
White Knight Chronicles, an RPG from developer Level 5 received a new patch today in Japan that added very cool features that will be big when it hits in North America sometime in 2010.
The first feature added was voice-chat while online, which over here is a huge need. The big update added is the inclusion of PlayStation Home rewards for completing in-game quests. By completing these quests you will unlock clothes and accessories for your Home Avatar. This is a great way of using a reward similar and the popularity of PlayStation Home to possibly push a few more copies. In addition there were balancing issues and other fixes that were handled with this update.
All of these updates will be on the disk when the game makes its debut out west next year. If however you cannot wait for that and you don’t mind reading a ton of Japanese then you can head on over to PlayAsia and purchase White Knight Chronicles EX Edition for around $45.
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November 6th, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Cool. While I’m not a huge Home fan, a big part of it was because of having to pay for the different furnishings and clothes to customize things. When trophies were first launching, a lot of people complained that there should be rewards for earning them (many hoping unrealistically for free games, etc), and this seems like a reasonable way to do this. Although, you say quests, but somehow I’m sure those are tied into the trophies.
11/06/2009 at 11:19 AM
It could very well be possible that the home unlocks tie in with certain trophies that you obtain after completing certain quests, we will see.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:51 AM
I like Home. I think I’ll like WKC too. Nice.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:42 AM
I considered ordering it from Japan when the EX edition came out because of the price tag. This is a pretty sweet feature to add to the game.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Awesome news for Home fans.
November 7th, 2009 at 12:47 AM
I wonder if the voice chat stuff will even be useful. After all when is the firmware that the Naughty Dog Dev leaked coming out?
November 9th, 2009 at 7:56 AM
Finally. This was one of the initial things they said were to be implimented with Home and trophies. I’m incredibly excited to see this take off, I just wish it would come sooner!