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M3 The Dark Metal PS Vita Game Also Gets PS4 Version
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
Namco Bandai Games announced at the SCEJA Press Conference 2014 on Monday that its upcoming M3 -The Dark Metal- Mission Memento Mori PlayStation Vita game will get a download-only PlayStation 4 version. Both versions of the game are slated for release in Japan on November 20. The PS Vita version will retail for 6,170 yen (about US$61) and the PS4 version will retail for 7,120 yen (about US$68).
Namco Bandai Games began streaming a teaser for the PS Vita version last week:
The “Memento Mori” in the title is Latin for “Remember that you will die.”
First copies of the PS Vita game will ship with a product code to download an episode of the M3 the dark metal radio program specially recorded for the game, and a reversible jacket for the game featuring an illustration by the Satelight staff.
The M3 the dark metal anime premiered in late April. Media distribution service and retailer Daisuki is streaming the television anime series as it airs in Japan.
The ensemble drama story follows four boys and four girls, team Gargouille's exploration of a mysterious space called the Avidya Domain in the science-fiction setting of near-future Tokyo.
Junichi Satō (Sailor Moon, Kaleido Star, Aria franchise) directs the project at the studio Satelight (Macross Frontier, Bodacious Space Pirates), and Mari Okada (anohana, Nagi no Asukara) is in charge of the scripts. Shōji Kawamori (Macross franchise, Cyber Formula franchise) works on the mecha designs.
A manga adaptation premiered in Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Blade on April 30.
Source: Dengeki Online via Hachima Kikō
