Ni No Kuni PS3 Pricing and Launch Confirmed

[media-credit name=”Level 5″ align=”aligncenter” width=”576″][/media-credit]Pricing for the long delayed but hotly anticipated PS3 version of the Level-5 and Studio Ghibli collaboration Ni No Kuni has been confirmed by the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu released in Japan this week. The game will be launched on November 17th in Japan for 8800 yen or $115 US at the current exchange rate, making it one of the most expensive single PS3 games released in the Japanese market that is not a special or limited edition.

Ni no Kuni tells the story 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 and must explore the world in order to bring his mother back to life.