Exploding Garrmondo Weiner Interactive Swiss Army Penis - [PS3] Trinity Universe - Another NIS/GUST/Idea Factory Clusterfuck

or: Trinity Universe - Maybe This One Won't Suck (lol)

Basically, it's another crossover game with Disgaea/Atelier/etc. characters, only instead of lowres 2D sprites and horribly pieced together environments a la Cross Edge, it looks like they put some actual effort into the presentation of the game. The major selling point is that Disgaea characters (Etna, Fallen Flonne, and a Prinny so far) are being rendered in 3D. Screenshot wise it looks okay, but I'll have to wait and see how the game looks in motion before starting to render any real judgement.

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Nippon Ichi, Gust, and Idea Factory are getting together for another PlayStation 3 RPG mashup. Introducing Trinity Universe which has characters from Atelier Viorate and Disgaea… in 3D!

For the first time in a game Etna, Flonne, and Prinny aren’t sprites. Outside of the adventure story scenes, the game uses models for dungeons and combat. Trinity Universe’s combat system sounds kind of like Xenogears where each attack consumes AP and skills are assigned to three different buttons. Input a set sequence and you can deal more damage. Time is also an important element in Trinity Universe. Players have to destroy a gravitation field and escape a dungeon before time runs out.

Trinity Universe has two different scenarios. A goddess side with Gust characters and a demon lord side with Nippon Ichi stars. The protagonist in the demon lord storyline is a devil dog named Kanata.

Idea Factory will publish Trinity Universe in Japan this August. A release date has not been announced in North America, but NIS America is presenting a 3D PS3 game tomorrow so…

source: siliconera

Here are the famitsu screens that went along with it:

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I want to look forward to it, but... Idea Factory. Ugh. I don't think I even fall under "cautiously optimistic."