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""Check out the trailer for Luke’s Initiative - Arc Rise Fantasia now to see the all-new action coming to your screen! See preview and debut videos for the best games for Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo consoles.""
"Game Play: 8.0 / 10.0
Arc Rise Fantasia takes a middle of the road design into consideration - in other words, veterans will be able to jump right in without wasting too much time learning the game while beginners can use a great tutorial at the beginning to get used to the RPG mechanics similar to other games. You can choose whether or not you want to fight rather than being subject to random encounters so you can choose the pace of your progression."
"Traditional RPGs on Nintendo’s waggle-wand system are about as few and far between as they come, so once every so often when one comes around it is typically a big deal. I was rather excited to blow the dust off my Wii and dive in to Arc Rise Fantasia, which was a joint project between Imageepoch and Marvelous Entertainment. It was initially going to be localized by XSEED, but they passed off the job to Ignition Entertainment. I really, with all my heart, wish that XSEED held on to it and did..."
""Like a starving man at a buffet, Arc Rise Fantasia has a little of everything on its plate, but few of the portions ever complement the other. When you get hooked by a plot-line, you’re smashed in the face by the difficulty of bosses, and when you finish tricking out your party’s gear, you’re usually faced with useless cannon fodder to test it on. Arc Rise Fantasia does a few things right, but uneven elements rarely inspire anything close to excitement.""
"Releases of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, HydroThunder, and Arc Rise Fantasia help get this week's game releases past the typical summer lull period. We also get an oddity this week in Clash of the Titans. Movie tie-in games are typically released alongside the theatrical release. This time, the game was delayed to release alongside the DVD release of the film. Now we'll have to see if that makes a difference in the quality of the game."
Nintendo Wii gamers are enjoying a great year so far with many great exclusive releases in 2010. The upcoming summer releases are also looking quite promising for the system.
"The Nintendo Wii is currently the top console on the market this generation, and Nintendo and its third-party publishers are going to make sure that it stays on top of the game. There will be plenty of new titles to play this year -- sequels to popular franchises as well as new IPs, both on retail disk as well as digital download -- so don't think for a second that it'll be a "sparse" and "light" 2010 when it comes to Wii gaming.
Here's a quick look at the games we're most looking forward ..."
Today, Nintendo has unveiled a new budget lineup in Japan: Minna no Osusume Selection, or the "Everyone's Recommendation Selection". Unlike most other budget rerelease lineups like Player's Choice, Greatest Hits, or PlayStation the Best, which are based on retail sales, the Everyone's Recommendation Selection are based on user ratings gathered from the Minna no Nintendo Channel (Nintendo Channel) in Japan. The criteria for being considered is having earned either a bronze, silver, gold, or ...
In a surprise announcement today, Ignition Entertainment USA and Marvelous Entertainment have announced that Ignition will be publishing the imageepoch-developed Wii RPG Arc Rise Fantasia, for a summer 2010 release in North America.
Arc Rise Fantasia was originally going to be published by XSEED Games. Details on how the game switched hands from XSEED to Ignition is currently unknown. Arc Rise Fantasia is not the first game to switch hands between the two publishers; Muramasa: The Demon ...
With the way things are with the world's economy even the video game industry isn't exempt from feeling the pinch. Marvelous Entertainment is definitely one of those companies who are feeling the heat right now. A staff blog post (presumably by the Managing Director Yasuhiro Wada) states how they feel about their software sales on the Wii. He states how poorly some of their main titles have been selling on the Wii and says that, "I truly have teary eyes. I feel like crying."
However, there...
"The Wii has a variety of titles coming to it these days. Even so, there are many gaps in the lineup, and even worse, holes to dodge when it comes to finding a decent experience. JU-ON is an attempt to fill the thriller genre hole on the Wii with a game that borrows from the original movie property and tries to crank it up another notch."
Hot off of freshly announcing three new games this past week, publisher XSEED Games has formally announced it's lineup for this year's E3 Expo:
The 2009 Electronics Entertainment Expo begins next week on June 2nd.
Valay of www.nintendoeverything.com has put up some new screenshots of the fantasy RPG game by Image Epoch for the Wii, Arc Rise Fantasia.
There is a new trailer available for Marvelous Entertainment's upcoming Wii RPG, Arc Rise Fantasia, which is being developed by imageepoch. The trailer showcases the game's characters, voices, and shows the elements of the game's battle system.
Arc Rise Fantasia is turn-based, with the player having to allocate a number of AP each turn for the whole party. Each action will require some number of AP; you could have one party member repeatedly attack for the whole turn, or have another par...
The Tokyo Game show is in full gear, and with it we're getting new videos on previously announced games. One such game is the upcoming Wii Game:- Arc Rise Fantasia.
Be sure to check out the video at the source.
In a press release sent out today, Marvelous Entertainment and XSEED Games have announced that they will be co-publishing two more games for North America, as they had revealed in an earlier interview. While one of those games was already confirmed to be Muramasa: The Demon Blade, they have now confirmed the other two games.
Those other two games will be Arc Rise Fantasia for the Wii, and Flower, Sun, and Rain for the DS. Arc Rise Fantasia is a RPG developed by imageepoch, where "contain...
Straight from the Nintendo Fall Press Conference is the montage reel that was played that showcased the various upcoming Wii games. This is the same reel that announced these games.
Courtesy of blog Wii @ Everyday comes the scans from the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu for this week, with new game announcements and more images of those known upcoming games.
Games featured:
The latest post on Marvelous Entertainment's Tokyo Game Show 2008 blog has a post written by Louis from their License & Localization Group, who handles games overseas. In the post (which is available in both Japanese and English), Louis announces that there will be a new unannounced game that Marvelous will reveal on the first day of the show. This is game also unknown to the Japanese press, for a full-on new game announcement. He also states that it is from a "charismatic Japanese creator...
The other day, a teaser site opened on Sega's domain, teasing a new RPG for an unannounced platform, but featuring the star power of Kazuya Niinou, Reiko Kodama, and Yuzo Koshiro on the game's development staff.
Today, looking at Sega's Tokyo Game Show 2008 site, a picture was uncovered of the mysterious new game, an accidental reveal, if you will. The game looks to be titled 7th Dragon, and will apparently be for the Nintendo DS.
The game is expected to be officially revealed next wee...
Speaking exclusively to RPG fansite The RPG Observer, XSEED Games's Public Relations agent Jimmy Soga confirmed that there will be three additional games that will be co-published by both XSEED Games and Marvelous Entertainment USA in North America: two of which will be for the Wii, and one for the DS. One of the Wii titles will be announced later this month, while the other two remaining titles will be announced for localization at the Tokyo Game Show on October 9th.
The games that are a...
A new teaser site has went up on Sega's domain, dragon.sega.jp, complete with a flash video that name drops some of the staff for an upcoming unannounced game. The director for this upcoming game will be former Atlus employee and current imageepoch Senior Director Kazuya Niinou (Trauma Center, Etrian Odyssey), while being produced by Sega's Reiko Kodama (Skies of Arcadia, Phantasy Star), with music work being done by the legendary Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage, Wangan Midnight, Etrian Odysse...
CESA has released a first list of games [PDF] that will be shown at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show that will be held from October 9, 2008 to October 12, 2008. As per tradition, this is only the first of multiple lists that will be released by the organization for the games that will appear at TGS 2008. A full list of the notable games can be seen in the quote and at the source.
There will be 462 titles at the show, broken up thusly:
Wii - 27 titles
PS3 - 12 titles
Xbox360 - 14 titles
D...
Having only been announced fairly recently, there's been a torrent of new media for the imageepoch-developed and Marvelous Entertainment-published RPG, Arc Rise Fantasia for the Nintendo Wii. Six new screenshots come our way from Japanese newssite Game Watch, depicting dragons, airships, and more battle screenshots.
The official website for Arc Rise Fantasia is available here. No release date has been set for Japan as of yet.
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After the initial announcement of imageepoch's and Marvelous Entertainment's new RPG for the Wii, Arc Rise Fantasia, soared in popularity as it gained positive press from its great looking visuals and promising-sounding gameplay.
Famitsu has put up clearer versions of screenshots used in their magazine, which many saw via the scans. Enjoy. The rest of the screenshots can be found at the source.
In other news, the official site has also opened, with more information on the staff.
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Announced in this week's Famitsu is developer imageepoch's new RPG being developed exclusively for the Wii: Arc Rise Fantasia, previously known as Project Ray. Scans from the issue were made available on the internet shortly afterward.
Arc Rise Fantasia will be a turn-based traditional fantasy RPG, developed by a team which includes staffers from the company's first two games, Luminous Arc and its sequel for the DS. The game's battle system will use a 3-person party, where each member of...
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