Inti Creates Event in Japan Releases a Slew of Gunvolt 2 Info

Inti Creates recently hosted an event in Japan where new information about Gunvolt 2 was revealed. At this event, a demo version of Gunvolt 2 was available for fans to play, and this demo evidently showed off some interesting new things about this highly-anticipated sequel. Good ol' Zoram Selrof was kind enough to send me a comprehensive list of all the new information that the demo contained (or, at least, all that he caught). I've reproduced this list below. Spoilers abound, obviously.

The GV2 demo was also streamed via Nico Live, but unfortunately, I don't have a way to retrieve the feed since I don't have a Nico Live Premium membership (which you need to watch certain stream replays on Nico Live). Hence, I'm afraid that I can't share the footage here. If any of you other folks possess the means to retrieve it, though, I'd appreciate your sending it my way so I can feature it here!

Anyway, without further ado, here's Zoram's list of all the new GV2 info that was revealed in the event demo:

• The stage is the Orbital Elevator which was in the prequel (Skybane Note: The same place where you had to do the boss rush). Acura does say it's the 2nd time coming here.
• He also mentions "Michiru", which probably is his sister's name. RoRo and Nowa were shown speaking with Acura or to each other. Nowa does bring up that the last time Acura came, he got beaten by a Psychic and had his gun stolen [see Acura's story from Dengeki Nintendo], so there's no doubt it's the same place.
• There's a mention of the Diva Project. I couldn't read the whole text, but it'd seem someone's trying to replicate that.
• It's also the stage of that boss [from the first trailer] that can control [her] hair, but I wasn't in time to write down her name [Skybane Note: Her name is evidently "Nike", according to the report of a fan who was present at the event]. Some of the enemies seemed to revere her as a Goddess, and she used her hair to make ramps linking the walls.
• There are some platforms that are fragile and easily break apart: RoRo tells Acura that he should do some dieting, but he dryly replies it's faster to reduce the weight of the equipment. He behaves dryly all across the stage and never shows surprise.
• It was also shown that Acura has a Special Skill called "Strike Saw".
• The demo version doesn't include the boss battle, so they [Inti Creates] couldn't show it.
• Also... This demo version had a lower difficulty because you didn't lose Kudos even if you ran into an enemy or got attacked. Some of the public commented that it was like the Easy Mode that's recently been added to the Steam version. It's possible that this game might have difficulty mode selection.
• The 2 things at RoRo's sides are actually "Speaker Pods": they open and broadcast the songs. They do look like wings, but they actually aren't wings.

Interesting, no? That's not all, though! Zoram later send me a first-hand report of the demo from a fan who was present at the event. Check it out!

• The stage is titled "Heaven Tower (Tangled)."
• It's not clear whether this is the orbital elevator itself or a related building [Skybane Note: Zoram alters his previous comment here]: unless there's a contradiction between the short story and the game (short story showed Acura coming to the space station with a spaceship). Maybe the 1st time Acura mentions was when he came to retrieve his revolver stolen by Asimov.
• RoRo says she didn't know, and it'd seem she was still taking care of Michiru, Acura's sister, at the time.
• Acura uses something akin to GV's EP when doing the "Blitz Dash", and [the energy meters are] on the bottom left corner of the screen, similar to GV's Special Skill points. But these are rechargable by hitting down twice, like [the way] GV [recharges his EP].

Below is some info about what the developers explained in the meeting:

• The "claw" in the Japanese name (Azure Striker Gunvolt: Claw is the official Japanese name) is a reference to Acura's attacks, because they look like he attacks with claws. 
• It'd seem there was a point in development where the name "Gunvolt Acura" was suggested, but was discarded.
• The game might be a bit more difficult than the prequel.
• Regarding the "masked man" shown last year, it seems that his design won't appear in the sequel after all. At one point, the design was going to be used for either GV or an enemy, but that idea was seemingly scrapped somewhere along the line.
• There was a point where it wasn't intended to change GV's design, but they wanted to make something that reflected the changes he underwent at the end of the first game.
• It'd seem that RoRo's addition to the game means that the amount of songs becomes about twice the amount of the previous game. And maybe some more songs will be added through DLC as well. [Skybane Note: This note especially intrigues me, as Takuya Aizu told me in my interview with him that all the songs would be the same for both main characters.]
• The "Reincarnation" song comes back in this sequel with some changes in lyrics, music, and gameplay.

And that's it! As always, hope you folks were intrigued by this info! Pretty fascinating stuff all-around!