We cherished Vanillaware’s gorgeous tactical RPG Unicorn Overlord when it marched onto Swap final month and it appears to be like like fairly a number of others did too as Atlus has introduced that the sport has now bought over 500,000 copies worldwide.
Revealed in an up to date accolades trailer (solely accessible in Japanese, in the interim) Alain and co. would possibly nonetheless be somewhat method off hitting the massive one milly, however the 500K determine is nothing to be scoffed at — significantly for a brand new IP in a style that always proves as divisive as tactical RPGs. On the Atlus web site, the writer expressed its “deepest gratitude” to all those that have supported the undertaking up thus far.
It must be famous that this gross sales determine seems to account for all platforms on which the sport is on the market. That stated, we now have seen the Swap take the lion’s share of the RPG’s gross sales right here within the UK, so there is not any doubt that the Nintendo hybrid has been a key participant in its success.
In our 9/10 evaluation, we waxed lyrically about Unicorn Overlord’s charming characters and difficult fight, feeling that the expertise was solely barely let down by a considerably predictable storyline.
Whether or not which means that we are able to count on extra Unicorn Overlord motion sooner or later stays to be seen. Let’s not neglect that Vanillaware’s 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim surpassed a million gross sales final yr and it does not seem like we’re any nearer to ’14 Sentinels’ simply but…