This Hi-Definition JRPG Looks…Yeah

BRIAN ASHCRAFT:

Ungh. Yes, I know this game uses a hand-drawn style, and, yes, I know there’s only a few seconds of gameplay, but damn. Jump to the 1:40 mark to see what I’m talking about.

Revealed earlier this year, Tokitowa combines JRPG elements with, wait for it, third-person shooter play (think action RPG). Parts of the game will have a fixed point-of-view, while other parts won’t.

Tokitowa claims to be the first “HD animation RPG” on the PlayStation 3. It’ll be out this fall in Japan.

[MattS]

The animation looks a little stilted and low budget, but the actual art style looks gorgeous.

WTH is with this piece?

[wishingW3L]

characters doesn't have a shadow. What is this, the 90's?

[310dodo]

@wishingw3l

"characters doesn't have a shadow"

good lord

"those characters dont even have shadows"

[CLOUD1983]

"Tokitowa claims to be the first “HD animation RPG” on the PlayStation 3."

eh? ~.~

then what about Ni No Kuni? o.o as I know this game is out already in JPN & it looks miles better than this, so they say Ni No Kuni is not HD?

[izumo_lee]

Ni No Kuni is more like cell-shaded graphics, while Tokitowa is supposed to be actually hand drawn animated characters in 3D space. Think a game like Space Ace or Dragon's Lair but in a 3 dimensional area.

The game is kinda the first using a premise like this and although the execution is a little rough hopefully the finished game will run as well as they hope it will.

[CLOUD1983]

yep Ni No Kuni graphic style it is indeed cell-shaded but from a new very advanced engine that make it look like they r hand drawn, anyway it still look much better than this game but what Level-5 & Studio Ghibli did it's very exceptional & cant be copied from any random company out there.

[Sino]

ugh they didnt think before they design..the skirt is too short,so they cant do a pantsu run forever (it will get annoying,trust me) which resulted in the weird/ridiculous running animation

[amaguli]

The movement does look odd, but the sprites look fantastic. As long as the gameplay is solid, I would definitely play this game.

[Wings]

I don't think I've seen a wedding in a JRPG actually end.Something always seems to go wrong.

[Catoplepas]

I fail to see the problem. Looks pretty solid to me.

....Oh it's a Kotaku article. Mark them down and move along.

[Hicken]

Yeah, the run looked awkward, but that was it. It otherwise looks great, and I'm rather interested in the rest of the game, to boot. Hope it gets localized.

[BuffMordecai]

Kotaku? Phfft.