Ubisoft has revealed Patrick Plourde, the director of Far Cry 3, is working on a much smaller downloadable title that is set to pay homage to classic JRPGs of yesteryear.
It's called Child of Light and Plourde made the announcement during his panel at GDC Europe, where he explained the game will be a 2D sidescroller that includes a turn-based battle system. In fact, Plourde described the upcoming title as a combination of Limbo and Final Fantasy VI, which is certainly an interesting mix.
Child of Light stars a female protagonist in a coming-of-age tale, Polygon reports. It will be made using the Ubi Art Framework, the same engine Rayman Origins was developed in, and this will allow the creators to bring their fairy tale concept art, which looks very similar to early Final Fantasy titles, to life.
Plourde confirmed Child of Light will be a downloadable release, although at this time we do not know which virtual stores it will find its way into. What we do know is it will not be coming to mobile platforms, nor will it be free-to-play. We shall just have to sit tight and wait and see if this interesting-looking JRPG tribute makes it into the Wii U eShop.
Would you like to see this one on Wii U? Let us know your thoughts on it in the comment section below.
[source polygon.com]
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Ubisoft gives WiiU alot of support, although after that article about their WiiU profits being 3% of their total, they might change their mind. It'll be interesting to see. I wonder if it'll come to 3DS.
Thanks for the heads-up, @Andy.
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@Samurairu
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. >.>
I'm not entirely sure how good an Ubisoft JRPG will be. But if it comes to the Wii U, I'm most certainly willing to find out.
Being download only I imagine the cost risk is lowered some.
I assume this is Ubisoft's first RPG game.
I'm most certainly curious about a Japanese RPG made by French people (how can you call it a JRPG, though?). 2D side-scrolling with beautiful Muramasa-esque art rendered on the same capable engine of Rayman Legends and classic Final Fantasy inspiration sounds good on paper. This just bumped to a pretty high spot in my list. Ubisoft is delivering the goods to Wii U so far and being an eShop title, I think we will get it.
Looking forward to this as well as the annual sequels.
I'm hopefull it will come after all jrpgs do better on Nintendo than on Xbox.
@Kodeen Never heard of it.
Well i am looking forward to hear more about this.
@Kodeen Thanks for the info, and if is anything like Diablo 1&2 I'll give it a shot.
No, it won't. It's the Wii U. What a stupid question to ask, Nintendo Life.
Considering its the Ubiart engine, I would think that this is multiconsole, including Wii U.
Didn't Ubi say that they wouldn't be bringing any new games to Wii U unless sales pickup this holiday for both Wii U hardware and Ubi software on Wii U?
I certainly hope this comes to the eShop. JRPG's are best RPG's.
@WinterWarm You're welcome
I'm looking forward to seeing more of this one. Hopefully it gets announced for the eShop.
If it's a Ubisoft game then it could stand a chance... maybe
@koopakid Heh, better to ask than to never say anything I always say.
Interesting how ubisoft is trying their hand at an RPG. I may not know much about their RPG history though i do like to see how it develops.
@SkywardCrowbar No, I think they said they won't bring any Wii U exclusives but will still support it with games.
Also it sounds like it'll be a good game as the director of Far Cry 3 is making it and that was a good game, not a full RPG but was still good. Excited for this.
Would love on Wii U but if not PC will suffice
Going to keep my eye on this.
Sounds interesting; I hope it will make it to Wii U.
it will not come to the wiiu i guarantee it
NL: Will it come to Wii U?
Me: Does anything? ¬¬
Probably same old song and dance, it should come to the system, it would sell great on the system, but it's probably not coming to the system:P
I'd like it to come to the Wii U. However, with how things are going right now, it most likely won't. And the reasons will be nonsensical.
I'm hoping it will, conidering that NOA seems to be working to support several gaming engines lately.
I do hope this one makes its way to Wii U.
Ubi Art framework? I'm sold already. Rayman Origins was beautiful.
@SkywardCrowbar No, they said they wouldn't be bringing anymore Wii U exclusive titles until sales turn around. They will still put out their multiplatform titles.
@koopakid
O.o
Not sure if I should be cracking up or cracking out the blue shell. >.>
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