Arc Rise Fantasia (Marvelous/Image Epooch)

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New Wii RPG, announced today on Famitsu, made by Image Epoch (World Destruction, Luminous Arc) and published by Marvelous.

Staff:

Producer (MMV): Hideyuki Mizutani (Luminous Arc Producer)

Development Producer (Image Epoch): Ryoei Mikage (credited in Disgaea 2, Luminous Arc)

Director (Image Epoch): Hiroyuki Kanemaru (Tales of Symphonia PS2, Tales of Rebirth)

Scenario: Takumi Miyajima (script writer on both Tales of Symphonia and Tales of the Abyss)

Composition/Music Director: Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger/Cross)

Main Character Original Design: Kenichi Yoshida (Mononoke Hime, Eureka 7, Planetes, Cowboy Bebop movie)

Roguresu Design: Shin Nagasawa (Bahamut Lagoon)

*so this is why Namco said 90% of Team Symphonia was on Vesperia it's not that the other 10% where on ToS2 they left, for shame, for shame* 

Scan:

Tidbits:

- 3 character party
- The entire party shares an AP gauge, it depletes as actions are performed
- It is possible for a character to attack more than once, or for a character to use a strong single attack that will leave the other charactes with less AP to use
- If multiple characters use the same skill on the same enemies, the effectiveness of the skill will be increased
- There are summon beasts in the game called Roguresu. They serve as the speakers on all worldly matters in the game
- Image Epoch x Marvelous
- Traditional fantasy RPG
- Several Luminous Arc staffers on board
- Official Site will be open on 27th June
- Graphics style is similar to tri-Ace games
- All screenshots are widescreen
- Game in Full 3D
- Direct Feed images on the 27th
- Basically looks like Trusty Bell. The art direction and graphics are very similar.

"I think a lot of people are going to be very surprised. Image Epoch seems to be able to get something extra out of the limited hardware of the Wii and the DS that many other studios can't. Or maybe other studios just aren't bothered. This looks like Trusty Bell in SD widescreen."

- Not real time. It uses AP and there's a turn order in battles.
- Preview calls it a "deep and highly strategic RPG".

Again, already puts to shame by a mile and a half anything Namco has done for the Wii. (but enough of that crap, let's hype this game)

[lonerurouni187]

Already somewhat excited; gives me another reason to get a wii

*so this is why Namco said 90% of Team Symphonia was on Vesperia it's not that the other 10% where on ToS2 they left, for shame, for shame* 

 

Haha interesting!

Graphics style is similar to tri-Ace games

Great, I love Tri-Ace's graphics in their games.

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Composition/Music Director: Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Cross)

Sold.

[Cless]

Sold.

They said the same thing for Luminous Arc. But then when it was finally released it turned out Mitsuda did only one or two tracks.

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More information:

A co-op production between Marvelous and Image Epoch (the outfit behind Nintendo DS cult hit Luminous Arc, pictured), Arc Rise Fantasia is set in the empire of Meridian, which has a bit of a lingering dragon problem. These so-called "contaminant dragons" are nothing but trouble, passing through the nation in great flocks; even if you kill one, the resulting explosion poisons the local area and causes it to look a bit like a Superfund site. When the empire receives word that a massive horde has its sights on the capital of Diamant, it immediately sends out an army to counteract them, including licensed mercenary Bright and his friend Alse, royal prince and second in line for the throne. Bright is severely hurt in the ensuing battle, but is saved at the last minute by a girl named Ryphia who possesses the power to control "ley squalls," naturally-occurring storms of magic that usually take the form of luminous rain. (Is all of this "fantasy" enough for you, then?)

Not much has been revealed about Arc Rise Fantasia's gameplay yet, other than the battles will employ an action point-based system that appears to be turn-based. This initial announcement focuses primarily on the game's characters -- Bright, cool and collected novice mercenary; Alse, bright and beloved prince of the kingdom; Ryphia, a naive and reserved girl who obviously has some secrets in her past; and Adele, a Diamant magic instructor who seems to care about frilly fashion just as much as her light-based offensive spells.

Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168411

Sheds some light onto the game's scenario and characters.

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They said the same thing for Luminous Arc. But then when it was finally released it turned out Mitsuda did only one or two tracks.

Now where's that "delete post" button again? >_>

[lonerurouni187]

Composition/Music Director: Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger/Cross)

How could I fail to mention how awesome that is?? 
Trigger and Cross's soundtrack will never leave my head. 

[Kevassa]

How could I fail to mention how awesome that is?? 
Trigger and Cross's soundtrack will never leave my head. 

There is ONE song that I disliked from Chrono trigger, the battle theme. It was so monotone...

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Scans: (with screenshots)

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HOLY $#%@!!!!!  SOLD!!!!

[lonerurouni187]

I really don't like that guys artstyle, but man, those game clips are looking so doggone good..... this might be the first game I buy in a while where I ~really~ don't like the art, but want it anyway! 

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I really don't like that guys artstyle, but man, those game clips are looking so doggone good..... this might be the first game I buy in a while where I ~really~ don't like the art, but want it anyway! 

Hmmm... ingame they look like something by Tri-Ace, albeit with less realistic shading.

Images:

Source: http://www.famitsu.com/ga.../coming/1216164_1407.html

[lonerurouni187]

OM@G!!!!!!My word this game is pretty. Yeah, the ingame graphics feel slightly different; I like it a hundred more times than the character art... Thats good, cuz I dont wanna turn my back on an seemingly good rpg just cuz of the art (which Ive done before, but 9 times outta 10 the game wasnt that good anyway...)

This is for the wii too. Oh that battle between 360 and wii continues....

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I didn't like the character designs either, but holy crap is this looking good.

Third game on my "ditch the 360 and buy a Wii for this" list. The 360 still wins by a large difference though.

[lonerurouni187]

Third game on my "ditch the 360 and buy a Wii for this" list. The 360 still wins by a large difference though.

I wish I could say the same; the only reason wii is winning for me is cuz of that price tag. 360 is expensive, even with the price cut....well whatever, I'll be thinkin on it, its still not too late for either one to make a bigger impression on me. 

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Third game on my "ditch the 360 and buy a Wii for this" list. The 360 still wins by a large difference though.

You guys want coverage of all upcoming Wii RPG's on this forum? there's also no topic AFAIK to Fragile and new screens came out yesterday. I'm always weary of doing topics here, because as there's a small amount of members (but good members might I say), but it's always more likely to go unnoticed or not generate any interest.
On X360 I won't, because other than some flashy announcements I don't follow it.

Anyway, more tidbits:

- Mikage happy to finally announce the game.
- Visuals are 70% done and are not final
- Right now cutscenes have no facial animations, that's gonna change until the game launches
- The team is still working on making the graphics better as well as the liveliness of the event scenes.
- Next month they'll announce the voice cast for the game. (voice acting confirmed)
- Image Epoch has 4 production teams, Luminous Arc team, World Destruction team, Arc Rise Fantasia team and one with a unannounced game (Project DF), they have also subteams, those being,  a sprite team and a subteam of 3D that focus on helping and advancing the projects (sprite team helps on all their DS games for example)
- confirmed that the Arc Rise team is not the same from Luminous Arc, by saying it has members who worked on Luminous arc, before Famitsu seemed to be reffering to Mikage, Marvelous as a producer/publisher and Mitsuda. (who participated on Luminous Arc too)
- Dragon Hunting is a focus in the game
- Battle system named Trinity Battle system, TBS for short, similar to how Tales is uses LMBS (linear motion battle system)
- Trinity stands for group of three; triad, and in this game party's consist of 3 characters.
- Action commands include: Excel Acts, Tandem Connect and Party Connect

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more images: (doublepost, sorry)

Source: http://www.gpara.com/arti...hp?c_id=8336&c_num=14