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Astebreed: Definitive Edition, an improved version of Japanese shmup Astebreed, brings an array of visual tweaks, new story episodes, new play modes, and all of the PS4 version’s content to PC players.   

Astebreed: Definitive Edition looks to offer several improvements to players. The controls have been better optimized for those using controllers, mapping lock-on controls and dashes in easier-to-use ways. An arrange mode has been added that gives players a different play experience with the game, with new enemy arrangements and attack arrays having been put into all modes to offer new challenges. Different power-ups have been put in place to balance that new challenge, as well.

On top of these play elements, the game also offers improved visuals, new songs, and new story segments as well, and brings all of the content of the PS4 version over. This is all offered for free to previous owners of the PC version.

Astebreed is a shmup where players may find enemies coming at them from surprising directions. Players won’t just face foes head-on, as they may be attacked in swarms or from various places, switching between horizontal, vertical, and 3D shooting at different times. Players will be able to use regular shots, homing beams, and melee attacks using their flying mecha to counteract their foes’ plans.

Astebreed: Definitive Edition is available now on Steam and Playism.

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Playism has announced that it’ll be publishing Japanese studio Edelweiss’s mech shooter Astebreed for PlayStation 4 on June 25th. You’ll be able to buy it as a digital for $19.99.

The PS4 version of Astebreed will have new features that its PC version doesn’t have. These include having the game run at 60 frames per second at 1080p, as well as the use of emissive lighting and improved texture compression, and improved 3D models and textures all around.

It’s not only visual upgrades either, the PS4 version will have new upgrades available to your mech, including “the ability to control the direction of your focused targeting system using the right stick, and the ability to instantly dash,” according to Playism. You’ll also be able to adjust enemy patterns and placement. Lastly, there’s a new “Arrange Mode” to go alongside the game’s “Original Mode.”

Astebreed has you playing as young war machine pilot Roy Becket as he enters a galactic war with an ancient mechanical alien race that threatens to destroy humanity. Roy’s mecha has two methods of attack. The first is a thought-controlled Lucis device that lets him shoot targets from a distance and paint them for precision homing attacks. The second weapon is a little less advanced, being a large blade that lets him get up close and slice up his enemies.

As you play through the levels, you’ll notice that the camera doesn’t just hold its position at the side of the action, it swoops dynamically to different positions so that you could go from playing a sidescrolling shooter to a vertical shooter in a matter of seconds.

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Publisher of Japanese indie games Playism is hosting its own special sale on Steam with 10 of its games going for cheap.

You can check out the Playism Publisher Sale right here. The full list of games it includes is below:

• Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae
• REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR
• Gunhound EX
• One Way Heroics
• La-Mulana
• Magical Battle Festa
• Unholy Heights
• Astebreed
• Meadowland
• Rime Berta

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Japanese game publisher and digital marketplace Playism has confirmed with a new webpage the Japanese games it will be bringing to the US and Europe (confirmed via Twitter) this year on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

First up is TorqueL for both PS4 and PS Vita. It’s an award-winning action-puzzler in which you play a man inside a square. The challenge is to roll the man across the treacherous levels. You can extend long blocks out of each of the square’s four sides to lift, push, and thrust the man in the square around.

Next up is Prismatic Solid heading to the PS4 only. It’s a forced rail shooter with lots of different particle types, and projectiles that fill the entire screen in a haze of bright color. The more power-ups you have the better in this one as snake-like projectiles they send out absorb enemy bullets.

Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae is coming to PS4 as well. You play as school girl Misa as she uses her samurai sword to slash through waves of robots in an enclosed arena. Misa is after her former friend Suzuka who killed their teacher using her demonic blade.

Croixleur Sigma is heading to both PS4 and PS Vita. It’s a high-speed brawler that has you battling hordes of monsters up several floors of a tower in order to beat your childhood friend to the top. It has a Story Mode, multiple endings, two player co-op, as well as Time Trial, Survival, and Challenge modes.

The fifth title that Playism is bringing to the PS4 this year is Astebreed. This is an arcade shooter in which you pilot a mecha to save what’s left of humanity during a galactic war with an ancient mechanical alien race. Most notable is the game’s dynamic perspective, often switching between vertical, horizontal, and 3D shooter-styles across its levels.

Lastly, we have Revolver 360 RE:ACTOR making its way to PS4. This blue-washed shmup has you twisting and rotating your perspective in order to line up enemies into more manageable formations, and to dodge incoming bullets.

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