Level-5 may have scaled back its western operations, but it's actually still releasing new titles in this part of the world.
Following on from a local release of Fantasy Life Online for mobile last December, it's now launched Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds for PC and smartphones with the help of the Korean developer Netmarble. As stunning as its trailer (featuring "actual gameplay footage" and referencing a collab with Studio Ghibli) it seems this game isn't quite as innocent as it looks.
As highlighted by Kotaku, it's actually filled with "crypto nonsense":
"this is actually a gacha game that also has cryptocurrency b***s*** baked into it. Netmarble have their own cryptocurrency wallet called Marblex, and as this website helpfully points out, players are able to take in-game items, trade them for Netmarble’s Asterite or Territe Tokens (which are currencies you can trade on Marblex), then trade those for other cryptocurrencies."
And here's an image of the exchange process, taken directly...
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