Mastiff Announces La Pucelle: Tactics for PlayStation®2 Has Gone Gold

Stellar Tactical RPG from Creators of the Award-Winning Disgaea on Schedule for Early May Store Date

SAN FRANCISCO, CA  (April 6, 2004) Interactive entertainment publisher Mastiff announced today that Nippon Ichi Software Inc’s great tactical RPGs, La Pucelle: Tactics, has gone gold, and will be in stores in early May 2004. La Pucelle is exclusively for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and uses a similar battle system to the 2003 award-winning game, Disgaea, also a Nippon Ichi Software title.

La Pucelle: Tactics is a tale of betrayal and double cross, monsters in human form and humans in monster form, set in an alternate medieval Europe. The unlikely hero is a smart mouthed and undisciplined sixteen year old who just passed her exorcism exams and her comrades in La Pucelle, a demon hunting squad.

Additionally, Mastiff has announced the launch of the official La Pucelle website: www.lapucelletactics.com.  The website will feature game and character details, screenshots, movies and strategies for the upcoming release. It will also include bios of principal voice actors and sound clips from the game."

Early previews of the game already have the US gaming press gushing. “If La Pucelle is as big a hit as it deserves to be, the future should be bright not just for Nippon Ichi—which plans to release all of its games in the United States from here on out—but for the strategy fans who’ve fallen in love with them," said GMR Magazine in their exclusive multi-page preview in the May 2004 issue.

Many American gamers became familiar with talented developer Nippon Ichi in late summer 2003 when their spectacular game, Disgaea, shipped for the PlayStation 2. Disgaea captivated consumers and critics alike and recently won a number of “2003 Best of” awards including:

Simulation/Strategy Game of the Year – Play Magazine

Reader’s Choice- Best Strategy Game – IGN.com

Top PS2 Strategy Game of 2003, Top 10 PS2 Game of Year – GameSpy.com

Top Strategy Game – GMR Magazine

La Pucelle: Tactics Features

· Choose from Japanese or English voice.

· Dark Portals and Purification: Brand new to the RPG world, use your powers to purify defiled ground and enemies. If pulled off right the effect is like having a super-giant combo.

· Damage multiple enemies at once

· Stop new enemies from appearing

· Strengthen items in real time

· More detailed story and character development than Disgaea

· Fast leveling system: Items, characters and skills can increase every round of battle for well earned instant gratification.

· Carry up to 149 items and use them to learn special magic.

· Turn enemies to allies. Bring up to 8 units into battle.

· Seize the high ground! Battlefield terrain will vary in height: attacking down is way better than being attacked from above.

· Attack in formation with your allies -- Wave Attack and Simultaneous Attack

· Great balance of difficulty with early stages functioning as a tutorial, characters with real personality, beautiful hand drawn backgrounds

· Over 100 hours of gameplay with multiple endings

· Winner of a coveted Gold Award from Famitsu, Japan's leading game magazine.

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About Mastiff LLC

Mastiff LLC is a publisher of interactive entertainment with offices in Tokyo, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Please see www.mastiff-games.com  for more information.

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La Pucelle: Tactics is (C) 2002, 2004 Nippon Ichi Software Inc. Licensed to and published by Mastiff LLC.

Find out more about La Pucelle:Tactics at the game’s official website: www.lapucelletactics.com 

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