Attack on Titan “Wings of Humanity’s End” PV 1

Now that’s a PV. Gameplay, new modes, and we learned so much. As we knew before, there are the three story modes between the core three characters of Eren, Mikasa, and Armin, though it looked like there might be a playable Levi at times because of the fight with the Female Titan in the giant forest. There may only be the story focus on those characters, but there may be times where you play as other characters as would be appropriate or for that stealth minigame where you have to steal meat tubes from behind titans as Sasha.

Speaking of, we know the game will contain the Armored and Female type titans as special units. Female I expected as maybe the final boss of Eren’s story. Armored not so much, but it looks like they’re going to be key units among the general titan population in World Mode. World Mode is where you create your own character using model pieces from the characters already in the game. There are custom outfits, as you can see a character in a bikini, so I hope that someone will be able to get Squish Delish the Titan Killing Clown.

The big thing for World Mode and the game as a whole is the weapon variety. Spike Chunsoft could have just juiced the hell out of the 3D gear movement and probably been pretty successful, but they’re pushing for more weapons, especially guns. I’m pretty sure I saw a shotgun in there, and you can see Eren or a similar custom character carrying what looks like Musha Gundam’s flintlock rifle. Sets up combos because you can knock a titan over then cleave the neck to save on gas and swords. I imagine that the limited gas and blades for the gear will either work like the Unity game where there are pickups or where there’s a specific place for pit stops.

Oh, and Titan Eren. I assume that that will be limited to the story mode because balancing that in World Mode would be nightmarish, but it’s cool. I look forward to seeing many a YouTube video of how far you can punt titans across the Trost map. Or bounces in the forest map.

Attack on Titan: Wings of Humanity’s End will launch on December 5th.

(Original article with the video from Famitsu. Thanks to Yaraon for posting themselves.)

Titan Online “Wings of Counterattack” Beta Launch

Titan’s a pretty good venue for games. The 3D gear lends itself to a fun movement system that can be used for combat. One of my favorite things to do playing the Unity 3D Titan game was climbing to the top of the barrier and launching myself off at high speeds to see the whole map for a second only to catch a building and fling myself through a titan’s neck. And there’s also the possibility for squad based combat. There’s a lot of thought put into how groups like the Scouting Legion gets around, like what you saw in the last episode with the explanation of their anti-encounter formation. This new game is going with the second one.

At least I guess you could call it that. These are screens from the beta of Attack on Titan Online “Wings of Counterattack.” The game, as you can take it from the numbers all over the place, is an RPG where you take command of a Scouting Legion detachment. You will be in the command position where you giver orders to you units in the runs against titans. Based on the look, in this mode, you’re running on a 2D plane, so I’m not sure what sort of orders you’d be able to give, but you can see that there’s horseback combat against the lesser known log titans and 3D gear movement all using standard equipment and uniquely crafted items.

But that’s not the only type of combat. There are also these grid based boss fights against notable titan types. This is the Armored Titan, of course, but there are probably also plans for the Female Type and, of course, the cute and cuddly Colossal Titan. With the way it looks, different attacks with probably hit different amounts of squares on the grid, and you hop along them to avoid them. Sounds like Mega Man: Battle Network, but I’m only guessing based on the way it looks. There are also the dramatic cut-in attacks which will probably be used on both play types as a screen bomb or other various effects.

And, of course, alternate costumes. You can see a few in the game play screens, easiest on who I’m pretty sure is Eren. Jamming more types of military uniform onto the characters is sure to bring in the fans, but that doesn’t seem to be the limit. Christa has that very weird take on the boob plate, Eren’s got his other, more foppish outfit with the feather cap, and we have these more traditional Japanese like clothes as part of unique classes. They come from which way you choose to play the game. Eren’s is if you decide to play via the GG Online Game Portal, and Mikasa’s comes from if you use the NicoNico App. They’re mentioned as “unique avatars,” but I’m sure they’ll end up as character sprites as well.

This is all a bit off. This announcement is only about the game being in closed beta. However, beta testers have not been chose, and you can sign up. If you’d like to, you can sign up here. There are 10,000 total slots, and the testers will be chosen from who’s signed up by lottery. I don’t think this game is likely to get any sort of official English version at the moment, but the game is open online, and if a number of westerners try to get into the beta, they might just throw one out there. Or you could wait for an English fan patch. Consider this a chance to see if the game is worth that effort.

Attack on Titan Episode 2 “That Day” Teaser Images

I hope it’s still cool for me to post teaser images with this show like I did with JoJo’s since it’s been picked up for legitimate stream by Funimation and Crunchyroll. The episode is already out and Crunchy has already got it up, but for you Funi stream customers, the teaser images from Yaraon are out to tide you over.

I love this titan’s face. He looks like he was just caught by his mom just about to eat the human he was sneaking before dinner.

Oh, and here’s how cities work in the most horrible history

Now back to everyone dying forever

I hope everyone is ready to enlist because we’re headed for the military. It will be harsh and unrelenting training, but enduring it is the only way to “erase them until not a single one remains.”

By the way, I think the reason these teaser images are coming out so far past the airing, even to the point where Crunchyroll and some fansubbers were able to put out a translation, is because Yaraon is getting the images from the Tokyo MX airing. You’ll see the MX watermark up in the top right corner of the images. The episodes air first on MBS, and the guys who run Yaraon probably live in the Tokyo area, so that’s probably why.