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The official website of Bandai Namco Entertainment's Tales of Berseria role-playing game began streaming a long version of the game's third promotional video on Wednesday. The new three-minute version of the video reveals the game's August 18 release date. Like the previous shorter version, the new version also previews the game's theme song "BURN" by FLOW.

The video and website outlines the items included in the game's first-print limited edition and digital download editions. The first-print limited edition will include a serial code for "Special Dramatic Chat ~Merongumi-hen~," a special chat video between the cast members of the game.

The digital download edition of the game (both the PS3 and PS4 version) will include a special theme illustration by ufotable.

The game's cast so far includes:

Rina Satou as Velvet Crowe
Designed by: Mutsumi Inomata

Daisuke Kishio as Rokuro
Designed by: Daigo Okumura

In addition, Toshiyuki Morikawa will voice a character named Aizen. The character is described as a pirate and rival, and called the God of Death. He is the first mate of the Aifried pirate gang, and works together with Velvet to fight their common enemy, the Exorcists. Minoru Iwamoto designed the character.

Bandai Namco Entertainment will ship the game for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 in Japan this year, and the company will release the game for PlayStation 4 and PC in North America and Europe. Bandai Namco Entertainment has not yet announced a release window for the West.