HAY GUYS

04:23 AM

The mother of all weeaboo games is coming to da triple. I guess it's supposed to be a kind of spiritual sequel to Namco x Capcom, but holy shit we can only pray they offer english text option in the game as this sure isn't getting a local release.

Or miracles do happen and maybe Disgaea DS is such a massive hit that they'll think Amerikka loves the Etna.

DISCUSS AND SALIVATE

(further translations of the article are welcome)

EDIT:
oh ok so NOW I get to do fancy copy-pasta

Quote:

New PS3 JRPG scheduled for September '08 release
Development is about 70% done atm

Collaboration between Idea Factory, Gust, Bandai-Namco, Capcom, Nippon Ichi, and Compile Heart. Compile Heart's Agarest Senki staff is leading the development.

Story:
Main character(s? not sure if you choose one or the other or stuck with both) wakes up in a disorienting screwed up world alongside other characters who don't belong there. The world they wake up in survives and evolves by devouring souls from other realms/worlds. If nothing is done, the worlds from which the souls are being stolen from, will cease to exist...and so starts the story.

Worlds:
There are 2 worlds that are known thus far. The Underworld which consists of souls from Vampire/Darkstalker and Disgaea, and the Dreamworld which consists of souls from Ar Tonelico and Marie's Atelier. Each world has dungeon(s?). Sounds like your goal is to free the souls which don't belong in your realm.

Battle System:
Each charater is alloted action points (AP) and can attack during your turn repeatedly until your AP is used up. You can chain attacks which result in combos which ultimately result in increased damage. Sounds somewhat similar to a modified Ar Tonelico 2's battle system (which was time limited rather than AP, but chaining combos helps increase your harmonics level which resulted in increased damage or something).

Form Change:
As you save more souls from this world, the female characters have the ability to obtain equipable "forms" which increase stats, abilities, and what not. This sounds similar to obtaining costumes from completing cosmosphere levels in ar tonelico I/II.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Local time: Sep 21, 2008, 02:55 AM

They'd definitely have the space for dual audio this time. If this gets translated, I'm buying it right away. It will be the second PS3 title that I will actually buy.

There's nowhere I can't reach.