Earlier today, the Sakura Revolution mobile app received a new sysem update, which includes and unlocks the game’s fourth story chapter. The chapter, titled “The Ruler of the Stars”, sees the ever-growing katamari of friends that is the new Imperial Combat Revue roll into Japan’s Kinki region.

Visual announcing Sakura Revolution Chapter 4, which features Benishi Hijikata standing in front of a house at night.

To promote the release, showed off two story trailers: one on April 20, and one on April 21.

Trailer 1

The first trailer introduces Benishi Hijikata, self-proclaimed leader of the Senshin-gumi.

Trailer 2

The twenty-three second promo focuses on the core plot, building up to a grand showdown between Sakura and Prana.

The ongoing “Kinki Advance Campaign” is still underway. This is an in-game event that will offer gameplay bonuses to players, in addition to daily missions with unique rewards. During the campaign, experience from missions will see a 1.2x multiplier, and a 50% reduction in AP costs for all Main Quest, Subquest, and Free Quest missions.

The Kinki Advance Campaign will run through April 28, 2021.

About Sakura Revolution

Sakura Revolution was originally announced via two dueling projects: Sega’s Project B.L.A.C.K. and Delightworks’ Nippon Dakkan, before both were revealed to be one and the same during a live streaming event on September 2, 2020.

Chapter 3 officially debuted on January 12, 2021.

Analytics service App Annie reports that the game was the #2 most downloaded title in Japan’s iOS App Store and the top downloaded game on the Google Play store for December 2020.

On December 22, 2020, Sega Sammy announced that the title had reached 500,000 downloads. On January 21, 2021, Sega announced that the title crossed one million downloads. On February 22, 2021, Sega announced that Sakura Revolution officially crossed 1.5 million downloads.

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