Push Square deputy editor and resident weeb Robert Ramsey is on holiday this week, so please forgive this scribe as he clumsily tries his best to cover the new Soul Hackers 2 trailer. Hot on the heels of the first trailer, our task is made even tougher by both the voiceover and YouTube description using Japanese. So, what's going on here? The only concrete things we can say are the game's out for PlayStation 5 and PS4 on 26th August 2022 and it's apparently a sequel to Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers from way back in the 1990s.
Besides that, it looks like there's a scientist that gets attacked by a teleporting... enemy? Then he rips something out of his body and eats it, which we assume makes him more powerful. Cue the music and some characters are introduced — many equipped with swords and others with guns — before some gameplay and menus are shown off. Glimpses of combat are up next, then there's a rabbit.
The announcement of a sequel to an obscure, yet addicting, JRPG that originally released over 20 years ago is not what I was expecting to wake up to. But that’s what happened, and there are no complaints here. Soul Hackers 2 is an upcoming JRPG from Atlus and a sequel to the original Soul Hackers game that released on the Sega Saturn back in 1997. Now that the game is approaching its 25th anniversary, Atlus decided to dust off the IP and bring it to the modern age.
Granted, this isn’t the first time Atlus has released a Soul Hackers game in the past decade. It ported the original Soul Hackers to the Nintendo 3DS in 2012, which was already a surprise. If you’re still wondering what Soul Hackers even is, it’s a spin-off of the expansive Megami Tensei franchise, a JRPG behemoth that includes beloved classics like Shin Megami Tensei and Persona. Soul Hackers drops the post-apocalyptic nature of some of these games and, instead, brings you into a cyberpunk world f...