VanillaWare today announced its very first high-definition game, Dragon’s Crown. It’s a 2D action-RPG with hand-drawn graphics and four-player online co-op.
VanillaWare is best known for its work on beautiful 2D games like Odin Sphere and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. To see a new side-scrolling action game from VanillaWare isn’t particularly surprising, but it is exciting to see what it can do with high-definition graphics.
A press release says Dragon’s Crown will have simplistic controls, deep character customization, and six different classes. The UTV Ignition-published game is coming in 2012 to both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, the latter of which apparently is not a scaled-down version. It’s said to have the “same fluid hand-drawn animation, blazing special effects, and haunting soundtrack” as the PS3 version. There will also be some connectivity between the two versions of the game that has not been detailed.
