Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning? is a video game co-developed by Red Company and Overworks for the Dreamcast. The third entry in the Sakura Wars series, it was published by Sega in 2001. Defined as a “dramatic adventure” game, Sakura Wars 3 combines overlapping tactical role-playing, dating sim and visual novel gameplay elements.

Sakura Wars 3 opens with Imperial Army Lieutenant Ichiro Ogami arriving in Paris to train a new fighting unit established by the Parisian government to combat supernatural threats. Dubbed the “Paris Assault Force” and modelled on Ogami’s original group from Tokyo, the all-female group maintains its cover as a cabaret act at the nightclub Les Chatte Noir. Their main fighting unit is called the Paris Division, its members acting as both caberet stars and magically-imbued warriors able to pilot Koubu mecha. Its initial members are clumsy nun Erica Fontaine, and cold French noble Glycine Bleumer. In his efforts to build the group, Ogami helps recruit three more members—Coquelicot, a Vietnamese traveling circus performer; French-Japanese widow Hanabi Kitaoji; and Romanian master thief Lobelia Carlini.

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