Knights in the Nightmare

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Knights in the Nightmare
Developer(s)	Sting
Designer(s)	Shinichi Itou (Game Design) Satoko Kiyuduki (Design Creation) Sunaho Tobe (Illustration) Etsunori Shiwanaga (Illustration)
Platform(s)	Nintendo DS
Release date	^JPN July 17, 2008
Genre(s)	Role-playing
Mode(s)	Single player
Input methods	Touch Screen

Knights in the Nightmare (ナイツ・イン・ザ・ナイトメア, naitsu in za naitomea^?) is an upcoming "turn-based RTS" from Sting, and the fourth episode in the Dept. Heaven saga.

Sting is releasing a special edition version of Knights in the Nightmare, called the "Knights in the Nightmare DHE Series Special Pack", and it will include a copy of Yggdra Union for Game Boy Advance.^[1]

1 Gameplay
2 Plot and Setting
- 2.1 Story
- 2.2 Characters
3 Development
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Gameplay

Little is known about the game play at this point in time. However, Famitsu revealed that the game will be turn based, with each turn taking place in real time. It will be a strategy RPG that takes place on an isometric grid in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics and Disgaea, but the player, the Wisp, has little direct control over the allied units, the Knights, on the battlefield.

[edit] Plot and Setting

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[edit] Story

The story in Knights is told in both a forward and reverse fashion, with the revelation of past events - what happened at castle Avenheim - being used to decide and explain the events of the present.

[edit] Characters

Wisp: The player controlled character. Possesses Knights in order to take part in battle.
Maria: A Knight and the heroine of the story.

Other known Knights include Diana, Hildegarda, Rudolf, Rolf, Masenda, Bertha, Bergman and Annelotte.

[edit] Development

Screenshots, artwork and music clips for Knights in the Nightmare have appeared at various times over the past two years on the blog of JaJa, one of the developers of the game.

Satoko Kiyuduki reprises his design role from Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone, and Sunaho Tobe, having worked on the first two Dept. Heaven titles, and Etsunori Shiwanaga, having done the monster designs for the initial release of Riviera also return for Knights' illustrations.