Japanese developer CyberConnect2 launched the first details today on Solarobo, a new robot action game and the first Nintendo DS title in the studio’s history. It’s set to be launched in Japan from Namco Bandai Games; no US launch has been revealed.

launched to commemorate the 15th anniversary of CyberConnect2’s founding, Solarobo boasts a gameplay and visual style very close to Tail Concerto (above), a 1998 PlayStation title that was the studio’s first game ever. “I’m not joking when I say that this game’s been in conception for 10 years and in development for three,” CC2 head Hiroshi Matsuyama told Famitsu magazine this week. “Crazy, isn’t it? Three years for a Nintendo DS game! I’m impressed Namco Bandai waited that long for us.”

The game is set in a world composed of floating islands, one where dog-like and cat-like humanoid species have banded together to create an advanced civilization. As shown in the fully-animated intro (created by anime studio Madhouse), you play Red Savarin, a dog bounty hunter who works with his sister Chocolat and DAHAK-AZI03, his cool personal robot, to take on jobs and catch his targets.

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