Soul Sacrifice and Freedom Wars are both Sony-published games based around co-operative play. Both games were published in response to Monster Hunter losing exclusivity to the platform, and while there hasn’t been much in the name of new content to these games lately, both have dedicated groups of players that do still play them.

Servers for both games as well as Soul Sacrifice Delta will be shut down on December 24th, 2021. Of course, players will be able to set up local play lobbies for the two games following the server termination period too.

Sony also previously tried to shut down the digital storefronts for PS3, PSP, and PS Vita although it had to retract its decision following immense backlash on the matter- read more on that through here.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

“Killing monsters” is Geralt’s calling and while The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt didn’t have dragons or other monsters on the scale of previous games (with some DLC exceptions), there were still a number of beasts to fell. The creepy Leshens, hulking Fiends, Wraiths, Wyverns and much more await your blade. Fair warning though – the combat isn’t nearly as compelling as Monster Hunter, you can’t mount monsters, and much of the preparation falls to blade oils, potions and skills. It’s still fun though and the various side quests feel unique and interesting.

Earlier this year, Tecmo Koei released the excellent Toukiden: Age of Demons on the PlayStation Vita, a hunting action game that might be the best the genre has seen yet. Now, it’s getting free DLC that crosses over elements from another rather excellent hunting action franchise- Soul Sacrifice.

Tecmo announced that Soul Sacrifice themed DLC would be coming to Toukiden for free in the guise of two multiplayer missions, both of which will see the player take on the feared Cerberus, the three headed dog guardian- these two missions, entitled “Hell’s Guard Dog” and “Dogs of War”, can be accessed via the Portal Stone and multiplayer lobbies. They are high skill missions, and are only recommended for players with well upgraded gear and a handle on the game’s mechanics.

Alongside these new missions, players will also be getting access to new armor- also free, and available from the PSN Store starting March 26.

Soul Sacrifice Delta, the enhanced, expanded version of Sony’s PlayStation Vita exclusive hit action game Soul Sacrifice, hits Japan early next year, and at TGS this year, we got to see more than 20 minutes of pure, raw, unedited footage for the upcoming title. Now here’s it all, in its off screen glory, for you to watch and enjoy.

The clips above show both, single player action as well as four player co-op play. The gameplay looks pretty cool, so if you enjoyed the original title, you should like Delta as well.

Soul Sacrifice Delta is a heavily expanded version of the original game. Designed by Keiji Inafune, the man best known for creating Capcom’s mascor Mega Man series. He collaborated with Sony’s Japan studios to create this game. The same studio is not allegedly working on a PlayStation 4 game as well.

Stay tuned for more coverage either way.

Looks like the developer of Soul Sacrifice just cannot stop the stream of free downloadable content for their newly released action RPG on the PlayStation Vita. Soul Sacrifice is getting another three more bosses that can be downloaded for free via PlayStation Network.

Check out the trailers for each of the three bosses down below.

Boss #1

Boss #2

Boss #3

Soul Sacrifice is an action RPG that was released back in late April and has received mixed reviews. The game was supposed to be a killer-app for the PlayStation Vita, unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. However, the game is not bad by any means other than the fact that the gameplay can get a bit tedious and too repetitious for most people

If you enjoy RPG games that have a lot of grinding and repeated process then you might enjoy Soul Sacrifice, have a peek at our review right here.

Let us know what you think of Soul Sacrifice in the comments below.

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Soul Sacrifice is an amazing game and there is so much that players can do in the game. For this purpose we have compiled a mega guide which will show how you can unlock trophies and so much more.

Check out the entire guide below and let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

Complete Trophy guide for Soul Sacrifice:

Unavoidable Fate:

This can be unlocked by fulfilling all pacts for the Sorcerer’s Ordeal.

Greed Incarnate Knows Money:

You need to fulfill all pacts for The Wicked Sorcerer to unlock this trophy.

Rightful Form:

You need to fulfill all pacts for Child of a Monster to unlock this trophy.

Dark Mirror:

You need to fulfill all pacts for Ballad of a Werewolf to unlock this trophy.

Epic Tale of Sorcerers:

This one is the platinum. You need to unlock the trophies below to get this one.

Foreshadowing of Despair:

This trophy can  be  unlocked  by fulfilling pacts of Chapter One of the Sorcerer’s Ordeal.

The Unwavering Will:

You need to fulfill all pacts for The Knight of Vengeance to unlock this trophy.

Sorcerer’s Calling:

You need to fulfill  all pacts for Several Years Later to unlock this trophy.

Cursed Past:

You need to fulfill  all pacts for Destinies Past to unlock this trophy.

Mad Feast:

You need to fulfill all pacts for Fading Humanity to unlock this trophy.

Puppet Holiday:

You need to fulfill  all pacts for Beginning of the End to unlock this trophy.

A Brave New World:

You need to fulfill  all pacts for Innocence to unlock this trophy.

Powers of Covetousness:

You need to fulfill  all pacts for Desire to unlock this trophy.

Something Lost, Something Gained:

You need to fulfill  all pacts for Reparation to unlock this trophy.

The Fate of the World:

You need to fulfill  all pacts for Only Memories Remain to unlock this trophy.

Atonement:

You need to fulfill  all pacts for Atonement to unlock this trophy.

To Win at all Costs:

You need to fulfill  all pacts for Envy to unlock this trophy.

My Power Rules All:

You need to fulfill  all pacts for Pride to unlock this trophy.

Waypoint:

You need to fulfill all pacts for Judgment to unlock this trophy.

A Better Tomorrow:

You need to fulfill all pacts for Recursion to unlock this trophy.

Commanding Awe:

You need to fulfill all pacts for Avalon to unlock this trophy.

Fully-Fledged Sorcerer:

The player needs to defend 10 archfiends.

Path of a Great Sorcerer:

The player needs to defend 20 archfiends.

Elementary Sorcerer:

The player needs to acquires 100 offerings.

Gradual Gain of Power:

The player needs to acquires 500 offerings.

The Road Traveled:

You need to fulfill all pacts for Remorse to unlock this trophy.

The Jury’s Perspective:

You need to fulfill all pacts for Penitence to unlock this trophy.

To be Known For Greatness:

The player needs to acquires 1000 offerings.

More Power, More Courage:

The player needs to hold 30 of one offering.

Forbidden for a Reason:

The player needs to learn a new black rite.

Last Resort, Secret Technique:

The player needs to learn a five black rites.

Caring for your Wares:

The player needs to repair 50 Offerings to unlock this trophy.

Humble Beginnings:

The player needs to acquire one selectable raiment.

Stylish Sorcerer:

The player needs to acquire 60 selectable raiments.

Thoughts Flow in the Arm:

The player needs to acquire 100 soul essences.

Emotions Swirl in the Arm:

The player needs to acquire 1000 soul essences.

Without a Scratch:

The player needs to earn the Unscathed Kill award in an Avalon pact. This one is pretty difficult as Unscathed Kill can only be awarded without allies and against a Boss. You need to face the Gargoyle in Avalon Pact III. The video below will help your way across.

Boundless Strength:

The player needs to score 450 points or more in one pact.

Elementary Offering Fusing:

The player needs to fuse the offerings to receive this trophy.

To be a Better Sorcerer:

The player needs to acquire 50 Offerings by fusing.

Boil, Torch, and Torment:

Inflict 5 ailments on an archfiend to unlock this trophy. The video below will show you the way. Players need to select the Jack -o- Lantern Boss Battle of Sorcerer Ordeal and use the Snows and Hourglass. This way players will be able to inflict the freeze attack. Do it five times in order to get your hands on this trophy.

Light-footed Sorcerer:

Killed archfiend in single-player mode with 1 Offering to unlock this trophy. The video below will help you achieve this trophy. The player needs to use the Golem offering during the slime boss battle of Several Years Later.

Spinner of Legends:

The player needs to get the  rank of Legendary Sorcerer fifty times in the game in order to unlock this trophy.

Sorrow of Solitude:

The player needs to tease Librom in three ways to receive this trophy. Just use your touch screen to get this done.

From Cover to Cover:

Open up all pages of Librom to get hold of this trophy. The video below will help you unlock this trophy.

Pure and Straight:

You need to start a pact with six identical offerings. The video below will explain how you can unlock this trophy.

Magical Milestones:

Visit as many places you can on pacts.

Taboos should be Challenged:

If you manage to use a black rite, this trophy will get unlocked.

Use What You Can:

The player needs to unleashed 4 spells with no offerings equipped in one pact and there you will have it: Trophy Unlocked!

The Offering Offers Power:

If you use a Chest of Fortune in pact, this trophy will get unlocked.

The Path of Cooperation:

If you happen to relived a pact in multiplayer, you will be awarded with this trophy.

What it Means to Fight Together:

Relived 20 pacts in multiplayer.

Sorcerer with a Swift Arm:

Relived 100 pacts in multiplayer.

I Decide Who Lives and Who Dies:

The player’s magic level or life level needs to reach level 20 to unlock this trophy.

Thy Strength Runneth Over:

The player’s magic level or life level needs to reach level 99 to unlock this trophy.

Guide to  Easy EXP/Items Farming:

The video below will help you gain easy XP and farm items which will help in your quest.

Monster and Minion Weakness:

The guide below will make you aware of each monster’s and minion’s weakness: (thanks DouglasGlover)

Monster weakness:

• Camelia (sorcerer): None
• Centaur: Ice
• Cerberus: Stone
• Cyclops: None
• Elven Queen: Fire
• Gargoyle: Poison
• Griffin: None
• Harpy: Fire
• Hydra: Fire
• Illecebra (sorcerer): None
• Illecebra (monster form): All (varies during fight)
• Jack Frost: Thunder
• Jack O Lantern: Ice
• Kraken: Thunder
• Leviathan: Thunder
• Minotaur: Thunder
• Pegasus: Thunder
• Phoenix: Ice
• Siren: Thunder
• Slime (Avarice): Fire
• Slime (Gluttony): Fire
• Sortiara (sorcerer): None
• Unicorn: Thunder
• Valkyrie: Stone
• Vigo (sorcerer): None
• Werewolf: Ice
• Wyvern: None

Minion Weakness:

• Behemoth: Fire
• Candle Nectar: Ice
• Doctor Ghoul: Fire
• Dullahan: Poison
• Dwarf: Fire
• Electromagnetic Ghoul: Stone
• Fire Goblin: Ice
• Flowering Kobald: Fire
• Ghoul: None
• Goblin: All
• Greedy Goblin: Stone
• Ice Goblin: Thunder
• Ice Orc: Thunder
• Kobald: Thunder
• Naked Kobald: None
• Nectar: None
• New Money Ghoul: Stone
• Ogre: Ice
• Orc: None
• Parasitic Nectar: Fire
• Poison Orc: Fire
• Steel Goblin: None
• Stone Goblin: Poison
• Toadstool Goblin: Fire

General FAQ (via Reddit):

Q. I know that LE and SE come from saving and sacrificing enemies respectively, and I know that the chances to get + and ++ increase if the soul is berserk or divine or what have you. For bosses, how does that work? If I fight a harder Cerberus do I have a better chance of getting + or ++ or does it not matter?

A. Lower level bosses die earlier, but the really early ones for many have no chance of getting + and ++ essences.

Q. How do the special dark costumes work? Is that only after maxing level?

A.  Each costume has a white, black, and gold color scheme. White is unlocked by Saving 100 archfiends wearing that one outfit, and Black is unlocked by Sacrificing 100. Gold is unlocked after you save 200 Archfiends while wearing the white color scheme and Sacrificing 200 while wearing black.

Note: This guide will be updated if we have more information about it.

Is it doomed to mediocre sales for the rest of its life? Or would its creator aggressively try to court developers into creating something that does in fact give it a chance in the ever challenging video games market?

The answer is Soul Sacrifice; a game made by previous Capcom executive, Keiji Inafune, in collaboration with Sony. Well that sounds great, but is the game a proper replacement for Monster Hunter? First, let me get this doubt out of the way. It has nothing to do with Monster Hunter except for some similar themes.

Soul Sacrifice is purely a single player game that offers tons of content and is definitely something that is a showcase for the Vita’s hardware. The game starts off in style, too.

You are a no-name prisoner captured and in a cage, ready to be executed by an evil magician. The guy who was in the queue before you dies a horrible death, and it’s your turn next. So what do you do?

Luckily, you find a talking book called Librom, which is filled with secrets, and is the key to you getting out of that place and possibly defeating the evil magician. Librom gives you the quests and also contains all the inventory details from where you can customize your character.

The story is told in an interesting way where you get to relive the memories of the evil magician–who was actually a good guy at one time. The point here is to find out how he turned into evil and what circumstances led to that change.

It’s not going to be easy though. This is a massive game and reaching the end and finding answers to all your questions will take a lot of time. In a way it’s refreshing that a handheld game contains so much content and makes it easier to pick up and play due to the mission structure.

The game is all about magic, gore and violence. It’s about punishing your enemies, sacrificing them, using your body parts to create weapons to do damage to the things standing in your way. It also features a good customization options which allows you to choose the magic type, the way your character looks and so on.

The game looks great on the Vita screen. The lighting effects really does make the game stand out a bit. However, considering it’s a handheld game there are limitations like low res textures. That’s not really a major issue though since all you will be doing is fighting enemies and trying to survive.

There are two major mechanics in the game that are available to you after defeating an enemy. You can use the enemy’s soul to either increase your health bar or magic bar. This has to be done properly depending on what’s required.

The game eases you into a tutorial with weak enemies early on and it will be very easy to beat them and get the hang of the controls, which are very smooth. I had a doubt whether the controls would do justice to the game since it’s on a handheld, but there’s absolutely no problem with that.

As you flick the pages of Librom and fight enemies, you will become stronger, gain more powers and advance in the story.

The animations when you activate a power is well done and it really does feel like the developers wanted players to see how cool it is to have powers like that. The game contains a variety of powers like short range attack boost to some massive damage attacks.

For example, you can transform into a boulder and charge into an enemy, and if it’s a lowly one, then you can eliminate it with this move. Using such moves will reduce your magic and you need to use the souls of your defeated foes to replenish the bar. The level design is constricted but considering it’s a handheld game it is something that we normally don’t see often. When you compare it to console games, sure, it does look weathered down, but on handhelds it becomes an ambitious thing.

There are powers in this game that will clean out everything on the screen, including bosses. But there’s a downside to all that. The more powerful your attack, the more weak your body becomes, and also requires a rare resource to be completely healed. It’s like a game of chess where you have to plan your moves properly, avoid enemies when your health is low, and somehow try to win without taking much damage.

One thing I was disappointed in was the story. There’s hardly any motivation to do things the book tells you to do. It’s about the end goal of escaping from the predicament you find yourself in, and there’s hardly any narrative branches to make things interesting.

However, the game is an ambitious one on a handheld, and is arguably the PS Vita’s best game so far. There may be Uncharted’s in the future, but when you look at the amount of unique features Soul Sacrifice possesses, filled with inspiring art design and menacing enemies, it automatically takes it a level higher than the rest.

This game was reviewed on the PS Vita.

Game Overview:

Soul Sacrifice is a action adventure game for the PlayStation Vita. It is published by Sony.

In Soul Sacrifice, players take on the role of a slave who stumbles upon a forbidden book. The book allows its readers to relive epic battles between sorcerers and monsters of the past.

Check out the video walkthrough of Soul Sacrifice below and let us know if you have any questions in the comments section below.

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The prisoner will be exploring the different chapters in the tome, fighting through adventures wrought with monsters and evil demons. Using ad-hoc multiplayer, four players can fight cooperatively to take on the challenges within Librom and see whether they have what it takes to escape unscathed.

The mechanics of the game involving either saving or sacrificing enemies and allies for different benefits. You can save allies by sacrificing your own health, or sacrifice them to unleash damaging attacks. It’s an intriguing concept and players can use this to specialize in different skills and classes.

Soul Sacrifice demo is out now for the US on PSN and features a fully playable first chapter of the game and a save feature that allows players to carry their progress over to the released version of the game. The first chapter of Soul Sacrfice can be played with three other people on PlayStation’s Vita Ad-Hoc mode all throughout it’s entirety.

Keiji Inafune explained why he decided to go with a full-blown demo instead of your regular one level demo that most games have.  “The number one reason for the Soul Sacrifice demo to have a lot of content was to show the users the full attraction of Soul Sacrifice,” he said. “We knew that cutting out a small section of the game and saying, ‘Isn’t this part fun?’ would not show the users the full potential of the game. We figured that it wouldn’t make sense if the users could not have the ‘I want to play more’ feeling.”

Players who play the Soul Sacrifice demo can save their progress and carry it over to the full retail version of the game once its finally out in the USA on April 30th 2013. Those who use the save feature from the demo will also be rewarded with an item called Spirits’ Heart’. Spirits Heart will allow players to summon a “powerful stone golem that will fight for you”.

Soul Sacrifice demo is out now on PlayStation Network. What are you waiting for? Go download it.

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