The Witch and The Hundred Knights

After reading the topic of The God and Fate Revolution Paradox thread saying it was made by the Disgaea team reminded me of this.

Majo to Hyakkihei/The Witch and The Hundred Knights

It was supposed to by released in Japan June 2012,but has been pushed back not specified what day. US and Europe will be able to play it in 2013.

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The Witch and the Hundred Knights is an action RPG developed by the Prinny team, and features a knight that can turn into a hundred others. This knight can be good or evil, and you’ll even be able to attack innocent NPCs if you so choose. Nippon Ichi call it an open-ended dark fantasy game.


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Is it just me, or do the characters in the Japanese title look demonic?

I'm actually looking forward to this game more than the "God and Fate Revolution Paradox". Damn, if I would've known there wasn't a thread, I would've made one myself. Oh well, you beat me to it. Anyways this game looks great. I think I'm in love with the way Harada designs characters. Metallica looks so awesome.

I'd rather play as the witch instead of the knight tbh. xD

New screenshots. It comes out on July 25th in Japan. I can't fucking wait for this game. This and Disgaea D2 are currently my most anticipated NIS games.

limited edition

This game looks really cool. Yeah, I wish you could play as Metallica, though. Also, I got a big FF: CC vibe from it for some reason.

Oh, gameplay looks interesting. Can't really see the character though with all that shining light stuff...

... Oh wait. Wait a sec we're playing as the chibi Demigod and NOT THE WITCH?

*exits thread*

Seriously though this is quite disappointing. The point of starring an MC with all that personality and even gaming direction (fill the world with darkness!) was so that you could PLAY WITH THAT MC. AND NOT THE ABSOLUTELY SIDE CHARACTER LOOKING USELESS CHIBI DEMIGOD WHO LOST TO VILLAGER A. WTF.

You just realized this? It's been confirmed for a while now that you control the hundred knights and not Metallica. I don't know why some people are acting surprised. Also, chill the fuck out. It's not like Metallica won't be in the game or anything.

I just realized because I just found out the thread and watch the Youtube link for the first time. YOU chill the fuck out.

>"PLAY WITH THAT MC. AND NOT THE ABSOLUTELY SIDE CHARACTER LOOKING USELESS CHIBI DEMIGOD WHO LOST TO VILLAGER A. WTF" (you)
>caps lock
>telling me to chill the fuck out?

I can assure you that I'm very calm. Either way, it's not a big deal. It does suck that we can't play as Metallica but I'm sure the game will still be very good.

little update

10 minute gameplay




As an undead warrior named the Hundred Knights, you must serve the Marsh Witch Metallica by travelling across the world, creating marshes. You can equip five different weapons at once to create deadly combos and outwit your foes by slowing down time and summoning mini-soldiers called Tochkas. In addition, you can raid people’s houses and eat enemies. Accompanying the game are character designs by Takehito Harada and music by Tenpei Sato from the Disgaea series. The Witch and the Hundred Knights will be released in Japan on July 25. An English version has been confirmed by NIS America, but has not been dated yet.

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/07/24/10-minutes-of-niss-ambitious-new-rpg-the-witch-and-the-hundred-knights/

I still think this game looks great. I'm really looking forward to it. I recently changed my desktop background to Metalica again.

I love her character design. That ridiculously large hat. Those green eyes.

got the Limited Edition Boxset when it came out,played it for couple of hours and.....damn Nippon Ichi for making me hooked again.lol.

because i'm still at Vol 1 Chapter 2 story,that Giga Calories still keep being a problem because whenever you slashed your enemies,jump or dashing,it can take quite a lot of it so finding a Pilar to make it your checkpoint is still mandatory since it can fill the 10% of your Giga Calories.

it's suddenly gotten hard but i can get over it soon.
and some of Metallica's doings to kill and torture her enemies does fit with the Dark Fantasy theme in the game.

and man....this OST is kinda like the Duck Tales theme to me.
IT WILL NEVER LEAVE!!!

Nippon Ichi is adding a casual mode.

I plan on importing a limited edition of this game as soon as I get my next paycheck.

that "Wimp" Casual mode.
ouch! lol.

You've been playing the game, right? How hard do you think it is?

well,at first Chapter part one,the difficulties were pretty normal.
then by the first chapter 2nd part,the difficulties got escalated a bit high because of the new type of enemies that took alot of your health and some of your giga Calories just by jumping at you.

it does quite frustrating but since it's a Nippon Ichi Soft game,it's pretty much normal if you can deal with it and get used to it already.

even though if it's Disgaea,we can still think and strategy our moves but since this is an action RPG style,you're really gonna need to be more careful than usual because of the whole giga calorie thing.

maybe i'm gonna use the casual mode for awhile to see how much does it changes from the usual one.

Is the gameplay fun? How are the characters and story so far? Metalica still seems like a really interesting character to me.

even though the Giga Calories is pretty much limiting your time during each gameplay,it's actually pretty fun and challenging.
you can use up to 5 weapons slots.either to use the same weapon or different weapons that you wanted to use.
some weapons have different pattern even though it might be the same type of weapons that you choose.but by setting your weapon sets with different pattern,you can make it an actual chained attacks with the weapons and deal more damage than usual.

and pressing R1+â–³ when your enemy's almost dies,you can eat it to fill 1-2% of your Giga Calories.

haven't figured out how to change/use minions but i'll try.
it did says just by L1+〇 but nothing happens.
found how to use the sub facet.you'll just need to enter Metalica's residence and set your facets there. you can also trade your collected mana into shell(money) so a 1000 mana will turn into 10.000shell.
you'll be able to change to your sub facet at the end of Chapter 1 part 1.

and you can use your minons for traps/bombs after you cleared Chapter 1 Part 2.

the first time i saw Metalica,she looks awesome since it was pretty much nothing but black screen with your character and her gleaming red eyes in the dark. watching that scene during midnight in dark room really feels her presence creeps out in your place.

the plot's pretty much Metallica wanted to spread the swamp all over Nibelheim(did i spell that right?) by making the Hundred Knight do her bidding by destroying certain pillars that full of the swamp's power/energy.

she's pretty much fun character that has dark and sadistic personality.
and when i say dark and sadistic......she's really merciless upon her opponents.
i can still remember the curse she gave upon the witch that defies her at the end of chapter 1 part 1.god damn...

i haven't played that far yet but i'll play it through.lol.
did they announced the US Release yet?

and speaking of playing it through,just tried that Casual Mode and......it gave me no challenge at all.
i know the difficulties were escalated quite high and fast but....that's the fun! i was really surprised and disappointed when the usual enemies that gave me hard time to deal are just....went too easy on me.
so yeah,never use Casual mode if you wanted to have some really fun challenges.
except if you can't handle the enemies like a Wimp.

The Witch and the Hundred Knight coming west in early 2014

Her localized name is now "Metallia"... Can someone tell me what's wrong with just leaving it as "Mettallica". Would the band really care? I don't know how this shit works.

Also, technically her name is メタリカ (me ta ri ka) so wouldn't that be romanized with only one "l". As in: "Metalica". The band uses two "l"s. So couldn't NISA just localize her name with one "l"?