The new issue ofFamitsumagazine this week brings the first word onGrand Knights History, a brand-new PSP role-playing game and the first title from Tokyo-based Vanillaware since Wii action gameMuramasa: The Demon Bladein 2009.
Grand Knights History is the first traditional, turn-based RPG from Vanillaware, a developer that's gained a worldwide following chiefly thanks to the virtuoso 2D graphics and animation seen in their titles. The game is set in the land of Ristia, home to three competing nations: Union, Avalon and Logres. You play the leader of the knight corps in the nation of your choice, supervising a team of warriors that you're free to customize and train as you like -- raising their stats, defining their appearance and personalities, and so forth.
The battles in GKH are strictly turn-based, but there is some innovation to be had here -- Vanillaware has plans afoot for seamless online multiplayer, although they aren't going into details on them yet.
"The 2D characters will be animated just like in our action games, and we're also challenging ourselves to build a new type of gameplay by fusing online and offline,"said Tomohiko Deguchi, project director at Vanillaware."Most RPGs up to now involve one person or a group of friends playing together, but we're trying to set up this new kind of game, a full-on war that all the users are connected together in. It's a war RPG where not just one player, not just a few people, but all of the players are drawn together as they fight."
The PSP title, which is being published by Marvelous Entertainment in Japan, has a summer release date planned for the region. No US release has been announced yet.
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