Retour release date confirmed as October 1st

[indigozeal.livejournal.com]

Just FYI.

ETA: Oh, what the heck; misc. news while we're here:

- Gerard's VA has been confirmed as Shun Horie; Silvan's, as Yukitoshi Kikuchi. Full-length art of both characters have been released, but, frankly, both of them look to be major-league headaches at this point.

- A couple more lavish pieces of Marcel and Julious have been added to the official site's art gallery, in the style of the Randy piece that was posted previously.

- The Vocal Complete box has been confirmed to have 152 songs. I don't know if anyone wants to do the math and see how many new songs that gets us. Never mind; other sources confirm that the count of 152 is for previously-released songs. No word on how many songs are on the bonus disk of unreleased material, to my knowledge.

More ETA: This is too small for its own news post, but just to note: Those ordering through Koei's Gamecity site (for any edition of the game) will get an additional A4-size full-color character book and a "corsage clip" modeled after the Smallney Academy school insignia. They accept only orders from Japan, though, so you'd have to use a deputy service (or hit up auctions afterward) to get these. These items are also, according to Koei, subject to change.

Finally, a reminder that, despite our ultra-expensive 20th Anniversary Editions, we are at least not the recipients of the worst of Koei's attentions.