This week’s Famitsu has a special feature on two big Level-5 projects, Shirokishi Monogatari (aka White Knight Chronicles) and Layton Kyouju to Akuma no Hako for the DS. On the massive looking White Knight, a new knight and four new characters were revealed, a little info on the battle system and the character creation was given another visit, let’s take a look.

A White Knight and Black Knight were shown to the public before, but there are more characters who can transform into the giant knight. A red Dragon Knight is the latest to be revealed, although the human behind it and which side he is on is still a mystery. The images shown are concept drawings and various part of his body were shown in details. Gotta love those detailed drawings, hope they transformed well on screen.

As for why these characters can transform themselves, apparently there is a “contract” between the knight and the man behind it, this man will then be given a “protective gear” to wear on their left arm. To begin transformation, in the case of our main character, he will have to slide a sword into a slot on the protective gear and the transformation animation will kick in.

Four new characters of the game were shown in the feature, all said to have key connection with the main character, Lezard. A 17 years old rich kid, a magician who is against Lezard, a teenage dancer who will eventually follows Lezard and Level-5’s very own mascot, the purple colored toad, has become a giant toad here (twice taller than a human) and unsurprisingly, he can bind things for our hero, like what he always did in Level-5 previous games.

Though still unconfirmed, Famitsu is predicting that the game will be mission based, but not sure how the story of the game will then progress. A few screens of a particular mission was shown, roughly translated to “The dangerous way back”. The screens show Lezard and company meeting a giant creature in front of them, with Lezard transform into the White Knight to fight it.

Finally, the character creation process is being shown again, this time for female character. What has been shown so far of the game are mostly concept drawings, I am really curious with the development stage that the team currently at. However, knowing Level-5, there’s little doubts that Shirokishi Monogatari will be the game to get for PS3 when it comes out next year.

Note: The official website was updated earlier with these new information.
More: Also in this issue, PSP Star Ocean First Departure’s new info.

Posted in News on Saturday, October 20th, 2007 at 8:25 am |
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