Toukiden: The Age of Demons
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| Developer(s) | Omega Force |
| Publisher(s) | Tecmo Koei Games |
| Artist(s) | Hidari |
| Composer(s) | Hideki Sakamoto |
| Platform(s) | Toukiden PlayStation Portable PlayStation Vita Toukiden: Kiwami PlayStation Portable PlayStation Vita PlayStation 4 Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| IGN | 6.2/10 |
Toukiden: The Age of Demons (討鬼伝 Tōkiden?) is an action role-playing game developed by Omega Force for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita. It was released on June 27, 2013 in Japan.Tecmo Koei Games showcased the PlayStation Vita version of the game at E3 2013, and released the game within North America on February 11, 2014 exclusively on PlayStation Vita. A sequel titled Toukiden 2 has been announced for a 2016 release on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.
Toukiden is a third-person monster hunting game which employs groups of players or NPCs fighting together against various monsters during quests. Each player can customize their choice of weapons, armor and skills. Special abilities can be obtained through the usage of souls, or mitama, which can be collected during the progress of the game. These mitama can level up by gaining experience from battles, or by paying a certain sum of haku. Different mitama have abilities with various characteristics, and can be categorised into various groups such as offensive, defensive, or recovery mitama. Upon slaying a monster, the players or NPCs can "purify" the monster, which collects items useful in upgrading weapons and armor. Monsters fall into the categories of small and large oni, with large oni being the boss-type enemies within the game.
Players can engage in missions co-operatively via an ad-hoc WiFi connection, or over the internet. Additional missions are available in the form of downloadable content.
The game is set in a fantasy world with medieval Japanese themes. Warriors known as mononofu (モノノフ?, localised as "slayer" in the western release) specialise in fighting oni form teams and hunt them. Eight years prior to the commencement of the story, a great demon emerged from the underworld and brought an era of calamity to the land of Nakatsu Kuni, which was traditionally protected by the mononofu since ancient times. The protagonist and main characters reside at Utakata Village, one of the final lines of defense against the demons.
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