Jeanne d’Arc begins with an appropriately 2000s-style anime cutscene. On a dark and stormy night, a young boy asks his not-at-all creepy clown-looking attendant to tell him a story.

— -- Sony's first tactical role playing game for the PSP, Jeanne d'Arc, rewrites history with forbidden love, alliterating elves, possessed royalty and enchanted purple toads. This slight ...

In Jeanne D'Arc, players don't just watch the complex fights unspool, they orchestrate them. Executing these assaults is the video-game equivalent of "knowing" kung fu.