Mugen Souls prepares for an Overwhelming release next week

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Mugen Souls, a game from Compile Hearts, a PS3 exclusive that NISA is localizing and publishing for the NA and EU territories. Those lucky enough to be in the EU region already can pick up the game, but the NA region will not have to wait for much longer. Mugen Souls is coming out next week on October 16th.

The notable thing about Mugen Souls is that they got the character designer from Disgaea to do the character designs for Mugen Souls. So anyone that loves Disgaea will see immediate similarities just from a visual standpoint alone. But the similarities do not end there. Mugen Souls has Disgaea's same penchant for over the top attack moves accompanied by damage numbers that break a billion.

Those that played Neptunia Mk2 should see some familiarity with way the battles handle as you are able to move around the field on your turn. So it is not a turn based gird system like tactics games such as Disgaea. But it will feature an item world like Disgaea. It also will have lots of stats to buy up and play with for those wanting to make broken characters. Additionally, there is a customization system for modifying equipment and appearances.

The main character for the game is special and unique. Chou-chou, is the self-proclaimed Goddess of the universe, her default personality is egotistical. However, she has several other personalities that all have their own appearance and behaviors. There is a tsundere, but NISA did the odd thing of changing it to bipolar. The tsundere personality comes complete with twin tails and a zettai ryouiki grade S (almost).



Between parodying RPG tropes in general, having special attacks called "Moe Kills", Disgaea art style, lots of stats crunching and a general case of zany fun, anyone looking for some light fun should keep an eye for it.

An additional note of trivia about the game:

For those not following the game, Mugen Souls has a bit of a history to the game when NISA picked it up. When they started talking about the game they revealed that they would be cutting out some content from the game. The said content was a mini-game similar in ways to one found in Record of Agarest War 2, it was a bath mini-game. This would not have been so bad if not for the appearances of the characters. So the mini-game was cut and all related CGs were removed as well. But everything else about the game remains intact.