Developer: Vanillaware Publisher: Atlus MSRP: $49.99 Platforms: PS3 (Reviewed), PS Vita Dragon’s Crown. What can you say about Dragon’s Crown? The entire gaming community has been following the release of Vanillaware’s 2D sidescrolling beat ’em up ever since we first caught a glimpse of the Amazon …
Dragon’s Crown, the upcoming hand drawn RPG/beat-em-up from Vanillaware (developers of Odin Sphere, Muramasa,) has apparently been in development for quite awhile: an artbook for the game that was just released in Japan reveals that Vanillaware originally started planning the game back in 1998.
Atlus has managed to carve out a profitable niche for itself by producing critically acclaimed RPG’s like Persona and Etrian Odyssey, but now the company may be facing some hard times through no fault of their own. Today, Atlus’ parent corporation, Index Corporation, announced that it …
The more juvenile elements of Dragon’s Crown’s visuals have gotten more attention than its gameplay, which is a shame, because the demo I played today proved that Vanillaware, the creators of modern 2D classics like Odin Sphere and Muramasa, haven’t lost their touch.
Earlier today Amazon removed the upcoming 2D action-RPG/brawler hybrid Dragon’s Crown from their website and unceremoniously cancelled all preorders for the game, leading many to believe that the game had been cancelled. Thankfully, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
