![]() ![]() Played up in the localization, where many names were changed to make the inspirations blatant, such as Gammel Drask to Gammel Dore. Captain Ersatz: Half the cast look like they might have been stolen from Harry Potter.Beast and Beauty: Subverted, in that the Beast does not love Beauty (even though this would break the spell), is somewhat of a nerd, and doesn't care what he looks like.Artificial Human / Emotionless Girl: Amoretta the Homuculus.The Archmage: Calvaros and eventually Lillet who graduates after the time loop ends as she's learnt everything that her teachers know.He's actually on your side in every iteration, but he admits himself that it's purely because he can't get anyone's soul if they die first. Affably Evil: Advocat, whose goal is ultimately to get people to sign away their souls in a Deal with the Devil, but who still genuinely seems to enjoy his friendship with Gammel Dore and the others at the school.It came out internationally in April 2023, also for PlayStation 5. It was released on Jin Japan for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. On April 2022, Vanillaware and Nippon Ichi announced GrimGrimoire OnceMore, a HD remake containing new mechanics, rebalanced difficulty, a skill tree, high definition graphics, the option to fast forward battle sequences and cutscenes and a new voice cast. The major draw is the school full of weird characters who need the player's help in both the running of the school and their love lives. GrimGrimoire draws very obviously from the gameplay of the Atelier series and the premiseand aesthetics of Harry Potter. Along the way, she'll delve into the history of the school and discover dark secrets about practically every member of the facility, including herself. Lillet is soon killed as well, but suddenly finds herself in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, thrust back to her very first day in school but retaining all the knowledge she learned in the meantime.Īfter taking the sensible approach of alerting her teachers, only for it to result in spectacular failure, Lillet realizes that her only chance of averting her fate and escaping the time loop is to do it all herself. There she meets an eclectic ensemble of students and teachers- the mysterious and bearded old headmaster, the sarcastic and Obviously Evil Sorcery teacher, and the cold but perceptive honour student, to name a few- and learns about the four schools of Glamour, Necromancy, Sorcery and Alchemy.Įverything is going swimmingly until the fifth day, when Lillet awakens to find that everyone is dead and that a sinister evil has been unleashed from within the school. It tells the tale of a magically-gifted child called Lillet Blan, who gains admission to a renowned Wizarding School called the Tower of Silver Star. GrimGrimoire is a 2007 Real-Time Strategy game for PS2, brought to you by Vanillaware and Nippon Ichi. ![]()
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