PS3

Lost Dimension

Role-playing (RPG)StrategyTurn-based strategy (TBS)Adventure

Space needed: About 1000 MB
Plays offline: Yes

Overview

Lost Dimension is a 2014 video game developed by Lancarse originally for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. It is a tactical role-playing video game with visual novel-like elements, where the choices of the player determine the fate of the game's story, as well as its characters. The game's protagonist is 18-year-old Sho Kasugai, a member of S.E.A.L.E.D., an organisation tasked with stopping a mysterious man named "The End", who wants to destroy the world. A Windows version, published by Ghostlight, was released in October 2017.

Lost Dimension is a tactical role-playing video game. The characters climb the mysterious five-floor Pillar, in which they encounter a number of enemies. During battles, the characters attack enemies as a group, with each character having unique attacks and abilities. The game's "Assist" feature automatically occurs when an ally is nearby when the player attacks. Each character also has a unique "Gift" special ability, and by obtaining "Gift exp" in battle, new abilities can be unlocked.

Lost Dimension takes place in the near future, with the world in ruin. The game's protagonist is 18 year-old Sho Kasugai, a member of S.E.A.L.E.D., a special group of 17-to-18 year olds with psychic abilities tasked with investigating a giant pillar that appeared out of nowhere. Sho has a special ability called "Vision", which grants him the ability to foresee events before they happen, and after he used it to save people from a mass destruction, he was chosen to be a member of S.E.A.L.E.D. The main antagonist is a mysterious terrorist known as "The End". The End has caused massacres and destruction that kill over 2 billion people, and is the reason why the United Nations put together S.E.A.L.E.D., in order to kill him.

The game is developed by Lancarse, developer of Etrian Odyssey and Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, and published by FuRyu, developer of Unchained Blades. The game's story is written by Jun Kumagai, who has worked on the scripts of the Persona 3 movies, as well as a few episodes of Persona 4: The Animation, with Takeshi Oga being head of tower designs and character designs being provided by Yuu Yamashita and Makoto Tsuchibayashi. The game's producer is Hiroyuki Abe. The game was revealed on April 17, 2014, and scheduled for release on August 7, 2014, in Japan, with players who pre-order the game receiving bonus content such as an alternate costume, as well as an additional quest. Select retailers also offer additional items.

All four Famitsu reviewers gave the PlayStation 3 version of Lost Dimension a score of 8, for a total of 32/40, while the PlayStation Vita version received scores of 8, 8, 8 and 9, for a total of 33/40. It has a Metacritic score of 72% The Vita version sold 3,868 copies during its first week on sale in Japan, ranking 19th for all video game sales for that week, while the PS3 version failed to enter the top 20 sales chart.