Bandai Namco Leisure America started streaming a brand new trailer on Monday for the upcoming role-playing motion sport based mostly on the late Akira Toriyama‘s Sand Land manga set to the favored meme music “Sandstorm” by Darude:

A playable demo is presently out there for the sport.

The sport will launch on April 26 (April 25 in Japan) for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC through Steam.

Bandai Namco Leisure describes the sport:

Dive right into a desert world the place each people and demons endure from an excessive water scarcity. Play as and watch the Fiend Prince, Beelzebub, Sheriff Rao, and demon Thief set off on an journey searching for a Legendary Spring hidden within the desert. Introducing himself as a “tremendous evil fiend”, Beelzebub has a pure coronary heart like just a little boy however has superhuman energy and telepathic talents. Rao, a small-town sheriff, seeks assistance from demons to avoid wasting all of Sand Land from the water scarcity. Thief, a sensible outdated demon with thieving talents additionally accompanies Beelzebub and Rao on their journey.

Enjoying as Beelzebub, gamers will have the ability to discover an enormous world accompanied by his unlikely group of demons and people. Whether or not roaming in numerous automobiles, or touring by foot, gamers will encounter risks in addition to useful characters they meet within the huge desert whereas uncovering SAND LAND‘s many secrets and techniques. Vehicular and character fight is an enormous a part of the motion within the sport. Gamers may have entry to a wide range of automobiles that they will customise and equip with loadouts to traverse the desert, overcome obstacles, and tackle a various assortment of mighty foes.

The Sand Land manga is a brief sequence that Toriyama serialized in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Bounce journal from Might to August 2000. Shueisha printed one compiled guide quantity of the manga in November 2000.

The manga impressed an anime movie adaptation that opened in Japan in August 2023. The movie had its world premiere screening at Comedian-Con Worldwide San Diego in July 2023 and is slated in North America this yr. The manga additionally obtained an anime sequence on Disney+ and Hulu on March 20.

Supply: Bandai Namco America’s YouTube channel

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