After teasing the mystery game on its company site for a week, From Software (Ninja Blade, Demon's Souls) revealed its next title in the latest issue of Famitsu, 3D Dot Game Heroes.

Seemingly modeled after 8-bit RPGs, 3D Dot Game Heroes distinguishes itself with a curious visual style reminiscent of Takara Tomy/Tomytec's .S toys (pictured below), which provide kits for owners to build sprite scenes using colored pegs to represent pixels. Instead of limiting itself to 2D characters and landscapes, the game renders every sprite and area with chunky 3D squares.

This title follows a recent string of Japanese-developed classic RPG parodies -- Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman, Kimi no Yuusha, Guadia Quest (from Retro Game Challenge), Yuusha 30, and Nanashi no Game. Unlike those games, however, 3D Dot Game Heroes won't release for handhelds; so far, it's a PlayStation 3 exclusive.

Hopefully, a stateside publisher like Atlus U.S.A. or XSEED will decide this game's worth bringing over to North America.

[Via Examiner]