If ever there was a reason to sit in front of your PlayStation 3 waiting for PlayStation Home to load it’s today’s North American debut of the prinny-powered Disgaea 4 Home Space. And for everyone else, there’s pet ponies.
Simply hearing about Cross Edge, the PlayStation 3 RPG that combines popular properties from Nippon Ichi, Gust, Namco Bandai, Idea Factory, and Capcom together into one all-star role-playing extravaganza was enough to turn fans (myself included) into bubbling puddles of joyful goo. Seeing the game in action in this Japanese trailer is enough to make me want to gather up all of the North American fans, form a giant robot, march over to Japan and demand the game get a U.S. release behind the barrel of a gigantic laser cannon.
Of course, being relatively timid RPG players we’d then apologise and quietly pre-order the import version once the tell us no, but for a brief moment we’d be united. That’s the power of Felicia and a prinny on the same screen.
Witz! You there? Course you’re not there. You’re unconscious, lying dangerously face-down amidst a pool of your own fluids. As no doubt thousands of other Prinny fans are at the news that Disgaea’s iconic penguin doods are set to star in their own game. Called Prinny: Ore ga Shujinko de Iinsuka?, it’ll see you take control of a “1,000-Prinny squadron on their quest to help an extremely pissed-off Etna recover her stolen sweets”, and is due for release on the PSN on November 20. That’s in Japan, at least, as your guess is as good as ours as to whether this’ll see a US release or not.
