NIS America announce Ar Tonelico Qoga and more

2:00 PM on 07.16.2010   |   Tim Sheehy

If you can believe it, NISa surprised us with not just one, but three announcements last evening. In addition to the Gust/Namco Bandai venture Ar tonelico Qoga -- Ar tonelico 3 as it's known overseas -- they'll be also be bringing both Zettai Hero Project, and Classic Dungeon to our shores.

Let's start with Ar Tonelico Qoga, aka Ar Tonelico 3. It hit the PS3 back in January overseas and we've been hoping to see this latest chapter localized. The game features some marked improvements over the previous entry into the series, such as a brand new action-based battle system, complete with rhythm/music based casting.

Strangely, the human females in the game seem to get more powerful when they strip their clothes off. I'm not sure why, but if you ask me, that's excellent game design. Did I mention the game includes a dating sim? Well, from what I saw, it gets pretty kinky.

Any way, expect some more updates later today and until then, we have a special message from Souhei Niikawa, President of Nippon Ichi after the break.

My name is Souhei Niikawa, and I am the producer of Nippon Ichi Software. Thank you very much for coming to NIS America’s press event tonight. From this year on, Nippon Ichi Software will limit the number of titles we release in a year. We are doing  this to improve the game quality, and also to increase the customer satisfaction. The games that have been showcased here tonight were strictly selected and  developed with this new policy.

The first title is Z.H.P. This  is our latest dungeon RPG that has been created by the same staff members of  Disgaea 3. The project began soon after the release of Disgaea 3 and for 2  years it has been under intense development to formulate the game  system. We’re proud to say that Z.H.P. was made to surpass the Disgaea series and, also it  is a title with all of our know how’s and ideas we build upon combined in to. To describe how confident we are about this title... Let's just say we’re as excited as the time when we first developed  Disgaea. This is a title that we would like to nurture into the level of Disgaea, so please help us.

The 2nd title is Cladun. This is a hack & slash type action RPG. This title also has some of the same staff members as Disgaea and it is highly addictive. As our wish it would be great if you can help these 2 titles grow. Oh and one last thing. This year the latest Disagea will be released in Japan and  it will be for the  PS3. Plans  to make Disagea evolve to a new level and also plans to surprise everybody is  in  progress. By the time Tokyo Game Show comes around we will be able to release more information, so please look forward to it.

Thank you very much.