Bakumatsu Rock: Ultra Soul
Bakumatsu Rock is a music-based rhythm-action battle game based on a story of male characters from the Tokugawa shogunate if they were world-conquering rock idols instead of just warlords.
Bakumatsu Rock: Ultra Soul is a music developed by Marvelous, released 25 September 2014 on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable.
What Bakumatsu Rock: Ultra Soul is
Bakumatsu Rock: Ultra Soul is a music game developed by Marvelous and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story is set in the Bakumatsu era, at the end of the shoguns' rule over Japan in the middle of the 19th century. The Tokugawa shogunate uses the brainwashing Heaven's Songs by the top idols in Shinsengumi to subjugate the country and its people. In this Japan, writing or singing any songs besides the Heaven's Songs is a capital offense. Sakamoto Ryouma and the other rockers rise up and change the world with rock 'n' roll for freedom and justice.
How it plays
It is played from a auditory perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Bakumatsu Rock: Ultra Soul launched on 25 September 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2.
Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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