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Live A Live HD-2D Remake Gets New Trailer & Epic Theme Song Performed by Hironobu Kageyama

Square Enix released four new trailers of its upcoming HD-2D remake of the classic JRPG Live A Live, also revealing a new song.

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Square Enix released four new trailers of its upcoming HD-2D remake of the classic JRPG Live A Live.

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The trailers showcase four different adventures in time included in the game, Near Future, Western, Middle Ages, and Bakumatsu, which see you playing respectively a boy with superpowers, a wandering bounty hunter, a young hero, and a ninja.

We also get a video with the making of the theme song of the Near Future story, performed by the prince of anime and tokusatsu songs Hironobu Kageyama.

Speaking of songs, we learn that Square Enix is also going to release a soundtrack with two CDs supervised by the original composer Yoko Shimomura. For now, this release has been confirmed only for Japan.

You can check out all the videos below.

Live A Live releases for Nintendo Switch on July 22.

Below you can read an official description, and you can also watch the previous trailers.

“Previously unreleased outside of Japan, the RPG game LIVE A LIVE is releasing on the Nintendo Switch system in the HD-2D style!

Seven different stories featuring different protagonists, time periods, and gameplay styles await. In The Wild West, a wanderer with a bounty on his head fights for his life. In the Twilight of Edo Japan, a shinobi undertakes a secret mission. Experience these tales in any order you choose—the adventure is yours to control. What other stories will you uncover on the horizon…?”

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Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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