Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | 07:54 BST
Famitsu scares up first details on Level-5’s PSP horror RPG, Ushiro
This week’s issue of Japanese game rag Famitsu brings word that Level-5 is developing a brand new RPG. Oh, and it’s on the PSP. Neat!
Titled “Ushiro,” which roughly translates to “behind,” the game will slip you into the oh-too-trendy garb of a shinigami (Japanese grim reaper), who will “cling on behind people that have exhausted their lives to experience their lives.”
Once you’ve Yoda-ed your way onto your quarry, it’s apparently up to you to “observe, possess, and fulfill the wishes” of that person. You’ll also do battle with a monster that embodies “a person’s malice.”
Sounds fascinating. Consider our interest piqued.
The game hits Japan sometime in 2009.
Thanks, Gamekyo.
10 comments
#1
Blerk
24/09/08, 8:25 am
That sounds pretty interesting! Shame it’s on the PSP.
#2
Blerk
24/09/08, 8:37 am
Scan here. Plus news of two more new games here and here.
#3
Blerk
24/09/08, 8:43 am
Bugger. Seems that post got eaten by the spam filter. And it was relevant too. MEDIC!
#4
patlike
24/09/08, 8:46 am
Sec.
#5
patlike
24/09/08, 8:47 am
There.
#6
Blerk
24/09/08, 8:49 am
Much obliged.
#7
BraveArse
24/09/08, 9:11 am
@Blerk: A DS game with all animation by Studio Ghibli?? You sir are a gentleman and a scholar – and have made my day.
/is a Ghibli nut.
#8
Blerk
24/09/08, 9:17 am
I really love Ghibli stuff too. Bit of a shame it’s all going to be squished onto a teenie DS screen, though.
#9
Blerk
24/09/08, 9:21 am
Seems to be all portable news this week – Sega’s new RPG is for the DS too. Bah, humbug.
#10
BraveArse
24/09/08, 9:41 am
re: teenie screen – true but I’ll still import it, squint at the screen in a mole-fashion and wade through the translations on the web… unlikely to get a global release I’d have thought