Atlus has just dropped word that two of their announced DS RPGs, The Dark Spire and Steal Princess, will be slightly delayed from their original shipping dates.Citing a critical computer error that has made their main supercomputer self-aware and murderously evil, Atlus has pushed the dates of the two titles back by roughly a month each.Success' 1st person dungeon crawler, The Dark Spire, originally intended for March 10, 2009, has been pushed back to April 14, 2009, while Climax and Marvelous' action-RPG, Steal Princess, has been delayed from March 24, 2009 to April 21, 2009.Exactly how Atlus' supercomputer became self-aware, and just why it has pushed these games back by a month remains unclear, but our prayers go out to the Atlus employees who now fear for their lives.
Or maybe "confirms" The Dark Spire might be a better headline, considering we all caught wind of this a little while back through the ESRB.The Dark Spire, known as Genmu no Tou to Tsurugi no Okite (lit. The Tower of Ethereal Mist and the Law of the Sword), is a dungeon crawler RPG developed by Success and released in Japan this last May. The gameplay is heavily reminscent of old first-person PC dungeon crawlers of yesteryear, and sports a visual style hailing back to 90s horror comics.The game retains classic elements of the genre like stat rolling, alignment setting, and so forth, and is sure to hit a nostalgia nerve for fans of the now (mostly) dead genre.Those interested can check out Atlus' official English site for the game here, or Success' Japanese site here.The Dark Spire will be released on Nintendo DS on March 10, 2009 in North America.Do we have any old school dungeon crawlers out there?
Atlus has just dropped word that two of their announced DS RPGs, The Dark Spire and Steal Princess, will be slightly delayed from their original shipping dates.
