When did A Witch's Tale come out?

A Witch's Tale was released on 13 October 2009 for Nintendo DS.

A Witch's Tale (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

A Witch's Tale

A young witch-in-training named Liddell unleashes an ancient evil known as the Eld Witch while searching for powerful magic. The Eld Witch plunges the world into chaos with her monstrous forces, so Liddell…

55 13 October 2009

What A Witch's Tale is

A Witch's Tale is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Hit Maker and released in 2009. It was published by NIS America. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

1,000 years ago, a tribe of powerful witches who used potent, dangerous magic lived beneath the world. One day, the witches invaded the surface world. When all seemed lost, the mystical Alice appeared. She used the witches' own magic against them and sealed them away. They say the Witch Queen still lurks beneath the land, waiting for her chance to return to power.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

A Witch's Tale holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 9% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 12 points below the year average.

What it launched against

A Witch's Tale launched on 13 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition and Bayonetta. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta.

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