MCP: YOU GOT YOUR STUDIO GHIBLI IN MY JRPG!
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Russ Fischer
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By Russ Fischer
Published on 10/10/2008
An irresistable combo? Could be.
MCP: YOU GOT YOUR STUDIO GHIBLI IN MY JRPG!
There's not much that can get me excited about playing a new JRPG; it takes the sort of constant acclaim for a title like The World Ends With You for me to even start the game up. But Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli applying all its trademark style to a game for the Nintendo DS? Yeah, that'll do. The video below doesn't show much gameplay (and is in Japanese, sourced as it is from the Tokyo Game Show) but I don't even care, because, well, just look at it. I can even overlook the 'drawing spells' interface that I didn't much like in the last Castlevania game for the DS.
Ni no Kuni (The Another World) follows a 13-year old boy who causes the death of his mother. Led into a parallel world by a fairy with a bizarre spellbook, the boy embarks upon a quest to save his mum. The game is set for a 2009 Japanese release (no US date is currently set) and is being developed by Level 5, the company behind Professor Layton and the Curious Village.
Ni no Kuni (The Another World) follows a 13-year old boy who causes the death of his mother. Led into a parallel world by a fairy with a bizarre spellbook, the boy embarks upon a quest to save his mum. The game is set for a 2009 Japanese release (no US date is currently set) and is being developed by Level 5, the company behind Professor Layton and the Curious Village.