A popular PS4 exclusive will arrive on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite this April. More specifically, developer Falcom and publisher and NIS America have announced it The Legend of the Heroes: Cold Steel IV Routes finally launches its PS4 exclusive and will arrive on Nintendo Switch on April 9, in both North America and Europe. Meanwhile, a week later, on April 16, the game will hit Switch in the Oceania region.
Earlier, the couple announced that on March 18 the game would arrive on Nintendo Switch, but only in Japan. And for Japan, that release date still holds. Still, the rest of the world will have to wait another month to get the game, at least on Switch and Switch Lite.
Right now, the game is only available for PS4 and PS4. It debuted in 2018, but only in Japan. Western players had to wait until 2020 to get their turn with the RPG. And now the game will hit Switch, and is also slated to hit PC sometime later this year.
As for the game itself, it is part of the Routes series and the largest The legend of the heroes franchise. Meanwhile, it is the fourth and final entry into the Cold steel tetralogy. At the time of release, the RPG has a very solid 82 on Metacritic.
“The Erebonian Empire is on the brink of a total war,” it says in an official game release. “It will take place shortly after the end of Cold Steel III Routes, class VII heroes stand against the full force of the Empire in an attempt to stop their path of total domination. In addition, the hero of the Erebonian Civil War and class VII instructor Rean Schwarzer has disappeared. Now, class VII students, old and new, must unite with heroes from across the continent to create the only chance the world has for salvation from total destruction. “
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