Level-5 announced the next Yo-kai Watch game, Yo-kai Academy Y, will be launching August 13 in Japan on Nintendo Switch. The game was already announced on PS4 as well, but the PS4 version’s date wasn’t revealed yet, and we only know it’ll launch at around the same timeframe. As a reminder, the game will launch
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Level-5 published three new TV commercials for Yo-kai Academy Y: Waiwai Gakuen Seikatsu, showcasing more gameplay and revealing slightly more on this action RPG. The commercials each focus on a certain aspect of the game. First off, we have the over 600 different students NPCs players can befriend by being cool enough on campus and
Level-5 revealed the very first trailer for the new Yo-kai Watch game, Yo-kai Academy Y: Waiwai Gakuen Seikatsu, explaining a certain aspect of the game in detail for the first time. Like its name suggests, this game mixes RPG with school life elements. This trailer focuses on the school life part. Yo-kai Academy Y‘s trailer
On May 22, Level-5 announced Yo-kai Watch Jam – Yo-kai Academy Y: Waiwai Gakuen Seikatsu is a “large-scale download game with regular updates”. A physical version and the game’s price are currently TBA. Yo-kai Academy Y is scheduled to launch in Summer 2020 in Japan, for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. Yo-kai Academy Y is
Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino tweeted about Inazuma Eleven Heroes Great Road on March 18, sharing a new development update on one of the most delayed games of the past ten years. 長らくお待たせしてしまっているイナズマイレブン英雄たちのグレートロードですが、お察しの通り、エンジンなどの切り替えもあり、開発は難航している状態です。４月までには、いつなのか、どういう形で出すのかなどの方針を発表できればと思っています。絵は未発表のものです。もうしばらくお待ちを。 pic.twitter.com/SSjZSkTVSX — 日野晃博 (@AkihiroHino) March 18, 2020 Here’s a quick translation: Akihiro Hino: “I know you’ve been waiting for Inazuma Eleven Eiyuu Tachi
Level-5 renewed the official site for Inazuma Eleven: Heroes Great Road, revealing a new key visual showing multiple characters appearing in the game. However, the official site only mentions Inazuma Eleven: Heroes Great Road is coming in 2020 on PS4, Switch, iOS, and Android. Rather than a “Spring 2020” release like Level-5 previously announced, only
Level-5 published a brand new trailer for Megaton Musashi ahead of Jump Festa 2020. The trailer goes over what we know about the game’s story. It’s set in the future where the earth was colonized by bad aliens called the Dractor. The survivors fled to underground shelters, and fight against the aliens using “Megaton-Class” mechas,
During a 15 minutes live stream held today, Level-5’s President Akihiro Hino personally addressed Inazuma Eleven fans, explaining the multiple delays Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin has suffered from. Hino-san started by explaining how Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin‘s game and anime projects were born. It was in order to release them a bit before the 2018 Football World Cup
Dragon Quest author Yuji Horii held a conference during the Cedec+Kyushu 2018 event on December 1. The conference’s MC was quite the personality himself: Level 5’s president, Akihiro Hino. During the conference, Horii-san went over his career and each of the main games in the Dragon Quest series, sharing pieces of advice with the many game development students
This week’s issue of Weekly Famitsu has a feature on Leve-5, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the company. In a very long interview, President Akihiro Hino shared many details about his history in game development and the history of his own company. Most notably, Hino-san talked about Ushiro, the canceled RPG for PSP and mobile which is coming