Destiny of Spirits

Destiny of Spirits

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Developer(s) SCE Japan Studio
Q Entertainment
Publisher(s) Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform(s) PlayStation Vita
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Strategy, role-playing, social

Destiny of Spirits is a free-to-play online social strategy game with RPG elements exclusively for the PlayStation Vita, developed jointly by SCE Japan Studio and Q Entertainment for Sony Computer Entertainment. The game is divided into three online regions, namely Asia, the Americas, and Europe, each with a separate server.

Development

The game was announced during a pre-E3 live show in 2013.[5][6] The worldwide closed beta test for the game took place during October 2013, when codes were handed out to subscribers of PlayStation Plus.[7] Following the closure of the test, improvements were made to the game and shortcomings identified by players were addressed.[4][8] The game is available in Japanese, English, and Traditional Chinese.[9]

The game features special collaboration spirits, including Kat from Gravity Rush, and Sony mascot Toro.[10] The game features voice acting from Kana Hanazawa and president of SCE Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida.[11] Artists involved in creating the spirit art for the game include Shunsuke Saito[12] and VOFAN.[13]

In March 2015, Sony announced that the game will no longer be available for both new players and existing players in June 30, 2015. While not providing reasons regarding the cancellation of the game, Sony had revealed that the game had been downloaded by more than 1 million people.[14]

Gameplay

The game is based on collecting and summoning legendary spirits and using them to battle against enemies in a turn-based combat system, in cooperation with other players. The player may select attacks to choose from, or let the system automatically decide on attacks; enemy weaknesses are affected by elemental attacks.[2][15] As a location-based game, it uses the player's real-world location to determine the spirits the player is able to attain, based on the mythology of the local surroundings where the player resides.[16][17] Players are able to summon Japanese youkai and shinto gods, Chinese mythological beasts, Native American folktale creatures, European spiritual figures, deities from ancient Egyptian and Mayan civilizations, and other various categories depending on their circumstances, with each spirit represented by a two-dimensional sprite created by various different artists.[1][18]

Spirits may be merged to create stronger spirits or rented from other players using spirit points, whilst summoning spirits requires the use of summoning stones. The game offers the optional choice of purchasing Destiny Orbs using real-life money via the PlayStation Network, which grants the ability to perform advanced summons.[16][19]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2014-03-06, 『デスティニー オブ スピリッツ： アジア』配信日が2014年3月20日に決定！ 世界とつながる！, Famitsu
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2014-03-20, PSV免费游戏《Destiny of Spirits》今日上线, Sina
  3. ↑ 2014-03-07, Monster collector RPG Destiny of Spirits hits Vita on March 25 in US, Joystiq
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 2014-03-07, Destiny of Spirits release date confirmed for PS Vita, PlayStation EU
  5. ↑ 2013-06-10, Free-to-play Destiny of Spirits announced for PS Vita, Gematsu
  6. ↑ 2014-03-07, Destiny of Spirits hits PlayStation Vita on March 25, Polygon
  7. ↑ 2013-10-24, Destiny Of Spirits Beta Codes Going Out Now, GameInformer
  8. ↑ 2014-03-07, Destiny of Spirits Coming Later This Month, IGN
  9. ↑ 2014-03-07, 《Destiny of Spirits》中文版 3 月 20 日上線營運 運用占星術召喚聖靈, 巴哈姆特
  10. ↑ 2013-10-03, Destiny Of Spirits, Vita Monster Collecting RPG, Kicks Off Global Beta On October 24, Siliconera
  11. ↑ 2014-03-11, Sony Video Game Exec Makes The Leap To Owl Noises, Kotaku
  12. ↑ 2014-04-03, Gravity Rush’s Kat, Raven, And Yunica Drop Into Destiny of Spirits, Siliconera
  13. ↑ 2013-10-23, 《Destiny of Spirits》全球同步封測週四開跑 亞洲限量名額兌換碼搶先公布, 巴哈姆特
  14. ↑ McWhertor, Michael (March 26, 2015). "Sony's shutting down its free-to-play Vita game Destiny of Spirits". Retrieved March 27, 2015.
  15. ↑ 2013-06-20, Destiny Of Spirits Has Hundreds Of Monsters From All Over The World, Siliconera
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 2013-10-07, Destiny of Spirits on PS Vita Detailed, PlayStation US
  17. ↑ 2014-03-06, SCEJAのグローバル・ロケーションゲーム『デスティニー オブ スピリッツ：アジア』、サービス開始日決定 ─ 本作の解説映像も公開に, インサイド
  18. ↑ 2014-03-04, Destiny Of Spirits Coming To Vita On March 20, Siliconera
  19. ↑ 2013-10-07, New Details Emerge for PS Vita RPG Destiny of Spirits, IGN

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