Battle Chasers: Nightwar is an American made JPRG and dungeon-crawler, based on the best-selling Battle Chasers comic series by Joe Maduriera and inspired by JPRG greats such as Final Fantasy, Suikoden
Battle Chasers wasn’t a comic that I was familiar with, mostly because I find the never-ending nature of many popular comics a poor form of storytelling that necessitates stupid contrivances like Cyclops suddenly turning evil. Which happened at one point. It’s hard to have make character growth be meaningful when a character’s story never actually …
The thing about Battle Chasers: Nightwar that initially caught my eye was its turn-based jRPG combat. I’ve played a lot of games over the years, but the gaming period I’m most nostalgic about is the 16-bit era of jRPGs, back when Squaresoft ruled the roost and a million recognizable series were only just getting off …
THQ Nordic and Airship Syndicate have released the opening animation for Battle Chasers: Nightwar. It is animated by Powerhouse Animation, the same studio behind Netflix’s recently launched Castlevania animated TV series. The video features a new hero named Alumon the Devil Hunter. Here’s a description of the character, via THQ Nordic: Once a member of …
Battle Chasers: Nightwar, AKA that JRPG-style roleplaying game with the entirely forgettable name, has a lovely animated intro that reminds me of '80s cartoons. The following video introduces you to, presumably, the playable cast of the game, which includes a guy that resembles Berserk's Guts, an elfy fighter with ginormous fists, and a gunslinging woman who looks like she's come straight from the set of Darksiders.There might be a reason for that, as some of the people behind Battle Chasers previously worked on the Darksiders series, including comic book artist Joe Madureira.Battle Chasers: Nightwar will release on October the 3rd, and if you want to look at the Steam page before then, you can do so here.
