Friday, December 19, 2008

Atlus Announces The Dark Spire

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?

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