Everyone’s favorite Devil Summoner is returning for another adventure in Japan’s Taisho Era. Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou Vs The Abadon King is being released October 23rd in Japan as both a stand-alone game and bundled with a reprint of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, which is now dubbed Maniacs Chronicles Edition. It is also believed that Kuzunoha Raidou will be a secret character that is unlockable in the new version of Nocturne.

	In Raidou’s second game, he, Goto, Narumi and Asakura travel to a isolated village in the Japanese countryside to investigate a missing person. The name of the village is still unknown, but there are some images from the game showing Raidou exploring it. In the one to the left, he is examining a door which “appears to have an image of a watermelon on it.”
	In addition to the mysterious watermelon-doors, every house seems to have smoke coming from their chimneys–further proof that all is not quite right with this small town.

Raidou is suddenly attacked by several men in black masks, with one wearing a red mask. It appears the man with the red mask is the leader, but their motives and goals are entirely unknown.

Black Mask

Red Mask

To help Raidou deal with the unknown foes, he is getting some new abilities which should make the gameplay a lot more interesting for the sequel. Here are some of the new features:

• Up to 2 demons may be summoned in battle
• There are about twice as many demons that Raidou can tame
• Talking to demons has returned, but swaying them to join you is more complex
• Two demons may join forces in order to convince enemy demons to join Raidou
• Raidou can now perform some magic skills instead of just sword and gun skills

Kuzunoha Raidou Vs. Abadon King already has an official Japanese website which you can check out here. Aside from a small bit of content, the site features a pretty cool song which you should give a listen to.

I really enjoyed the first Kuzunoha Raidou game, although I admit at a certain point I lost interest in it and never beat it. The battles just became more awkward than hard as the game progressed. Hopefully the second game will be more polished and provide that which the first may have lacked.