The game is set for release in North America on July 12th, 2016, for the 3DS.Ĭode: VFD takes place in Tokyo in the year 2100. This game is also to be the first to make the leap across the Pacific.ħth Dragon III Code: VFD was developed and published by Sega. However, Sega stepped up to develop the next entry in the series, and the third game in the 2020 spinoff series. Of course, Imageepoch filed for bankruptcy a couple years after the release of 2020-II, leaving the series in limbo. This game was followed up in 2013 by 7th Dragon 2020-II, a direct sequel to 2020 as the name suggests. The character classes offered are a bit more unique as well while 7th Dragon had genre-traditional classes like Knights and Healers, 2020 mixes things up with classes like Hackers (focusing on buffing the player party) and Destroyers (counterattack-focused fighters). This game functions as a spinoff of the original, moving the setting to post-apocalyptic Tokyo and switching from a 2D presentation to full 3D. The next game, 7th Dragon 2020, was released for the PSP in 2011. The game was well received in Japan, enough so to kick off a series. Sure, it had the heavy focus on exploring dungeons and class-based combat, but there was also a focus on story (which many dungeon crawlers lack, sometimes on purpose) with typical world map and town exploration offered. The thing that made 7th Dragon stand out against other dungeon crawlers was that it was structured more like a traditional JRPG. Taking place in a medieval-style fantasy world, the game tasked you with creating and customizing a party from a choice of different character classes (a la the Etrian Odyssey series) and leading them to slay 666 dragons that have invaded the world. Coming a couple years after the dungeon-crawing boom the DS experienced with the release of Etrian Odyssey by Atlus, 7th Dragon was produced in a similar vein. In 2009, the company released the eponymous title 7th Dragon for the DS in Japan. Imageepoch created a few different JRPG series, one of which is a series that hasn’t made it to western shores until now: 7th Dragon. I’ve talked a bit about the company Imageepoch back in our Stella Glow review – a developer of mostly JRPGs, with most of their work staying exclusive to Japan, and defunct as of 2015.
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