NAMCO (tri-Crescendo) developing new RPG for 360

It' s called Trusty Bell (but what' s in a name eh?)

These two scans are from amitsu weekly and show the first screens of the game. It look very TOS to me and the cell-shading looks fantastic.

I really hope this turns out to be a great game. They might be saving their known franchises for Sony but it' s new IP' s like this and Mistwalkers trio of RPG' s that i' m interested in.





If anybody happens to be able to read Japanese, we' d love to know what the text says...

EDIT: It seems that NAMCO are publishing the game and it' s being developed by tri-Crescendo. My bad.

It also seems to be the very first cell-shaded game in 720p.

These guys did Baiten Kaitos on the Gamecube so this should be awesome!

That' s great to see and all, but all I want is Soul Calibur 4 on the X360. There' s no good fighters on the X360, now or in the pipeline, so it' s like there isn' t much competition...

Wow! That looks great.
I can' t imagine how much better it' ll look when it' s released for the superior PS3. Which of course it will since the PS3 will outsell (read crush) the 360 and Namco wants $ so they' ll release it for the PS3. And then the sequels will be PS3 exclusive just like Soul Calibur was for PS2 (and PS3 by the way).
And then every other big developer will follow.
So yeah that' s good news.

Super giant-sized scans!!!!

Wow! That looks great.
I can' t imagine how much better it' ll look when it' s released for the superior PS3. Which of course it will since the PS3 will outsell (read crush) the 360 and Namco wants $ so they' ll release it for the PS3. And then the sequels will be PS3 exclusive just like Soul Calibur was for PS2 (and PS3 by the way).
And then every other big developer will follow.
So yeah that' s good news.

Are you trying to make me cry?

They also co-developed Valkyrie profile and star ocean serie with Tri-Ace who is doing a rpg for xbox360 but has not been seen yet.

This game look like...Tales of symphonia meets Baten kaitos,might be good

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Wow, that cellshading looks fantastic! Can' t wait for this game to be released, the 360 really need some good RPG' s

I read somewhere that its about some music composer who dies or something...The game revovles around a 16 yr old who has magic powers...

Yes,people who is dying from a sickness get extremly strong magical powers,and one of the main character is dying.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

yup...exactly....And all the names in the game are music related i.e. names of places and weapons and stuff...

Nice in-game screens,and look at this art of what i assume is the main character...



Also seeing how you seem to use 3-4 characters in battle via something similiar or euql to the " Tales of" system this might be a new Tales of game,the only reason why it doesnt share its name is to piss of sony /japanese fans i assume...

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Trusty Bell: Dream of Chopin släpps redan i år i Japan och kommer under 2007 till Europa.

Its coming to europe 2007.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Wow! I' ve got to get me one of those 360 things!

Wow! I' ve got to get me one of those 360 things!

I want a Sega Saturn! Give me that, and I can give you one of those 360
things..

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Ok I admit fully that I' ve never really liked cell shading but damn...

Those screens are some of the most vibrant and colorful I' ve ever seen in a game. Check out the sky! It' s fantasic! I can' t wait to see more of it!

http://www.gamereactor.se/bilder/?newsid=7710&id=47651

Heres some pictures to, they' re the same as the ones in the Scans but in better quality.

Now if only RPG' s looked this good and were not turn-based.

I like the cell-shading in particular..

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

This game isn' t turn based is it?

I' m liking the look of this game it reminds me of when I first saw skies of arcadia.

I' d love to see some amazingly detailed HD 2d jRPG ...I miss 2d RPGs so much...

It looks great indeed.

F355 one of my favourite games of all times Ferrariman :)