With all the talk of the coming streaming revolution on its way to the game industry, it can be easy to forget that the original streaming service is still going strong with Sony’s PlayStation Now. It continues to get a host of various titles rotating in and out, and this month is going to be a big one, it seems, with some heavy hitting titles.

One of the biggest titles to release is Remedy’s latest action title, Control. While the game didn’t quite find a large audience, it got critical acclaim and is one of the company’s best yet. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is next up, the finale in the rebooted saga that ends the saga of Trinity, and then the second game in another rebooted classic with Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. That’s far from all though, as the likes of Warriors All Stars, NASCAR, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13, and a host of other various titles will be coming in March. You can see the whole list below.

Some of the games are live now, and others will be added as the month goes on. It, of course, also goes by region, so some of this list may vary depending on where you’re using the service. Regardless, there is a little something for everyone this month.

• Shadow of the Tomb Raider 
• Control
• Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
• NASCAR Heat 3
• Nights of Azure
• Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon
• Warriors All-Stars
• Toukiden Kiwami
• Toukiden 2
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13
• Dead or Alive 5 Last Round

The setting is classic Feudal Japan, in an alternate history where a cataclysmic event has seen most of the country overrun by demon “Oni” and the last few bundles of humanity have banded together to defend themselves and carve out survival in the midlands. Your role is one of the “Slayers” who protect humanity, known colloquially as “demons who fight demons.”

"while Kiwami brings a ton of new content to the table and makes the game available for home console, it’s plain as day where the threads of its ancestry run. "

Of course, story is rarely at the forefront of these kinds of games, and has never been Omega Force’s strength anyways. Toukiden Kiwami is not the exception to this rule, and keeps most of its exposition to the side for those who want it. Don’t care how the Oni came about? You don’t have to. Slash away, young Slayer.

Creating your character feels a lot like every other Omega Force game, with several stock options, but little way to fine tune it to perfection. It does the job in a “close enough” way, but the choosy might want more. While getting started, you get to select from a variety of weapons that can slightly change the play style.

Kiwami introduces Firearms, Naginata and Kanabo classes of weapons to the mix, though like the other weapon classes, they mostly change the feel of combat and not the actual mechanics that drastically. A sword feels kind of like a club feels kind of like a naginata. Combos, speed and damage might differ, but you’re going to be dispatching Oni in the same fashion either way.

"A sword feels kind of like a club feels kind of like a naginata. Combos, speed and damage might differ, but you’re going to be dispatching Oni in the same fashion either way.  "

The Monster Hunter comparison wasn’t offhanded in the slightest, and the inspiration becomes apparent from the first mission. From the four hunter team limit, to the weapons, to the segmented battlefield and frequent load times that comes with that, the line between being part of a genre and ripping off gets a little blurry here.

Toukiden Kiwami puts its style within the Warriors inspired combat, bringing in that special flare and viscerally enjoyable combat that makes the Warriors subseries so enjoyable. Dodging around the battlefield, cutting into Oni has an impact and a smoothness that Monster Hunter can’t quite compete with.

Mitama play a dual role of background story and power up loadouts in Kiwami. Mitama are the souls of heroes of past ages, eaten by Oni and provide different, equipable powers once obtained. Kiwami claims to double the number of these, and they all provide a slightly different set of abilities, all subdivided into a handful of categories like power, or speed.

"I would be more impressed with Omega-Force’s sheer output if any of it was new. Toukiden Kiwami still has very visible ties back to its PSP origins… "

Keeping a balanced set of these Mitama to switch between depending on mission requirements or just to fill a different role in a multiplayer team becomes a fun metagame in itself and it’s a simple matter to save favourites to easy loadouts you can select between missions

AI Slayers fill out your roster when not with human players, with some of the smartest AI I’ve played with. Perhaps too smart. The computer can play as well as most human players, and during my time with Toukiden I found myself leaving base with fewer team members than I could have brought, just to give me a better shot at fighting.

I would be more impressed with Omega-Force’s sheer output if any of it was new. Toukiden Kiwami still has very visible ties back to its PSP origins with presentation and controls. There is no extranous animation happening outside of battle, and story is presented with the rare CGI scene and a truckload of dialog.

"Kiwami keeps the control scheme [from the Vita] wholesale, with complete disregard for the back triggers or clickable analog sticks, and no options to stretch out "

Playstation 4 users are probably also going to find that Kiwami doesn’t do anything to take advantage of the extended options the Dualshock 4 can afford. Age of Demons felt slightly cramped on the Vita, but it was more excusable when it was trying to stretch less buttons. Kiwami keeps the control scheme wholesale, with complete disregard for the back triggers or clickable analog sticks, and no options to stretch out and give key functions like locking on and running their own buttons. I suppose it is conducive to remote play that way, but after games like Assassin’s Creed showed special button configurations for that, it’s hard to accept that it wasn’t just laziness.

Toukiden Kiwami is a fine Monster Hunter clone, with a few ideas it borrows from other Omega Force games that keeps it fresh. They definitely did not take the PS4 port and run with it, or any port for that matter. It feels like an expansion for an older game. A drastic expansion, but none the less, more porting from a company that could really benefit running with new ideas and technology. If you slept through the Age of Demons, Kiwami might be worth jumping in to. Otherwise you should probably give the demo a shot.

This game was reviewed on the PlayStation 4.

Toukiden Kiwami, the expansion to Tecmo’s last year hit Monster Hunter-like, Toukiden: Age of Demons, is almost here. The big deal with this expansion is that it will also be coming to the PS4 as well- your dream of playing Monster Hunter on a PlayStation console is finally (sort of) realized!

Anyway, you can now see what the game is like for yourself (in case you didn’t play it last year when it released on Vita- you should have, it was really good) thanks to the new demo for it that Tecmo Koei have released. The demo allows you to play Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of the game, and everything that you achieve in it can be carried over into the full game as well. Of course, bear in mind, all the demo content is actually the exact same as it was in Toukiden: Age of Demons. Tecmo Koei even note this in the press release.

All of this said, your save data from Age of Demons also carries over into the final game here- so yes, all that time you spent playing the game will not go to waste after all.

Last year, Tecmo released the excellent Toukiden: Age of Demons on the PlayStation Vita, which we felt was an exemplary entry into the increasingly crowded monster hunting genre; now, in the tradition of the genre, the incremental update to the original game is almost here. It is called Toukiden Kiwami, and it will also be coming to the PlayStation 4, in addition to coming to PS Vita.

Of course, a lot of you may be wondering how well a PS Vita game will translate to the PS4, and the answer is… well, it looks pretty okay, actually. You can see the game’s PlayStation 4 build for yourself in the video above. It’s not necessarily the best looking game on the console, but it is largely serviceable, and at the very least ensures that the graphics won’t come in the way of the great gameplay.

Toukiden Kiwami will launch on PS Vita and PS4 later this year. Stay tuned for more coverage.

Toukiden: Kiwami, the follow up to the original Toukiden: Age of Demons that hit the PlayStation Vita last year, was already announced to be coming to the west on PlayStation Vita, but now, Tecmo Koei have confirmed that the game will also be coming to the PlayStation 4, giving this great action game series a chance to shine on the big screen, and to appeal to western audiences who would be more inclined to pick up a game on their console over their handheld.

Toukiden is of course a ‘Monster Hunter’-like, but with a difference: it’s faster, more nimble, allows for greater control, and its unique Japanese history and mythology inspired flavor gives it distinct character. The original game was excellent, and still stands as one of the best on the PS Vita- hopefully, this new game is as good as that one was, and it benefits from being on the PlayStation 4 as well. Both, the PS Vita and PS4 versions, have been confirmed for a western release.

Toukiden: Age of Demons was a great historical fantasy action game when it released for the PlayStation Vita earlier this year. We here at GamingBolt absolutely loved it, and felt that it was the best Monster Hunter clone currently available; in fact, in many ways, we even felt that the game was better than Monster Hunter.

If you loved Toukiden: Age of Demons, and cannot get enough of it, then well, you are in luck, as Tecmo Koei have announced that Toukiden Kiwami will be releasing in the west some time next year. Toukiden Kiwami is an expansion of the original game, in the tradition of the Monster Hunter ‘G’ or Ultimate games, or the ‘third version’ Pokemon games. It adds more Slayers, Oni, storylines, and chapters to the original game, making an already loaded package even more full featured.

Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage of the game as and when we near its release.