Well this is what the Sakura Taisen fans are waiting for more then a decade already by now and Sega just announced the Reboot Project of this classic series. Dubbed as "Shin Sakura Taisen" the series reboot project will be released on Spring 2020 with PS4 as the choice platform. Shin Sakura Taisen features Bleach Author, Tite Kubo as the main characters designer taking over Kosuke Fujishima.
From the first glance, the male protagonist looks worthy enough to be Ichiro Ogami's Successor, but the Heroines are still not on the same level with the previous Teikoku and Paris Kagekidan considering Fujishima's work on the Heroines for both series are tall order to surpass. The first Tetralogy of Sakura Taisen was Phenomenal mainly because of the superb quality of the Heroines. As a series Sakura Taisen's storyline are never its strong point but the Heroines of Teikoku and Paris Kagekidan made up for all the weakness that the first Tetralogy had. As for the seiyuu cast, Sega picked the popular choice with Sakura Ayane starring as the main heroine. However i doubt the series will ever go back to the Popularity level that the series used to have, to the extent of Theatre stage like the previous Kagekidan since it require considerable investment both in financial and human resource.
Nevertheless we could expect good gameplay at very least since Valkyria Chronicle team are in charge making them revisit the old series making full use of their experience and as long as the game are well rounded it will do just fine. I will definitely get a copy if it got released on Switch to honor Sakura Taisen series. Also i need to finish my Sakura Taisen 2 Playthrough soon so i could write proper article for the game as an offer for this great classic.
You can look at my coverage of the Sakura Taisen 1 and 3 over here
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