NIS reveals Last Rebellion for PS3

By Robert Purchese Published 8 May, 2009

Watercolour RPG with "dark anti-hero".

NIS America has revealed a watercolour-style PS3 RPG called Last Rebellion, which will be released over there this autumn.

The game follows "dark anti-hero" Nine and his female companion Aisha on a story of revenge. Exploration will be free-form but battles turn-based, where Nine will resort to physical attacks and Aisha to magic. But only one character can fight per turn, creating what NIS hopes to be "not another mindless battle system". Body-parts can also be targeted; legs to slow, arms to weaken, and so on.

Visually, the game looks quite like the latest Prince of Persia, only less vibrant, as our Last Rebellion gallery will illustrate. The game is single-player, too.

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  • GamesConnoisseur #1 3 years ago

    Sounds nice and as opposed to Ghostbusters in EG fiasco, this was promoted as PS3 exclusive from get go, Disagea is a great brand and I would certainly add Last Rebellion to my collection if the game turned out greats as it sounds.

  • menage #2 3 years ago

    Love NIS, but I hope the game looks a bit better than those screens.

  • Cappy #3 3 years ago

    When are people going to shut up about bloody Ghost Busters? Did you see the same Tiny Tears routine about Last Remnant on the PS3 which was multi-platform and suddenly dropped off the radar shortly before the 360 release? Six months later there is still no release in sight.

    Sadly, Last Rebellion looks awful. People would be pointing and laughing if it was on the Wii.


  • matrim83 #4 3 years ago

    "dark anti-hero"

    :D

    Does he play by his own rules as well? Has he got a mysterious past? How about a female sidekick who is secretly in love with him but pretends to fight him all the time?

  • Widge #5 3 years ago

    a little better? with screens like that I'd expect to be able to happily run the game on my PSP!

  • Goodfella #6 3 years ago

    Sorry but that looks nowhere near as good as the recent PoP game.

  • VicViper #7 3 years ago

    I hoping this looks better in motion, That shot of the orge/troll dude with all the icons along the top seems to show the battle system looks as complicated as I would expect something NIS has a hand in.

  • Gnort #8 3 years ago

    You could tell it was going to be a JRPG just from the name, couldn't you?

  • PearOfAnguish #9 3 years ago

    "dark anti-hero"

    That's so fresh. Hope he has a scar on his face. I love me a brooding bad-boy protagonist.

  • Linkified #10 3 years ago

    "dark anti hero" therefore the badguy - stop copying pr as verbatem EG.

  • Lobster #11 3 years ago

    3D character models? In an NIS game? *sigh* NIS was my favorite developer but the PS3 has been slapping it around. Forcing it to put its games on a clearly overpowered system, and now eschewing its wonderful art style for bland, muddy 3D?

    NIS, come back to me baby. You don't have to be in pain any more...

  • man.the.king #12 3 years ago

    I looked at the screens and thought "surely they can do better than that".

    I am not saying that graphics are everything, but it's not as if graphics don't form part of the package. I would expect a good game to have reasonably good graphics unless it is an indie or was made on the cheap.

  • MaxiSleep #13 3 years ago

    by watercolour-style do they mean cheap to develop?

  • psousa #14 3 years ago

    by watercolour-style do they mean cheap to develop?
    Lol.

    The whole "Visually, the game looks quite like the latest Prince of Persia, only less vibrant" is a large euphemism... :p

    Nevertheless, I liked the description and will definitely follow the info on this game.

  • Ren_senshi #15 3 years ago

    According to a writer on VGChartz, NIS America has told them that the game is in it's alpha stages and they were sort of embarrassed to show the game this early, however they wanted to show something to prove the game's existence.

    If this is true then there is still hope the game will look better , and of course the core of a NIS game is story and gameplay first graphics later.