White Knight Chronicles | |
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North American box art depicting Wisel, the White Knight
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Developer(s) |
Level-5 SCE Japan Studio |
Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
Director(s) | Akihiro Hino |
Producer(s) | Akihiro Hino |
Designer(s) | Akihiro Hino |
Writer(s) | Akihiro Hino |
Composer(s) | Takeshi Inoue Yumiko Hashizume Noriyasu Agematsu |
Series | White Knight Chronicles |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 3 |
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Genre(s) | Role-playing |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
White Knight Chronicles Original Soundtrack ~Ancient Heartbeat~ | |
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Soundtrack album by Takeshi Inoue, Yumiko Hashizume, Noriyasu Agematsu, Hideo Inai, Akihiro Hino, and Kazco Hamano | |
Released |
July 1, 2009
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Genre | Video game soundtrack |
Length | 123:98 (two CDs) |
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Aggregate scores | |
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Aggregator | Score |
GameRankings | 66.40% |
Metacritic | 64/100 |
Review scores | |
Publication | Score |
Eurogamer | 8/10 |
Famitsu | 29/40 |
GameSpot | 6/10 |
IGN | 5.1/10 |
X-Play |
White Knight Chronicles (白騎士物語 -古の鼓動- Shirokishi Monogatari: Inishie no Kodō?, "White Knight Story: Ancient Heartbeat") is a fantasy role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and SCE Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is Level-5's first project for the system. As of August 8, 2009 it has sold 350,000 copies in Japan. A sequel titled White Knight Chronicles II was released in Japan in 2010. A related game for the PlayStation Portable, titled White Knight Chronicles: Origins was released in Japan, Europe and, Australia in 2011.
On June 18, 2013, the Geonet server was shut down by Sony Computer Entertainment America in North America and Europe .
White Knight Chronicles is a role-playing video game presented in a third-person perspective. The player can freely choose which character to control. Like in most other RPGs the characters gain experience points and level up, becoming stronger over the course of the game. Level-5 conceived White Knight Chronicles to have 100 hours of gameplay, a length Akihiro Hino considers to be a full length RPG, going against the pressure to make White Knight Chronicles a launch title and cutting the story short.
One can select locations on a world map that the player has already visited to go to instantly, along with a preview of that area. Each area also has a quest list that shows quests the player has yet to complete. The player can choose a quest to do before going to the desired area.