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XSEED confirms Arc Rise Fantasia and Flower, Sun, and Rain for North America

Wolfwood | October 09, 2008 | Press Release | Wii DS Tokyo Game Show 2008 
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 "containment dragons" plague the world, and it is up to the the player to stop them. Flower, Sun, and Rain is a DS game developed by Suda 51's studio, Grasshopper Manufacture, where main character Sumio Mondo is forced to relive the same day over and over, after failing to reach a time bomb in time to defuse it.

Both games will release in 2009.
Nintendo Wii

Arc Rise Fantasia
From Marvelous Entertainment and Image Epoch, the same tandem that created the highly lauded Luminous Arc, comes Arc Rise Fantasia, an epic RPG exclusively developed for the Wii. Arc Rise Fantasia is a product of old and new, combining gorgeous graphics with modern gameplay while bringing classic Japanese high fantasy role-playing action involving airships and dragons, exclusively to the platform. Arc Rise Fantasia Wii is being co-developed by Image Epoch and scheduled for release 2009.


Nintendo DS

Flower, Sun, and Rain
Flower, Sun, and Rain DS is a unique mystery adventure from the twisted mind behind Killer 7 and No More Heroes. Originally released on the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and quickly gaining notoriety for its eccentricity, Flower, Sun, and Rain had never been available outside of Japan. This updated Nintendo DS release features all the creative quirks that made the original a cult hit while adding Touch Screen functionality and 50 new puzzles in what’s sure to please loyal fans of its creator, “Suda51.” The story starts on a tropical island in a seaside resort unlike any other called the Flower, Sun, and Rain resort. But all is not well in paradise as Sumio Mondo, a searcher, has been urgently summoned to the island by the owner of the hotel. Upon arrival, Sumio becomes caught in a time loop as the events of the same day are played out over and over again, with each day coming to an explosive end at the hands of some terrorists that have targeted the island for an unknown reason. With the Flower, Sun, and Rain as his base of operations, Sumio travels the island questioning the residents and following up on clues in order to get to the bottom of the mystery. Flower, Sun, and Rain DS is scheduled for release 2009.

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