Video Gaming News - April 2004
San Francisco, CA (April 6, 2004) - Interactive entertainment
publisher Mastiff announced today that Nippon Ichi Software Inc’s tactical
RPG, La Pucelle: Tactics, has gone gold, and will be in stores in early May
2004.
From Mastiff:
La Pucelle is exclusively for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system
and uses a similar battle system to the 2003 award-winning game, Disgaea, also a
Nippon Ichi Software title.
La Pucelle: Tactics is a tale of betrayal and double cross, monsters in human
form and humans in monster form, set in an alternate medieval Europe. The
unlikely hero is a smart mouthed and undisciplined sixteen year old who just
passed her exorcism exams and her comrades in La Pucelle, a demon hunting squad.
Additionally, Mastiff has announced the launch of the official La Pucelle
website: www.lapucelletactics.com. The website will feature game and character
details, screenshots, movies and strategies for the upcoming release. It will
also include bios of principal voice actors and sound clips from the game."
Early previews of the game already have the US gaming press gushing. “If La
Pucelle is as big a hit as it deserves to be, the future should be bright not
just for Nippon Ichi—which plans to release all of its games in the United
States from here on out—but for the strategy fans who’ve fallen in love with
them," said GMR Magazine in their exclusive multi-page preview in the May 2004
issue.
Many American gamers became familiar with talented developer Nippon Ichi in late
summer 2003 when their spectacular game, Disgaea, shipped for the PlayStation 2.
Disgaea captivated consumers and critics alike and recently won a number of
“2003 Best of” awards including:
Simulation/Strategy Game of the Year – Play Magazine
Reader’s Choice- Best Strategy Game – IGN.com
Top PS2 Strategy Game of 2003, Top 10 PS2 Game of Year – GameSpy.com
Top Strategy Game – GMR Magazine
La Pucelle: Tactics Features
· Choose from Japanese or English voice.
· Dark Portals and Purification: Brand new to the RPG world, use your powers to
purify defiled ground and enemies. If pulled off right the effect is like having
a super-giant combo.
· Damage multiple enemies at once
· Stop new enemies from appearing
· Strengthen items in real time
· More detailed story and character development than Disgaea
· Fast leveling system: Items, characters and skills can increase every round of
battle for well earned instant gratification.
· Carry up to 149 items and use them to learn special magic.
· Turn enemies to allies. Bring up to 8 units into battle.
· Seize the high ground! Battlefield terrain will vary in height: attacking down
is way better than being attacked from above.
· Attack in formation with your allies -- Wave Attack and Simultaneous Attack
· Great balance of difficulty with early stages functioning as a tutorial,
characters with real personality, beautiful hand drawn backgrounds
· Over 100 hours of gameplay with multiple endings
· Winner of a coveted Gold Award from Famitsu, Japan's leading game magazine.
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