Cross Edge is a new RPG in development by Capcom, Nippon Ichi, Namco Bandai, Gust, and Idea Factory that consist of different characters from the different developers. NIS America has announced that it will publish the game for American and will be released on the 20th of May.

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NIS America announced today that the highly anticipated collaboration RPG, Cross Edge will make it’s way onto the PS3. Cross Edge is scheduled to be released on May 24th in North America. Cross Edge is a RPG co-developed by Nippon IchiSoftware, Idea Factory, Gust, Namco Bandai, and Capcom featuring infamous characters from each of the company. Some characters featured in the game includes the following:

Etna –Disgaea
Aurica –Ar tonelico
Marie –Atlier Iris
Meu –Spectral Souls
Morgan –Darkstalkers

Gamers can expect a battle carnage between the various game characters and a extensive synthesizing system to indulge in for hours to come. More info on Cross Edge, visit http://nisamerica.com/games/crossedge/

Key Features:
Main Characters from 5 different games: Cross Edge features infamous characters from Disgaea, Darkstalkers, Mana Khemia 3, Ar tonelico, and Spectral Souls.

Action Battle System: By pressing the ○×△□ buttons accordingly during battles you can do various attacks for change combos and special skills.

Costume Change: Changing the costume will not only change the character status, but you will change the actual appearance as will.

Action Dungeon: Unlike ordinary RPGs, Cross Edge features a side scrolling action dungeons. Here you can jump, run, and search for various treasures like in a action game.

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Here is a new JRPG (japanese rpg) to look forwards to. Developed by Compile Heart and the name of the game says it all, it crosses edges. Why? Because Cross Edge features characters from Capcom, Nippon Ichi, Bandai Namco, Gust and Idea Factory.

Some of the characters are as follows:

CAPCOM – Vampire Darkstalkers series: Morrigan, Felicia, Demitri
BANDAI NAMCO – Ar-Tonelico series: Orica, Misha, Shurelia
NIPPON ICHI – Disgaea series: Etona, Prini
IDEA FACTORY – Spectral Souls series: Miu
GUST – Atelier & Mana Khemia series: Lilia, Rose, Marie

The battle system is a turn based one, very similar to that seen in Ar Tonelico 2. Each character is assigned to a button and you can launch chain attacks into combos by pressing differen’t buttons.

“The protagonist can either be a boy or girl, who woke up in a twisted world, which exists by devouring souls from other realms and worlds. You must team up with other characters and save their worlds and the souls from being devoured. You can travel to different worlds, including the Underworld (Vampire Darkstalkers and Disgaea) and Dreamworld (Ar Tonelico and Atelier / Mana Khemia).”

For all you RPG fans lets hope this game see’s a release date outside of Japan. And as far as i’m aware this is a Playstation 3 exclusive.

Check out these scans:

And here are some screenshots:

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