As posted on the Playstation Blog today, the PS3 exclusive fantasy RPG, White Knight Chronicles, ships today in North America, presumably hitting store shelves tomorrow. In addition to promising a lengthy single player campaign, White Knight Chronicles features several different online components. Players can engage in online quests with up to three others to obtain items unavailable in the single player game, build a town with NPCs collected from the single player game and sell your specialized wares to others, and even blog and post photos about their White Knight Chronicles experiences in-game. And if you start to dislike your character after staring at him or her for 100 hours while you plough through the game online and offline, you can pay $4.95 to change the way your character looks but retain all of your progress. There will also be components available for purchase to augment your village, although developer Level-5 promises that those will not be required and that there will be plenty customization available for free on the disc at launch.
I must say, these first few months of 2010 are going to be a paradise for RPG fans. First Mass Effect 2 dropped last week, which I’ve been playing non-stop over the last week. White Knight Chronicles follows right on its heels tomorrow, and then Final Fantasy XIII hits on March 9th. Hopefully I can find time to play some of the other amazing non-RPG games that come out during that same time period (e.g. Heavy Rain, God of War III, Bioshock 2, No More Heroes 2) while continuing to post on my blog . . . oh, and retaining my relationships with living humans.