PS2 game GrimGrimoire, from Vanillaware, getting Switch, PS4 remake

Vanillaware’s basic PlayStation 2 real-time technique recreation GrimGrimoire is getting a Nintendo Change and PlayStation 4 remake coming July 28 in Japan, writer Nippon Ichi Software program introduced Thursday.

The remaster is named GrimGrimoire OnceMore, and provides new graphics and techniques, together with a strong “Nice Magic” mechanic and talent timber, in accordance with a information launch translated by Gematsu. GrimGrimoire OnceMore’s story stays much like the unique recreation: A younger wizard, Lillet Blan, relives the identical 5 days after an evil wizard assaults her college and threatens catastrophe.

GrimGrimoire was initially launched in 2007 on PlayStation 2. It was Vanillaware’s first revealed recreation, led by former Capcom artist founder George Kamitani. It wasn’t essentially a industrial success, however it’s a recreation whose affect gamers can see even in Vanillaware’s newest shock hit, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim was launched in 2020 in North America on PlayStation 4. It acquired a Nintendo Change launch in April — and it’s even higher on the hand-held console.