Nippon Ichi’s U.S. arm hosted its annual Tokyo Game Show soiree today, which was fortunately a much more modest affair than last year’s manic combination press conference and live radio drama. (The company president didn’t come out in a Prinny costume, for starters.) The upcoming NISA line-up shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s even vaguely familiar with the company’s history, but they are branching out just a tiny bit with the localization of Acquire’s online, multi-platform Gladiator Vs. (which is being called Clan of Champions in the U.S.).
Besides the Acquire action game, NISA is business as usual. The company has two portable Disgaea ports in the works: A heavily modified rendition of the original game for Android platforms, and Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention for PS Vita. The former is due by the end of 2011, while the second is targeted for the first half of 2012 and will be one of the first major RPGs for Sony’s new platform. It’s hard to get a read on Disgaea for Android based on the description offered at the press conference; representative Jack Niida says players will begin with a single character and gain new party members and weapons through downloads and slogging through the Item World. The mobile version of Disgaea 3 sounds similar to the PSP versions of the first two games, with new characters and content added along with a host of scheduled downloadable content. Disappointingly, the Vita port won’t be making use of Disgaea 4‘s high-resolution sprites, though a cursory glance at the Japanese version of the game on display at Sony’s booth indicates that the older sprites won’t look too bad on the Vita’s compact screen.
