Sakura Wars

The series—set during a fictionalized version of the Taish? period—depicts groups of women with magical abilities using steam-powered mecha to combat demonic threats. The original Sakura Wars was an ambitious title for the then-in-production Sega Saturn. The first game's overlap of the tactical role-playing, dating sim and visual novel genres prompted Sega to classify it as a "dramatic adventure", a moniker which has endured during the series' lifetime. Both Red Entertainment and Sega co-developed most of the games until 2008, when the series went on hiatus. The original Sega console games have been voted among the most popular for the Saturn and Dreamcast. The sixth entry is a soft reboot of the series, titled Sakura Wars . The gameplay deviated from the main series in featuring hack and slash action. The game is set in 2011, after a great calamity 16 years earlier, a new combat revue known as B.L.A.C.K. has risen to defend the citizen of Japan from new demon hordes and unravel a deep government conspiracy. Anime studio, CloverWorks produced a short anime for streaming to promote the new game. The Sakura Wars series is set during a fictionalised version of the Taish? period, with the chronology currently running from 1923 to 1940 . The games are set in the cities of Tokyo, Paris and New York. The central conflict of the series is between demonic forces created by the ingrained darkness in human hearts.