Studio Ghibli and Level-5’s game, Ni no Kuni, confirmed for western release

In an interview with Nintendo Power, Akihiro Hino, president of Level-5, has confirmed that its original non-Layton games would soon be seeing western releases. Most notably, Inazuma Eleven and Ni no Kuni: The Another World(PS3), earlier a DS exclusive.

The PS3 version of Ni no Kuni has generated a lot of buzz since the release of its debut trailer. Ni no kuni was earlier exclusive to the DS platform, but a revelation by Famitsu confirmed that the game will be heading to the PS3 in 2011(Japan). Although Hino didn’t offer specifics about a release date for either project, he did say that “I don’t think it will be that long before you’re able to play these games.”

Check out the gorgeous debut trailer for the PS3 version of Ni No Kuni below

In Ni no kuni, the player assumes the role of a 13 year-old boy named Oliver, a resident of Hotroit city whose mother Arie dies suddenly. A doll previously given to Oliver by his mother reveals itself to be a male fairy named Shizuku, who gives Oliver a magic book that allows him to go to the world of “Ninokuni,” a reality parallel to his own, where the fairy states the boy may be able to revive his mother. There he encounters alternate versions of people he knows.