Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess Review

Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess Developer: Koei Tecmo Publisher: Koei Tecmo Platforms: PS Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 (Reviewed) Release Date: July 14, 2014 Price: $49.99 US – Available Here $69.95 AU – Available Here Overview The Deception series saw quite a bit of success on the original PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles due in part to its trap-oriented gameplay that no ot...

Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess PS4 Demo Released on PSN

Today Koei Tecmo has released an early demo for Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess onto the PlayStation Network. This demo is quite a hefty one as it not only allows players to access the first two chapters of the game’s story mode, where a detailed tutorial that goes over the various trap designs players can use and how to use them is featured, but also a sample of the brand new Quest mod...

Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess ‘Deception Studio’ and New Stages Detailed

Today Koei Tecmo released a new batch of screenshots showing off some of the new stages as well as a trailer introducing the brand new ‘Deception Studio’ that is new to Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess. The Deception Studio allows players to create their own characters for the princesses to defeat, including the ability to select the weapon type, outfit choices, name, background st...

Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess Introduces Past Princesses

Today Koei Tecmo released a new set of screenshots and a brand new trailer for Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess showing off the extra characters that have been added to the upcoming title. As we’ve previously reported, Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess features characters from previous Deception titles and after the player defeats these princesses in the game they will become playable...

Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess Western Release Announced for July

Near the end of 2014 Koei Tecmo announced that they were planning on releasing an enhanced version of Deception IV: Blood Ties in Japan called Deception IV: Another Princess and since that version was released in Japan back in March, fans have been waiting for a localization announcement. Thankfully that announcement came today when Koei Tecmo revealed that they are planning on releasing the title...

Deception IV: Another Princess’ new features highlighted in latest trailer

Today Koei Tecmo released a new trailer for Deception IV: Another Princess showing off most of the new additions that have been added to this re-release. This includes highlighting the new main character Valgyrie and her abilty to kick enemies into traps as well as sadistically stomp on them when they are down. Also shown off in the trailer is Valgyrie’s automaton servant Ephemera who will h...

Deception IV: Another Princess’ teaser trailer previews past heroines

As we’ve previously reported, Koei Tecmo is working on an enhanced version of their latest Deception game, Deception IV: Another Princess. Today was the first time that they have released a trailer showing off the game, though it is more of a teaser trailer than anything else. In this trailer that you can check out below you will see Valgyrie in action as well as a look at how each of the pa...

Deception IV: Another Princess to bring back past protagonists as enemies

This week’s issue of Famitsu magazine has revealed some new details for Deception IV: Another Princess. It seems that once players step into the new “Quest Mode” that offers a hundred quests for players to finish as the new main character Valgyrie, they will not only face off against the main character from Blood Ties, but the main characters from the past Koei Tecmo Deception ga...

Deception IV: Another Princess announced for PS4, PS Vita, and PS3

Last week we were teased that a new Deception game would be revealed soon and it looks like it isn’t an entirely new game, but an updated one. This week Koei Tecmo has announced via Famitsu that they will be releasing Deception IV: Another Princess on the PS Vita, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 in Japan on March 26th. This upgraded version of Deception IV: Blood Ties will add in new elemen...

New Deception title in development; announcement coming “soon”

It seems that the most recent Deception game, Deception IV: Blood Ties, did so well that we won’t have to wait a decade this time for the next game to be released. From a quote in the special issue of Dengeki PlayStation Koei Tecmo‘s Keisuke Kikuchi, the producer for Deception, has revealed that a new game is in the works. “We’re currently well into the development of a new title in th...

Deception IV: Blood Ties Review

Deception IV: Blood Ties Developer: Tecmo Koei Publisher: Tecmo Koei Platforms: PS Vita, PlayStation 3 (Reviewed) Release Date: March 25, 2014 Price: $59.99 – Available Here Overview Exploring a dungeon and getting nailed by a trap that you didn’t see is a bane of any adventurer and can often eat away at a player’s limited supply of healing items. However what if you were the one actually pl...

Check out Deception IV’s trap styles in latest gameplay videos

As you may already know, in Deception IV: Blood Ties players will make use of various traps to take down their unsuspecting victims and because you have three daemons that you can try to please as the game goes along, there are various trap styles that you can use. This includes sadistic, elaborate, or humorous traps all of which have different effects. To help show off how these traps work, as we...