Yatagarasu Cancelled For 3DS, Coming To PlayStation Vita As Legend Of Raven

The fighting game which was created by ex-King of Fighters developers and supposedly coming to the Nintendo 3DS is now being released as a PlayStation Vita title. The game is now being called as Legend of Raven.

According to Nicalis, they are shifting over the development "due to the incredibly overwhelming response from the fighting gaming community".

“We are extremely excited to launch Legend of Raven on the PS Vita,” said Victor Rodriguez, CEO and Executive Producer, Nicalis, “ Originally announced for the Nintendo 3DS, we’ve since moved development over to PSN due to the incredibly overwhelming response from the fighting gaming community. With Legend of Raven on PS Vita we can take advantage of the beautiful Vita OLED screen and spend time developing new features like parallaxing backgrounds and an original new soundtrack.”

Yatagarasu features eight characters designed by King of Fighters artist Kotani Tomoyuki. the Vita port (from PC) will feature a new soundtrack, parallaxing backgrounds, and ad-hoc versus. The game has an innovative parry and damage mitigation systems which gives the player a lot of defensive options.

The game was originally announced for the 3DS back in August 2012.

Source: blog.nicalis.com