wraggster
August 4th, 2013, 19:01
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Dragon's Crown (http://www.joystiq.com/game/dragons-crown) scaled to heights of 300,000 shipments in its first week at retail, a welcome boost for publisher Atlus amid the financial struggles (http://indexweb.jp/news/2013/10685.html) of its parent company.
Those figures are restricted to Japanese shipments (including download purchases), and could rise dramatically after Tuesday, August 6, when the PS3 and Vita brawler will be available in North America. At the very least the game proved more than popular with our Danny, who deemed Dragon's Crown to be developer Vanillaware's best effort yet.
"While it scales back the complexity that defined Princess Crown and Odin Sphere," said Danny in his four-and-half-stars review (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/31/dragons-crown-review/), "its focus on deep, varied fighting mechanics make it one of the best beat-em-ups released for any platform in recent years."
As for Atlus, it'll wait to see how the situation with parent company Index shakes out. Index is expected to sell its subsidiary options after effectively filing for bankruptcy protection. Atlus has reassured (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/19/atlus-parent-company-selling-operations-publishing-plans-are-u/) fans that its games, includingDragon's Crown, are "shipping on time."
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/02/dragons-crown-ships-300k-across-first-week-in-japan/
Dragon's Crown (http://www.joystiq.com/game/dragons-crown) scaled to heights of 300,000 shipments in its first week at retail, a welcome boost for publisher Atlus amid the financial struggles (http://indexweb.jp/news/2013/10685.html) of its parent company.
Those figures are restricted to Japanese shipments (including download purchases), and could rise dramatically after Tuesday, August 6, when the PS3 and Vita brawler will be available in North America. At the very least the game proved more than popular with our Danny, who deemed Dragon's Crown to be developer Vanillaware's best effort yet.
"While it scales back the complexity that defined Princess Crown and Odin Sphere," said Danny in his four-and-half-stars review (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/31/dragons-crown-review/), "its focus on deep, varied fighting mechanics make it one of the best beat-em-ups released for any platform in recent years."
As for Atlus, it'll wait to see how the situation with parent company Index shakes out. Index is expected to sell its subsidiary options after effectively filing for bankruptcy protection. Atlus has reassured (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/19/atlus-parent-company-selling-operations-publishing-plans-are-u/) fans that its games, includingDragon's Crown, are "shipping on time."
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/02/dragons-crown-ships-300k-across-first-week-in-japan/