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Date A Live Ars Install Game Also Heads to PS Vita
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
The March issue of Fujimi Shobo's Dragon Magazine announced on Tuesday that a port of the Date A Live Rinnne Utopia and Date A Live Ars Install games will be released on the PlayStation Vita system under the title Date A Live Rinnne Utopia & Ars Install. The Compile Heart game is scheduled to be released in Japan this coming summer.
A PlayStation Vita port of the Date A Live Rinnne Utopia PlayStation 3 game was announced in December, although more details were listed to be coming in the January 20 issue of Dragon Magazine. Rinnne Utopia debuted on the PlayStation 3 console in June 2013, while Ars Install was released on the console a year later.
Tachibana's original Date A Live light novel series centers on a boy named Shidō Itsuka who meets a spirit girl who has been rejected by a devastated world. The girl, who Shidō names "Tohka," happens to have wiped out much of humanity 30 years ago, and now she is back. The only way to stop her is to date her.
The game allows the player to interact with all of the heroines in a school setting. According to a teaser by the light novels' publisher Enterbrain, players can also go beyond the “date,” and even see their love interest as a pregnant wife in the future after marriage.
A television anime also premiered in 2013, and a second season aired last year. Funimation streamed both series as they aired, and has also acquired home video rights for both series.
