GameLight - Clan of Champions

Steam Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/206230/
Source: Youtube Channel LordTronix

A game that has slipped past me entirely called Clan of Champions released today on Steam for North America and Europe thanks to the team over at NIS America.  It was released in Japan on November 23, 2011 last year as a Playstation 3 exclusive but was mentioned at Tokyo Game Show last year that it would be released in Europe and North America sometime in 2012 published by NIS America.  Clan of Champions is an Action-RPG with a fantasy theme around Humans, Elves and Orcs.  There are tons of ways to customize a player's character through aesthetic designs, weapon choices, skills, and passive abilities.  The game can be played single-player, 3-player cooperatively, and 3 versus 3 competitively.  I suspect that the game is entirely instanced based where single-player and cooperative play is going through a level with a certain goal in mind depending on the quest while competitive modes places players in an arena.  The combat style will be a bit of a hack-n-slash with magic (sword and sorcery deal).  In all honesty, I don't see this game taking off.  The game is developed by Acquire and they haven't had a strong following in the Western market.  I personally like the Tenchu series, Way of the Samurai series, and Shinobido series that they've worked on, but I also have to admit that the quality in all their games isn't quite that high.  Still, I'm interested in what this game might offer and will probably pick it up sometime in the future.  Clan of Champions is now available on Steam for 20% off at a price of $31.99 until November 6th, 2012 and then will return to its original price of $39.99.