The New Denpa Men (also known as New 電波人間のRPG, Hepburn: New Denpa Ningen no RPG), not to be confused with the latest entry in the series The New Denpa Men. is a mobile RPG game (realeased on the Nintendo Switch on July of 2024), developed and published by Genius Sonority for both Android and iOS. This was the first mobile version of Denpa Men has ever existed, it won the Best of Google Play Games 2017 in Japan and is the first Denpa Men Game to completely be unplayable due to its server's shutting down.
Pre-release[]
New Denpa was being teased around late 2016 and had a countdown before it would release, sadly the iOS version was not released on the 28th due to software issues due to Apple's latest update. it would be the first and only game in the franchise to go onto mobile devices, it was met with praise and excitement as many fans lamented on the fact that it'd make more sense to catch Denpa men on smart devices.
an image celebrating the release of New Denpa.
Gameplay[]
Players use their mobile touch screens for everything, from catching to dungeon crawling. The battle mechanics were even simplified due to the limitations of being a touch controlled game, ontop of this. You could only catch Denpa Men in Japan due Denpa's being pre-generated based on locations in Japan, meaning western players had to have android devices in order to spoof their location to catch them. Apple users had to strictly rely on the gacha for the game, said Gacha replaced the Jewel catch in Free!. The Gacha was like a card game, the player had to tap a card and they'd get a Denpa of a specific star rating which ment the higher the rating they'd be more strong and had better antennae. However, it would be common to get a 3 star Denpa.
Trivia[]
- It is 2nd game in the franchise to have CPU coliseum battles, Free! being the first to do it.
- It's the only game in the franchise to win an award, that being the Best of Google Play Games in 2017 for Japan.[1]
- compared to the other games in the series, it has the least amount of original artwork done by Kaori Suzuki; the character designer for The Denpa Men series.
- It's the 3rd game in the series to feature micro-transactions, but has them more in the players face compared to Free!
- Haruto is the most featured Hero in advertising and promotions out of any hero in the series.
- It's the first game in the series to kick the bucket during its 2nd anniversary, events had to be rushed and completed by may 8th.[2]
- Tsukasa Tawada, the main composer for New Denpa would release a performance video as a tribute to the game.[3]