Bandai Namco released new details on its new PS3 RPG Tokitowa [Time & Eternity]. The game will features HD animated graphics, the animation will be handled by Satelight, the producers are Kay Hirono and Kensuke Tsukanaka, the character designer is Vofan, and music composer is Yuzo Koshiro.

The story takes place in the Kingdom of Kamuza, which was created by the prince "Knight King" and Toki, the princess of Magic. The capital city floats on water. The protagonist is the prince of Kamuza, who married to the princess of Magic but he never had his first kiss. The princess Toki is 16 years old, who has baby dragon as her pet.

Tokitowa will have hand drawn 2D animation for the characters, and they are not animated with celshaded 3D graphics, they are real 2D animation. Other graphics like backgrounds and towns are 3D. Kay Hirono said the game has been in development for over 2 years, the battle system will also use 2D animation for the characters. Tokitowa is current 45% completed.

Bandai Namco released new info on Tokitowa [Time & Eternity]'s battle system. In the game Princess Toki can use time & space magic such as Freeze Time to halt the enemies in battle, she can learn more spells during the progress. In addition, Princess Toki's alternative ego Towa, will find a companion pet named Drake in her journey. Drake is a talking baby blue dragon that will help both Toki and Towa in the story.

source: http://the-magicbox.com/1208/game120801c.shtml

eh heh heh tentacles are in this...

Heh. I don't think so.

New trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frMQ6VH-KNg

Game looks super slick. The music sounds really good. It's like a mishmash of JRPG music (sounds like Motoi Sakuraba's stuff).

I'm assuming that the game battle system is setup like Paper Mario games where the main character fights along with one helper character at a time with real-time action battle inputs.