Soul Sacrifice Coming to North America

<p>Keiji Inafune&comma; co-designer for <em>Mega Man&comma;<&sol;em> has a new dark fantasy called <em>Soul Sacrifice&period;<&sol;em> Sony has confirmed that the game will indeed be released in North American for the PlayStation Vita&period; Inafune has admitted that he can be a little confusing when he is talking about the concept of this particular game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The main concept of <em>Soul Sacrifice<&sol;em> is that the main character must &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sacrifice” part of his body to gain more powerful magic&period; One example is ripping out his spine through his mouth to wield the power of Excalibur&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What I wanted to illustrate in this game was a &OpenCurlyQuote;reality blended into a fantasy world&period;’ The word &OpenCurlyQuote;fantasy’ normally points to a story that is fictitious&semi; however&comma; with Soul Sacrifice I wanted to illustrate a &OpenCurlyQuote;reality’ within a fantasy that wasn&&num;8217&semi;t sugar-coated&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s not about focusing on the strange&comma; but to flip the commonly held concept of what a fantasy theme should be with the concept of &OpenCurlyQuote;reality&period;’”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Look for more information about <em>Soul Sacrifice <&sol;em>on our coverage of E3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;LwSfDWLR00Y" frameborder&equals;"0" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;5914841&sol;self&plus;mutilation-for-magic-coming-to-north-america-in-soul-sacrifice&quest;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;dlvr&period;it">Kotaku<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;