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Vanillaware Announces Dragon’s Crown, Challenges Chun-Li’s Thighs

During the trailer Sony showed of the PSVita (Will call PSV since I’m lazy), There was a barrage of games on display. At one point, there was one game that popped up that had made me do a double-take on the liveblog (you can see at 9:56). I was right in assuming that it was a Vanillaware game, but Grand Knights History it is not. The game is called Dragon’s Crown, and will be released around Spring 2012 for the PS3 and PSV. Judging from the title, it almost sounds like a sequel to the SEGA Saturn game Princess Crown, to which certain employees worked on before forming Vanillaware. But it seems to really be similar in name alone, as the tone for Dragon’s Crown is a vastly different than that of Princess Crown.

Vanillaware launched its official website for Dragon’s Crown. Hit the jump for the trailer and official website. And if you’re looking for the aforementioned thighs, here you go.

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See Grand Knights History (Briefly) In Motion

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Grand Knights History Producer, Yoshifumi Hashimoto, released a video today for the game’s official blog today discussing how the Online component of the game works. It’s all in Japanese however. Thankfully, AndriaSang has an idea about what Hashimoto was talking about. What I’m here for is the video. So far, all we’ve had for Grand Knights History in video form is its relatively static opening movie with the awesome music. That vid showed mostly still shot, but no motion. However, with the vid above, we finally see it moving, and beautifully at that. Along with WayForward, Vanillaware is tops when it comes to 2D sprite animation. The video, as AndriaSang describes, is the character selection process for when you choose units to do battle. As you can see, you can change certain aspects of your character, including armor and hair color, weapons, and accessories, etc.

Grand Knights History Screenshots

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Coming courtesy of a Famitsu preview, we have some screenshots of Grand Knights History. Looks like Vanillaware’s artstyle gonna feel right at home with the PSP. Screenshots after the jump

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Vanillaware Reveals New Game, Official Site Already Up

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Vanillaware, known for games like Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Odin Sphere, and Grim Grimoire, has revealed it’s latest game. Set for release on the PSP, this game is set to release this Summer in Japan.

According to 1UP, the game is a turn-based rpg, a first for Vanillaware since all they’ve been doing is action-based games. However, this one is going to have online elements too. Players will be able to go online and partake in what Project Director Tomohiko Deguchi calls “a full-on war.” Not sure how this’ll play out since this is turn-based, but I’m guessing it’ll resemble something like the ATB system in a lot of the Final Fantasy games.

So far, Vanillaware has yet to gravely disappoint me. Muramasa was good, but not as good as the phenomenal Odin Sphere. From the music on the official site, this is going to be a great experience musically.

via 1UP and Andriasang

Grand Knights History Official Site