Sal (2013-09-09). Samurai Warriors 4, Kagero sequel announced for PS Vita, Gematsu. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
- ↑ 2013-09-09, 【速報】プレイステーション Vitaで『戦国無双4』と『影牢 ダークサイド・プリンセス』が発売決定【SCEJAプレスカンファレンス】, Famitsu. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Romano, Sal (2013-09-19). Deception IV: Blood Ties coming west in early 2014, Gematsu. Retrieved 2013-12-12. Cite error: Invalid
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tag; name "Gematsu 2" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Spencer, (2013-11-28). Deception IV: Blood Ties Limited Edition Includes Bonus UFO And Guillotine Traps, Siliconera.
- ↑ Luster, Joseph (2013-10-23). "Deception IV: Blood Ties" Launches in Japan on February 27, 2014, Crunchyroll. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
- ↑ Williams, Mike (2014-01-20). Deception IV on PS3 Offers Youtube Upload Capabilities, US Gamer. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ 2014-03-05, Media Create Sales: 2/24/14 – 3/2/14, Gematsu
- ↑ "Fatally Trapt: The Keisuke Kikuchi Interview" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20090615054232/http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200506/N05.0629.1812.37894.htm archived). GameInformer.)