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@NISAmerica We're currently looking into the Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days DLC issues that have been brought up to us. Thank you for your patience.

Hymn Princess of Antiphona Illustration Contest Results are in! Check them all out here!

Nippon Ichi Software announces Classic Dungeon. A PSP game in production, the official website will be up on Dec. 3.

Tenpei Sato is releasing a new arranged soundtrack. It's called "Heroic Saga" and features songs from a few of his games. It'll sell for 3,000 yen and it's release date is Dec. 10th.

Songs (Arranged)
- Legend of the Maiden of Light (La Pucelle)
- A Dark Race Becomes Magnificent (Disgaea)
- Battle Comrade (Disgaea)
- Game Breaker (Phantom Brave)
- A Hymn for Laharl Korian Ver. (Disgaea)
- Winged Boy (Little Princess)
- You Go Girl! (Disgaea)
- God Bless Prier! (La Pucelle)
- Great Wilder (La Pucelle)
- Under the Rule of the Soldier (Little Princess)

YES!! This year, PRINNY HEAT!!!
... Nippon Ichi Software's Comiket 77 lineup and their booth location.

New Dengeki Article of Ar Tonelico 3.
Game Watch's article on Ar Tonelico 3

La Pucelle is out in Japan!
La Pucelle custom themes!

♥ ♥ ♥ Disgaea 3's Famitsu Manga has updated! ♥ ♥ ♥

NIS will be selling a radio drama for Antiphona at Comiket 77!

RPGFan's review of A Witch's Tale
And their Atelier Annie review.

Sorry they're just links this time but have a good Thanksgiving Weekend, everyone! Or just have a good weekend, whatever works!

50 La Pucelle Ragnarok screenshots

Ar Tonelico III Propaganda

[RPGAMER]

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Ar Tonelico III art and images

Take a look at the new main characters! Aoto, Saki, and Finnelle! Whoo!

[FAMITSU]

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Degenki's play report of Antiphona!

[DENGEKI]

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More Screens of Ar Tonelico III from Siliconera

Atelier Annie interview!

More on Atelier Annie and its Japanese-only dub

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RPGfan is so eloquent for information sometimes.

Nippon Ichi Software Details Last Rebellion


Nippon Ichi Software has opened the official website for its original PlayStation 3 RPG Last Rebellion. As previously announced, the game is jointly developed by Nippon Ichi Software and HitMaker.

Last Rebellion's story takes place in a world that is dominated by the power of the gods of life and death. The jobs of the Blade and the Sealer, which specialize in dealing physical and mental damage, are said to represent the power of the god of death. The power of the deity of life has a more direct impact on the world, though. It is capable of reviving the dead, including monsters. Monsters that are killed don't remain dead, but unfortunately return as more powerful, immortal beings. The only way to defeat those creatures is to destroy both their body and soul. Therefore, a Blade and a Sealer must join forces to defeat them.

Protagonist Nine is a famous Blade. The 25-year old man is cool and very blunt. 19-year old Aisha is a skilled Sealer. In the past, she couldn't control her powers and caused a major catastrophe. To prevent a re-occurrence of this terrible incident, she has been raised without any contact with the outside world. She also happens to be very proud. Alfred is Nine's step-brother. His personality is completely different from Nine's. Azelride is the country's king and a powerful wizard.

The cooperation between Blade and Sealer is not only important to Last Rebellion's story, but of even greater importance to its gameplay. To progress, the player will have to constantly switch between the two main characters. This counts not only for exploring the field map, but also for the game's turn-based battles. Conveniently enough, switching between the two characters doesn't even take up a turn. By physically attack a monster, it is possible to engrave a seal into it. This seal then becomes the target of a seal magic attack. Executing yet another physical attack allows for attacking and sealing multiple enemies or enemy parts. This strategy is essential to deal as much damage as possible to your opposition.

Last Rebellion is set to go on sale in Japan this winter. Originally announced for a North American release date of sometime this fall, an updated release date hasn't been announced yet.


Source : Chris Winkler / RPGfan

- ~*~Disgaea Infinite~*~'s website is up. I'm actually really surprised by the trailer, not only are there more characters than I thought (Beryl, Mao!) but it seems like the old art is somehow strangely animated when it's used in this game! You can see Flonne and Etna's portraits gradually change between frames. That's actually really cool, kudos NIS I honestly don't know what you're doing here but it looks interesting!

Disgaea Infinite
Genre : Loop Text Adventure Game
Players : 1
Price : 2,500 Yen
Purchase : Download from PSN store
Release Date : Nov. 1
CERO Rating : A
Artist : Takehito Harada
Composer : Tenpei Sato

If you go to the Tokyo Game Show in Japan this month, you get a Prinny Cleaner for your psp! Whoo! :D

- Zettai Hero's website is up as well.
Everything is pretty much up for the website lol.

Genre : Dungeon RPG
Format : PSP UMD format
Players : 1
Release Date : 2010 ???
Character Designer : Teruhiko Imaizumi

And that's all the information about Specs up. Check out the character pages and info pages!

- Raspberyl-Hen website updated.
- Amagoushi no Yakata's website also updated for those interested in horror games that fit snug in your pocket.

From burnfist:

Trailers and videos up on YouTube: (For Disgaea Infinite)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTJsmLVoleQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wFFLKvXyQ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4o7CPO7Vo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrBhBEAkTMQ


Thanks again for you constant updates and input, guys! Whoo!

Website Up!

There's new art featured if you watch the flash trailer at the beginning of the website. You can see pages of character sketches on the bottom right of the main page, as well as information on the game. So far, Story, Characters, System, Movie(Trailer), and the lineup website are up.

Also, yes, Ryoji is still the artist of La Pucelle, as noted on the website. I'm still surprised with the direction his art has taken, but he's still in command here.

Title : La Pucelle † Ragnarok
Genre : Simulation RPG
System : PSP
Players : 1
Data Type : UMD
Release Date : Nov. 26, 2009
Price : 50 USD for the REGULAR edition, 70 USD for the LIMITED edition.
Rating : [C] (Fifteen years and above)
Composer : Tenpei Sato
Artist : Ryoji

Limited Edition includes a 36 Page Artbook and the Complete Soundtrack for La Pucelle.

The website features voice clips/movies in each character profile, plus the trailer. Check them out!

Edit; Actually, it seems I can't get the character profile videos to work. Is anyone else having this issue?

This is from the most recent newsletter, but it's urgent enough to give everyone a heads up if you follow NISAmerica's email group :

WARNING: We've received information about a new sweepstakes mail fraud scam. The letter notifies recipients that they have won "THE BIG GAME." The letter also includes a check, which indicates that the payer is "NIS America, Inc." If you receive a letter from "FIRST COMMERCIAL TRUST" please disregard and dispose the letter and check. We do not support any of this. And we have reported this fraud to the bank, on which these counterfeit checks are drawn, for further investigation.

Please contact us at 714-540-1122 if you have further questions or concerns.

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Mana Khemia 2 should be in stores today.

(Also from the newsletter)

Hello everyone,

Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy has been released today to retailers nation wide! The game will be packaged in a premium box, including a super sized double sided poster and a soundtrack! You can also enjoy the Japanese original package art on the premium box cover, and the US version package art on the game package cover! We doubled up everything, just like the game, two stories in one, right?!

Many of you may have already started school, but don't slack off on Mana Khemia 2 assignments as well! If you want to know more about the game, please visit our official Mana Khemia 2 Website. We hope you will enjoy our latest title!


Gamestop's Page on Mana Khemia

The goodies look nice. ♥ Go out and get it before they're all gone!

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On RPGamer, Editor Ouden writes up an impression on Witch's Tale, describing it as one of the easiest games he's ever played. Huh. Thoughts?

Japanese Articles on Dengeki Online : 1 2

Hymn Princess of Antiphona incorporates musical events in it's story scenes. Much like Rhapsody, it's based on a mix of light-hearted scenes with hidden meanings to them. What are the themes in this game? We may find that out once the game is officially released, but for now let us break down information about the game that has been brought to light.

Story

The story of Hymn Princess of Antiphona revolves around three sisters who love music very much. The main character of this story is Miabelle, the youngest sister of the three. These three girls love music very much, and it seems like Lily, Miabelle's eldest sister, is set to become a song priestess due to her heavenly voice. The story of this game involves an overlord's fascination with Lily's voice.

The kingdom they live in is called something like the Echoing Country of Antiphona, アンティフォナ響国, Antiphona hibiki kuni. It seems that every resident in this world has their heart, their energy, their very soul spun into music. It is their way of life. Songs and music are used as a form of electricity, a powerful source of energy to be harvested and used. According to Dengeki, Lily is set to be the Song Angel of their world.

Much like Rhapsody, this world uses puppets or marionettes to aid people on their quests.

Characters

Miabelle Drofa
- Youngest daughter of the trio, she always has a look of determination and longing on her face. She seeks many dreams and she loves music very much. She loves her family more than anything.

Kulala Drofa (Unsure on how the first name will be translated..)
- Middle child of the trio, she gets along very well with her sister Miabelle. She does things at her own pace and seems to be rather laidback. On her head is her puppet, Lenton. He seems to hold an eccentric sort of energy.

Clef
- Miabelle's guide and mentor, he seems to be a sort of ... puppet himself?! Most puppets are not as well built as he is, but he is still in essence only a man-made doll. His speech can be awkward at times, and he was created by a world famous doll maker. His model is exceptionally rare.

Freshia and Animatt(?)
- Freshia is Kulala's classmate and friend, she's the straight man of the group. Her emotions are upfront and she can be a loud one, but she's always true to her words. She's blessed in the art of composing, apparently? Her puppet is the vigorous and energetic Animatt who's a boy model puppet.

Ignatz
- Lily's classmate from their days at school. He seems to have some sort of famed house but I can't tell whether he's trying to run away from it or be holed up inside of it? 家出中

Overlord Auros
- Stole Lily's beautiful voice?! He seems to devestate churchs and produce large outbreaks of monsters in their land. He doesn't seem like a very nice guy.

Lily Drofa
- Her voice was stolen by Overlord Auros at the big song festival of their kingdom. Her voice is heavenly, but it seems her sisters will have to help her get it back at this point.

That's it for now! I hope that was helpful for some of you. I apologize for the lack of updates as of late, there's been a lot going on with NIS and I'll post soon about any updates and images I may have missed in the past few weeks. Thank you for sticking with us for so long, if you guys have any questions or comments please feel free to tell me. I'm very novice at Japanese right now, so if there's anything you'd like to add I would gladly edit this post to include it.

Thanks so much everyone!

Website is up and ready. All sections have been updated and there's even a trailer and a sample of the music that'll be in the game. It's totally Rhapsody all over again.

Oddly enough, the story really does seem to focused around an Overlord anyway. Oh, NISAmerica, you crazy demon loving... lovers.