This is Nippon Ichi's New Witch
New PS3 title was actually revealed about a month ago.
Dengeki PlayStation has a first report this week on Nippon Ichi's new PS3 RPG, The Witch and the Hundred Cavalrymen. Read all about it here
It turns out that we already heard about this game a little over a month ago. In fact, Nippon Ichi provided a teaser image.
That's an image of the the witch of the game's title. Nippon Ichi CEO Sohei Niikawa shared the artwork at the Akihabara Denkigai Festival event in early August (and Impress Watch grabbed the above pic).
As detailed then (see this story), Niikawa revealed the game to be an action RPG with character designs from Takehito Harada and music from Tenpei Satou. He did not reveal the platform, but did promise a formal announcement towards the end of September... which is where we are now.
From what we're hearing, the character's name is Metallica. We're still not sure if you control her or the hundred knights mentioned in the title.
That report from earlier about Nippon Ichi's new PlayStation 3 title The Witch and the Hundred Cavalrymen appears to be legit. New details have surfaced:
- The game is a dark fantasy action RPG
- The world is open and seamless -- there won't be transitions between town and field
- The game will have a high degree of freedom -- the world is like a sandbox where you can do anything
- The visuals are fully 3D. The perspective is from above.
- There will be a packed main story with over 30 hours of play
- There will be lots of sub quests
- There's no game over. But, if you die, you lose your items
- There's lots of blood, and the game's visual expression is dark. However, they won't be going too overboard with the grotesque.
- You can choose to side with good or evil
- Nippon Ichi is not using the experience it gained from making Disgaea and other titles. (Make sure you read that carefully!)
There's one confusing bit about the reports that are surfacing at present. It seems that rather than controlling the witch of the title, you're actually controlling the hundred cavalrymen. We're waiting to hear more about this area.
