As usual, Weekly Famitsu has blown the lid off of tri-Ace's countdown timer surprise early, and announced that the mysterious Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 RPG is a game for Sega titled End of Eternity.This is obviously the multiplatform title Sega hinted at to Famitsu Xbox earlier this year that they thought would please fans. However, my question is why did Sega choose not to include their logo on the teaser site? That seems a little strange.
It is also interesting to see tri-Ace branching out from Square Enix. While it's true that Infinite Undiscovery was done for Microsoft, publishing duties were eventually transferred to SE, so this will be the first tri-Ace project that has nothing to do with the JRPG giant. (Before the Square merger, tri-Ace always published with Enix.)
Anyway, End of Eternity appears to be a turn-based RPG (sort of unusal for tri-Ace) set in a cyberpunk dystopia. The game follows a young 19 year old girl known so far only as Subject #20, who was raised in a testing facility as part of some experiment. As she nears her 20th birthday, she decides to take her own life, an event that apparently has drastic consequences for the game's plot.
The other two revealed characters are members of the PMF (Private Miliary Firm), named Zephyr (17) and Vashyron (26). Zephyr may have some connection to the testing facility where Subject #20 was.
The Famitsu article on the title is quite an in-depth first look, and spans what looks like 10 or 11 pages (including art splash pages). However, the available scans (or rather, photos) of the article are terrible to read. So I'll be waiting for nicer scans to surface before I really delve into the meat of the article.
So far, I'm not particularly impressed with the art direction of this title, but the story does sound promising, so I'll keep an eye on this one for the time being. It is Sega, though, and that worries me.
End of Eternity will be available for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sometime this winter in Japan.
[End of Eternity scans at Gamekyo]
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My day was just made. In fact, it was made so well that it might just make tomorrow too.
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