“During the development process, we’ve had people from within the company say ‘It’s not going to be the same as the older titles?!’ on quite a few occasions,” says producer Tomokazu Fukazawa.

Atlus will release Shin Megami Tensei IV this week in Japan. The Nintendo 3DS game is hotly anticipated and right now it’s the number one best selling game on Amazon Japan.

Valhalla Knights 3 comes out on Thursday and the first thing you do is make a lead character. The are four race choices at the beginning – human, elf, hobbit, and dwarf. Players can also make beast, nightmare, and machine characters.

Kamen Rider: Battride War will have new forms available via free DLC for Kamen Rider Wizard and Beast .

Atlus have shared a new character trailer for New Etrian Odyssey: Millennium Girl, this time featuring Arthur Charles, the alchemist of the group.

Flynn can equip different weapons and armor. The sword Flynn uses does a slash attack when you’re on the field. Dengeki reports, if you switch to a spear and Flynn lunges forward with a thrust.

Story is a big part of the Atelier games and Gust improved how it’s presented with Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky. A “!” icon appears on the map wherever there is an event so you can walk over to see it.

Zero has a few friends, perhaps with benefits, in Drakengard 3. There are four Apostles that join Zero on the battlefield.

Sega released new screenshots and videos of Yakuza 1 & 2 HD for Wii U, which is a port of the PlayStation 3 compilation released in Japan last year.

Developed by GREE and Square Enix, The World Ends With You: Live Remix has players work together to defeat a Ringleader Noise. Up to 20 players can team up in the game.

Lost in the Cruel World on the third Blu-ray volume has a story from Hiroshi Seko about Mikasa Ackerman who meets Armin and Eren in the Recon Corps.

Demon Gaze, a Vita dungeon RPG from Experience, appears to be a success for the developer and publisher Kadokawa Games. They’re reprinting Students of the Round: The Eternal Legend for PSP and advertising it as a story that takes place several hundred years before Demon Gaze.

Director Kazuyuki Yamai answers questions about Shin Megami Tensei IV’s story connections to past games, its user interface, and more.

Arc System Works shared the opening movie to their upcoming visual novel, Xblaze Code: Embryo, at their Arc System Works Festival this weekend.