The game formerly known as Eternal Chronicle for the Nintendo DS from developer PAON has now been seemingly rebranded as ‘Glory of Heracles - Proof of the Soul’, a successor to an extremely popular Japanese role-playing series from back in the 1980s that spanned the NES, Super Nintendo and Game Boy, and has been likened to Square Enix’s Dragon Quest games.
Nintendo and PAON are teaming up once again, following the success of Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber on the Nintendo DS, this time to bring out an impressive looking role-playing adventure for the DS portable format. The game was previously known as ‘Eternal Chronicle’ and was initially revealed last year alongside Monolith Soft’s already released Soma Bringer, but will no go under the name ‘Herakles no Eikou’ or ‘Glory of Heracles’. According to duckroll of NeoGAF, next week’s edition of Shonen Jump magazine in Japan will have the scoop on this next big release from Nintendo.
Previous entries into the series came from Data East, but it looks like, just as with Fatal Frame, Nintendo is stepping in to resurrect a classic. According to details released so far, when the game begins, the game’s main character is washed up on the shore of an island called Creta and, as seems to be the norm in RPGs nowadays, has absolutely no memory of who they are or why they are indeed immortal…Characters shown so far include Logos, a female immortal who discovers the protagonist on the shore, as well as Shukion, an immortal male that has a graceful figure and is met in a place called Knossos.
For those completely in the dark about the series, below is a brief overview of each game released so far, courtesy of Wikipedia:
