Koei is bringing
GrimGrimoire, a witchy Japanese RPG, from Nippon Ichi and Vanillaware to Europe.
If J.K. Rowling had slept with Michael J. Fox in the De Lorean then got up to make a Japanese RPG, this would be it. Here's the skinny according to Koei:
"GrimGrimoire follows a young girl called Lillet Blan on her first few days at a prestigious yet mystical magic school. Having awoken on the fifth day to find everyone at the school has mysteriously vanished, she then finds herself returned right back to the first day of term with her memories intact. Now she has an opportunity to relive the past five days all over again and discover just what happened to the school’s inhabitants and maybe prevent this terrible tragedy from happening all over again."
The fact that the last
Harry Potter book just came out hasn't escaped Koei, apparently. "Just when people might be thinking they’ll never have a chance to visit a school of wizardry ever again
GrimGrimoire arrives right on cue to offer gamers a magical world of sorcery, strategy and a mysterious tale that players will be itching to get to the bottom of”, said Koei's sales manager, Will Curley.