Newly unveiled “HD anime” JRPG Toki to Eien: Tokitowa has been enthusiastically greeted by both anime and RPG fans (admittedly two groups with a great deal of overlap) as the “ultimate RPG for anime fans.”
By Namco Bandai and Image Epoch, Toki to Eien: Tokitowa (“Time & Eternity: Tokitowa”) boasts “2D-styled 3D” graphics, “HD quality” anime, character designs by VOFAN (the Taiwanese illustrator behind the character designs for the ****monogatari series), and animation by Satelight on the production side.
In addition to the traditional 10 minutes of random anime snippets which plague such games, Satelight is supposedly animating the game’s character models as though they were 2D animation to give the game a more cohesive anime feel (motion-capture apparently still being a concept alien to JRPG developers).
As for the game itself, it boasts the all-important generic fantasy setting and a nameable knight protagonist (voiced by Tsubasa Yonaga) set to marry a 16-year-old bishoujo arquebusier (queen Toki, voiced by Kana Hanazawa of Suou and Tenshi fame).
Doubtless, saving the kingdom from an ancient evil with the aid of some other adolescents will also feature. A flat-chested girl with twintails and pseudo-nekomimi features for good measure.
The trailer:
The gorgeous graphics and character designs have earned the title an instant following, with the only concerns being raised relating to its as yet unknown battle system and length:
The game is set for a 2012 release on the PS3, so with any luck an English language release will be available by 2015 – just in time for the console to become obsolete.
pic-21, a wild hatsune miku has appeared.
sorry but xbox already won the console wars
I do believe the Wii won actually but if your just talking about PS3 and 360, I would call it a tie. The world wide sells are really close to each other and they both have their pro and cons and this is coming form a huge Sony fan.
holy s♥♥t this looks fucking amazing
it’s always bugged me that anime games don’t really look anime at all because of the 3-D models, but this is something else… mind –> blown
I have to wonder how good this will actually look in motion. 2D characters are rarely consistent from every angle.
Well, that is new and old at same time.
The character itself is completely 2D while the ground is 3D. You see the same thing at Mario Kart 64. But the BIG DIFERENCE is that HD Animation JRPG don’t use “dot graphics” as “sprites” but uses “drawing” as sprites, same way as anime.
What I want to say is… HELL! Even ps2 is using 4.7GB DVD AT LEAST!! Why didn’t this thing has launched before!?