The latest Famitsu revealed a new DS game from Sting, the developer of Riviera: The Promised Land and Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone, two GBA games previously brought to America by Atlus and since ported to PSP. Sting's new game, Knights in the Nightmare, is currently planned for a 2008 release in Japan. An American release is currently unconfirmed. The game features the following:

  • The main character is a wisp, who takes control of knights by charming them and giving orders.
  • It is a "turn-based RTS"—each turn (both offensive and defensive) is time based and plays out in real time, but it controls like a turn-based trategy game.
  • The top screen shows the gameplay while the bottom screen shows a wire-map of the battlefield.
  • Players control the wisp with the stylus and use it to give knights orders.
  • Demons will aim for the wisp. Players have to avoid the demons, like in a shooting game.
  • The heroine is a female knight named Maria.
  • It is the fourth entry in the "Department Heaven Episode" series—the first being Riviera, the second being Yggdra Union, and the third being unknown.
  • Shinichi Itou is the game director. He directed previous entries in the series.
  • Satoku Kiyuzuki is responsible for design creation. He was the main character designer for Yggdra Union.
  • Sunaho Tobe is handling illustration. He was the main character designer for Riviera and illustrated the cards in Yggdra Union.

Thanks go to RevenantKioku and the rest of NeoGAF for supplying a translation.

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